Amanda Ross-Ho

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Biography

Born in 1975 in Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

2006  MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1998  BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1997  Exchange Program: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Teeny Tiny Woman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2011
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE, The Approach, London, UK
UNTITLED NOTHING FACTORY, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX 

2010
A STACK OF BLACK PANTS, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
SOMEBODY STOP ME, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Project Series 40: Amanda Ross-Ho: The Cheshire Cat Principle, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA

2009
UNTITLED EVENT Hoet Bekaert, Gent, Belgium

2008
HALF OF WHAT I SAY IS MEANINGLESS, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Hoet Bekaert, Knokke, Belgium
NOTHIN FUCKIN MATTERS, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

2006
gran-abertura, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Don't Front (You Know I Got Cha Open), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Season Finale, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2003
The Earth is Rotating with this Room as its Axis, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Scene of Changery, Dogmatic, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2013
Image Transfer, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

2012

Comrades of Time, PST, Tilberg, The Netherlands
Look here, upon this picture, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Pure Perception, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy
prince at the forum, Beacon Arts Building, Inglewood, CA
Parings: The Collection at 50, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Devouring Time, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Special Blend, The Journal, Brooklyn, NY
Image Transfer, Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (August-October 2012)

2011
IT AIN'T FAIR: Materialism, OHWOW, Miami, FL
disorder, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Painting Expanded, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY
Greater LA, 483 Broadway, New York, NY
NOT THE WAY YOU REMEMBERED, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Image Transfer, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (October-December 2011); Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN (February-May, 2011)
Banquet of the Black Jackel, Luckman Gallery, Cal State, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)

2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalog)
Drawing, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago IL
Free, New Museum, New York, NY
New Photography 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Image Transfer, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)
Jerry/Jury-Rigged, curated by Jan Tumlir, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Portugal Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Doctor Zomb, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside and Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Never Ending Story: Fairytale, Fantasy, Obsession, curated by Laura Hoptman, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
Crosstown Traffic, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
FAX
, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong 

2009
Picturing The Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
In Bed Together, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
Chinese Box, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA
Wallworks, Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco, CA
Interiority Complex, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Bitch Is The New Black, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Show, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, NY
July Artist of the Month, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
To The Left of The Rising Sun, Small A Projects, New York, NY
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Selected Works from the MCA Collection, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Spoils & Relics: Henning Bohl, Michael Hakimi, Amanda Ross-Ho, The Approach, London, UK
FIRST SHOW, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
FAX, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; traveled to Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
Make Room, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
LA Woman, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC

2008
The Station, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman, Miami, FL
Indirect Object: Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Amanda Ross-Ho, Frances Stark, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY 
Dogtooth and Tessellate, The Approach, London, UK
2008 California Biennial,
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
Index: Conceptualism In California From The Permanent Collection
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 
a tellurian complex
, john connelly presents, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Chinaman's Chance, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Depositions, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland.
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY
Vaginal Rejuvenation, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY

2007
for REE, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
OPEN, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Sculptors' Drawings, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Post-Rose: Artists In And Out of The Hazard Park Complex, Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
Sonotube Forms,
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Warhol and...,
Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Me, you, you, a ventriloquy,
Small A Projects, Portland, OR
Distinctive Messengers,
House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
Obscene Soft Sounds
, Wallspace, New York, NY
Photographs
, AR Fine Art, Milan, Italy

2006
Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), Bellwether, New York, NY
666, curated by Jan Tumlir, USC Roski School of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2005
State of Emergence, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hella Chihuahuas, Platform China, Beijing, China
Things We Said We’d Never Do Again, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Spring Break, ArtLedge, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ArtLA, Los Angeles, CA
Players, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL

2004
Battle of the Dimensions, Stichting Kunst and Complex, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Extended Family, Publico, Cincinatti, OH
Drunk vs, Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
This Thing We Do, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Welcome to Wonderland, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL
100 Cuts, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Uncovered Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2003
Don’t Fail Me Now, TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL
Amanda Ross-Ho and David Baptiste-Chirot, Jody Monroe Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Glossing, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL
Artboat, Dogmatic, Chicago, IL
9th Annual University Exhibit, Northern Indiana Art Association, Munster, IN
Really Real, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Subtle, Not So Subtle, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002
Just What it Says, Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago, IL
Canadian Thanksgiving, Robert DeCaprio Gallery, Palos Hills, IL
81/2' X 11', Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago, IL
Reconfiguring Pop, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Thrill 2, Joymore, Chicago, IL
Moxie, Three Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Meet Me in St. Louie, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2001
Bastard:Son of Hot Sauce, Law Office, Chicago, IL
Outside the Box, Lemp Brewery, St. Louis, MO
Day Job, Open End, Chicago, IL
Flowers are Meant to be Picked, A.S.A.P, Chicago, IL

2000
Significant/Signifiers, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Ball and Chain, Skokie Sculpture Park, Skokie, IL
Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Space, Chicago, IL

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