Miki Flores-Amper is a sculptor and furniture maker based in a shared Gowanus, Brooklyn studio; raised in the Hudson Valley, he earned a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His practice spans small handheld sculptural objects, custom furniture, and large-scale public installations built using woodworking and digital fabrication tools such as laser cutters, CNC routers, and 3D printers; his installation "Crater!," a 50-foot plywood structure with a climbable sloped deck, anchored Baltimore's Artscape 2016. He also works as a designer and project manager at an art studio. He shares the studio with painter and illustrator Rowan Fulton, who earned a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015, has exhibited work in Baltimore and Amsterdam, and has written art criticism for BmoreArt and Chronogram.

Recently my art has ended up falling into three different categories. 1) I really enjoy making small hand held sculptures that are tactile and multi-faceted, art objects that are intended to be grabbed off a shelf or counter and played with. 2) Frequently I'm making furniture and household items for my own apartment or for friends. I recently wanted a new place to sit at my apartment and somewhere for friends to crash when they come over to visit, so I built a large couch from scratch, doing all the framing, foam work, and upholstery myself. 3) For my large installations I'll transform public or accessible spaces by building a new topography that visitors are able to climb/walk on top of, sit down and lounge, or engage in programming that I curate to activate the spaces. I'll often create events around these installations and invite local groups and individuals to participate, in the past I've organized a lot of poetry readings, panel discussions, and live music, theater, and dance performances. Most of my work involves woodworking of some sort and most projects are planned out using 3D CAD design programs. I'll incorporate digital fabrication processes into my art practice, using laser cutters, CNC routers, and 3D printers, although I'm often using standard shop and hand tools as well. There's also an important aspect of social design where I'm driven to create work that people can immerse themselves in and physically engage, both individually and as part of a larger group.