BIO

Amelia Foster is an American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Before pursuing art, Amelia worked and studied as an environmental microbiologist at Oregon State University, investigating coral reef degradation. Amelia has shown her work across the United States and given talks and workshops at New York University, Columbia University and the Association for Conflict Resolution, amongst others.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am interested in our innate attachments with our surroundings and the stories we create to convey complex connections. My work draws from mythology and folk traditions intermixed and paralleled to contemporary issues. 

My work intends to capture the rawness of the awesome, universal bonds amongst us. Using motifs of landscapes, bodies and the fantastical I explore the circular, cyclical impacts of our decisions both on an individual and a collective level. Through drawings, sculptures, written and performance work I aim to celebrate the magnificence of these relationships and to generate a discussion on the Anthropocene’s historical and modern impacts. 

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Exhibitions & Murals

Group Exhibition, 2023, FOCUS Art Fair, New York, NY

Group Exhibition, 2022, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Group Exhibition, 2022, A Queens Fine Art Spring Affair, Arts & Culture Lab, Queens, NY

Group Exhibition, 2022, 6ft Apt’art’ment show: Art from the Pandemic, Bedstuy, Brooklyn, NY

Group Exhibition, 2019, Creative Climate Awards, Williamsburg Library, Brooklyn, NY

Group Exhibition, 2019, Women of Culture + I am Series, New York, NY

Solo Exhibition, 2019, REEF WAKE, Prime Produce, New York, NY

Group Mural, 2018, Mural for Waipuo, Yorba Linda, California

Solo Mural, 2018, Los Salseros, Puerto Lopez, Ecuador

Group Show, 2018, Tacoma Summer SOULstice, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

Residency

The Artist Residency Project, 2022, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Prime Produce Apprentice Coop Residency, 2019, Prime Produce, New York, NY

Festivals

Our Future Festival, 2019, REEF WAKE, Governor’s Island, NY

Art 4 All, 2019, Reed Hook, NY

Figment, 2019, REEF WAKE, Roosevelt Island, NY

Workshops & Instructional Experience
Making Art with Upcycled Materials, 2021, LDEO Columbia University, New York, NY

Trash-Art: Making Art From Re-purposed Materials, 2019, Encuentro Basura @ The Woods, Brooklyn, NY

Making Noise Workshop, 2019, Association for Conflict Resolution Greater NY, New York, NY

Teaching Artist & Scientist, 2019, STEM Kids NYC, New York, NY

Ocean Microbiomes in Ink & Watercolor, 2019, Prime Produce, New York, NY

Environmental Educator, 2019, Schooner Adventuress, Puget Sound, WA

Public Speaking

Key Note Speaker, Southern Harm Reduction Conference, 2021, Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Atlanta, GA

Panelist Speaker @ Tuesday Talks, CARE Atlanta Global Innovation Hub, Atlanta, GA

Artist Workshop: Environmental Justice, 2019, I Am Series @ New York University, New York, NY

Key Note Speaker, Marine Studies Initiative Reception, 2015, Portland, OR

Ownership

I retain all rights to work I have created, including copyright and the right to make reproductions. The collector or buyer may not reproduce the artwork in any way unless they have obtained my written permission.