Mia Weiner

Responding to the historical textile, Mia creates intimate declarations that explore identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships. Though she began weaving in graduate school, Mia learned how to sew at an early age. For her, cloth i...

Responding to the historical textile, Mia creates intimate declarations that explore identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships. Though she began weaving in graduate school, Mia learned how to sew at an early age. For her, cloth is simultaneously a bandage and a cover, but most of all, a place of shared experience. Entrenched in various histories, Mia’s work speaks to the legacy of cloth and the portrayal of the female form. Labor intensive and time consuming, Mia’s woven pieces are sites wherein the senses coalesce; object becomes image, touch becomes vision. Utilizing the human figure as her artistic language, Mia begins her pieces by choreographing bodies in space. After photographing them, she digitally alters the images until they are ready to be transferred to a grid and then manually woven. Once completed, her pieces cascade along the wall, capturing both the possibilities and the boundaries of intimacy. 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. Her work has been exhibited internationally including in New York, London, Berlin, LA, Miami, and Chicago.