RECENT & UPCOMING
In Bocca al Lupo
Solo Exhibition January 2025
Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stanford Arts Institute
Artist in Residence, October 2024
Product Realization Lab (TC2 Digital Loom), Stanford University
Ós Icelandic Textile Center, Digital TextileLab
2025 Artist in Residence
Ós Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
But History and I
Public project and exhibition
Sept 8 - Dec 9, 2023
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Curated by Mary Statzer as part of Hindsight Insight 3.0
This exhibition is an opportunity to present a selection of my participatory artworks that have been growing and changing over the years. In this show, they take new forms as a way to hold and reflect the sweet collective labor and action that brought them into being. But History and I is titled after an Emily Dickinson poem and indebted to Italian immigrants and anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Praxis Digital Weaving Lab
2023 Artist in Residence
Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH
Proximities
Aug 26 - Sept 30, 2023
Best Western, Santa Fe, NM
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, Aug 26, 3-6 PM
Best Western is pleased to announce Proximities, a five-person exhibition of work that explores the interconnected web of nearness and occurrences. Proximites includes the work of Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Amanda Curreri, Nick Larsen, Hilary Nelson, and J Rivera Pansa. The artists share a speculative sense of discovery in reshaping how things could be. There is an intentionality that threads each artist’s practice. Along this thread are themes of anarchy, activism, romance and ecology that open into multitudes.
Fluid Gaze
Sept 30 - Dec 30, 2023
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
516 ARTS' presents Fluid Gaze, curated by Rachelle B. Pablo (Diné), which features the work of 13 artists from various creative practices and 2SLGBTQIA+ identities, presenting Indigenous, non-Indigenous, and Latinx perspectives.
Exhibiting artists include sheri crider & Obie Weathers, III, Adri De La Cruz, Amanda Curreri & claudia hermano, Harmony Hammond, Sam Kirk, Lehuauakea (māhū mixed-Native Hawaiian Kānaka Maoli), Gabriel Maestas, Jenny Irene Miller (Inupiaq), Roin Morigeau (Bitterroot Salish Flathead Nation/French], José Villalobos, and Zefren-M (Navajo). Together, these artists invite us to consider the layers of experience and context that shape queer identities today.
Queer Threads, group exhibition, curated by John Chaich
May 10 - Aug 20, 2023
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
So thrilled to be included in the West Coast iteration of this traveling exhibition curated by John Chaich.
Artists As Knowledge Carriers, group exhibition, curated by Rachelle B. Pablo (Diné)
Feb 4 - May 6, 2023
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
I’ll be included in this group exhibition by way of a collaborative, and labor-intensive, artwork made with Welly Fletcher.
Exhibition review, "Art, With an Asterisk," Hyperallergic, June 2022
Art writing as community-building. I’m getting to know my new home of New Mexico through spending time with the work of a great trio of artists: Kate Ruck, Jami Porter Lara, and Erin Mickelson.
Summerfair Selects, group exhibition
Jan 28 - Mar 13, 2022
Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
From the gallery: To celebrate one of the most coveted and enduring arts grants in the region, the Weston Art Gallery presents twelve Cincinnati-area artists who received Summerfair Aid to Individual Artists Awards from 2016-18. Participating artists include Christina Brandewie, Amanda Curreri, Stacey Dolen, Tyler Griese, Michelle Heimann, Anne Huddleston, Marsha Karagheusian, Lisa Merida-Paytes, Sarah Miller, Kevin Muente, Mark Wiesner, and Alice Pixley Young. (Entire Gallery)
Obracadobra Art Residency
Nov 15 - Dec 13, 2021
Oaxaca, México
I’ll be returning to Oaxaca for a month this fall! In part, inspired by a reread of Audre Lorde’s powerful and sexy “biomythography,” Kami: A New Spelling of My Name.
Facebook Open Arts
November 2021
I was commissioned to make a new 30 foot long work, Pockets Patience, for the new Facebook Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. It was challenging, fun, and super generative to work that large, in paint, and pull-in some quality studio time with my long-time studio assistant, Aubrey Theobald!
We use our hands to support, group exhibition, curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verisimo
May 29 – July 3, 2021
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00PM
Book your appointment: calendly.com/southern-exposure
Looking forward to the (COVID) reschedule of this group exhibition including Sam Vernon, fronteristxs collective, Kimi Hanauer, and myself. Yes!
