Dilara Miller is an interdisciplinary artist based between Mersin, Turkey and the Hudson Valley, New York.She received her BFA from The University of Colorado, Boulder and her MFA from Northern Illinois University with an emphasis in printmaking and ceramic methods. Dilara’s work critiques and reflects on the social/cultural effects of being a Turkish/American Muslim woman in today’s society. Through referencing antiquities and how they are presented today, she seeks to identify patterns of hierarchies that exist in human history through an eco-feminist lens. Dilara retells mythic Islamic stories to promote healing for women to speak for the ways our bodies metabolize shame, and to form practices of resistance.
Dilara has had her work featured in national and international exhibitions such as the “Woman, Life, Freedom” exhibit in Chicago, Illinois, “ALHAMDU | Muslim Futurism” exhibit in Iowa City, and the 8th International Lithographic Symposium in Tidaholm, Sweden. Her work has also been published in the Mid America Print Council (MAPC Journal) and The Hand Magazine.