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Education
2025 MFA Fine Art (expected), Goldsmiths University, London
2020 BA Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, BA Visual Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Exhibitions
2024 We Threw Out the Name | Group show, Studio 9D, New York, NY
2024 +447961050552 | Group show, Camberwell Kabinett, London
2023 New Drawings | Solo show, Round K by Sol, New York, NY
2023 Touch | Group show, Citizens for the Arts, New York, NY
2023 Urban Eden | Group show, 34 Orchard, New York, NY
2022 Very Naughty Super Trashy | Group show, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Desert 23’S | Permanent collection, La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert, Chile
2021 Urban Legends | Group show, Columbia College Library, Chicago, IL
2020 And now the weather | Group show, Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 My Pet’s Therapist | Group show, Tutu Gallery/Field Projects Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Residency Final Show | Group show, New York Academy of Art Front Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Springfest | Group show, Festival of the Arts, Chicago, IL
2019 Twilight Tea | Group show, Festival of the Arts, Chicago, IL
2018 Elapse | Performance with sound artist Conor Krane, Sight x Sound, Chicago, IL
2018 Springfest | Group show, Festival of the Arts, Chicago, IL
2018 Documenting Ecosystems | Group show, Program on the Global Environment, Chicago, IL
2017 One Hundred Years of Solitude | Permanent installation, Trinity School, New York, NY
2016 Student Salon | Group show, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
Residencies & Programs
2023 Ragdale Residency, The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2022 Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, New York, NY
2022 Desert 23’S Residency, La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert, Chile
2019 Undergraduate Residency, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2019 Desert Ecology Field School, The University of Chicago, Organ Pipe National Monument, AZ
2018 FOTA Fellowship, Festival of the Arts, Chicago, IL
Grants & Awards
2020 Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts | Award, UChicago Department of Visual Arts, Chicago, IL
2020 Summa Cum Laude | Honor, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020 Departmental Honors | Honor, UChicago Division in the Humanities, Chicago, IL
2020 Phi Beta Kappa | Honor, The Phi Beta Kappa Society, Washington, D.C.
2020 Studio Track | Award/grant, UChicago Department of Visual Arts, Chicago, IL
17–20 Dean’s List | Honor, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 Scholar Award | Grant, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2019 Student Creativity Grant | Grant, UChicago Department of Visual Arts, Chicago, IL
2016 Obernauer Art Award | Award/exhibition, Trinity School, New York, NY
2016 The Maureen Prothero Memorial Prize in Art | Award, Trinity School, New York, NY
2016 The Jane Compton Mallison Prize in Writing | Award, Trinity School, New York, NY
2016 The Mary Evelyn Bruce Prize for Vocal Music | Award, Trinity School, New York, NY
2016 Judge’s Choice Award for Soloist | Award, Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA ♪
Design, etc.
Amelia Akiko Frank makes big drawings and small poems between New York and London. She is a current MFA candidate at Goldsmiths University, and holds BAs in Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Tutu Gallery, Columbia College Library, Logan Center Gallery, and the New York Academy of Art, and published in wig-wag (nominated for Best of Net), *82 Review, and Right Hand Pointing. She is a recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts, and has attended residencies at the New York Academy of Art (New York, NY), La Wayaka Current (Atacama Desert, Chile), and the Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL).