Amelie Mancini’s artistic practice ranges from painting to drawing, printmaking and textile design. In her paintings and drawings, she uses angular geometric shapes, fluid line work, busy textures and patterns, and silhouetted figures to create imaginary spaces where the abstract and the representational come together to create new narratives.
Born and raised in Lyon, France, Amelie Mancini moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2006. She received a Master’s Degree in Design and Fine Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. In 2022, she received the Royal Watercolour Society Award. Her work was featured in Works On Paper 4 and 5 at Blue Shop Gallery in London, and shown at Hashimoto Contemporary (New York, NY), Maake Projects (State College, PA) mepaintsme's Open Call 2023 (online) and 81C in St Thomas, US.V.I.
"My paintings come from half-remembered dreams, from the thick mud of childhood memories, and from the uninvited yet welcome mental images that appear sometimes during the relaxed state we enter right before sleep, as if the colorful, unexplained visions carried urgent but cryptic messages from somewhere deep within me, and needed to be brought out into the world, I the inarticulate interpreter of their mute poetry.”
Education
Master’s Degree in Arts Appliqués, Université Sorbonne, Paris, France
Exhibitions
2023
Moments: Real and Imagined, I Like Your Work (online)
Open Call, mepaintsme (online)
Summer Show, Maake Projects, State College, PA
Out There And In Here, 81C, St Thomas, USVI (solo)
LUSH, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
Paper Works, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Julia Halperin)
Works On Paper 5, Blue Shop Cottage, London, United Kingdom (curated by Ocki Magill)
2022
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
Red Hook Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Finding A Memory, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA (curated by Erica Hesse)
Works On Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage, London, United Kingdom (curated by Ocki Magill)
RWS Open Call, Bankside Gallery, London, United Kingdom (curated by Brit Pruiksma)
2019
Shoebox Treasures, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY (permanent collection)
2011
Sacrebleu, Napoleon Would Have Made A Fine Shortstop, Yashar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Group Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Minipic, Pauline’s, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Pauline Beaudemont and Elise Lammer)
Awards and Residencies
2024
Vermont Studio Center Residency
2022
RWS Award, Royal Watercolor Society, London, United Kingdom
Publicity Award, Royal Watercolor Society, London, United Kingdom
Publications
2023
Friend Of The Artist Vol.16, selected by Serge Tiroche
New Visionary Magazine, Issue 5, curated by Sasha-Loriene
2022
I Like Your Work Fall 2022, curated by Erica Hesse
2019
No Business Magazine, edited by Angela Zonunpari