Mia Funk trained at the ateliers Beaux-Arts, Paris. She has participated in number of international juried competitions including the Salon d’Automne Paris, for which she won the Prix de Peinture 2009. She has shown at the Grand Palais (Official Selection-Salon des Artistes Français 2012), was a finalist in Sky Television’s Art Competition London 2010, and The Guardian's London Lives Competition 2010, and was nominated for the Celeste Prize 2010. She was commissioned to do a painting for the 30th anniversary of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Her paintings are held in a number of public collections including the Dublin Writers Museum, Centre Culturel Irlandais, the American University of Paris and FIU World Art Collection in Amsterdam. [View]