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Fumiko Amano Page 1 \| Biography
Born: Japan Lives: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Education Education: 2000 California Design College, Los Angeles, Certificate Program-Fashion Design/CAD 1993 University of Wisconsin, BA-Art & Design, Painting and Printmaking 1989 Toyo Women’s College, Tokyo, AD-English Literature
Solo Exhibitions Solo Show: 2007 "Heian Dream Series", Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “Sonic Landscapes,” Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 “Paintings & Drawings”, Art Share Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2003 “Abstract”, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions Two Person Show: 2000 “Noise~Color~Form”, S.L.O. Gallery, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA Three Person Show: 2005 “Pattern”, Revisited/Bamboo Lane, Los Angeles, CA Four Person Show: 2005 “Women’s Work”, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 “Quartet”, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA Group Shows: 2008 TBA, Murnau Gallery, Seville, Spain "4 Year Anniversary Show", Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA 2007 "Colectiva de Navidad", Murnau Gallery, Seville, Spain “Night of 1,000 Drawing”, Artists Space, New York, NY “Group Show”, Murnau Art Gallery, Sevilla, Spain “Velocity”, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA “Group Show”, Lacy Street Project, Los Angeles, CA “HausGuests”, organized by HAUS, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA “Incognito”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA “TarFest Exhibition”, juried by Michele Urton (LACMA), Korean Cultural Art Center, Los Angeles, CA “The 1st LA International Art Festival 2007”, ASTO Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA “LA Ethos”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA “Venice Art Walk and Auction Exhibition”, Venice, CA “Fate and Fortune,” the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA “Meltdown”, Salon Oblique, Venice, CA “Now and Then”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA “Sister City Love Slam” organized by Artillery Magazine, Engelebtot, Berlin, Germany “Swimming Pool”, Roark, Los Angeles, CA “Underworld,” Salon Oblique, Venice, CA “Off They Flew,” LittleBird Gallery, Los Angeles, CA OUT Auction, Pacific Design Center, CA “The Art of Elysium”, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Lacy Arts Projects", Lacy Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “Night of 1000 Drawings,” Artists Space, New York, NY “Gift Shop”, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA “$200 and Under”, Chango, Los Angeles, CA “That Show”, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA “Comment?”, The Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK “Small Wonders II”, Pharmaka Art, Los Angeles, CA “1st and Hope”, Berra’s Park, Los Angeles, CA Tarfest Art Exhibition, Korean Cultural Art Center, Los Angeles, CA “NonObjectivity, Pharmaka Art, Los Angeles, CA “Tenants”, 1904 E 7th Place, Los Angeles, CA “Summer Survey Group Show”, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Create/Fixate “Venice Art Walk” Exhibition at Electric Lodge, Venice, CA Venice Art Walk and Auction Exhibition, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA “Fin”, Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA “Women in Art”, Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA The 2nd Gwang Hwa Moon Int’l Art Festival, Sejong Center, Korea “On The Wall 2”, Eco-Logical Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 5th Annual Fresh stART Exhibition, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “How It Happens”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA “Lyrics and Dialogue”, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA 2005 “Small Wonders”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA “Incognito”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA “Night of 1,000 Drawings”, Artists Space, New York, NY “Post-Postcard 2005” by Outpost @ LACE, Los Angeles, CA “Create/Fixate” 4th Anniversary Exhibition at Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles, CA “Hangin’ for Holidays”, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Crafting the Los Angeles Experience”, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA “The Living” by the Pandemonium Collective, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA “City-scape, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Blue”, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Five Years on Hillhurst”, Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA “Off The Wall”, Deja Design, Los Angeles, CA “Snap to Grid”, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA “More Patterns”, Bamboo Lane/Revisited, Los Angeles, CA “Outside the Box”, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Inside the Box”, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA “Wave of Grace”, Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 “Gallery Row Group Show”, Los Angeles, CA “Breaking Ground” by the Pandemonium Collective, Selah Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “By 1”, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fundraising show, Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA “Incognito”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Night of 1,000 Drawings”, Artists Space, New York, NY 2003 “Break”, Gallery Asto, Los Angeles, CA “New Year’s Eve Exhibition”, Bedlam Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Shikishi Exhibition”, Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Summer Exhibition, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA Atelierzero Exhibition at Gallery Asto, Los Angeles, CA 2001 “Shikishi Exhibition”, Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2000 “Pacific Rim II: The Far East”, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA “East/West Design”, Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 “Last Spring”, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “When Voices Become Pictures”, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Terrain Newport VI”, Island Arts, Newport, RI 1998 “Skatelore Expo: California Skate(Board)ing Index to Concepts, Forms, Life”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA “Soon”, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 “JCB Exhibition”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC, NY 1996 “Dining Room”, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA Performances/Live Art: 2007 Live Drawing/Sewing session with pianist Motoko Honda, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Live Painting in collaboration with artists, including John Carr, Overton Lloyd, Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca, Melt Gallery at Melt Comics, Hollywood, CA “Monster Drawing Rally” organized by Outpost for Contemporary Art, Women’s Twentieth Century Club of Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Live Painting w/ cello performed by Marina Peterson, Lawrence Asher Gallery, CA 2003 LAAMF Outdoor Live Painting, Los Angeles, CA Live Painting at Invisible College night, Little Pedro’s, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Live Art, University of Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI Lectures & Panel Discussions: 2007 Artist Studio Workshop for Santa Monica Museum of Art ”Online Art Marketing for Artists”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Artist Talk, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Online Artists Community”, panel discussion at Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA “Notes from the Underground,” lecture at USC, Los Angeles, CA 2004 “Sonic Landscapes”, workshop at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Curatorial Experience: 2006 Night Vision for THE COMBINE: Robert Rauschenberg at MOCA, Guest Film Curator 2004-2006: Monday Film Night At Art Share, Film curator 2005 TarFest Short Film Festival, Film curator 2003 AtelierZero Exhibition at Gallery Asto, Guest curator
Bibliography Fumiko Amano was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1968. She has been exploring various mediums to express herself since she was a child. She started taking piano lessons at three, and she was composing music by seven. By the age of ten, Amano published her first poetry book with her own ink drawings. In 1987, she attended Toyo Women's College in Tokyo as an English literature major and joined a theater club in school. At that time she was fascinated by contemporary theater directed by Yukio Ninagawa and Juro Kara (the most influential Japanese theater directors). This led Amano to move to the United States to study more about contemporary theater arts. Amano attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she studied visual art, music recording, theater arts and performing arts for four and a half years. At age 23 she gave her first performance art piece, using a big mixed media painting (7' x 35') which was used as a musical score. She graduated from UWSP in 1993 with a BA in Art & Design-Painting/Printmaking. Soon after, she moved to San Francisco, where she started incorporating beat poetry, architecture, Japanese comics, dreams and sound into her paintings. In 1997, in search of a new environment to create sonic landscapes, Amano traveled extensively, first to Rio de Janeiro, then on to New York, Miami and Los Angeles, where she finally settled down. In 2000, she attended California Design College in Los Angeles to study fashion. Inspired by designs from contemporary designers such as Rei Kawakubo, Hussein Chalayan, she started her own label called Unicode to create contemporary design of clothing and hats. She also started working on fabric-made installation art pieces, inspired by Earnest Neto's works. In 2003, because of her passion for film, she started a monthly art film screening event at Art Share in downtown L.A. as a curator/organizer. In 2004, Amano helped curate the Tar Fest Short Film Festival and this year she curated a film event for MOCA NIGHT VISION, in conjunction with Robert Rauschenberg: THE COMBINES. Los Angeles Magazine has dubbed her the 'culture vulture' of downtown Los Angeles (June 2004 issue) because of her devotion to the Downtown art community. Over the past five years Amano has been working on several series of paintings, including: Dream Series (2002 & 2007), Dust Painting Series (2003), Water Music Series (2003), Live Painting Series (2003-current), Organic Series (2003-current), Downtown Series (2004-current), Pattern Series (2005), Atmospherics Series (2006), and Flower Form Series (2006-current). Her atmospheric paintings, created as visualizations of sound/dream/organic forms, have been exhibited in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, L.A. and Korea. Her recent works were exhibited at Lawrence Asher Gallery, LACMA Rental and Sales Gallery., Salo Oblique, Another Year in LA and Murnau Gallery in Seville, Spain.


Publications Publications: 2006 Downtown News, December 18, p.13 LA Weekly ‘Pick of the Week’ by Peter Frank, Nov 11, p.62 Chicano Art Magazine AbsoluteArts, Oct12 issue online Lifescapes Magazine, September issue Tema Celeste Magazine, January issue Downtown News, January 9, ‘Don’t Miss List’ p. 16 2005 Flavorpill LA, November 29-December 5 issue Downtown News, November 28 issue-Front page Arts District Citizens, First issue (December) Ism, Fall issue Italian Elle Décor, September issue Larchmont Chronicle, July 29 LA Downtown News, July 4 issue, p. 14 AbsoluteArts, July 6, issue online Angeleno Magazine, ‘Visual Arts’, p.48 Weekly ‘Pick of the Week’ April 22-28, p.56 Lifescape Magazine, June/July, p.11-13 Flavorpill LA, January 11-17 issue, Art section Gallery Guide, January, p.32 (photo credit only) 2004 Los Angeles Magazine, Downtown issue, p.60-61 2001 Artists Index Directory by Art In America, August issue 1998 The Providence Journal, RI, August 14, p.1 1996 Artweek, “Soon” May issue