AMBERA WELLMANN

AMBERA WELLMANN
b. Lunenburg, Nova Scotia



EDUCATION

2016
MFA, University of Guelph, ON

2011
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University, Halifax, NS

2010
Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

 

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023
Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2021
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
UnTurning, MAC Belfast, United Kingdom

2020
Nosegay Tornado, Company Gallery, New York, NY
Logic of Ghosts, K-T-Z, Berlin, DE

2019
UnTurning, MoCO Montpellier, France, Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud & Victor Secretan
In medias res, Lulu, Mexico City, MEX

2018
(Wo)man and Beast in the Round of their Need, Projet Pangée, Montreal, QC

2017
Slipper, Ambera Wellmann & Shary Boyle, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2016
Clay Pigeon - Dupont Projects, Toronto ON


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
I’ve Only Got Eyes For You, Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, Germany
Blink, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
X Pink 101, X Museum, Beijing, China

2022
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, NY, Curated by Ei Arakawa, Kerstin Brätsch, Nicole Eisenman and Laura Owens
A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, ICA Boston, Boston, MA, Curated by Ruth Erickson
Blue of Noon, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany
Radicants, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, Italy, Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
Present Generations, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio

2021
Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York, NY, Curated by Jamillah James and Margot Norton
Stretching the Body, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
The Emerald Tablet, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Ariana Papademetropoulos
DOG, Company Gallery, New York, NY
Tired Conditions, Staatsgalerie Stuttgartt, Germany

2020
100 Drawings from Now, Drawing Center, New York, NY, Curated by Claire Gilman

2019
The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennale, Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
Paint Also Known as Blood, MoMA Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, Curated by Natalia Sielewicz
On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, Curated by Max Delany
Flirting with Codes, Tricks and Subterfuge, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Curated by Geneviève Goyer-Ouimette
In the Spotlight of the Night: Cities Never Sleep, KAI 10 / Museum Marta Herford, Düsseldorf / Herford, Germany, Curated by Julia Höner and Friederike Fast
City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, Curated by Hugo Vitrani

2018
Above the Treeline, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
Cthonic Rift, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany
The World According to Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference, Franz Kaka, Toronto, ON
SEED, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Yvonne Force
An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON
Madmoiselle, Regional Centre for Contemporary Art, Sète, France, Curated by Tara Londi
Bio-perversity, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler
CHÈRE, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY, Curated by Loreta Lamargese
The Same as Ever, But More So, Braunsfelder Collection, Cologne, Germany, Curated by Miriam Bettin
  
2017
19th Annual RBC Painting Competition, National Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Come As You Are, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC

2016
18th Annual RBC Painting Competition, Power Plant, Toronto ON
Triada: Arte Con Swing, Centro Cultural Casa Baltazar, Veracruz, Mexico, Curated by Scott McGovern
The Third Thing, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph ON, Curated by John Haney
A Specific Amalgam of Spirit and Dirt, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Curated by Keeley Haftner

2015
Autofeeling, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto ON
No Pressure, Capacity 3 Gallery, Guelph ON, Curated by Patrick Cruz

2014
So It Goes, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, ON
Capture, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax NS, Curated by Tom Smart and Peter Dykhuis

2013
Clouds, Page and Strange Gallery, Halifax NS
만원전 (10,000 ₩), Gallery Golmok, Seoul South Korea
The Sex Show, Gallery 1313, Toronto ON

2012
ERI5, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax NS
This is Paradise, Ingrid Mueller Gallery, Fredericton NB

2011
BMO 1st Art!, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto ON
I Spy, VANS Corridor Gallery, Halifax NS



TEXT

2021
Interview with Daisy Desrosiers, Soft Water Hard Stone Exhibition Catalogue, October 2021 

2020
”Ambera Wellmann’s Nosegay Tornado”, Jessica Caroline, Art-Agenda, December 2020
”Fluids and Fissures”, Nicolas Bourriaud, UnTurning Exhibition Catalogue, Mo.CO Montpellier
”UnWanted”, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, UnTurning Exhibition Catalogue, Mo.CO Montpellier
”Ambera Wellmann’s Fluid Bodies”, Sonja-Maria Borstner, Frieze Magazine, Fall 2020
”Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing”, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Momus, October 2020
”Towards a Queer Futurity: Ambera Wellmann’s ‘Logic of Ghosts’ at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler”, Noëlle BuAbbud, Berlin Art Link, October 2020

