miela foster

is a Los Angeles–based artist-researcher investigating the patterns that shape the human experience. using visual art as a mode of inquiry, each work functions as a mapping, revealing the underlying architecture of how we live, perceive, remember, and collectively reimagine our world. her practice builds a visual logic & poetics for understanding the systems and forces that shape us as human beings, making the invisible structures of the human experience legible.

foster extends this inquiry through her research practice, foster the studio, which translates these investigations into experiential spaces that bridge theory and practice. through exhibitions, salons, collaborations, and product & design interventions, the studio activates the research, testing and expanding the insights embedded in her artwork through participation, reflection, and collective imagining. these projects form a growing network for inquiry, functioning like a living lab notebook and offering visual tools that invite audiences to re-architect their futures and reclaim agency within them.

her work has been featured in SF Bayview Newspaper, Canvas Rebel, and KQED, and exhibited across California, including NeueHouse Hollywood, Band of Vices Gallery, Root Division Gallery. she is also the recent winner of the 6th Annual Leimert Park Jazz Festival Juried Art Competition.