We use our hands to support will exist in numerous layers, creating an overlapping stack: a ‘physical space’ will hold work in Southern Exposure’s gallery by Amanda Curreri, Sam Vernon, Kimi Hanauer and Fronteristxs Collective; a ‘printed document’ designed and crafted by Ginger Brooks Takahashi; and an ‘online’ layer available through the Southern Exposure website. We invite you in as deep as you wish. The physical space will be open by appointment from May 29- July 3, 2021. The printed layer (which will become its own stack) will be sent out via United States Postal Service throughout the course of the show; and the online layer which will be a continual tool for ongoing learning and interaction with the work. To sign up to receive the printed document layer, please fill out this form: https://tinyurl.com/soexhands
Image credit: Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Terra Tools: Blocks, Clocks, Rocks, & Blades, solo exhibition
June 5 – July 17, 2021
Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Womens Suffrage Mobile Garment Rack (WSMGR), commissioned as part of Women Breaking Boundaries exhibition curated by Ainsley Cameron
October 12, 2019 - April 12, 2020
Cincinnati Art Museum
I am thrilled to be working on a new participatory garment-based artwork in conjunction with the museum’s Women Breaking Boundaries exhibition, celebrating the 2020 centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in the US. The exhibition, curated by Ainsley Cameron, will pull from the museum’s collection to highlight women-identified artists and encourage critical thinking about gender, inclusion, and museums.
My work, WSMGR, will be a roving, hands-on engagement piece within the galleries, highlighting hxstories of struggles for suffrage and civil rights within and beyond those commonly related to the US Women’s Suffrage movement. Visitors will be encouraged to touch, try on, and explore the garments and the accompanying texts within and inside the works.
Image: Sso-Rha Kang tries on the O.H. Coat from the Women’s Suffrage Mobile Garment Rack.
Archive as Action, three-person exhibition, curated by Steven Matijcio
February 8 – June 16, 2019
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Archive as Action showcases some of my new textile works, soft architectures, and a major participatory artwork called RopeWalk. CityBeat has a fun slideshow (see images #7-15) with some great shots of the installation and of the RopeWalk Crew in action! Rosie Sharp from Hyperallergic visited the exhibition and highlights the participatory strategies.
Queer California: Untold Stories, group exhibition, curated by Christina Linden
April 13 – Aug 11, 2019
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Excited to have my work included in this exhibition curated by the formidable Christina Linden focused on California-initiated queer hxstories and communities. VICE Broadly included me in a preview of ten of the artists in the exhibition. The New York Times featured the show and my work, Misfits, 1979 (Sex and Art). Frieze also covered the exhibition and featured Misfits.
This Time Tomorrow, Performance Festival
April 11–14, 2019
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Artists in this exciting festival include: Rashaad Newsome, Tania El Khoury, Lorena Molina, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Daina Ashby, NIC Kay, Joseph Keckler, and myself.
As part of the CAC’s new performance festival, This Time Tomorrow, I will present a large-scale performative event with 50 participants spanning the Ohio River on the Purple People Bridge. Join us for this enormous RopeWalk on Sunday, Apr 14, 12:30-2pm, with picnic refreshments to follow.
Bringing together local, national, and international artists and their works, This Time Tomorrow occurs at locations throughout the city behind an ethos of exploration, experimentation, and collaboration. In addition to performances, the spirit of liveness will continue on through creative workshops, open discourse, and a vibrant late-night hub.
Image: RopeWalk, This Time Tomorrow Performance Festival, Contemporary Arts Center, April 14, 2019; Photo credit: Ravena Rutledge
COUNTRY HOUSE_, solo exhibition
September 14 – October 27, 2018
Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
See KQED review by Sarah Hotchkiss for a spot-on discussion of the exhibition.
“Truth and Image: The Bias of Representation,” panel discussion
September 13, 2018
Cincinnati Art Museum
In absentia – as I’ll be out of town to open my exhibition at Romer Young Gallery – my contribution will involve a printed take-away for the first 100 attendees.
The panel is part of the city-wide programming in conjunction with For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative. From the CAM: A town hall conversation on truth ranging from history painting to contemporary news.What makes us believe in an image? Representation is always biased; history paintings depict events from a particular perspective, photographs include only certain elements within the frame, and the stories we tell include some details while leaving out others. Distributing images, information and ideas is now easier than ever, but allegations of fake or misleading information come from all directions. Join us for a community conversation centering on the role of truth, lies and everything in between as we take an in-depth look at how facts have been represented in media from history paintings to online news platforms.
2018 Pogue Wheeler Architecture and Design Research Grant, DAAP/UC
I’m honored to receive an architecture and design research grant from DAAP (The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati) to travel to Oaxaca this August. I’ll study regional textile methodologies and visit significant architectural sites to explore visual and ritual communication.
