Mia Weiner
email: mia.weiner@gmail.com
Instagram: @miaweiner
Responding to the historical textile, Mia Weiner creates intimate declarations that explore identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships. She hand-weaves each tapestry in her Los Angeles studio.
Mia received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2020) and her BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013. She was awarded the V&A Parasol Prize by the Victoria & Albert Museum and Parasol Foundation in 2024. Her work has been exhibited internationally including in New York, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and Rome. Weiner is a Yaddo Fellow and her work is in the permanent collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands.
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Education
2020 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
MFA in Fiber & Material Studies
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
BFA in Fiber graduated cum laude
2008 Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
The Oxbow School, Napa, Ca
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 Tangled Dreams, T293, Naples, Italy (forthcoming October 2024)
Unseen, Homecoming Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Connected Bodies: Johnny Mae Hauser and Mia Weiner, Homecoming Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Future Fair, Mama Projects, New York, NY
2023 Sirens, T293, Rome, Italy
2022 Foreplay, OCHI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Head(less): Adam Beris and Mia Weiner, OCHI Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2020 If not you, OCHI Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Mia Weiner: Artist Projects, The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Naked Lunch with Ricardo Partida, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2014 Attached, Gallery 788, Baltimore, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Victoria & Albert Museum Parasol Prize, Peckham 24, London, England
When the Veil Thins, Compound, Long Beach, CA
Not Your Regular Painting, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy
for love, for art, and for being, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Selections, Hollis Taggart, New York, NY
Prelude, MAMA Projects, New York, NY
Embodiment, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
CULT Turns 10, CULY Aimee Friberg, San Francisco, CA
2023 Variations on a Theme, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Interplay, Hollis Taggart, New York, NY
Conjured Webs, la BEAST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Rose Has No Teeth, Mollie White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Decoding Americana’s Queer Sensibilities, Arushi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tinted Love, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Art Party x Unicef, Christie's, Beverly Hills, CA
Resolution Substandard, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Between You and Me, Mey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Indecent: Erotic Lace Miniatures, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa
Gaze Interrupted, CULT Bureau, Oakland, CA
2021 Expanded Field, OCHI Aux, Los Angeles, CA
Hand to Machine: A Metamorphosis, Textile Resource LA, Los Angeles, CA
Get a Load of This, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK
March Exhibit, Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbia, MO
2020 Direct Sunlight, LVL3, Chicago, IL
The Future of our Plans, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Utopian Living, Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Distant Future, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Launch, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2019 Terrain Biennial, Iowa City, IA
Ideal: the World as We Want It, Sullivan Center, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Real: the World as We See It, Sullivan Center, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Gender in the Balance, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Frayed: Fiber Beyond Craft, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
Coming into Being, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2018 MFA Open Studios, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2017 Preserve/Subvert, Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbia, MO
Permanent Parabasis, Gallery 99, Providence, RI
Press and Publications
Weaving Identity: Mia Weiner's Fusion of Photographs and Textiles. A Women's Thing, 28 June, 2024
https://awomensthing.org/blog/mia-weiner/
The female form takes many shapes at Future Fair. Torey Akers. The Artist Newspaper, 02 May, 2024
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/01/the-female-form-takes-many-shapes-at-future-fair
Mia Weiner Studio Visit. Art Megastar. 17 June, 2024
https://artmegastar.com/mia-weiner-studio-visit/
Five Strong Presentations from Future Fair. Carson Woś. Cultbytes, 04 May, 2024
https://cultbytes.com/five-strong-presentations-from-future-fair-2024/
5 Emerging Galleries to Watch at the 2024 New York Art Fairs. Maxwell Rabb. Artsy, 30 April, 2024
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-emerging-galleries-watch-2024-new-york-fairs
Future Fair 2024 Is Gen Z Approved. Anna Carlson. Whitehot Magazine, 10 May, 2024
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2024-is-gen-z-approved/6390
2023 The Best Booths at Untitled Art Miami Beach, From Potato Sculptures to Ominous Razors. Maximilíano Dúron. ARTnews, 06 December 2023
Deconstructed bodies and protection sigils: How LGBTQ+ artists are commanding space. Vargas, Steven. Los Angeles Times, 25 August 2023
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-08-25/lgbtq-artists-decoding-americanas-queer-sensibilities
Conversations with Mia Weiner, Voyage LA Magazine, 12 June 2023
http://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-mia-weiner/
Mia Weiner on art as a language to understand the world, shifting narratives from the past, & weaving as a meditative act.
Hopper Prize and Mia Weiner, 26 April 2023 hopperprize.org/mia-weiner-interview/
2020 Social Distancing Studio Visits. Kipp, Caroline, and Mia Weiner, 8 Dec. 2020
carolinekipp.com/social-distancing-studio-visits/2020/12/8/mia-weiner
Curator Chelsea Nassib on the Power of Emerging Artists. Freestone, Camille. Coveteur, 10 Nov. 2020
coveteur.com/2020/10/31/chelsea-nassib-tappan-collective/.
Through the Haze: Mia Weiner’s Surreal Scenes of Plants and Intimacy. Williams, Marin. The Studio Plant, edited by Rebecca Goodman, 2020.
Studio Visit - Mia Weiner. Tappan Collective, and Mia Weiner. Tappan Collective, 9 July 2020,
www.tappancollective.com/collections/studio-visit-mia-weiner
2016 Party Talks: Things Got Personal, Carly Aimi, Opening Ceremony, 8 July 2016,
blog.openingceremony.com/entry.asp?pid=13055
Professional Activities
2024 Victoria & Albert Museum Parasol Foundation Prize
Yaddo Artist Residency
2023 The Hopper Prize Shortlist
2021 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Open Studio Residency
Acre Artist Residency
Fresh Start, HOLA, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Artist in Residence, The Proper Hotel, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency
Byrdcliffe Arts Colony Residency
Artist Lecture Mia Weiner: Attached at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Research Assistant for the Textile Research Center at the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 Speaker for THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30, Maryland Art Place
Honors and Awards
Victoria & Albert Museum V&A Parasol Prize, Hopper Prize Finalist, VCU Fountainhead Fellowship Finalist, Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony Grant, SAIC Incentive Scholarship, SAIC Grant, Speaker for "Show and Tell" at the Kinsey Institute for Sex , Young Contemporaries Juror Award, Materials: Hard and Soft Juror Award, NICHE Award Student Finalist, International Emerging Artist Award recognition, MICA Trustee Award, MICA Talent Recognition Award, Neil and Sayra Meyerhoff Scholar Award