Amie Cunat

Amie Cunat (born 1986 in McHenry, Illinois) is a Japanese American artist who specializes in painting and installation. Cunat is best known for her colorful installation pieces described as "totally immersive" and "ostensibly buoyant". Cunat's paintings and installations utilize biomorphic forms and vibrant hues to investigate parallels between abstraction and perception. She received her MFA from Cornell University, a Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Fordham University. Cunat has had solo exhibitions in New York and abroad at the Victori+Mo, The Knockdown Center, Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, The Cooper Union, among others.

Career

Cunat's work has been shown internationally as well as in a variety of venues throughout New York state, where she works as Assistant Clinical Professor in Painting and Drawing at Fordham University.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Dinner Gallery, New York, NY, Petal Signals, 2021

Victori + Mo, Brooklyn, NY, Meetinghouse, 2018

Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, The Clock is Taking a Nap, 2017

Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Hideout, 2016

Outside, North Adams, MA, Moon Nets, Alphabet Letters, 2016

Foley Gallery - Window Installation, New York, NY, Clue, Cue, 2016

The Cooper Union, New York, NY, Octopi Kōen, 2014

Select two person and group exhibitions

SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY, C+C: Kat Chamberlin and Amie Cunat, 2017

Sine Gallery at tête, Berlin, Germany, Sine Gallery: Berlin, 2017

No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH, Western Decoy, 2017

Ventana 244, Brooklyn, NY, Oysters With Lemon, 2015

White Box Gallery, New York, NY, Suggestions Toward Future Conversations, 2012

References

External links

Official website

Living people

1986 births

Cornell University alumni

People from McHenry, Illinois

American artists of Japanese descent

21st-century American women artists

21st-century American painters

American installation artists

American women installation artists

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni

Fordham University alumni

Fordham University faculty

American women academics

American contemporary painters