2019
”Ambera Wellmann: An Artistic Palimpsest”, Tai Mitsuji, Vault Magazine, Issue 27, August 2019
”Ambera Wellmann” Max Delany, On Vulnerability and Doubt Catalogue, 2019
”On Vulnerability and Doubt”, Ella Cattach, Memo Review, August 2019

2018
In the Round of Her Need”: An Interview with Ambera Wellmann, Sky Gooden, Momus, November 2018
“(Wo)man and Beast in the Round of Their Need” James D. Campbell, White Hot Magazine, October 2018
”Madmoiselle: Spotlighting the Embedded Sexualization of Women’s Identities” Alex Estorik, Frieze Magazine, September 2018
"
To Paint a Love Poem" Anna Kovler, Arsenal Contemporary, Summer 2018
"La Belle et la Bête: Ambera Wellmann's Drawings", Meeka Walsh, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue 145, Vol.37, No.1
"Taking Care: Strategies of Wellness in 10 Emerging Art Practices", Amber Berson, Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2018
Cover, Mousse Magazine Issue 65, Fall 2018

2017
CBC Arts, RM Vaughan, Fall 2017
"Interview with Ambera Wellmann" Jessica Baldanza, Studio Beat, Fall 2017
"The Surreal Body: Ambera Wellmann's Instagram" Tatum Dooley, Canthius Feminism & Literary Arts, Winter 2017
"These Extremely Uncomfortable Photographs are Guaranteed to Make You Squirm", VICE, Cosette Schulz, Winter 2017

2016
"Art in 2016: A View From Toronto", Merray Gerges, Canadian Art Magazine, December 2016
"Beauty and the Deferring and Balancing Beast", Meeka Walsh, Border Crossings Issue 135, Vol. 35, No.3
"Ambera Wellmann's Paintings and Posts", Jonathan Rotsztain, Visual Arts News, Fall 2016
"Atlantic Dispatches", Meredith Briden, Billie Magazine, Vol.2 Issue 1, Fall 2016
2016 RBC Painting Competition Exhibition Catalogue
The Pleasures of Density - Richard Rhodes

2015
Autofeeling Exhibition Catalogue with Essays by Jasmine Reimer & Aaron Weldon

2014
"Magic and Realism", Aaron Weldon, Visual Arts News, Summer 2014
"Capture 2014: Nova Scotia Realism", Doug Pope, Canadian Art Magazine, Summer 2014
"Realism Up For Grabs", Elissa Barnard, Chronicle Herald
Dalhousie University Art Gallery - Capture: Nova Scotian Realism Exhibition Catalogue

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

2018     
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

2017    
Winner, 19th Annual RBC Painting Competition
Project Grant to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Visual Artist Grant

2016
Finalist, 18th Annual Canadian RBC Painting Competition
Joseph Plaskett Foundation Award
Canadian Federation of University Women's Scholarship
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

2015
SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Creation Grant
University of Guelph College of the Arts Research and Travel Award

2014
Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarship, University of Guelph
College of the Arts Dean's Scholarship, University of Guelph
Dean's Material Bursary, University of Guelph
CSCE Emerging Artist Award Finalist
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

2013
Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant
Artist in Residence Arteles Creative Centre, Finland

2012
Nova Scotia Department of Communities Culture and Heritage Creation Grant

2011
BMO 1st Art Regional Winner
Starfish Properties Award - First Runner Up

2010
NSCAD University Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence
Beacon Securities Scholarship
Takao Tanabe Painting Scholarship
Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship

2009
Nova Scotia Talent Trust Endowment
Robert Pope Painting Scholarship

2008
Robert Pope Foundation Scholarship
Millennium Foundation Scholarship