Jenny Irene Miller

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 in a solo exhibition at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK, and in a group show at Gallery "Oak Park" in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Jenny is a recipient of awards from Photographers Without Borders, 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 collections at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College as well as in private collections. She is represented in New Mexico by Foto Forum Santa Fe.

Jenny is available for commissions and assignments. Jenny also welcomes exhibition opportunities, presenting artist lectures, and collaborations with other artists and organizations, and is interested in opportunities that involve teaching photography.

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