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Artwork available on this website are open prints. Mari Amman (b. 1984) is an American-Italian artist. Her work with images, installations, poetry, performance, painting, sculpture, video, textiles and design is internationally awarded, exhibited, collected, and recognized as contributing to thoughtful discourses in ways of knowing (epistempologies), resources, built environments, technology, and the influence of the imaginary realm on reality privileging Geological Empathy and Sublime Rheology. Her first public exhibition in 1999 was a land art sculpture. Amman is a European Innovation and Technology Culture & Creativity Expert Evaluator. She collaborates with biology, technological and geological scientists, music, architecture, and culture professionals. Noted recognition of her work includes international awards, residencies, and screenings of which a selection are listed: Omniscient, monolithic image and text, awarded 1st by the jury in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition at the Asia Culture Center, in Gwangju (SK, 2015). PraksisOslo Residency, Praxis Dansfestivalen with KHiO/Dansenhus (NO, 2017), Butoh residency with Mushimaru Fujieda at KHiO (NO, 2018), Angelot-Trélex Residency (CH, 2019), UKS Young Artists' Society Residency (NO, 2019), Atelier Nord Residency (NO, 2024, 2019), Afjordance screening, AWMAS (UCSB, 2020), Kjerringøy Land Art Residency (NO, 2020), Stefan Simchowitz (US, 2020) collecting her work, Paris Poetry Residency (FR, 2023), Bonny Doon Residency (US, 2022), foundational support and exhibitions for Art Farm Iowa (US, 2023), and Arte Expuesto (MX, 2023). She holds a Master of Fine Art (Honors) with Frankfurt School Theory/Conceptual Studio Practice from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California (2015), and Bachelor of Fine Art (Dean's List) in Advertising/Interior Architecture and Design from Illinois Institute of Art (2006), with studies in Photography and History of Photography at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, and Social Psychology at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan (2012), Norwegian language (2014-2016), Italian and Napoletana languages and culture (2025 - ongoing), with about 12 years of classical piano studies, and classical voice and dance training since childhood. Amman's artistic research in Aesthetic Resonances, Pozzolana, Landcape-Memory-Eros developed from Pattern Recognition, Visual Literacy, and Body Architecture methods.