amiakiko@gmail.com
@a.kitsu
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Amelia Akiko Frank makes big drawings and small essays between London and New York.
She is interested in holes and survival.




CV

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).