BIO
Myah is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between photography, painting, mixed media, and public installation to construct portraits and objects saturated with memory and longing. At the heart of her work is a sustained inquiry into nostalgia not as simple sentimentality, but as a complex and often contradictory force that shapes how we relate to the past, to objects, and to one another. Her research has confirmed what her art has long intuited: that nostalgia is deeply personal, and that nearly everyone's relationship to it is complicated.
Her current series, Future Fantastic Nostalgia, developed in partnership with the California Public Utilities Commission, transforms decommissioned payphones into public art installations across the Los Angeles Metro. The project distills her central preoccupation into its purest form, taking objects that carry the weight of collective memory and making them interact with viewers in entirely new ways. Vintage technology, vaguely familiar yet newly alive, becomes a site of surprise and reflection.
Her recent exhibitions trace the emotional geography of upheaval and recovery. It's Later Than You Think, shown at Graphite Gallery in New Orleans, drew from the raw material of displacement: miles of Pacific coastline, old-time radio broadcasts, a stolen moving truck returned with a screwdriver jammed in the ignition, to explore wonder, impermanence, and the way crises resolve themselves before we fully understand they existed. At UHF Gallery in May 2024, she presented work born from a medical reckoning: treated for a seizure, she found her memory scrubbed clean, old recollections suddenly luminous and new ones feeling borrowed, as though they had happened to someone else who shared her name. Returning to the studio felt like working at a stranger's desk, pulling images from a warehouse she had never entered. Most recently, Beginning of the End opened at La Luz de Jesus Gallery on Hollywood Boulevard in January 2025. The work emerged from a single shattering night — standing outside a motel west of Denver at 3:30am, a two-year-old in her arms, a wildfire growing to 200,000 acres at her back, and the slow arrival of an awful certainty that she would not be returning home. The paintings that followed are the record of someone stripped to the essential: not the woman she had built, but whoever remained underneath, masked and moving, pointed at no destination, beginning what became unexpectedly, a love story.
Whether through paint, photography, or repurposed infrastructure, her images and objects return repeatedly to the human experience of recognition, the feeling of encountering something you already knew, differently. Her murals mark walls across cities from the Rocky Mountains to Melrose Boulevard in Los Angeles, and licensing partnerships with Burton Snowboards and fashion designers both domestically and internationally have carried her imagery into the broader culture.
Biography
Myah received her BFA from Eastern Michigan University, where her capstone project was recognized with the prestigious Cellar Roots Award. She built her early career working in photography for publications and fashion houses across the Midwest and East Coast, including Hour Detroit, Gotham City Online, and eFashion Solutions. After relocating to the West Coast, she founded the first of several galleries she has owned and operated, a transition that marked a decisive shift toward painting, mixed media, and public installation. Her work has been shown in galleries nationally and internationally, including Graphite Gallery in New Orleans, UHF Gallery, and La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. She currently resides in Los Angeles and is pursuing a Master of Philosophy in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices at Trinity College Dublin.