Mia Grimes

Bio

Mia Grimes was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and currently lives and works in New York City’s Manhattan borough. Mia received her BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon with a focus in Oil Painting and Illustration. She attended a 2011 residency at STORE PDX via The Settlement PDX. Mia has a long exhibition history in NYC and her work can be found in numerous personal collections throughout the city.

Artist Statement

My work deals with the human subconscious through symbolism in the mediums of oil painting and pen & ink illustration. I reconcile and explore our relationship with nature and technology by employing visual tropes from the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. By juxtaposing the visual lexicons of these disparate source materials I am bringing the viewer into my own world of the subconscious, one meant to be equally as absurd as it is beautiful. The environments and supporting details in my work are as important to the story being told as the primary subjects.