One Sentence Exhibition (O.S.E.), Kadist
Curator Christina Linden’s edition of One-Sentence-Exhibition (O.S.E.), hosted by the Kadist (Paris/SF), is up online now. This O.S.E. is a poetic preview of work and research that will be going into Linden’s forthcoming Oakland Museum exhibition on queer hxstories in California, opening in April 2019. Follow the link in the image above; each word in the sentence leads to a different work in the show. The word “behind” in the sentence leads to an image of one of the works I’ll have in the show.
Women to Watch
May 3 – July 7, 2018
Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
Shield for Queer Kin: Protection – an artwork collaboratively made with Welly Fletcher and a crew of amazing student assistants – will be on view in this exhibition. Fletcher is one of ten women featured in Women to Watch Ohio 2018. Developed in collaboration with the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Ohio Advisory Council, the exhibition showcases work of ten Ohio women working with metal through sculpture, installation, jewelry, and two-dimensional works. Fletcher will give an artist talk on Tues, May 22, 12-1pm. The Opening Reception is Thurs, May 3, 5-7pm with a Curators’ Tour (with Matt Distel and Ann Bremner), Fri, May 4, 12-1pm.
Somatic Gesture
February 1 – March 17, 2018; Reception: Saturday, Feb. 24, 5-8pm
Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
Somatic Gesture features a collection of eight intergenerational artists. Artists include: Ruth Asawa, Amanda Curreri, Jay DeFeo, Rosy Keyser, Bessma Khalaf, Sonya Rapaport, Brie Ruais, Suné Woods.Organized by Romer Young Gallery in partnership with Minnesota Street Project.
Diagonal Resistance //
January 30 – March 10, 2018; Opening reception: Thursday, Feb. 1, 4-6pm
NAU Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
As part of Welly Fletcher’s solo exhibition, I will show a collaborative artwork that we’ve made together over the past seven months with amazing stitching assistance from our studio assistants Aubrey Theobald and Hally Fulford (DAAP BFA student extraordinaires!). I will also exhibit a few of my independent works as part of an accompanying group show, //, in the third gallery of the museum with the works of the other three collaborators invited by Fletcher: Terry Berlier, Hannah Ireland, and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo.
Material Art Fair (CDMX) & Cincinnati Art Book Fair
Special Collections Press will present our collection of artist books and broadsides as well as a special project, All Walls Fall, in Mexico City in response the election of 45 and again in Cincinnati at the CABF.
T-shirt sales are split between Southern Poverty Law Center and new publishing projects.
Replacing Place, group exhibition, curated by MK Guth
November 10th — December 4th, 2017; Opening: Nov 10, 7-10pm
Anytime Dept., Cincinnati, OH
Artists: Nan Curtis, Sammie Cetta, Beth Campbell, Amanda Curreri, Rashawn Griffin, Ruben Garcia Marrufo
Replacing Place looks at artists whose work derives from a particular location, physical, cultural or psychological. This group of artists address place as an expanded field where inspiration of a unique site, moment in time, or psychological state evolves, shifts, collapses and spreads into something new. Temporal, spatial, narrative, and physical modifications reshape the work into something in relation to the catalyst site, but different, an echo, offering new meaning in connection to aspiration, memory, longing and desire.
My Arms are like Joy! Joy! Joy! Joy!, group exhibition, curated by Derek Franklin
Sept. 15, 2017 – July 1, 2018; Opening reception: Friday, Sept. 15, 5-8pm
The Carnegie, Covington, KY
Artists include: Amanda Curreri (Cincinnati), Rob Halverson (Portland/ LA), Kristan Kennedy (Portland), Ramondo Love (Cincinnati), Lydia Rosenberg (Cincinnati), Jason Carey Sheppard (New York), Sayak Shome (Cincinnati), Rebecca Steele (Cincinnati), Emily Weiner (New York). In addition to the artwork in the photo (above), I will host an event during the run of the show: CLAMS Dinner, Oct 26, a sign-up dinner of mussels inspired by Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (sign-up is now full).
Manifesto Show, group exhibition, curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
October 7 – November 4, 2017
Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA
Artists: Serena Cole, Shannon Finnegan, Yetunde Olagbaju, Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle, Amanda Curreri, Kevin Demery, Leila Weefur, Jay Katelansky, Zach Ozma, McKenzie Toma, Sarah Rara
SMFA Alumni Traveling Fellowship Award 2017
I’m honored and excited to be a recipient of an Alumni Traveling Fellowship Award from my undergraduate alma matter, School of the Museum of Fine Arts. I’ll be traveling to Japan to research historical textiles (garments and banners) and printing and dying methodologies, and to learn more about funeral rites and rituals.
