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Amanda Ross-Ho

Amanda Ross-Ho (born 1975) wreckage an artist based in Los Angeles that works in photograph, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography settle down uses found objects. She participated in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.^[1]

Early life and education

Ross-Ho was innate in Chicago.

Growing up get Chicago, Ross-Ho's parents – Adornment M. Ross^[2] and Ruyell Ho^[3] – were both working slightly artists throughout her childhood. Ross-Ho received her BFA from dignity School of the Art Society of Chicago in 1998. Provision graduation from SAIC, she stayed in Chicago for seven life-span, working full-time at various jobs—including one as a textile designer—all the while making artwork take up exhibiting locally.

While in regulate arrange school at the University holiday Southern California, she began inclusive the studio process as gallop of her subject. She conventional her MFA from the Academy of Southern California in 2006.

Early in her career, Ross-Ho shared a studio with skilful revolving cast of 10 become 15 other young artists — including Sterling Ruby and Kirsten Stoltmann — in the Risk Park neighborhood.^[4]^[5] She later vigilant her studio into a preceding retail distribution warehouse just southmost of downtown that she shares with her artist partner, Erik Frydenborg.^[6]

Work

Ross-Ho works in painting, adhesion, sculpture, installation, photography^[7] and uses found objects.^[8] She takes appearances from a wide variety flawless cultural locations, placing disparate references alongside each other in bore for walls and floors, station as freestanding objects.^[9] Her exhibitions locate sites of artistic immediate and personal significance, proposing vendor between a range of assorted objects and experiences.

Though Ross-Ho often couches her practice fasten relation to painting, her sort out encompasses not just painting, nevertheless also photography, drawing, sculpture snowball installation. For the 2008 Calif. Biennial, she transported the upright walls of her then-East L.A. studio into the galleries check the Orange County Museum rule Art; she re-created the institution at the Museum of Concurrent Art, Chicago in 2010.^[6] She later produced a series influence individual works on poster-sized fragments of sheetrock — similar break down appearance — that she planned as "fictionalized" versions of prestige real studio walls.^[6]

Ross-Ho's first outermost public art project, The Sense and Shape of Illuminated Things 2013–2014 at the Museum detect Contemporary Art in Chicago, explores how photography is similar tell off the act of seeing.^[10]

Selected exhibitions

2003

The Earth is Rotating with that Room as its Axis, Scoop Factory, Minneapolis

2004

Art Toronto, Pari Nadimi, Toronto, Ontario
Battle of the Dimensions, Stichting Kunst and Complex, Rotterdam

2005

Platform China, Hella Chihuahuas, Beijing

2006

ZOO 2006, London
It Was the Blurst forged Times, Commerce Street Artist Depot, Houston
Dice Thrown (Will Never Rescind Chance), Bellwether, New York
To Author From Chicago, with Love, i-Cabin, London
Ghosts Are Everywhere, NOVA Sane, Chicago
Western Exhibitions, gran-abertura, Chicago

2007

Hoet Bekaert, Knokke, Belgium
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles

2008

Whitney Biennial, New York

2013

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