CV — Mia Middleton

CONTACT
Roberts Projects
Coma Gallery

STATEMENT
Mia Middleton (b. 1988, London, England; from Northland, New Zealand; based Lisbon, Portugal) is a painter whose work examines gesture, performance, and states of emergence. Her paintings suspend bodies, objects, and interiors in moments of partial visibility, where action is interrupted and meaning remains provisional. Rather than treating these interstitial views as subordinate to a larger narrative, Middleton renders them as complete in themselves, allowing a single element to carry the full weight of the image. Working through reduction, tonal restraint, and carefully staged ambiguity, her work produces sustained tension, operating within a mnemonic register that records mystery rather than exposition.

Middleton has recently been included in exhibitions at The Corridor Foundation, Shenzhen, China; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY and the Liverpool Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. In 2026, Middleton will present her second solo exhibition with Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, as well as contributions to group exhibitions at the Kunsthal N, Copengagen, Denmark and Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Opening 19.09.26 - Summoning Cleo, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
2025 - Double, Coma Gallery, offsite in Hong Kong
2024 - A Green Glass Eye, Coma Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2023 - Act V, Miami Basel, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
2023 - Love Story, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
2022 - How to Sleep, PM/AM, London, UK
2022 - Three Secrets, COMA Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2021 - Through the Gate, PPP, London, UK
2019 - When the Edge of the Head was a Hole, Fires, Sydney, Australia
2018 - Being There, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

DUO EXHIBITIONS
2021 - Webway with Jen Mathews, Haydens Gallery, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Opening 13.05.26 - Secret Skins, Rodolphe Jannsen, Brussels, Belgium
2026 - I Can Buy Myself Flowers, Kunsthalle N, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 - The Sphere of Reality and Fantasy, The Corridor Foundation, Shanghai, China
2025 - Revealing Dress, Liverpool Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
2025 - Friends in Both Places, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York
2024 - TickTack, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
2024 - Fragment I, Comune Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2023 - The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Simo Bacar, Lisbon, Portugal
2023 - Wanderlust, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
2022 - Cove(r), In Lieu Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 - Shelf Life, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
2022 - Next Time I Am Dreaming I Will Realise I’m Dreaming, No Gallery, New York, New York
2022 - Apotrope, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2022 - What Now, PM/AM, London, UK
2022 - Baitball with Darkzone, NYC and Like A Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy
2021 - New Landscapes Pt. 2, Lon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021 - I Came to See, City of Sydney Council, Australia
2021 - Turnstiles (Part 1 & 2), Ankles, Sydney, Australia
2020 - Open Source Studio, Digital Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art Residency, Seoul, Korea
2020 - The Owners, Sosho Club, Seoul, Korea
2020 - Art for Indigenous Justice, Sydney, Australia
2020 - Flogging a Dead Horse, Canteen, Sydney, Australia
2019 - Living in a Mirrored Sphere, Kings, Melbourne, Australia

FAIRS
2026 - Freize LA, Roberts Projects
2025 - Miami Basel, Roberts Projects
2024 - Sydney Contemporary, Coma Gallery
2024 - Miami Basel, Roberts Projects
2024 - The Armory, Roberts Projects
2023 - Miami Basel, Roberts Projects
2023 - Sydney Contemporary, Coma Gallery
2023 - The Armory, Roberts Projects
2023 - Frieze LA, Roberts Projects

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photomedia (Honours)
University of New South Wales, Sydney

RESIDENCIES
2022 - PM/AM, London
2020 - Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 - Homesession, Barcelona, Spain

SELECTED TEXTS
‘Double’ catalogue text by Katya Tylevich
‘Double’ artsists essay
‘A Green Glass Eye’ artists text
‘Love Story’ catalogue essay by Sarah Fensom
‘Love Story’ artists text
‘How to Sleep’ catalogue text by Daniel Mackenzie
‘Three Secrets’ artists text
‘Through the Gate’ exhibition text by Ted Target