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New York 2016

  • 1-54 Forum 2016
  • Exhibitors 2016
  • Partners 2016

Emma Amos

Born in 1938 in Atlanta, the US. Lives and works in New York, the US

Emma Amos, Africa and Picasso, 2000, Oil on linen, pieced African fabric border, 79 x 107 cm / 31.1 x 42.13 in, Courtesy of Galerie Anne de Villepoix 

Biographical references permeate much of Emma Amos’s oeuvre. Her formative years spent in Atlanta foreground much of her visual identity that extends across printmaking, painting, textiles, photography, and collage. Within her practice, Amos confronts challenging issues associated with politics, gender, race, and cultural history, particularly in relation to privilege and disavowal. Notions of desire also play into her work, as she investigates the Black body vis-à-vis the White body, in aesthetics and the social domain.

Painter, printmaker, and weaver, Amos’s technique incorporates her diverse training across the arts, gained through her formal art education in etching and painting in London and as a weaver and designer for Dorothy Liebes in New York, which led to her love of fabric. Amos’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, the US; New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, the US; and Newark Museum, the US.

Selected Artists

Mabunda, Gonçalo

Adams, Derrick

Olagunju, Niyi

Erruas, Safaa

Ibrahim Mahama

Goodman, Frances

Ba, Omar

Khelil, Farah

Artists 2016

  • A

    • Aboudia
    • Adams, Derrick
    • Al Miller
    • Andrianomearisoa, Joël
    • Ategwa, Ajarb Bernard
    • Athi-Patra Ruga
  • B

    • Ba, Omar
    • Bandoma, Steve
    • Beatrice Wanjiku
    • Boua, Armand
    • Boutté, Nathalie
  • C

    • Clay Apenouvon
  • D

    • Diop, Omar Victor
  • E

    • Edson Chagas
    • Em’kal Eyongakpa
    • Emma Amos
    • Erruas, Safaa
  • G

    • Gastineau Massamba
    • Goodman, Frances
    • Gor Soudan
  • H

    • Hamidou Maiga
  • I

    • Ibrahim Mahama
  • J

    • Jean-Claude Moschetti
    • Jim Chuchu
  • K

    • Kentridge, William
    • Kganye, Lebohang
    • Khelil, Farah
    • Kura Shomali
  • L

    • Lemaoana, Lawrence
    • Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
    • Liebenberg, John
    • Lundangi, Franck
  • M

    • Mabunda, Gonçalo
    • Maïmouna Guerresi
    • Maludi, Houston
    • Michéa, Vincent
    • Mika, JP
    • Monteiro, Fabrice
    • Muluneh, Aïda
    • Mustapha Azeroual
    • Mwangi Hutter
  • N

    • Ndary Lo
    • Ndiaye, Cheikh
    • Nzebo, Boris
  • O

    • Olagunju, Niyi
    • Olatunji, Babajide
    • Onditi, Paul
    • Otobong Nkanga
  • P

    • Peterson Kamwathi
    • Phoebe Boswell
  • S

    • Samba, Chéri
    • Sanogo, Amadou
    • Sonia Boyce
    • Sue Williamson
  • T

    • Theo Eshetu
  • U

    • Uche Okpa-Iroha
    • Uman
  • V

    • Veleko, Nontsikelelo
    • Victor, Diane
  • W

    • William Sagna
  • Y

    • Yashua Klos
    • Yéanzi
  • Z

    • Zangewa, Billie
    • Zinkpè, Dominique
    • Zohra Opoku

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