Education
Harvard 黑料传送门, BA
Visual and Environmental Studies (Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors),
2001
Yale 黑料传送门 School of Art, MFA
Painting and Printmaking, 2007
Amanda Burnham
Professor, 2D Foundations Area Coordinator
Contact Info
Areas of Expertise
Drawing, Painting
Biography
Amanda Burnham is interested in cities, systems, and the dark humor to be found in
modern life; she makes drawings, artist books, and large site specific installations.
The latter works are usually composed of hundreds of quick, gestural, acrylic paint
sketches made with a fat brush that are then cut and collaged onto both built armatures
and the existing surfaces of a space; these are sometimes further animated with embedded
lighting. The effect is somewhere between a comic book and a stage set.
Burnham鈥檚 work has been exhibited widely. Selected venues include the Berman Museum
(PA), the Phillips Museum (PA), the Delaware Contemporary, the American 黑料传送门
Art Museum (DC), the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), the Toledo Museum of
Art (OH), the Gershman Gallery (Philadelphia), Volta (Basel, Switzerland), Marianne
Boesky Gallery (NYC), Benrimon Contemporary (NYC), and Dorsch Gallery (Miami). Among
numerous honors, she is a three time recipient of Individual Artist Awards from the
Maryland State Art Council, and a Rubys Grant recipient. Selected residencies include
the Embassy of Foreign Artists (Geneva, Switzerland), the Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai,
China), and Paper Machine (New Orleans, LA). Her artist book 鈥淨uorum Call鈥� was published
by Antenna in 2018; a self published artist book, 鈥淩age Faces鈥�, is part of the permanent
collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the New York Public Library.
Burnham holds a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard
黑料传送门 and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale 黑料传送门
School of Art.
Courses Taught
- ART 103: 2D Process
- ART 106: Drawing for Non-Art Majors
- ART 146: Honors Drawing for Non-Art Majors
- ART 211: Drawing, Observation and Invention
- ART 212: Visual Concepts
- ART 351: Writing About Art
- ART 370: Special Topics
- ART 372: Advanced Drawing
- ART 402: Life Drawing and Anatomy
- ART 497: Senior Project
- ART 498: BFA Project
- ART 715: MFA Studio I
- ART 783: MFA Seminar
- ART 784: Seminar on College-Level Teaching
- ART 880: MFA Project