MIA FUNK
INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
Exploring Francis BACON & Lucian FREUD
VIEW SERIES
BIOGRAPHY
Mia Funk has participated in several international juried competitions including the Salon d’Automne Paris, for which she won the Prix de Peinture 2009. She has shown at the Grand Palais, official selection of the Salon des Artistes Français 2012. She was selected for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2013(SkyTV), was a finalist in Sky Television’s Art Competition London 2010, and The Guardian Newspaper’s London Lives Competition 2010, Aesthetica Magazine’s Prize 2010, was nominated for the Celeste Prize 2010, won the Thames & Hudson Prize 2010. In 2015, Indiana University Northwest created the Mia Funk Spirits Prize. Her work has been highlighted on radio, television and numerous art publications. She has exhibited widely and is known for her figurative and portrait work. She was commissioned to do a painting for the 30th anniversary of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. She teaches at L’École de Dessin Technique et Artistique in Paris and has been a visiting lecturer at a number of universities. Her paintings are held in several public, private and corporate collections including the Dublin Writers Museum, Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, American Writers Museum (Chicago-upcoming), U.S. Library of Congress, UC Berkeley, and the FIU World Art Collection in Amsterdam.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Dublin Writers Museum (group portrait of Irish writers)
Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris (Portrait of Samuel Beckett, Portrait of Francis Bacon)
American Writers Museum, Chicago (in progress)
U.S. Library of Congress (artwork+poetry collaboration with poet Heather Hartley, inspired by the work of César Vallejo)
U.C. Berkeley Archive/Collection (glass artwork)
Office of Public Works, Ireland (Cork City, Guinness behest)
FIU World Art Collection, Amsterdam (figurative artwork)
Indiana University Northwest Archive/Collection (artwork from Memory of Water series)
American University of Paris...
The archives of numerous universities, including: University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, MIT, UC Berkeley, Sorbonne, University of Milan...(forthcoming)
