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AMANDA MANITACH
b. 1979, Quinter, KS, USA
EDUCATION
2001 BA in Literature, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK,
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Semiotics of a Box, Mutuus Studio, Seattle, WA
2022 Good Apple, Winston Wächter Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Amanda Manitach, Winston Wächter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019 Mirrors, Winston Wächter Gallery, Seattle, WA
Amanda Manitach, Winston Wächter Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Dirty, Winston Wächter, Seattle, WA
2016 Nothing Left To Say, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA
2015 Whiskey Helps, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA
2014 Amanda Manitach: New Works, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Celery and Incense: A Theater of Hysteria, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Nights of Serious Drinking, Vermillion, Seattle, WA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Surge, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Forest For The Trees, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2022 Art Now 2023, Hearst Tower, New York, NY
Imminent Mode, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Seattle, WA
Howl, Forest For The Trees, Seattle, WA
History Repeats, Winston Wächter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Here and There, Winston Wächter Gallery, Seattle, WA
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Part Two, Winston Wächter, New York, NY
2020 Good Witch / Bad Witch, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA
Summer Mood, Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton, NY
2019 Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
BAM! Glasstastic Biennial, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2018 Bellwether Arts and Experience, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue WA
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2017 Say A Little Prayer for U.S., Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
Out of Sight, Seattle, WA
Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2016 Northwest Art Now, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2015 Lush Life 5: Reverie, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Out of Sight, Seattle, WA
Plus One, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA
2014 Art Show Today, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Chamber Music, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Get Naked, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 BAM Biennial 2012: High Fiber Diet, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Elles, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
Can’t Get There From Here, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
Each moment we live our lives shine, Cullom Gallery, Seattle, WA
Death and the Maiden, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA
Text Editor, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Strange Coupling, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Red Current, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA
Brick and Mortar, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2011 Mad Homes, Mad Art site specific installation, Seattle, WA
Mad Home Away From Home, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
11 Most Dangerous Toys of 2011, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Over and Over: A Small Survey of Obsessive Drawing, Vermillion, Seattle, WA
NEPO 5K, NEPO House, Seattle, WA
Defornament, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Bloom & Collapse, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
PUBLIC ART
You Had Me At Bellevue, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, 2018 - 2021
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Winston Wächter, New York, NY, 2018 - present
Winston Wächter, Seattle, WA, 2016 - present
Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2015 - 16
Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2014
SOIL Artist Collective, Seattle, WA, 2012
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Amazon Artist in Residence
Recology King County Artist in Residence
2023 ArtsWA Board Curator Roster,
2019 Jentel Art Residency
2016 Shunpike Storefronts,
2013 Artist Trust GAP Grant
2012 Stranger Genius Award nominee
Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs CityArtist Projects Grant
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Visual Arts Editor at City Arts Magazine, 2012 - 2018
Co-Founder at The Factory, Seattle, 2015
Curator at Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, 2013 - 2015
Co-Founder at TMRW Party, Seattle, 2014
Capitol Hill Arts District Advisory Committee, 2015
Guest artist at The Project Room, 2011
NEPO House advisory board, 2011
Contributing writer for City Arts Magazine, Public Display Art, Art Ltd., New American Paintings, Public Display Art, Whitehot Magazine, and Visual Art Source, among others
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Howl, Forest For The Trees, Seattle, WA
2018 Summer Dreams, Winston Wächter, Seattle, WA (June 2018)
2015 The Factory (co-founder and co-curator with Timothy Rysdyke):
Welcome to the Factory: ft. Brittany Kusa & Joe Garber (March 2015)
Due Process: PDL (April 2015)
The Joke’s on Us: tnglr, Peter Bigelow and Donald Walingford (May 2015)
Queer Feelings (May 2015)
New Paintings by John Criscetello (June 2015)
The Girl’s Room: Ashley Armitage (July 2015)
Mad World: Lauren Max and Naomi Rincon (Aug 2015)
Rodrigo Valenzuela (Sept 2015)
2013-2015 curator at Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University:
Salon Revisited (Feb 2013)
Green Gothic (March 2013)
Weird Sisters (June 2013)
Feeling Lost (June 2013)
Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival (July 2013)
Time Is Memory: D.K. Pan (July 2013)
Devotion: an exhibit organized by Rebecca Brown (Aug 2013)
Garek Druss: The Celestial Din (July 2013)
Medium Medium: Language in the Age of Digital Reproducibility (Oct 2013)
Discordia: Monica Rene Rochester and Deborah Faye Lawrence (Jan 2014)
Seattle Women’s Convention (January 2014)
Video Library (March 2014)
Vanitas (April 2014)
Zachary Culler: Portraits (June 2014)
Yellow Fish Durational Performance Festival (July 2014)
Dream Cargo (Sept 2014)
Brad Ewing and Cable Griffith (Sept 2014)
Secret/Sacred: The New Mystics (Nov 2014)
New Beach: Max Kraushaar and Graham Downing (Jan 2015)
Drawing God From Direct Observation: Emily Pothast (Feb 2015)
After Seattle (April 2015)
Seattle Spring: Conversations with Jerry Garcia, Cary Moon, Charles Mudede and David Meinert (April 2015)
Kristin Cammermeyer (May 2015)
2011 Lightness, City Arts Fest, FRED Wildlife Refuge, Seattle, WA
Over and Over: A Small Survey of Obsessive Drawing, Vermilion, Seattle, WA
Bloom & Collapse, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA