Dr. Ruby Amanze

Biography

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze is a visual artist whose practice is primarily centered around drawing on paper. Her non-linear, fluid narrative and large-scale drawings explore themes of space, play, magic, and hybridity. Amanze has completed a two-year residency at the Queens Museum as part of The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions Program in New York. She has exhibited her work internationally in cities such as Lagos, London, Johannesburg, and Paris, and nationally at the California African American Museum, the Drawing Center, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Amanze earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, summa cum laude, from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In the 2012-2013 academic year, Amanze was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She currently resides in Philadelphia while calling multiple places home.

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