mariammanstudio
mariammanstudio
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Mari Amman (b. 1984) is an American-Italian artist. Her work with images, installations, poetry, performance, painting, sculpture, video, textiles and design is internationally awarded, exhibited, collected, and recognized as contributing to discourses in ways of knowing (epistempologies), resources, built environments, technology, and the influence of the imaginary realm on reality. After her first public exhibition of land art in 1999 she developed works through interests in Geological Empathy and Sublime Rheology. A European Innovation and Technology Culture & Creativity Expert Evaluator, Amman also collaborates with biology, technological and geological scientists, music, architecture, and culture professionals.
Noted recognition of her work includes international awards, residencies, and screenings of which a selection are listed: Omniscient, monolithic image and text, awarded 1st by the jury in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition at the Asia Culture Center, in Gwangju (SK, 2015). PraksisOslo Residency, Praxis Dansfestivalen with KHiO/Dansenhus (NO, 2017), Butoh residency with Mushimaru Fujieda at KHiO (NO, 2018), Angelot-Trélex Residency (CH, 2019), UKS Young Artists' Society Residency (NO, 2019), Atelier Nord Residency (NO, 2024, 2019), Afjordance screening, AWMAS (UCSB, 2020), Kjerringøy Land Art Residency (NO, 2020), Stefan Simchowitz (US, 2020) collecting her work, Paris Poetry Residency (FR, 2023), Bonny Doon Residency (US, 2022), foundational support and exhibitions for Art Farm Iowa (US, 2023), and Arte Expuesto (MX, 2023).
She holds a Master of Fine Art (Honors) with Frankfurt School Theory/Conceptual Studio Practice from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California (2015), and Bachelor of Fine Art (Dean's List) in Advertising/Interior Architecture and Design from Illinois Institute of Art (2006), with studies in Photography and History of Photography at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, and Social Psychology at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan (2012), Norwegian language (2014-2016), Italian and Napoletana languages and culture (2025 - ongoing), with ~12 years of classical piano studies, and classical voice and dance training since childhood.
Amman's artistic research in Aesthetic Resonances, Pozzolana, Landcape-Memory-Eros developed from Pattern Recognition, Visual Literacy, and Body Architecture methods. Her interest in Understanding through arts arose from being raised near the Agonic line, surrounded by forest, prairie, a nuclear power plant, industrial agriculture, and auto-ethnography with paternal heritage to political activist Ellen Ammann, landscape artist Harriet Sundström, and maternal Umbrian-Italian heritage. Amman's foundational training in music and dance underscores her artistic research involving geology, resonances, orology, dream study, social psychology, philosophy, temporality, memory, somatics and parietal perception. Her commitment to bringing harmony into reflective and strangely beautiful cultural work aims to uncover discernments and recenter hearts during geopolitical and technological transitions.
Forthcoming works include gallery, public space, commercial and architectural installations of Trânsito, Suspended Planes, Gong Teppe, Igloo, as well as new works in painting and textile mediums based on her research of the Phlegrian Fields.
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