Kika Sroka-Miller is AN ARTist, writer and publisher based 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, curated by Glimpses Agency, London, alongside artists Michaela Stark, Floria Sigismondi and Sandro Kopp. Since then their work has been included in the Tenth Anniversary Auction of Art on a Postcard (2024), shortlisted for the Waverton Art Prize (2024), selected for the Assembly House Trust Biennial (2023) and been longlisted and shown in multiple group shows, prizes and juried exhibitions around the UK. 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 Director of the publishing house Zed Books (2011-2022), which sold to Bloomsbury PLC 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, specialising in political and philosophical books.
Sroka-Miller has an MA in Gender, Sexuality, Politics and Culture, from Birkbeck College, University of London (specialising in film theory). They also have a BA Hons in Graphic Design from Camberwell College of Art and studied business administration at London School of Economics (LSE).
CV
Selected shows, prizes, talks and publications (painting):
2025
06/25 – Sickly Sweet Revenge, group show, Hypha Studios, Marble Arch
05/25 – Not What I Meant, duo show, Outhouse Gallery
03/25 – Jackson’s Art Prize 2026, Longlisted
03/25 – “The Colour Formally Known as Incarnation: On the meaning of pink”, A Pastel Palette, 2025, Cade Curatorial, Terrace Gallery
03/25 – Quiet. Bright., group show, Terrace Gallery
02/25 – “Polly-morphous Perverse”, Playing Femme, 2025, 16Collective
2024
11/24 - Art on a Postcard, Gathering
11/24 - Tenth Anniversary Auction, Art on a Postcard
10/24 - Mixtape 8, online group show, Cultivate Gallery
10/24 - Collapse, group show, Safehouse 1
06/24 - Here, There be Monsters, group show, Safehouse 1
05/24 - Waverton Art Prize 2024, Shortlisted
05/24 - Mixtape 7, online group show, Cultivate Gallery
05/24 - Turps Painting School Spring Show, Thameside Gallery, London
02/24 - “Looking at sex and art and sexy 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 and publication 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, juried group exhibition, Assembly House Trust, Norwich
04/23 - Spring Show, group show, Folkestone Art Gallery, Folkestone
2022
10/22 - We Are What We See, group show, Glimpses Agency at 347 Old Street
For a full CV including board and publishing experience please contact the studio.
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