Carrie Sieh (b.1978, Los Angeles CA) is an artist, librarian, and permaculture enthusiast living and working in Miami, Florida. Her work engages with intertwined histories of environmental destruction, economic exploitation, gender and sexuality, trauma, and technology.
Sieh received a BA in painting and photography from University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University in California. She is a member of W.A.G.E., and is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, FL.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SITE-SPECIFIC PROJECTS*
2026 Site Visits, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL (upcoming)
2023 This Used to Be a Lake, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2020 *Containment, Walgreens Windows / Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2018 Low Roads, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2015 *Chaos/Control, O Cinema, Miami, FL
*Shroud for Soul Murderers, Walgreens Windows / Oolite Arts
2014 Textiles for Men and Machine Breakers, Audrey Love Gallery / Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
*Subclass HE (HV8073-8079.35), Meta-Gallery / Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2010 Consuming Passion, ArtLab33, Miami, FL
2001 The Jumping-Off Place, Baskin Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2023 Intertwined: Labor & Technology in Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2019 Florida Contemporary, Artis-Naples Baker Museum, Naples, FL
America Weaves, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL
2018 Art31: Fiber, Art & History Museums of Maitland, Maitland, FL
2016 Reimagined: Innovations in Fiber by Alex Tremino and Carrie Sieh, Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL
2014 Urbanism: Perceived & Interpreted, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL
COLLABORATIVE & COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2023-present Cofounder & Data Analyst, Miami Artist Census
2022 Collaborator, Prelude to 2100, Deering Estate, Miami, FL
2018-2020 Founder, Zero Waste Miami (2018-2020)
GROUP & TWO-PERSON* EXHIBITIONS
2026 Piecework Legacies, Miami-Dade Main Library, Miami, FL (upcoming)
2025 Pinta / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
By and Through the Waters, 255 Alhambra, Coral Gables, FL
Look Me Over II, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2024 Healing Nature, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Look Me Over, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Not the Brady Bunch, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2023 Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Hallelujah: Les Salon de Refuses, Green Space, Miami, FL
2022 Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
The Baggage We Bring, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
The Very Fiber, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2021 Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Warp and Weft, Frank C. Ortis Gallery, Pembroke Pines, FL
Summer Days, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
We’re Almost Free, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2020 Look Us Over II, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, F
2019 Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Between the Legible and the Opaque: Approaches to an Ideal in Space, Audrey Love Gallery / Bakehouse Art Complex
RCS 76-100, Swampspace, Miami, FL
Look Us Over, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Exposed, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2018 Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Dual Roles, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
It’s Hot, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Fragile Ecologies II, Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
A Thread of Execution, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
Threads of Connection, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Fragile Ecologies, Art New York / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
2016 Give Them the Bird, Art Miami / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Talking to Hear, Conde Contemporary, Miami, FL
*A Cyborg’s Guide to Permaculture, Sudson A. Samuels Gallery, Pembroke Pines, FL (with Lucinda Linderman)
2015 Art Wynwood / Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Paper Hearts, MDC Museum of Art & Design, Miami, FL
ABRACADABRA, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2013 Reclaimed Miami, Zadok Gallery, Miami, FL
Who Does She Think She Is? Art House Gallery, Delray Beach, FL
Art Wynwood, Miami, FL
2012 Smash & Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Appropriated Gender, 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Natural Curiosities, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
DCG Open, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Photography by Women, 6th Street Container Space, Miami, FL
Mapping: Time and Space, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
2011 *Surface, Deering Estate (with Regina Jestrow)
The Revolving Door Project, South Pointe Tower, Miami Beach, FL
Wynwood Art Fair / Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
5th All-Media Juried Biennial, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2010 SIN, Audrey Love Gallery / Bakehouse Art Complex
The Myth of Power, 1310 Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2006 Diosas, Gallery One, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2024 Residency, Oolite Arts / Terranova, Coral Gables, FL
2023 Miami-Dade Individual Artist (MIA) Grant, Miami, FL
2022-2023 Residency, Dimensions Variable, Miami, Fl
2020 Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2014-2016 Residency, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
2013 Residency, Deering Estate, Miami, FL
2011-2013 Residency, Bakehouse Art Complex
LECTURES, TALKS, & INTERVIEWS
2024 Artists Harnessing Data for Grassroots Change: The Miami Artist Census, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL
2023 Conversation – Carrie Sieh at Soho Beach House, Miami Beach, FL (with Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova)
2019 Curatorial Threads of “America Weaves,” Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Low Roads: Artists & Ethical Practice in the Anthropocene, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2013 Carrie Sieh in Conversation With Bernice Steinbaum, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2011 “NonStop Miami,” NBC, 5/24/2011
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Jordan Levin, “Prelude to 2100 at Deering Estate Imagines Miami in the Future,” ArtBurst, 01/27/2022
2019 Adriana Herrera, “America Weaves,” Aluna Art Foundation
2018 Shannon Stratton, "The Event of a Thread," The Miami Rail, Issue 23
2017 Michelle Miller, “Embroideries, Ciphers, & Secrets: An Interview with Carrie Sieh,” Cabbage Palm, 12/8/17
Anne Tschida, “In need of an antidote to the digital onslaught? This show is for you,” Miami Herald, 11/19/2017
2014 Neil De La Flor, The Choreography Behind "Textiles for Men and Machine Breakers," Knight Arts Blog, 03/10/14
2013 Future Dinosaur. Scrapped Magazine, Spring 2013
2012 Tom Austin, “Three Gallery Showings Around South Florida,” Miami Herald, 10/7/2012
Adriana Herrera, “Esculturas Afectivas de Artistas Emergentes,” El Nuevo Herald, 7/15/2012
Colleen Dougher, “DCG Open: A Summer Show to Remember,” South Florida Sun Sentinel, 6/15/2012
2011 Neil De La Flor, "Carrie Sieh Reveals Secrets". AlmostDorothy.com, 9/6/2011
“Another Sketchy Artist: Carrie Sieh,” BeachedMiami.com, 6/20/2011
2010 Is Greater Than Digital Omnibus, Warning Sign Media,
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 10(2), Cover
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
21c Hotels, Louisville, KY
James Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
United Way, Miami, FL
Bernice Steinbaum, Miami, FL
Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Kathryn Grody & Mandy Patinkin, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2009 M.L.I.S. (Master of Library and Information Science), San José State University, CA
2001 B.A., Art (Painting & Photography), University of California, Santa Cruz CA