AMANDA J. ROMBACH
2029 Howard St.
Philadelphia, PA. 19122
617-791-4060 cell
email: ajrombie@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
2010
-Boston University, Boston, MA. B.F.A., Painting, Graduated Cum Laude 2010. Art history, philosophy, religion and Italian.
2008
-Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Study Abroad Program in Venice, Italy. Painting, Printmaking & Art History.
SELECTED HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS :
2010
-Dean’s Scholarship for Boston University
-College of Fine Arts Performance Scholarship
2009
-College of Fine Arts Performance Scholarship
2008
-College of Fine Arts Performance Scholarship
2007
-College of Fine Arts Performance Scholarship
2006
-College of Fine Arts Performance Scholarship
-Wilhelmina Denning Jackson Award/Scholarship for Fine Arts
-Rotary Club Scholarship
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2012
-Studio Visit Magazine Vo. 17, juried by Jonathan Green
-“The 71st Annual Juried Exhibition” Catalogue, Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
-Part Time Studios, Philadelphia, PA. “PHILADELPHIA,” an inquiry of the decay and rebirth of a beloved city.
-CSA GALLERY, Philadelphia, PA. “SPACES,” a landscape painting show.
2011
-F&N Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. “CONTRACT AND EXPAND, MR. ACCORDIAN MAN,” a painting and drawing show.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012
-Uncooperative Salem Art’s League Gallery, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” Salem, MA.
-Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA., “71st Annual Juried Exhibition”, a group show juried by Artist Alex Kanevsky
-CSA GALLERY, Philadelphia, PA. “In Celebration of the Barnes,” a curatorial project I organized and participated in.
-Icebox Gallery, “Inliquid V. 12.0,” Philadelphia, PA.
2011
-Part Time Studios, Philadelphia, PA. “SMALL JAWNS, PART II”
-Part Time Studios, “Winter Heat Wave,” Group installation
2010
-Part Time Studios, “SMALL JAWNS”
-Part Time Studios, “POST: Philadelphia Open Studios Tour”
-Stone Gallery and Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA., “BFA Thesis Exhibition”
-Gallery 5, B.U., Boston, MA. “Retrospectrums”
-Women’s Resource Center, B.U., Boston, Ma. “Genderfest”
2009
-Elk’s Club, Cambridge, MA. “Halfpint Arts Festival”
-808 Gallery, B.U., Boston, MA. “Undergraduate BFA Exhibition”
-Marblehead Town Hall, Marblehead, Ma. “Marblehead Arts Festival”
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
2012
-Cofounded the gallery at FJORD, an artist run space and ongoing curatorial project. FJORD has a revolving group of both in-house and outside curators in an effort to bring a contemporary dialogue about art making to Philadelphia.
- executed independent mural commissions in Tuftenboro, NH and Santa Fe, NM
2011
-Traveled across the country to give my time to communities in the form of “art gifts”: independent mural projects, free of charge.
Scitech Academy, New Orleans, LA
Outdoor public space, Santa Fe, NM
Sexual Violence and Abuse Center, Minneapolis, MN
-Painted a mural in Puriscal, Costa Rica for the Barking Horse Farm
