Photo by Liz Duncan
Amber Doe is a multimedia artist who uses sculpture and performance to bear witness to the experiences of black women even as American society aims to render us and our lives as invisible and meaningless. Despite the prevalent “urban black” narrative, her experience is tied to the natural world, and Doe uses materials that reference her desert environment and lived experience as a black woman with Indigenous roots: palm leaves, branches, flowers, hair extensions, and cotton rope all give form to her sculptures, installations, videos, and performances. She does not see her experience highlighted in dominant culture, so she uses her art to rectify this representational void.
All of her work is trans species ancestor worship.
PROJECTS, RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2025
American Rescue Plan Act Grant, The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
2024
Artist in Residence, Contemporary Craft in partnership with Sibyl Shrine , Pittsburgh, PA
Artist in Residence, Obracodobra, Oaxaca, MX
Artist Opportunity Grant, Arizona Commission of the Arts
2023
Night Bloom Grant, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ, Andy Warhol Foundation
Research and Development Grant, Arizona Commission of the Arts, Phoenix, AZ.
2023/2022
Projecting All Voices 2022-2023 Fellowship, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ
2021
BETWEEN THE DOTS, 2021 FELLOW, Santa Fe, NM
April 2021-June 2021
ABBEY AWARDS FELLOWSHIP, Rome, IT
July 2020
BLACK ARTIST FUND GRANT RECIPIENT, Black Artist Fund
October 2015
Blue Bathtub Press, Denver, CO
May-June 2015
La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 2014
Can Serrat Residency, Barcelona, Spain
November 2014
BigCi Bilpin Residency, Hawksbury, Australia
June/July 2013
MEDIARS: Italian CLOSE-UP Workshop, Como, Italy
March 2013
Arteles Artist Residency, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONs:
2024
Tactile Cosmology: daddy issues, Snakebite Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2022
Nervous Conditions: bloodlines, Snakebite Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2016
7 minutes in heaven/Blue Velvet, The Thief Hotel, Oslo, Norway
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025
BeLoved, The Projects, Tucson, AZ
Vision and Sound, Sedona, AZ
2024
Mending Stories: Fiber Art Invitational, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions, Gallery at Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
Speak To Me Softly, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
BeLoved, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Arizona Collects, BLAC Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Funhouse, Pidgin Palace, Tucson, AZ
Vision & Sound, Sedona Art Center, Sedona, AZ
Vision & Sound, Goodyear Library, Goodyear, AZ
Vision & Sound, Peoria Library, Peoria, AZ
2023
JUNE
Cunttent, Snakebite Gallery, Tucson, AZ
MARCH- JULY
Blue Lotus Artists Collective, Tucson, AZ
JANUARY 13- MAY 8, 2022
MANUFACTURED NARRATIVES, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
SEPTEMBER 2021- OCTOBER 2022
TUCSON CITY HALL EXHIBITION, Tucson, AZ
JUNE 2021
The Mostra, Rome, Italy
April 2021-July 2021
UNRAVELED Group Show of Textile Art, Untitled Gallery, Tribeca, NYC
August 2020- March 2021
American Flag, Origin of the World, UNREPD gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 2020- August 2021
GOOD WITCH/BAD WITCH, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA
JULY 2020
GIGI JOURNAL PART II, VMAGAZINE, New York, NY, available for purchase:here
2019- 2020
AMOA BIENNIAL 600, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
2018- 2019
Supernatural Woman, Tribute to the Queen, Irwin House Global Art Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2017
Untitled, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa TX
2016
January 14-April 30
7 Minutes in Heaven Scottsdale, 11 Miles of Color: Repurposing Randy Walker's Spring Crossing, Gallery @Scottsdale Civic Center Library, Scottsdale, AZ
February 4- February 28
Virgin 2, Virgin 7, Virgin 8, Black Lives Matter Exhibition, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2015
June 5-July 4
Open Studio, I want you: portraits of my mother , La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014
November
Photos from Untitled were published in Death Wants You by Vanessa Vaughan and featured at Expozine, Montreal, Canada
July
#seemetakeover, Times Square, New York, NY
May
LUMICREW LIVE at Exo Den Haag, The Hague, NL
April
7 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, Can Serrat Open Studio, El Bruc, Spain
March
"WOMEN'S WORK." The LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, NY
February
"Black Artstory Exhibition." The Emerson, Brooklyn, NY
2013
July-September
"The Story of the Creative Exhibition." The Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY, NY and See.Me Gallery, LIC, NY
July
"Italian Close Up: Como By Us Experimental Video." Bibliotheca Communale, Como, Italy
March
"Lumicrew." K -Supermarket, Hameenkyro, Finland
February
“Working with what’s left.” Myrtle Windows Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
“Superhero” Office Ops Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002
“Monticello Installation” SLC Exit Show, Bronxville, NY
“Self Portrait” SLC Exit Show, Bronxville, NYPUBLISHED
WORKS
2021
”Process and Processing, Amber Doe & Tehya Shea in conversation,” Wovenutopia, Fall Issue 3.
“Self Portrait,” Abstractions Magazine, Issue 001, Spring 2021.
2017
“The Last of The Red Hot Lovers,” Sycorax’s Daughter edited by Brooks, Kinitra, Addison, Linda, Cedar Print Books.
2012
“This. Will. Hurt.” (poetry) Phobia Issue# 16
Hesa Inprint Art Magazine, Helsinki, Finland
“By Sixteen,” (short story) Phobia Issue# 16
Hesa Inprint Art Magazine, Helsinki, Finland
“God Hearts Henri" (short film) Phobia Issue# 16
Hesa Inprint Art Magazine, Helsinki, Finland
“Notes on Construction and Isolation" (story) Phobia Issue# 16
Hesa Inprint Art Magazine, Helsinki, Finland
“Moon in Cancer (poetry) Harvest Issue# 19
Hesa Inprint Art Magazine, Helsinki, Finland
EDUCATION
Sarah Lawrence College 2002
BFA in Sculpture, Film and American History