Amanda Linares (Havana, 1989) is a Cuban-born visual artist who currently lives and works in Miami. Her work expands like branches using an immense variety of media from design and drawing to installation and photography. Influenced by literature and spatial awareness, Amanda’s work contains poetic language while exploring narration and/or space through the use of reflection, transparency, revelation, found objects, and typographical solutions. Although in constant change, her work intimately dances between many universal issues, such as identity, displacement, absence, and reconnection. Her eagerness for learning new ways to express herself led her to study graphic design at New World School of the Arts. She is currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex.

EDUCATION

2016 - 2020 Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design at New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL.

2014 - 2016 Associate of Arts (AA) in Commercial Arts. Miami Dade College, Miami, FL.

2008 - 2010 Set Design. National Arts School (Instituto Superior de Arte, ISA) of Havana, Cuba.

2004 - 2008 Technical Degree in Printmaking. San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts of Havana, Cuba.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 In the Midst of All. Tunnel Projects, Miami, FL.

2020 Between Islands and Peninsulas. Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Oolite Arts in the Gardens. Pinecrest Gardens, Pinecrest, FL.

2024 You Belong Here. Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL.

2023 Unfold. Miami Beach Visual Arts Gallery, Miami, FL.

2023 Draw: Point to Point. Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL.

2023 Unfold. Drift, project room at Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL.

2023 Inhabited. The Frank Gallery, Pembroke Pines, FL.

2023 Still There Are Seeds To Be Gathered. Miami Design District, Miami, FL.

2022 Time Flies Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana. The Collective 62, Miami, FL.

2022 Miami Is Not The Caribbean. Yet It Feels Like It. Oolite Arts, Miami, FL.

2022 Storefront Identity - Fragmented Narratives. FAR Contemporary Gallery, Fort Lauderdale FL.

2022 Material Language. The Bonnier Gallery, Miami, FL.

2021 Familiar Distances. Edge Zones, Miami, FL.

2021 Viewpoints: Expressions of an Artist Community. Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL.

2021 A Subtropical Affair III. Good to Know. FYI, Miami, FL.

2020 Materialize. Oolite Arts, Miami, FL.

2020 2020 New World School of the Arts Graduates. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL.

2020 Equilibria. NWSA BFA online exhibition. See Exhibition

2019 The Future ain’t What it Used to Be. The Kampong, Miami, FL.

2019 Six Words - Stories. New World Gallery, Miami, FL.

2019 Rising Stars. New World Gallery, Miami, FL.

2018 No Rule, Rule. New World Gallery, Miami, FL.

2017 Pixel and Scale. Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL.

2017 Rising Stars. New World Gallery, Miami, FL.

2015 Made in Miami. Del Castillo Art Studio, Hialeah, FL.

2014 Be. Sarah's studio-gallery, Miami, FL.

2013 Unestablished. Warehouse project, Miami, FL.

2013 Threshold. Garcia Squared Contemporary, Kansas City, MO.

2013 Silicona. Expo-house, Havana, Cuba.

2012 Part-Time. Collateral exhibition to the 11th Havana Biennial, National Arts School (Instituto Superior de Arte, ISA), Habana, Cuba.

2009 Enzo Carioti en viaje a la Habana. Casa Gaia, Havana, Cuba.

2008 Tesis de Graduación de estudiantes de San Alejandro. Galería Luz y Oficios, Havana, Cuba.

2008 190th anniversary of San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts. Galería José Antonio Díaz Peláez, San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

2007 Se acabo + píxel. Maqueta de la Habana, Havana, Cuba.

2007 Yo, yo y yo. Galería Belkis Ayón, Havana, Cuba.

2007 VII National Printmaking Encounter 2007. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.

2005 Ron-Pan-Fila (second part). Galería José Antonio Díaz Peláez, San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

2004 Ron-Pan-Fila (first part). Galería José Antonio Díaz Peláez, San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

COLLABORATIONS

2009 Costume designer in Smells, (short film) dir Lesther Harbert. 10th Muestra Joven, Havana, Cuba.

2006-2007 Storyboard artist in Larga distancia, (feature film) dir Esteban Insausti. Latin American film Festival, Havana,Cuba.

GRANTS / AWARDS

2024 Artist Support Regional Grant, Broward County Cultural Division, Broward, FL.

2023 Miami Individual Artists Grant, Miami, FL.

2023 Corral & Cathers Artist Fund, Coral Gables Community Foundation, Miami, FL.

2022 The Ellies Creator Award Winner, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL.

2020 MARF Miami Artist Relief Grant, Locust Projects, Miami, FL.

2020 Oolites Arts Relief Fund, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL.

2020 Summa Cum Laude, University of Florida, Miami, FL.

2016 NWSA Full Scholarship, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL.

COLLECTIONS

The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL.

The Bonnier Gallery, Miami, FL.

PUBLICATIONS

2021 Amanda Linares' installation Between Islands and Peninsulas on-view at Bakehouse Art Complex, USA. Terremoto Magazine. See Blog.

2019 Meet Amanda Linares in Kendall Local Stories. Voyage Mia Magazine. April 25. See Article

2014 CdeCuba Art Magazine. No. 17, June 14. Page 15. See Article

RESIDENCIES

2024 Oolite Arts Studio Residency. Miami Beach, FL.

2023 Oolite Arts’ Home + Away at MASS MoCA. North Adams, MA.

2021 Oolite Arts’ Home + Away at Atlantic Center for the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, FL.

2020 Summer Painting Open. Bakehouse Art Complex. Miami, FL.