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Across her prolific practice, Amanda Ross-Ho (b. Chicago, IL) has developed an ambitious, cross-pollinating lexicon of symbols to reflect on the entanglements of labor, time, and shared cultural signifiers. Traversing sculpture, painting, installation, and photography, she creates speculative archives of material and social history that give rise to unexpected activations between individual memory and collective conditions.
The artist often deploys the formal and conceptual logics of the still life, placing quotidian objects and images—including newspaper cut-outs, studio artifacts, ephemera, sourced photographs, or familial archives household items—into new proximities with one another. These arrangements suggest visual poetry, as disparate materials form a bricolage of possibilities and associations rather than a linear narrative arc. This dialectical approach is met by Ross-Ho’s more theatrical gestures: namely, dramatic shifts in scale. She enlarges mundane items to monumental size, evoking the exaggerated, sometimes uncanny humor of novelty products. Blown up into massive proportions, these objects take on new sociopolitical and affective dimensions, amplifying sentiment and connecting personal experience with broader cultural phenomena. A powerfully original thinker and singular artistic voice, Ross-Ho continuously draws from then subverts hierarchies between medium and discipline, offering viewers a generative and reflexive encounter with art.
Ross-Ho has presented solo exhibitions at ILY2, Portland, OR; Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Art, Birmingham, AL; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE; The Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, NL; The Approach, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles among others. In 2025, The Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art will publish a major career monograph of Ross-Ho’s work. She has participated in recent group shows at numerous galleries and institutions including Bel Ami, Los Angeles, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH; EXILE, Vienna, AT; Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICALA), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA. Ross-Ho has also presented work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY in the 2008 Biennial; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, NO; and in the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Public art commissions include The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Public Art Fund, Art Basel Parcours, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA among others. Her work has been written about extensively in publications such as Artnews, Frieze, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, and Hyperallergic. She is Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. Ross-Ho lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.