Miriam Vlaming, an important representative of the New Leipzig School, was born in Hilden near Dusseldorf in 1971. In 1991 Vlaming studied educational sciences, psychology, and sociology at the Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf. However, Miriam Vlaming was increasingly attracted to art.

From 1994-99 Miriam studied at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts in the class of Arno Rink, one of the great teachers of the New Leipzig School. This time includes two years as Rink's master student. Because their training and orientation of their work is figurative, Miriam Vlaming, just like Neo Rauch and Matthias Weischer, aligned to this New Leipzig School style.

However Vlaming made a special path within this flow: It maps the boundaries of abstraction more pronounced than others at Leipzig. For in her paintings she brings, with egg tempera on canvas, often of considerable size, the structure of a complex painting process that plays an important role in her work.

Miriam Vlaming took a teaching job after graduation (2001-2003) and in 2011 taught at the 14th International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, showing her work at numerous international solo exhibitions. Noteworthy is the show `YOU PROMISED Me ', which, held at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, brings together around 50 paintings of 2008.

Work of Miriam Vlaming are also represented in major public collections and museums, including the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, ALTANA Cultural Foundation, the Art Collection Deutsche Bundesbank or the corporate collection Robert Bosch GmbH.

Miriam Vlaming lives and works in Berlin.