Mari Amman Studio

Mari Amman is a multidisciplinary artist. Her first public exhibition in 1999 was a land art sculpture. She works with light, space, and time with images, installations, poetry, performance, painting, sculpture, video, textiles, and design. She is an Expert Culture Reviewer for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Amman collaborates with music, science, architecture, and culture professionals.

Geological Empathy and Sublime Rheology are concepts underscoring her interest ways the imaginary realm influences reality. Artistic research projects in progress are Aesthetic Resonances, Pozzolana, Landcape-Memory-Eros developed from pedagogical methods of Pattern Recognition, Visual Literacy, and Body Architecture. Forthcoming works are iterations of Trânsito, Suspended Planes at TEKS, Gong Teppe, Igloo.

Noted recognition of her work includes: Omniscient, monolithic image and text, was awarded 1st by the jury in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition at the Asia Culture Center, in Gwangju (SK, 2015). Afjordance screened during AWMAS (UCSB, 2020). She was poet and artist-in-residence in Paris (FR, 2023), Bonny Doon (US, 2022), Kjerringøy Land Art (NO, 2020) guided forest bathing and presented Sublime Timescapes. Art Farm Iowa (US, 2023); Arte Expuesto (MX, 2023), Stefan Simchowitz (US, 2020) exposed and collected her work. She researched trauma psychology and developed a practical method for transmutation at Angelot-Trélex (CH, 2019), participated in PraksisOslo, Praxisdansfestivalen, and a Butoh residency with Mushimaru Fujieda at KHiO (NO, 2017, 2018).

Amman holds a Master of Fine Art (Honors) with Frankfurt School Theory/Conceptual Studio Practice from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California (2015), and Bachelor of Fine Art (Dean’s List) in Advertising/Interior Design from Illinois Institute of Art (2006), Photography and History of Photography at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, and Social Psychology at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan (2012).