Amanda Means

Who is Amanda Means?

Amanda Means is an American artist and photographer. She received a BA from Cornell University in 1969 and a MFA in Photography from SUNY Buffalo in 1978. In 1976 she attended the Aperion Workshops and studied under Ralph Gibson. She is a master black and white printer having made prints for clients such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Roni Horn, and the Smithsonian Institution. Means has primarily focused on camera-less photography, using objects instead of photographic negatives to produce her prints. Her work has been collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, NY. She has had a special exhibition of her photographs of leaves at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Means has taught at various universities and art schools including SUNY Plattsburgh; Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, NY; Parsons School of Design, NY, NY; University of Memphis, Memphis, TN; Pratt Institute, NY, NY.