Amanda Manitach

Born Quinter, KS, 1979. 
Lives and works in Seattle, WA.

Amanda Manitach is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator based in Seattle, WA. The homeschooled daughter of an evangelical minister, she grew up in Kansas and Texas where she spent interminable Sunday mornings drawing pictures on the backs of church bulletins, and eventually went on to earn a degree in literature from Oral Roberts University. Her visual art merges a love of drawing and language in large-scale works on paper and other media that utilize text as playground, producing messages at turns lyrical, mischievous, provocative. In addition to visual art, Manitach has worked extensively as an arts writer, with seven years as visual arts editor at City Arts Magazine. She has co-founded and co-directed multiple artist-run galleries in Seattle, and served as curator at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery from 2013-2015. Following a four-month artist residency at Recology King County in 2023, she stayed on with the organization and is currently co-manager of the Artist In Residence program. She is represented by Winston Wachter Fine Art in Seattle and New York.

Photo by James Harnois