Sydney Mieko King is an artist working in photography, sculpture and video. She seeks new ways of imaging the body and its trace, engaging in continued material exploration through her process. King builds cameras out of bedrooms and foamcore boxes, records images on three-dimensional surfaces, and casts screens for projection from plaster molds.
Her work has been shown at the International Center of Photography Museum, François Ghebaly Gallery, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, the Broodthaers Society, the Dean Collection, Chashama, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and others. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Recess Art, BRIC and the Schneider Museum of Art.
King was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Art and Archaeology. She is the recipient of a 2021 En Foco Fellowship and a 2021 Aperture x Google Creator Labs Photo Fund Award. King recently received her MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art and was awarded the John Ferguson Weir Prize. She currently lives and works in New Haven.
sydney.mieko.king at gmail dot com // @sydney.m.king
