SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

  • Prix de Peinture 2009, Salon d’Automne, Paris

  • Sky TV Portrait Artist of the Year Programme (Selected Artist / Storyvault Films, UK)

  • Thames & Hudson Pictureworks Prize 2010

  • Aesthetica Magazine’s Prize - Nominee 2010

  • Celeste Prize - Nominee 2011

  • In 2015, Indiana University Northwest created the Mia Funk Spirits Prize

  • Momaya Prize - Honorary Mention and story publication in Momaya Annual anthology

  • KWS Hilary Mantel Short Story Prize - Long List

  • Doris Gooderson Prize - Short List

  • The Guardian, UK
    - London Lives Competition 2010 – Selected Artist

    - Best Artwork - Month of October 2011 - Witness Series

EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS

Permanent Collections & Public Commissions

  • American Writers Museum, Chicago (forthcoming)

  • Dublin Writers Museum (Group portrait: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde…)

  • Guinness Jazz Festival 30th Anniversary Commission (City of Cork, OPW Permanent Collection) group portrait of 21 jazz legends including Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsellis...

  • Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (Portrait of Samuel Beckett, and Portrait of Francis Bacon)

  • US Library of Congress (Artwork on glass)

  • FIU World Art Collection, Amsterdam

  • SCCF - Structured Commodity & Corporate Finance Corporate Headquarters) Geneva, Switzerland

  • Various Corporate & Municipal Collections

Selected Private Collections & Commissions

  • Michael Bouhanna, Vice-President, Contemporary Art Specialist & Head of Digital Art and NFTs

  • Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries*

  • Laurent Le Bon, President, Centre Pompidou, Fmr. President Musée Picasso*

  • Julie Andrews, actress, singer, author*

  • Neil Patrick Harris, actor, singer, author*

  • Susan Fisher Sterling, Director, National Museum of Womeni in the Arts*

  • Ian Wardropper, Director, The Frick Collection*

  • Helen Harrison, Director of the Pollock Krasner House & Study Center*

  • Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum of FIT*

  • Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Auster/Siri Hustvedt collection, Etgar Keret, George Saunders, Neil Gaiman, Marie Darrieussecq, Junot Diaz, Yiyun Li, Tobias Wolff, Hillary Mantel collection, Viet Thahn Nguyen, Tom Perrotta, Noelani Pantastico, David Rubin, Jack Thorne, Marilyn Minter, Jeffrey Rosen, Tony Walton collection, Liev Schrieber, David Hollander, and cast of Ray Donovan, Michael Meren, Mark Seliger, Douglas Kennedy, Jane Alexander, Jane Smiley, John Powell, among others.*
    *Portrait for The Creative Process

  • Jean-Marc Georgy, Executive Chairman · GEOBIO · Switzerland

  • Justin Hayes, Partner Principal SCO in EY Consulting MENA

  • Barbara Attlan, Paris

  • Bruno Sabatier, art dealer and former intellectual property lawyer representing Francis Bacon, author of catologue raisonnée of Bacon’s graphic work

Selected Exhibitions & Art Fairs

  • Grand Palais, Art en Capital (Salon des Artistes Français)

  • Andromeda Sisters, Gala 2021 - Short Film, written, directing and starring Mia Funk adapted from one of her short stories

  • deYoung Museum, San Francisco (Projection/Installation Another World is Possible)

  • Salon d’Automne, Paris

  • Salon d’Art Contemporain, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris

  • TEFAF, Maastricht, Netherlands

  • Art Up! Lyon

  • Irish in Europe Exhibition, Les Halles Saint-Gery, Brussels, Headline artist: featuring her Francis Bacon centenary artworks

  • Selfridges UK/Brown Thomas (Solo exhibition of jazz portraits for The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival)

  • American University in Paris (Solo exhibition of Mia Funk’s figurative oil paintings and her Francis Bacon centenary paintings and her portraits of Lucian Freud)

  • Sorbonne University (Panthéon-1) (Solo)

  • University of Leuven, Historic Library, Belgium (Solo exhibition of Mia Funk’s The Creative Process)

  • Christian and Byzantine Museum, Athens (Presentation of The Creative Process)

  • University of Salamanca (The Creative Process - 800th Anniversary Exhibition)

  • Fez Gather, Morocco (The Creative Process)

  • Galway Arts Festival

  • Royal Dublin Society

  • La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers sur Serein, France

Mia Funk has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and America. Galerie Selective Art/Mizen Art (Paris & Italy), KBK (Paris Dec 2011-Oct 2012), Galerie Iconclastes (Paris - March 2011), JSC Modern Art Gallery (Paris), Buckley Fine Art, Leinster Gallery, Oisin Gallery, Sandford Gallery, Kinsale Art Gallery, The B.A. now The Doorway Gallery, Librarie Galerie Racine, Greenlane Gallery (Paris & Dingle)…

ART & EDUCATION INITIATIVES

Founder, The Creative Process, a global multimedia initiative including:

  • The Creative Process and One Planet Podcast reaching over 2 million listens a month

  • Website and The Creative Process Arts & Literary Journal, over 4 million page reads monthly

  • Traveling Exhibition

Teaching & Mentorship

  • Advisory Board, American Writers Museum

  • European Conference for the Humanities

  • The Creative Process Educational Initiative with 100+ participating universities, engaging students and educators

  • Leading workshops on Creativity, Critical Thinking, & Environmental Ethics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

  • Featured in The Guardian, Irish Arts Review, The Irish Times, Aesthetica Magazine, The Examiner (cover story), Le Parisien, Hot Press, l’Officiel Galeries et Musées, Vivre Paris, ArtSlant, Vingt Paris, Social & Personal, The Dubliner Magazine, La Gazette des Arts, The Kingdom, Visual Artists Ireland, Irish Independent, Totally Dublin Magazine, Cork News(cover), In Dublin Magazine, Phoenix Magazine, The Sunday Business Post, The Peacock, Rebelle[s], Minetta Review, Univers des Arts, Gay Community News, Riprap Journal, Waypoints Magazine, Metro Magazine…

  • Publishing commissions: Routledge Press, Penguin Books, North American Review, The Tulane Review, Litro Magazine, Slice Magazine, Her Royal Majesty arts & literary magazine, Spirits Magazine, Indiana University Northwest, Cha Asian Literary Magazine, Firewords, The Incubator, Broken City

  • Multiple Artworks & Interviews published in The Iowa Review - University of Iowa, The Penn Review – University of Pennsylvania, Michigan Quarterly Review – University of Michigan, The Dreaming Machine - Italy, Washington Square Review – New York University, The Literary Review – Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Literary Review – Fairleigh Dickinson University, R2 – Rice University, Columbia Journal – Columbia University, Ninth Letter – University of Illinois, Euphony – University of Chicago, Notre Dame Review – Notre Dame University, The VEG – McGill University, Berkeley Fiction Review – UC Berkeley, PRISM International…

  • Radio & TV features: Artist interview on World Radio Paris (RFI, BBC, NPR), Sky TV UK, Artist interview on Arena on RTÉ Radio 1

  • Co-Author, Co-Editor, Interviewer, Artist of Jazz and Literature (Routledge, 2024)