In 2014, Amer started working with clay, a material which allows her to paint outside of the canvas and to unite the medium with the sculptural aspects of ceramics. During several residencies at the Greenwich House Pottery, in New York City, and Cerámica Suro, in Guadalajara, Mexico, the artist has been creating an extensive body of outstanding ceramic works since then. Amer’s sculptural practice further comprises outdoor installations and gardens, such as her large-scale public sculpture ‘Today 70% of the Poor in the World Are Women’ (2001/2020) pointing out gender inequality in huge red letters, or ‘All Oppression Creates a State of War’ quoting Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’.
Together with artist Reza Farkhondeh, Amer has established a long-standing collaboration from which result varied series of drawings, paintings, prints, performance and video art, and most recently ceramic works.
Amer’s work has been honoured in solo exhibitions at the MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco (2020) and Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas (2018); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (2010, along with Reza Farkhondeh); the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (2007); the De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (2002); the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (2001), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; and KW Berlin (both 2000). She has also participated in Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA (2021), the Biennale de Rabat (2019); Sydney Biennial (2006); the Whitney Biennial (2000); the Gwangju Biennial (2000); the Venice Biennale (1999); and the Istanbul Biennial (1996). Her art can be found in numerous public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Detroit Institute of Art; Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris; Auvergne and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France; Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; LaM Museum, Sammlung Goetz, Munich; and the Samsung Museum, Seoul.
