Biography
Kiera Faber’s (Luxembourger/American) award winning works are exhibited in retrospectives, film festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide. Her work embraces the different modalities of film, photography, textiles, and drawing; admiring the strengths in multiplicity and weaving connections amidst perceived disparities. She builds surreal worlds; fusing the known with the unknown, confounding what is real or imagined, and realizing the mystical other in metaphoric allegories. Nature intercedes in these mythical folktales as a sapient being, reclaiming its environs. Faber revels in ephemerality and implied transient narratives while simultaneously seeking material tactility, yearned permanence, and being physically present in an uncertain world.
Faber's history informs her risk taking work. She has made art by hand since childhood, inspired by the beauty of light illuminating the fragrant clay dust hovering in the air of her mother's ceramic studio; a place of magic and possibility. The lone survivor of a car accident at the age of eighteen, she sustained a stroke that permanently paralyzed her left hand. Her vulnerability, resiliency, and research spawn broader investigations into disability aesthetics, the psychological reverberations of intergenerational trauma, and profound loss.
She received her MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop after completing a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester. Faber is a two-time Jerome Foundation grantee and was awarded a Fellowship in Media Arts from the McKnight Foundation with a retrospective screening at the Walker Art Center Cinema, honoring her visionary creations that challenge audiences. Faber currently lives and works in Philadelphia where she also is a collective artist member of the historic Vox Populi.
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