Kika Sroka-Miller is an artist, publisher and literary agent living and working in London
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. Whilst attending Turps Painting School (2023-2026) their work was shortlisted for the Waverton Art Prize, included in Art on a Postcard’s Tenth Anniversary Auction, selected for the Assembly House Trust Biennial and shown in multiple group shows internationally. In 2026 Sroka-Miller made their screen debut in Eternity, a feature-length art film directed by Susanne Regina Meures and featuring Florentina Holzinger.
Sroka-Miller paints notionally abstract, disordered oil paintings in which amorphous forms, loose marks and a cacophony of reference and symbol sit alongside areas of exposed canvas. Their paintings move between chaos and emptiness, fragments of recognisable shapes and signs (dis)appear within a semiotic soup of productive uncertainty.
Their work grapples with themes of disorder, irregularity, categorisation and chaos. They are fascinated by how our eyes can sense a multitude of consistent colour and form within the quantum soup of the universe, whilst our minds home in on opposites, binaries and dualisms to make sense of our surroundings and ourselves. Crucially Sroka-Miller’s work is inspired by our (very human) impulse to legibility, by our need to make sense. In a way, their painting practice is an infinite experiment in meaning making and its implications.
In addition to their studio practice, 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 Director of Awaiting Press which represents the literary estate of Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army and formerly the FBI’s most wanted woman.
Sroka-Miller was both Editorial and Art Director, and then Managing Director, of the international 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, Yanis Varoufakis and Ha-Joon Chang, among others.
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. They are an alumni of Turps Painting School, 2023-2026.