Photo by Emma Sheffer 2023
BIO
Jenny Irene Miller (Inupiaq, b. Sitŋasuaq / Nome, Alaska) is an artist working primarily with photography. Her work focuses on identity, community, place, refusal, and access. The poetics found in what is seen, unseen, or refused in Jenny’s images make important contributions to her work. Jenny lives and works in Dgheyay Kaq' / Anchorage, Alaska.
Jenny holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Photomedia and a BA in American Indian Studies from the University of Washington. She is a past Beaumont Newhall/Van Deren Coke Photography Fellow at UNM, SITE Santa Fe Scholar, Elizabeth Furber Fellow, and Fulbright Canada Killam Fellow.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Foto Forum Santa Fe in Santa Fe, NM, and at Haus Kunst Mitte in Berlin, DE. Jenny’s solo exhibition of How to skip a rock will be on view in April 2024 at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK. Jenny is a recipient of awards from Nia Tero, Alaska Humanities Forum, National Geographic, Fulbright Canada, and a Fulbright Canada Killam Fellowship to Canada. Her work has been featured by Inuit Art Quarterly, The New York Times, National Geographic, Canadian Art, and Lenscratch among others. Jenny’s work is currently held in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts collection and the collection at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College. She is represented by Foto Forum Santa Fe.
Jenny is available for commissions and assignments. Jenny also welcomes exhibition opportunities, presenting artist lectures, collaborations with other artists and organizations, and is interested in opportunities that involve teaching photography.
PRONOUNS
she/her & they/them
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GALLERY REPRESENTATION
New Mexico: Foto Forum Santa Fe
CONTACT
jirenemiller@gmail.com