*Art on this site are open prints.* Mari Amman (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist making images, installations, videos, performances, poetry, paintings, and sculptures. Interested in the sublime and adding beauty into the world, Amman creates portals of experience to reflect on epistemology-or the ways in which we can understand knowing. Concerned with the effects of the imaginary realm on reality and discerning patterns in nature, Amman applies her sensitivity from music and dance training to working with light, color, scent, and materials- including textiles. Having analogously worked in communications, education, and design while pursuing institutional and auto-didactic studies, Amman continues working with scientists, music, architecture, and culture professionals to reevaluate and foster healthy relations between the environment and human choices.
She 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 Architecture and Design from Illinois Institute of Art (2006), with studies in Photography and History of Photography at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, and Social Psychology at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan (2012), Norwegian language (2014-2016), Italian language (2025 - ongoing), and over 12 years of classical piano, voice, and dance training since childhood. Amman is a member of Leica Society International, Magazzini Fotografici, BONO, Norske Billkedkunstnere, video work registered with Videokunstarkivet, works represented by Daidda Gallery in Oslo, Albumen Gallery in London, and registered as an EIT Culture & Creativity Expert Evaluator with the EU Institute of Innovation and Technology.
A selection of international awards, residencies, and screenings: Omniscient, monolithic image and text, 1st by the jury in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition at the Asia Culture Center, in Gwangju (SK, 2015). PraksisOslo Residency and Praxis Dansfestivalen at KHiO/Dansenhus (NO, 2017), Butoh Residency with Mushimaru Fujieda at KHiO (NO, 2018), Angelot-Trélex Residency (CH, 2019), UKS Young Artists' Society Residency (NO, 2019), Atelier Nord Residency (NO, 2024, 2019), Afjordance screening, AWMAS (UCSB, 2020), Kjerringøy Land Art Residency (NO, 2020), Stefan Simchowitz (US, 2020) collecting her work, Paris Poetry Residency with Trélex Residencies (FR, 2023), Bonny Doon Residency (US, 2022), foundational support and exhibitions for Art Farm Iowa (US, 2023), and Arte Expuesto (MX, 2023).
Amman's artistic research in Aesthetic Resonances, Phlegrian Fields, Landcape-Memory-Eros developed from Pattern Recognition, Visual Literacy, and Body Architecture methods. Her interest in Understanding through arts arose from being raised near the Agonic line, surrounded by forest, prairie, a nuclear power plant, industrial agriculture, auto-ethnography with paternal heritage to political activist Ellen Ammann, landscape artist Harriet Sundström, and maternal Umbrian-Italian heritage. Amman's foundational training in music and dance underscores her artistic research involving geology, resonances, orology, dream study, social psychology, philosophy, temporality, memory, somatics and parietal perception. Her commitment to bringing harmony into reflective and strangely beautiful cultural work aims to uncover discernments and recenter hearts during geopolitical and technological transitions.
