B. Phoenix, Arizona (2006) 

Mia Natalie Kamensky is a New York City–based artist whose practice has been rooted in drawing and painting since early childhood. She began exhibiting her work at the age of eight and held her first solo exhibition at eleven. In 2018, Mia published Art For A Cure, a collection of her original pieces benefiting pediatric cancer research. Her work has been featured in several art publications, including a profile in the Sotheby’s Institute of Art magazine.

Visual art has long served as a space of joy, exploration, and discipline for Mia. Classically trained in painting and drawing, she has studied at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – where she was the recipient of a merit scholarship for oil-painting – and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Kamensky’s practice spans acrylic and oil paintings, ink and graphite drawings, and experimental mixed media – including a mural constructed from Rubik’s cubes. Regardless of medium, her work often leans toward realism, using precision, color, and expressive portraiture to convey emotional immediacy and thematic urgency.

Kamensky is the creator of 6MK – 6 Million Known, an ongoing traveling exhibition of large-scale, hand-drawn portraits of Holocaust survivors. Each work is paired with a QR code linking viewers to the individual’s life story, merging traditional portraiture with digital testimony. The exhibition has been shown in libraries, schools, community spaces, local museums, and most recently at Columbia University.

Mia is currently a student at Barnard College of Columbia University, where she continues to expand her artistic practice and explore how visual storytelling can contribute to historical memory, communal dialogue, and human connection.

Email: mia.kamensky@gmail.com
Instagram: @_m_i_a_._a_r_t_