biography

Micaela Amato began exhibiting her work in New York City in 1975. Since then, her work has been shown across the U.S. and internationally and is represented in major collections including: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, Chase Manhattan Bank; and the private collections of Vera List and Paula Cooper. Amato's work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ArtForum, Art in America, and Art News.

Her mixed media work incorporates painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Often engaging forms of self-portraiture and nomadic identities in a dialogue with her Mediterranean ancestry from Iberia, Morocco, Turkey, and Rhodes, Amato's work embodies a multiple self that is mediated by her relationships to numerous locations and historical times. The series, "Dodecanese Apparitions" combines gouache painted, anthropomorphic patterned images on paper with photographic transparencies. As cultural nomad, Micaela Amato is a Professor of Art at The Pennsylvania State University.