
Mirador del Semáfor – Barcelona, Spain
Exhibitions, Published Work, and Personal History
PERSONAL:
Originally from an island in the Pacific NW, Kiersten Miller began her photographic career as a means of not getting lost. The pictures she took were of bus station maps, buildings, and streets, which became breadcrumbs for finding her way through foreign cities. Over the years, what started as a navigational tool grew into a passion for creating surreal and dark images. The majority of her work involves the use of long exposures taken in early morning light or just as dusk approaches. Kiersten is drawn towards a desire to express a stillness in life – particularly against industrial backdrops. She likes the idea of hearing inanimate objects speak and often wonder what they might say if the world was still long enough so that we might hear them. The images she creates are often with that in mind: they start with a sliver of an idea when she’s out shooting and eventually emerge with breath and a voice that is their own, as if they were right here with us, having a conversation.
EDUCATION:
2001 BS – Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Double Bluff Brewing, Langley, WA
INVITATIONAL / JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Art of Photography, Gallery Saratoga View, Langley, WA
2022 Monochrome, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
Barcelona Foto Biennale, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2021 6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2020 14th Pollux Awards, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Free Focus, Front Room Gallery, Freeland, WA
Field work: Landscape and Architecture, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
Vision: Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 One Moto, Portland, OR
AWARDS:
2022 Honorable Mention, 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
Silver Award, Portfolio – Fine Art, Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA)
2021 Cityscapes, 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
Honorable Mention, 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2020 Honorable Mention, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
Fine Art Series, 14th Pollux Awards
Honorable Mention, 14th Pollux Awards
Honorable Mention, 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2019 Honorable Mention, 13th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2018 Honorable Mention, Monochrome Awards
PUBLICATIONS:
2022 Catalog, Monochrome – An Exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery
Catalogue, 3rd Barcelona Foto Biennale
2022 FotoNostrum Magazine (January 16, 2022)
2021 Catalogue, 6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography
2020 Catalogue, 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2019 Into the Heart of SREDA Film Lab, Emulsive, text by Kiersten Miller, 28 photographs