Jenny Irene Miller (Wiagañmiu)
Jenny Irene Miller, Inupiaq, is originally from Nome, Alaska. Jenny's Inupiaq name is Wiagañmiu and her maternal family roots originate from the village of Kiŋigin, Alaska. Storytelling grounds Jenny's work. She explores the intersections of her Inupiaq identity and queerness by bringing forward stories that are personal, familial, and community derived. This allows her to further understand her knowledge of self, place, and ways of knowing that have been instilled in her by her family, culture, and experiences. Her work reframes and describes the past, present, and future of her indigeneity and queerness, and illustrates her refusal of the settler state and its narratives about her and her ancestors. Jenny primarily employs lens-based mediums, both photography and video. More recently, she has been developing relationships with new materials and mediums of expression — textile, natural materials, and sculpture. She is currently an MFA Photography student at the University of New Mexico on Sandia Pueblo land. Jenny also teaches an undergraduate Introduction to Photography course as a teaching assistant at UNM. During her MFA program she is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, otherwise she's based on Dena'ina land in Anchorage, Alaska.
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