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
GROUP 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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Piecework Legacies, Miami-Dade Main Library, Miami, FL
Loose Threads, Girls' Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2024 Healing Nature, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
By and Through the Waters, Oolite Project Space, Coral Gables, FL
2023 Hallelujah: Les Salon de Refuses, Green Space, Miami, FL
2022 The Baggage We Bring, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
The Very Fiber, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2021 Warp and Weft, Frank C. Ortis Gallery, Pembroke Pines, FL
Almost Free, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2019 Between the Legible and the Opaque: Approaches to an Ideal in Space, Audrey Love Gallery / Bakehouse Art Complex
RCS 76-100, Swampspace, Miami, FL
2018 Dual Roles, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
It’s Hot, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 A Thread of Execution, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
Threads of Connection, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
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)
2013 Reclaimed Miami, Zadok Gallery, Miami, FL
Who Does She Think She Is? Art House Gallery, Delray Beach, FL
2012 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
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2023-present Cofounder & Data Analyst, Miami Artist Census
2022 Collaborator, Prelude to 2100, Deering Estate, Miami, FL
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
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
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 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
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