Amanda Millet-Sorsa is an artist interested in the transparency and the luminosity of oil painting, who has also experimented collaboratively with performers in dance and theatre, as a means to expand her painterly gestures and her understanding of color and movement. She is also an arts writer and arts worker, born in Washington D.C. (1987 | USA/FR/FI) and has contributed to cultural life in New York City since 2011, while developing her artistic practice.
Amanda has exhibited in New York at Springs Project DUMBO, Below Grand gallery, The Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Bookstore, SHIM Art Network, The Socrates Sculpture Park, Governor’s Island, NY, The Flux Factory, [x] Brooklyn Brush Gallery, Art-In-Buildings Time Equities Inc., Art Helix gallery, Theatre for a New City, Brooklyn FireProof, The Last Brucennial, and the NARS Foundation.
She has received support and grants through the Materials for the Arts, NYC Cultural Affairs, City Artist Corps Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, National Society of Arts and Letters, Gertrude Whitney Conner Scholarship for Excellence, and Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts. She holds an M.F.A from the New York Studio School and B.A. from Brandeis University. She has been a resident at Proyecto Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina exploring the relationships between street art, cave paintings, and murals and at ArtLeadHER in partnership with The Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City. In 2024-25 she will be a recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in Brazil. She will be a resident artist at Pivô and collaborate with the oil paint making company Joules & Joules as part of her research on color in Brazil. In Salvador she will be hosted by the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (MAM) in 2025.
She is a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail and a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), participating actively in the NY arts community by writing art exhibition reviews and artist interviews.
She was part of the curatorial team at artist-run Below Grand gallery in the Lower East Side from 2022-2024.
Since 2011, Amanda works as a consultant on projects focused on the preservation of an artist’s legacy through project, collections and archives management, exhibitions, research, and catalogue raisonné. She was acknowledged by the New York Foundation of the Arts as a recipient of the Tri-State Relief Fund for non-salaried art workers in the visual arts in 2020.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
All Tomorrow’s Parties, M. David & Co at Artcake, Brooklyn, NY
Prototype 1.0 curated by Tomas Vu, Springs Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy | Part 3 curated by Phong H. Bui and Cal McKeever, Below Grand, New York, NY
2021
A Game of Tarot: The Unoppressive Game
The Unoppressive-Non Imperialist Bargain Bookstore, New York, NY
A selection of original cards, digital prints, print edition card decks, and postcards exhibited in the window installation
A Game of Tarot performance in collaboration with five performers and directed by Alexandra Zelman-Doring
Tarot Card Readings with Daniel Larkin & poetry postcard writing.
2020
Up in the Air by Maki Teshima & Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Online art exhibition hosted by SHIM Art Network, New York, NY
Online event featuring sound meditation by Mahir Cetiz &
film at Far Rockaway, Queens, NY
New York Textile Month, New York, NY
2016
Movements in Color by caitlin+dancers & Amanda Millet-Sorsa
The Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
The Flux Factory, Queens, NY
[x], Brooklyn Brush Studios Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Governor’s Island Trust Residency, Governor’s Island, NY
2015
A Game of Tarot
Art-In-Buildings, West 10th Window, NY, USA
curated by Natalie Diaz and Jennie Lamensdorf
La Gioconda
ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
curated by Wilson Duggan and Julie McKim
2014
Halloween
Theatre for the New City, Womb Room/Cabaret, NY, USA
The Wall
Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The Last Brucennial
BHQFU, Presented by Vito Schnabel, 837 Washington Street, New York, USA
2013
Constellations
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Un Pasaje de Sueños
Proyecto Ace Residency, Mural Installation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
MFA Thesis Show
Whitney Room, The New York Studio School, New York, USA
2010
Issue; l’issue
Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France
2009
Bernstein Festival of the Arts ’09
Brandeis University, Shapiro Campus Center Waltham, MA, USA
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Photo Credit: Steven Speliotis / Socrates Sculpture ParkAWARDS
2025
Fulbright US Scholar, Salvador, Brazil, hosted by Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (MAM Bahia)
2024
Fulbright US Scholar, São Paulo, Brazil, residency at Pivô and Joules & Joules
Harts Cove Invitational Process Residency, Long Island, NY
2023
The Canopy Program mentorship with Michael Berry-Hill, New York Crit Club, 2023
2022
Art LeadHER in partnership with the Monira Foundation, Art residency
Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2021
City Artists Corp Grant, New York, NY
2020
Queens Arts Fund: New Work Grant
Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2016
Queens Arts Fund: New Work Grant
Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
Governor’s Island Trust Residency, NY
2013
National Society of Arts and Letters NY Chapter 2nd Place
Printmaking Competition, New York Chapter
2011-2013
Gertrude Whitney Conner Scholarship for Excellence
New York Studio School MFA Scholarship, New York
2010
Scholarship Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Art Residency, France
2009
Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts Grant Recipient, Brandeis University
“Illusions of Painting Through Mime; The Cage Extended”
European Science Days Conference “Economics of Art and Culture” 3rd Place
“Single Artist Art Auctions” Economic Honors Thesis, Steyr, Austria
EDUCATION
New York Studio School
M.F.A 2013
Painting
Brandeis University
B.A. 2009
Studio Arts
Economics of arts and culture
VISITING ARTIST CRITIC
Rhode Island School of Design, 2024
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY, 2023, 2024
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Artist Alliance Inc., New York, NY, 2023
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, 2023, 2024 (Jury), 2025 (Jury)
New York Crit Club, The Canopy Program, 2024
Yellow Chair Salon, 2024