Photo by Elina Lin
Amanda Wu is a concept and mixed media environmentalist artist who focuses on the climate crisis and how we directly impact the world. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she currently resides. Amanda grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, after spending the first eight years of her life in Connecticut, Germany and Singapore. Amanda has always had a passion for the environment which greatly influences her art practice.
Amanda started out as an oil painter at the age of 10 which has impacted her love for all mediums of painting. Her work ranges from room-filling installations to collages and mixed-media paintings. She uses mixed media, including acrylic paint, oil pastel, watercolor paint and recycled materials to emphasize her statements. When her work is intended to convey the dire issue of plastic pollution on our planet, she uses found plastic objects, which immerse viewers into first-hand understanding of it. In recent years, Amanda's work has evolved from sculpture and installations to collages and drawings, though the continuous theme of how we impact our planet is still prominent.
During her time at SVA her art was exhibited in these shows: "Hi Rez/ Lo Rez" in 2015 at the SVA gallery, "What Haunts You" an installation piece in 2015 in Union Square Park, "The Hive XVI" in 2016 in Rome, Italy and the SVA thesis show in December 2016 and in April 2017 where her work was featured on the event poster and promotional materials. Following graduation from SVA Amanda's work has been included in shows such as: the Global Solutions Program on Climate Change at Singularity University in Mountainview, California, where her "Plastic Ocean" installation was shown in 2017, and her piece "What Surrounds Us" was in the "Cosmos" show at the art collective Syzygy in San Francisco, California.
Amanda started out as an oil painter at the age of 10 which has impacted her love for all mediums of painting. Her work ranges from room-filling installations to collages and mixed-media paintings. She uses mixed media, including acrylic paint, oil pastel, watercolor paint and recycled materials to emphasize her statements. When her work is intended to convey the dire issue of plastic pollution on our planet, she uses found plastic objects, which immerse viewers into first-hand understanding of it. In recent years, Amanda's work has evolved from sculpture and installations to collages and drawings, though the continuous theme of how we impact our planet is still prominent.
During her time at SVA her art was exhibited in these shows: "Hi Rez/ Lo Rez" in 2015 at the SVA gallery, "What Haunts You" an installation piece in 2015 in Union Square Park, "The Hive XVI" in 2016 in Rome, Italy and the SVA thesis show in December 2016 and in April 2017 where her work was featured on the event poster and promotional materials. Following graduation from SVA Amanda's work has been included in shows such as: the Global Solutions Program on Climate Change at Singularity University in Mountainview, California, where her "Plastic Ocean" installation was shown in 2017, and her piece "What Surrounds Us" was in the "Cosmos" show at the art collective Syzygy in San Francisco, California.