Mia Wilkinson toys with Western stereotypes of the domestic female in her art. She undermines the performative nature of women as “the angel in the house,” electrifying her figures with a grotesque, playful sexuality and situating them in caricaturized, lurid domestic settings.
Born into a single-parent, working-class family in the North-East, the artist has no relationship with her Asian father and limited experience of that aspect of her racial heritage. Shaped by a strong but complex matriarchy, she learned that a female body holds both social currency and relative social invisibility. The experience of paternal absence, and its ramifications for her racial identity, combined with the dominant female forces that raised her, find presence and voice in the bawdiness of the women she depicts-skewing and skewering culturally imposed expectations and artistic traditions.
Wilkinson finds herself as “subject” deeply discomforting and increasingly turns the gaze onto her own image in an effort to further challenge traditions of depicting women and explore the female relationship with art.
Education
Royal College Of Art
Wimbledon College of Art UAL
Solo Exhibitions
HEAD OF THE TABLE, SLQS Gallery,2025 DOMESTICATED HINNY, KoKo Camden, 2023
THIS IS NOT PORN, Public Gallery, 2018
PLUS SIZE, Espacio Gallery London, 2016
Group Exhibitions
2010
Transitional, Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington
2011
Art@51, 51 Grange Road, Durham
Open, Seen, Darlington
2012
Notting Hill Mayfest, London
Observing Observed, Wimbledon Project Space, London
2013
Risus Pirus, Wimbledon Project Space, London
2014
Wimbledon Degree Show, London
Flesh, Espacio Gallery, London
Seams, Sweet’Art Hoxton 402 Gallery, London
2015
From Dada to Influx, Espacio Gallery, London
Y-Not, Sweet’Art Espacio Gallery, London
The Art Takeaway Charity Auction, Sweet’Art Espacio Gallery, London
2016
Hand Maid, Sweet’Art Hoxton 402 Gallery, London
SHE International, Tanner Street, London
2017
T’ART, Bones and Pear Gallery, London
The Benabai Expo, OXO Wharf Tower, London
Art Alika, Clerkenwell Green, London
2021 Euphoric online group show
2022
Retrespect, The Art Bypass Gallery, London
Two Doors, The House of St Barnabas, London
2023
Sweet Potion, Artistellar Gallery, London Nomad salon, London Conart global, london
2024
The Way of All Flesh, Saatchi Gallery, London
Lilacs Out of the Dead Land, Donya Gallery, London
REJECTS, Art Friend, London
Kunsthall UG, Augsburg, Germany
2025
In Fleeting Moments, Secession Gallery, Hastings
Parhesia, Hockney Gallery, London
Where All the Wild Things Are, Mandy Zhang Gallery, London
Big Girl Pants, TAO Gallery, London
2026
Gesture and Being, Saatchi Gallery, London
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