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