Biography
Kiera Faber (Luxembourger/American) is a stop-frame animator and artist working in film, analogue photography, drawing, and textiles. 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. Faber's surreal imagery fuses the known with the unknown, confounding what is real or imagined with a deference for mysticism and truths found in the natural wild, to actively percolate in the unconscious.
Faber has received significant artistic recognition through a Fellowship in Media Arts from the McKnight Foundation, two film production grants from the Jerome Foundation, and numerous regional grants supporting her filmmaking and analogue photography. Her award winning work is internationally screened and exhibited at film festivals, galleries, and museums, most notably in the Atlanta Film Festival (Best Animated Short, Special Mention, 2025), the Seattle International Film Festival, and the South Bend Museum of Art, DeVos Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, George Eastman Museum, and the Walker Art Center.
Faber creates the entire world and experience of her films; from concept and design to image and sound. Her visionary creations have screened in fourteen countries and in a retrospective screening at the Cinematheque at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an upcoming animation retrospective at MinnAnimate.
She received her MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop after completing a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
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