STATEMENT
“Through poetics of the body, I investigate where bodies meet, cross, tangle, and where they pull away. I see the body in its flawed, innately intimate and personal nature as a metaphor for our shortcomings, limits, boundaries, and need for connection. Using the familiarity and tactility of cloth, I bring focused attention to our relationships and how our identities are constructed. Using traditional and non-traditional textile techniques, I create intimate declarations that question the body and its constraints- both physical and emotional.” - Mia Weiner
EDUCATION
2020 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), MFA
2009-2013 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, BFA in Fiber, cum laude
2008 Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Abstract Naked Lunch with Ricardo Partida, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2014 Attached, Gallery 788, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Utopian Living, Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2019 Terrain Biennial, Iowa City, IA
2019 Ideal: the World as We Want It, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2019 Real: the World as We See It, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2019 Gender in the Balance, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2019 Frayed: Fiber Beyond Craft, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 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
2017 Permanent Parabasis, Gallery 99, Providence, RI
2015 Breathe in Gold Light, New Door Creative Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2015 ArtPalmBeach, Irreversible Projects, West Palm Beach, FL
2014 Late Summer Exhibit, PS Gallery, Columbia, MO
2014 Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, IN
2014 Love Shack, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA
2013 London Calling 013, Factory-Art Gallery, London
2013Pop-Up, Pop-Up Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013 Fabrications, Gallery 788, Baltimore, MD
2013 Touchy Subjects - Sex, Humor, and Risk: Selections from the Kinsey Institute, Allen W. Clowes and Sarah M. Hurt Galleries, Indianapolis Art Center, IN
2013 Material Witness, Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott Gallery, Decatur, GA
2013 Young Contemporaries, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
2013 Connections: Folk Environments and Constructs, Gallery 788 Presents Sondheim Prize Artists, Artscape, Baltimore, MD
2013 Commencement Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013 Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, IN
2013 50th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL
2013 Materials: Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2013 Juror: Jean W. McLaughlin, executive director of the Penland School of Crafts
2013 NICHE Awards exhibit, Buyers Market, Pennsylvania Convention Center
2012 TO/FROM Tawney, Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2012 People’s Choice, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Stitch, Main Building Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011 Unbounded: Works in Expanded Format, Area 405, Baltimore, MD 2011 Keep Up the Good Work: a Uniformity Performance, Main Building Atrium, MICA, Baltimore, MD, November 16
2011 Not your Father’s Trousers, Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD
HONORS AND AWARDS
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
Maryland Art Place Creative Minds 30UNDER30 Speaker
NICHE Award Student Finalist 2013
International Emerging Artist Award recognition
MICA Trustee Award
MICA Talent Recognition Award
MICA Fiber Department Scholarship
Neil and Sayra Meyerhoff Scholar Award
MICA Competitive Scholarship for Academic and Artistic Achievement
Dean’s list, MICA, Fall 2009- 2013
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2017 PRESERVE / SUBVERT Special Exhibit, Sager Braudis Gallery, 3 May 2017, link
2016 Party Talks: Things Got Personal, Carly Aimi, Opening Ceremony, 8 July 2016, link
2015 Breathe in Gold Light, Breathe out Dark Smoke, Kelly Johnson, Moore Women Artists, 16 Oct. 2015, link
This Just In-spiration: Meet Mia Weiner, Jen Coleman, The Goods, 11 May 2015
2014 Ebola and Art, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, Vol. 4, No. 5 (October 2014)
2013 Material Witness, Agnes Scott College, 2013
Mia Weiner, Peripheral ARTeries Art Review, pages 74-81, July 2013, link
London Calling 013 Catalogue, Factory-Art Gallery, London
MAP's THIRTY Creative Minds Speaker Series: Mia Weiner, Cara Ober, Bmore Art, 27 May 2013, link
Thirty young Baltimore artists discuss their work and ideas, Baltimore Sun, March 4, 2011
2011 Materials: Hard and Soft Catalog, Denton Arts Council
Bound, WCA Art Catalog, Juror: Cora Rosevear, Associate Curator at MoMA
Embroidering the Microscopic World, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, Vol. 2, No. 4 (February 2013)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2020 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Open Studio Residency
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 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018 Teacher’s Assistant for Stacia Yeapanis’s Intro to Fiber class at SAIC
2015 - 2016 Registrar at Rick Wester Fine Art
2013 Speaker for THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30, Maryland Art Place
2012 Studio Assistant for Karen Reimer
2011 Studio Assistant for Nick Cave
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