Kika Sroka-Miller is AN ARTist, publisher AND LITERARY AGENT, LIVING AND WORKING IN LONDON.
“It’s the bit before meaning making that fascinates me; the threshold between sensation and recognition. The place we inhabit before the impulse to make sense takes over. Before the need to read or to make legible. The search for legibility makes a policeman of us ALL.”
BIOGRAPHY
Kika Sroka-Miller’s paintings were first shown in October 2022 as part of the We are what we see exhibition alongside artists Michaela Stark, Floria Sigismondi and Sandro Kopp, curated by Glimpses Agency, London. Since then their work has been shortlisted for the Waverton Art Prize, included in Art on a Postcard’s Tenth Anniversary Auction, selected for the Assembly House Trust Biennial. As of 2024 they are enrolled in Turps Painting School, London.
Sroka-Miller is Founder of Blue Parlour, an artist-run creative network and curatorial project sharing the work of artists exploring sexuality through their practice. They are also the Founding Director of Awaiting Press which represents the literary estate of Assata Shakur.
Sroka-Miller was Editorial and then Managing Director of the publishing house Zed Books (2011-2022), which sold to Bloomsbury in 2020. Zed housed the works of many notable writers including Eleanor Roosevelt, Nawal El Saadawi, Assata Shakur, Maggie Nelson, Vandana Shiva and Yanis Varoufakis, among others. Under Sroka-Miller’s Direction the press became the world’s largest publishing collective.
Sroka-Miller studied Art Foundation at Chelsea College of Art, BA Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Art and holds a Master’s in Gender and Sexuality, with an emphasis on philosophy, psychoanalysis and film theory, from Birkbeck College where their tutors included Laura Mulvey.
CV
Selected shows, prizes, talks and publications:
2026
03/26 – State of Flow, Jerwood Space, London
03/26 – Soft Transitions, Make Space, RAW, London
03/26 – Small Fictions, AMP Gallery, London
03/26 – Jackson’s Art Prize 2026, Longlisted
02/26 – Reading or Looking? Talk and presentation at Salon Curieux, Antwerp
01/26 – If on a Winter’s Night, group show, Galleria Objets, London
2025
06/25 – Sickly Sweet Revenge, Hypha Studios, Marble Arch
05/25 – Not What I Meant, Outhouse Gallery, London
03/25 – Jackson’s Art Prize 2025, Longlisted
03/25 – “The Colour Formally Known as Incarnation: On the meaning of pink”, A Pastel Palette, 2025, Cade Curatorial, Terrace Gallery, London
03/25 – Quiet. Bright., Terrace Gallery, London
02/25 – “Polly-morphous Perverse”, Playing Femme, 2025, 16Collective, Glasgow
2024
11/24 - Art on a Postcard, Gathering, London
11/24 - Tenth Anniversary Auction, Art on a Postcard
10/24 - Collapse, Safehouse 1, London
06/24 - Here, There be Monsters, Safehouse 1, London
05/24 -Waverton Art Prize 2024, Shortlisted, Finalist
05/24 - Turps Painting School Spring Show, Thameside Gallery, London
02/24 - “Looking at sex and art” for La Fomo, Post-screening talk for Love, dir. Gaspar Noé, Whirled Cinema, London
2023
12/23 - “Polly-morphous Perverse, or Polly Pocket is obviously a femme top”, exhibition text for Hush Lil Baby by Shea Myles, 16 Nicholson St Gallery, Glasgow, supported by The Henry Moore Foundation
09/23 -Enrolled Turps Painting School 2023/24
06/23 - Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Longlisted
06/23 - Assembly House Biennial 2023, Assembly House Trust, Norwich
04/23 - Spring Show, Folkestone Art Gallery, Folkestone
2022
10/22 - We Are What We See, Glimpses Agency at 347 Old Street, London
For a full CV including board and publishing experience please contact the studio.
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