Micaela Amateau Amato

Micaela Amateau Amato has exhibited her hybrid works in solo exhibitions in New York at Kornblee Gallery, Betty Parsons, Bertha Urdang; in Chicago at Marianne Deson, Flatfile; in Los Angeles at Acme Inc., Angles, and Baum Silverman Gallery. Reviews of solo shows are in Artforum, Women’s Art Journal, Art in America, Arts Magazine, the LA Times, and the NYTimes. Her group exhibitions include Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Basel Art Fairs Miami, LA Art Contemporary, Navy Pier Armory Art Fairs, Tokyo Art Expos, Chicago Art Fairs. 

Collections include VeraList collections, SFMOMA, Museum of Art&Design NYC, Museum of Photography Chicago, Bard Hessel Center for Curatorial Studies, Rose Art Museum Brandeis, Rockefeller Collection, Eileen Guggenheim, Paula Cooper, Lucy Lippard.

 Amateau Amato’s new book is SILVERSTORIES, Parables of Memory and Dream. 50 gouache illustrations can be seen in Cara Judea Alhadeff’s acclaimed book Zazu Dreams, Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era, an environmental/ social justice adventure. Amateau Amato has curated many exhibitions and edited books: Couples Discourse – with artists Spero/Golub, Dunham/Simmons, Mardens, Woodmans, etal; and Uncanny Congruencies: Bernstein, Marden, Wessel, Frecon, etc.

Artist Statement 

My works are diasporic conversations that merge storytelling, political rage, and ancestral wisdom, weaving autobiography, political reckoning, and spiritual reflection. My hybrid sculptures and paintings are rooted in my Sephardic-Mizrahi heritage and diasporic experience. Paintings and photographs (both representational and abstract) become sculptural forms, engaging architectonic spaces from ancestral memories. Cast glass life-size portrait sculptures, cibachrome portraits, archival and photographic montages, and painted evocations of earth, sea, and wind, become spectral witnesses to the stories being told in neon text written in my ancestral 13c Ladino language.