Mia Weiner (b. 1991, Chicago, US) is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates handwoven tapestries of intimate scenes on themes of identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships. Responding to mythology and traditions in portraiture, Weiner’s photography-based compositions put the body center stage, exploring how figurative representation can hold power and agency. She was awarded the V&A Parasol Prize by the Victoria & Albert Museum and Parasol Foundation in 2024.
Weiner’s research focuses on how the human figure has been represented and, in particular, how female subjects have often been depicted as objects. “I engage with the history of portraiture, using my body and choreographed models in my compositions. Body parts are removed, objects added, and color and contrast altered, complicating visibility, time, and place. Pixels transform into threads, equalizing the relationship between object and image as the digital becomes tactile. Monochromatic with occasional color shifts or glitches, these breaks represent moments of intimacy or queerness. My work is about connection- between bodies and cloth as a placed of shared experience.”
Weiner 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 (2013). Her work has been exhibited internationally in New York, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Rome, and Amsterdam. Her work in the collection of Kunstmuseum The Hague is currently on view in the exhibition I’ll Be Your Mirror, running through March 2026.
2025 Kunstmuseum The Hague, I’ll be your mirror, group exhibition (until end of March 2026), NL
2025 Paris Photo, You Will Be My Sun, solo exhibition, Homecoming Gallery, FR
2025 Eric Firestone Gallery, Erotic City, NY, New York
2024 T293, Tangled Dreams, Naples, Italy
2024 Unseen, The Bathers, solo exhibition, Homecoming Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Homecoming Gallery, Connected Bodies, duo exhibit Johnny Mae Hauser and Mia Weiner, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Victoria & Albert Museum Parasol Prize, Peckham 24, London, England
2024 F2T Gallery, Not Your Regular Painting, Milan, Italy
2023 Variations on a Theme, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 T293, Sirens, Rome, Italy
2022 OCHI Gallery, Foreplay, Los Angeles, CA