Ambera Wellmann
Ambera Wellmann’s works encourage an experience of uncertain intimacy. Portraying human and, on occasion, animal bodies, the figures within her work commingle into numberless, genderless corporealities, resisting the performative power dynamics present in the Western canon of figuration from which she gleans. Wellmann probes the expansive potentiality of a layered array of art-historical syntaxes that span Medieval Art, Romanticism, and Surrealism, allowing viewers to negotiate them anew. Wellmann’s works embrace the unpredictable possibilities of an internal gaze, refusing a heteronormative one. Reflected by a process that embraces chance, error, and vulnerability, Wellmann works in a distinctly feminist and queered perspective.
Ambera Wellmann (b. 1982, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) lives and works in New York. Wellmann is a graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University, Halifax, Canada, and received her Masters of Fine Arts from University of Guelph, Canada. Relevant exhibitions include Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2023, solo) (current); Stavanger Art Museum, Norway (2023); the ICA Boston (2022); Palazzo Bollani, Venice (2022); New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2021); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2021); MAC Belfast (2021, solo); Pond Society, Shanghai (2021, solo); The Emerald Tablet, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Present Generations, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (2021); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2020, solo); Drawing Center, New York (2020); Company Gallery (2020, solo); MOCO, Montpellier (2019, solo); Istanbul Biennial (2019); MoMA Warsaw (2019); Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Projet Pangée, Montreal, (2018, solo); Office Baroque, Brussels (2018); Regional Centre for Contemporary Art, Sète (2018); Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2018); Oakville Galleries, Oakville (2018); Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; Dupont Projects Toronto, (2016, solo).
Her work is in the collections of:
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
Philara Collection, Dusseldorf
Stavanger Art Museum, Norway
MUDAM, Luxembourg
Aishti Foundation, Beirut
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
ICA Miami, Miami
MFA Boston
X Museum, Beijing
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A night made twice as long, 2023
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For you beautiful ones my thought is not changeable, 2023
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Blood Red Chariot, 2022
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Counterclockwise, 2022
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Two Things are True, 2022
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Sunset Sees Succubus, 2021
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Landscape with a Figure of a Woman, 2020
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Monsters, 2020
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The Logic of Ghosts, 2020
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Zz, 2020
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Zzz, 2020
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Autoscopy, 2019
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Foot Fetus, 2019
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Impingenous, 2019
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In medias res, 2019
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Less Like Ourselves, More Like Eachother, 2019
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Pastoral, 2019
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Pussyfoot, 2019
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Seeding, 2019
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The Subject, 2019
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UnTurning, 2019
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Yurning, 2019
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Z, 2019
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Grip, 2018
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How the Heart Stinks, 2018
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June, 2018
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Love Bite, 2018
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Now Now, 2018
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Outer Space, 2018
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Pieta, 2018
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Pink, 2018
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Rescue, 2018
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Ritz, 2018
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Tocker, 2018
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Untitled Mare, 2018
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WYRD, 2018
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Night Mare, 2017
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2023 -
AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2023 -
AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2023
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2023 -
AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2023 -
AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2023
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, ICA Boston, 2022
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, ICA Boston, 2022
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Tense Conditions, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, UnTurning, MAC Belfast, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, UnTurning, MAC Belfast, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, UnTurning, MAC Belfast, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, UnTurning, MAC Belfast, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Pond Society, Shanghai, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Pond Society, Shanghai, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Pond Society, Shanghai, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Pond Society, Shanghai, 2021
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Company Gallery, New York, 2020
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, Company Gallery, New York, 2020
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, UnTurning, MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, 2019
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, UnTurning, MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, 2019
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, UnTurning, MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, 2019
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2019.
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AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, In medias res, Lulu, Mexico City
AMBERA WELLMANN
Pastoral, 2019
oil on linen
56 x 51 cm | 22 x 20 in
unique
AW/M 19-03/U -
AMBERA WELLMANN
exhibition view, In medias res, Lulu, Mexico City
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Blue of Noon
Nils Alix-Tabeling, Sharona Franklin, Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, Sydney Shen, Ambera Wellmann, Alison Yip 21 May - 30 June 2022 -
LOGIC OF GHOSTS
AMBERA WELLMANN 11 September - 24 October 2020 -
CHTHONIC RIFT
EVGENY ANTUFIEW, MARGUERITE HUMEAU, KAYA, ANU PÕDER, AUTUMN RAMSEY, AMBERA WELLMANN 28 July - 15 September 2018
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The Gentle Force of the New Museum Triennial
Ela Bittencourt , Frieze, 21 December 2021 -
Ambera Wellmann’s “Nosegay Tornado”
Jessica Caroline, Art Agenda , 9 December 2020 -
Fluid Bodies
Sonja-Maria Borstner, Frieze, October 2020 -
Ambera Wellmann | An Artistic Palimpsest
Tai Mitsuji, Vault Issue 27, Aug to Oct 2019, 2 August 2019 -
Frieze Critic's Guide: The Best Exhibitions to See Across Mexico City
Layla Fassa, Frieze Online, 6 February 2019 -
In the Round of Her Need: An Interview with Ambera Wellmann
Sky Goodden, Momus Online, 1 December 2018
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Art Basel
Basel (CH) 15 - 18 June 2023 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 16 - 19 June 2022 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 24 - 26 September 2021https://www.artbasel.com/Read more -
K60
GCC, GUAN XIAO, SLAVS AND TATARS, ANNA UDDENBERG 5 - 19 September 2021Eight Berlin galleries alexander levy, ChertLüdde, HUA International, Klemm’s, KOW, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Plan B and PSM are happy to announce the second edition of K60,...Read more -
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong (CN) 12 - 16 June 2019 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 11 - 16 June 2019