Meet the artist!


PREFERRED NAME: SIREN
GOVERNMENT NAME: ANIYAH MARIE-ROZE LAPAUL HARRIS

︎s.rensmetal@gmail.com
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EDUCATION

Current - BFA New Studio Practice, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, 2025


EXHIBITIONS

2025 Grilled Cheese Grant Exhibition, Milwaukee, Wi

2024 David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2024 Finalist for the BlueSpaceGallery, ‘Representation vs Abstraction’, Exhibition Competition, Online

2024 Michael Kohler Arts Center, ‘ Knock First’,  Sheboygan, WI  

2024 Var Gallery/Grey Area, ‘Of a Familiar Stranger’,  Milwaukee, WI

2023 Walker's Point Community Art Center, ‘TheErratic’,  Milwaukee, WI

2022 Task Creative, ‘Rites and Repetitions’,  Milwaukee WI

2022 Hawthorne Contemporary Gallery,  Milwaukee, WI


PUBLICATIONS/ PRESS

2025 ArtsMidwest, Grilled Cheese Grant: Buy a Sandwich, help an artist. https://artsmidwest.org/stories/grilled-cheese-grant-artist-wisconsin/

2024  MIAD Fine Art and New Studio Practice, “Junior project Catalog”

2023 MIAD Fine Art and New Studio Practice, “Connections Class Interviews”


INTERNSHIPS

2024-present Caribbean Culture Fund- Le Centre D’Art, Fundraising and Communications Intern (online)

2024 Easttown Association Production intern, Milwaukee Wi

2024  David Barnett Gallery, Gallery Intern, Milwaukee, Wi

2022 SSCAC Internship under Exhibition Manager (Lola Ogbara), Chicago, IL


AWARDS

2025 1st Place Grilled Cheese Grant Finalist, Milwaukee, Wi

2022  McMullan Undergraduate Internship, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


CURATED SHOWS / EVENTS    

2022  Artist talk and demonstration, MARN, Lolly Lolly x BLAC, Milwaukee, WI