Assistant Professor, Painting & Drawing
Amanda Curreri (she/they) is an artist and educator. Her artwork is interdisciplinary and dialogic, characterized by an engagement with social hxstories of resistance. The work is situated between textiles and painting, social practice and pedagogy. Textiles are key for their ability to invite an experience of collectivity and connection. Digital handweaving with the TC2 Jacquard loom is central to her ongoing inquiry into the intersections of material studies, visual culture, and collective futurity. She lives on the unceded territory of Tiwa and Pueblo Peoples, also known as Albuquerque, NM.
Curreri’s artwork has been recently commissioned by Facebook Open Arts, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Her work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California (Queer California), Cincinnati Art Museum (Women Breaking Boundaries), Contemporary Arts Center (Archive as Action), Asian Art Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Ortega y Gasset Projects (New York City), and the Incheon Women’s Biennale, Korea. She will be an 2025 Artist in Residence at Os Icelandic Textile Center working in the Digital Textiles Lab, was a 2024 Artist in Residence at Stanford Arts Institute at Stanford University, a 2023 Artist in Residence at Praxis Digital Weaving Lab, a recipient of an Alumni Traveling Scholars Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to research textiles in Japan, a Pogue Wheeler Research Grant to study textiles and architecture in México, a Summerfair Aid for Individual Artists grant, and a SF Guardian Goldie Award.
Her artwork has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, VICE, Hyperallergic, Frieze Art, KQED Arts, San Francisco Chronicle, and more.
Curreri holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts, a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a BA from Tufts University in Sociology and Peace & Justice Studies. She is a faculty member in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico. Her work is represented by Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco, California.