Aid to Individual Artists Award 2016
Summerfair, an Ohio-based arts organization, has just announced the recipients of their 2016 AIA Award. I’m looking forward to using the award towards studio infrastructure and production. This support will enable me to do more extensive experiments with fabric dyeing, printing and garment (de)construction.
The Calmest of Us Would Be Lunatics, solo museum exhibition and special collaborations
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
January 22 – May 8, 2016; Opening Reception, Jan 22, 6:30 – 9 pm
Art as Social Activism: An Intergenerational Conversation with the Guerrilla Girls and Amanda Curreri, 7:30 pm
CLAMS dinner event, Mar 18, 7-9pm
Solo Exhibition and special collaborations with Erik Scollon, Llewelynn Fletcher, and ERNEST
Curated by Susannah Magers
Eff, solo exhibition
June 24 – July 30, 2016; Opening Reception: Fri, June 24, 6-9pm
Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Eff – shorthand for effigy and also short-shorthand for the colloquial “f,” as in fuck – leads these new works in a summoning of states of passion, self-possession, and responsive activity. While some works in the Eff series are direct tributes to actual individuals (track star Flo Jo, poet/activist Adrienne Rich, activist/librarian Barbara Gittings), the works in this exhibition focus less on individuals and more on states of being. Colorfully loud and wall-based, the works employ textile processes such as dyeing, printing, masking, patterning, negative and positive image construction, garment construction and re-construction. Traditions of Icon painting serve as an underpinning for these works to be (about) ways of being in the world. Formal relationships in the works test out metaphors of margins and centers. Time-shifts are evoked in works that are “branded” – much like a tattoo on skin – with logos and dates that span a past and future timeline. In some works an ancient Neapolitan symbol for protection is employed in the service of this time-travel (much in the way a medium asks for protection when dealing with the spirit world). This looking backwards is not motivated by nostalgia but rather by a need for models, comrades, and a wider understanding for dealing with our current troubling times. Curreri’s is a dialogic practice creating conversation between and beyond the works, viewers, and within actual and constructed feminist, radical, and queer historiographies.
Sedona Summer Arts Colony Residency, July 2016 Artist in Residence
Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ (inaugural invitational residency, Bay Area Artists Cohort)
Demos publication available at Printed Matter NYC
As part of an artist residency at c3:initiative in Portland, OR, ERNEST worked with Container Corps to create a publication as one part of our larger artwork, Demos, dealing with the nearby empty Wapato Correctional Facility. The publication is 31 pages long, and contains 5 original essays. Includes contributions from Ace Lehner, Sarah Fontaine, Ernest Jerome DeFrance, Pete Brook, Dan Gilsdorf, and ERNEST. Available at c3:initiative and at Printed Matter NYC.
Demos: Wapato Correctional Facility
September 18–November 22, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, September 18, 6:30–8:30pm
Press Preview: Friday, September 18, 4:30pm
Wapato Roundtable: Saturday, September 19, 11am-1pm
Two-years in the making, with the support of c3:initiative in Portland, OR, Demos: Wapato Correctional Facility opens on Fri, Sept. 18! As part of a working-group called ERNEST, I have been making a multi-pronged artwork investigating a jail site in the St. John’s neighborhood of Portland. Demos: Wapato Correctional Facility is comprised of a video, publication, a print edition (printed in collaboration with Pacific Northwest College of Arts’ Watershed Press), and a day of public events at the jail. Demos (pronounced “day-moss”) conjures early Athenian concepts of both “village” and “People” (Δῆμος). Equally, demos can be read to connote more modern concepts of the “demo,” or mix-tape, as well as the shorthand vernacular for demolition. As a collaborative group intent on testing and enacting forms of radical democracy, demos refers to local participatory engagement, keeping methods experimental and provisional, while harnessing the power of generative de(con)struction. Coyotes, ERNEST’s unlikely interlocutors at Wapato, burrow beneath the fenced perimeter of the jail to come and go as they please. Coyote, and an unrelenting sense of frustration, leads Demos: Wapato Correctional Facility in a transformation of the specifics of Wapato Jail into a platform for challenging conversation and collaboration. The video component acts as conjurer, the publication as a platform for voices ranging in depth and breadth, and the event component will create an opportunity for experiencing the jail on-site as well as stimulating discussion around the issues it brings up for various members of the community.