Biography
Kiera Faber (Luxembourger/American) is an artist working and living in Philadelphia. She has made art by hand since childhood; inspired by her love of materiality and early memories of autonomy and possibility experienced in her mother’s ceramic studio. She creates stop-motion animated and experimental films, analogue photographs, drawings, and textiles. Through implied narratives, she explores the repercussions of loss and trauma while infusing a deference for mysticism, the unexplained, and truths found in the natural wild, to actively percolate in the unconscious.
Her award winning work is internationally screened and exhibited at film festivals, galleries, and museums, most notably the South Bend Museum of Art, DeVos Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, George Eastman Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Cinematheque at UW-Madison.
Faber creates the entire world and experience of her films; from concept and design to image and sound. Her visionary creations have received significant artistic recognition through a Fellowship in Media Arts from the McKnight Foundation, two film grants from the Jerome Foundation, and numerous regional grants.
She received her MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop after completing a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester.
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