Amanda Browder

Amanda Browder (born 1976 in Missoula, MT) is an American installation artist. Browder was raised in Montana. She began sewing when she was in third grade, starting her interest in fabric. Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York producing large-scale fabric installations for building exteriors and other public sites.

She has been published in books such as Unexpected Art: Chronicle Books and Strange Material; Arsenal Pulp Press.

Browder was part of the show, "Hubris," at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2004. In 2005, she, Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland founded the "Bad at Sports" podcast which covers local arts scenes. Browder has collaborated with Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Mississauga Stuart Keeler on several projects between 2006 and 2008 as the collective known as Career Day.

In 2010, Browder gave a presentation at the Winkelman Gallery in Chelsea for the "#class" exhibition. Also in 2010, she worked on a collaborative public art piece with the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition. The project was called "Future Phenomenon" and encouraged Brooklyn residents to work together on a large-scale sewing project.

Browder exhibited one work at the 2012 Arts@Renaissance event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; one work at the 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn; one work at the New Museum's Ideas City Festival; and a project at the 2013 FAB Fest in New York City. Browder participated in the annual Bushwick Open Studios event in 2013. Browder also showed one work at a Kickstarter party in Greenpoint, Brooklyn celebrating the 2014 opening of a new company building.

Browder has also exhibited at the University of Alabama at Birmingham AAHD, Birmingham, AL;Nuit Blanche Public Art Festival/LEITMOTIF in Toronto; Mobinale, Prague; Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo; White Columns, NYC; No Longer Empty, Brooklyn. Browder's first large-scale computer-generated digital patterning debut will be her project 'At Night We Light Up for the Indianapolis Power & Light Building, unveiling June 30, 2016 and shown August 26 and 27 as part of a free interactive light festival hosted by the Central Indiana Community Foundation.

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