Ambera Wellmann

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Ambera Wellmann is a painter based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include One Thousand Emotions, Company Gallery, New York (2025); Darkling, Hauser & Wirth, New York (2025); Antipoem, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2023); and UnTurning, The MAC, Belfast (2021). Selected group exhibitions include SPELLBOUND, Firestorm Foundation, Stockholm (2026); The Woman Question 1550–2025, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2025); the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024); In the Presence of Life Lived, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2022); and Soft Water Hard Stone, the New Museum Triennial, New York (2021).

Her work is held in collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Mudam Luxembourg; ICA Miami; the Columbus Museum of Art; and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.

Exhibitions

Solo Show

One Thousand Emotions

Sep5–Oct252025

Solo Show

Nosegay Tornado

Nov18–Jan162021

Selected Press

Feb 6 2026

Studio International

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Jan 28 2026

Ocula

Which Artists Have Joined Guggenheim Museum’s Collection?

Jan 2 2026

Artforum

Ambera Wellmann

Dec 1 2025

Vulture

Parker Posey's Favorite Culture of 2025

Oct 28 2025

ArtNews

The Pleasures and Perils of Hot Girl Feminism

Oct 26 2025

Brooklyn Rail

Ambera Wellmann

Oct 25 2025

Emergent Mag

Sorcery and Satire: Ambera Wellmann’s Double Bill

Oct 9 2025

Whitehot Magazine

The New York Art World Rebooted: Exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, Marianne Boesky, Gagosian, Petzel, Company Gallery and Skarstedt

Sep 29 2025

Juxtapoz Magazine

One Thousand Emotions: Ambera Wellmann @ Company Gallery, NYC

Sep 25 2025

Financial Times

What does the afterlife look like?

Sep 10 2025

Contemporary Art Issue

Ambera Wellmann: Darkling—One Thousand Emotions

Sep 10 2025

Cultured Mag

Figurative Painting’s Not Dead and There’s a New Fair in Town: Johanna Fateman’s New York Art Week Diary

Sep 8 2025

Cultured Mag

Ambera Wellmann Delivers on the Hype With a Two-Gallery Banger in September

Sep 4 2025

NY Times

Fixing a Problem Painting With Ambera Wellmann

Oct 29 2024

Document Journal

Ambera Wellmann materializes mortal landscapes

Oct 14 2024

T Magazine

A Painter With an Eye for the Ridiculous

Jul 4 2024

Cura Magazine

The Hellbound Heart

Mar 6 2024

Artnet

Ambera Wellmann’s Paintings Added Flair to Mugler’s Paris Fashion Week Show

Dec 12 2023

ARTnews

Ambera Wellmann Is Now Jointly Represented by Company Gallery and Hauser & Wirth in Second ‘Collective Impact’ Collaboration

Apr 26 2023

New York Times

An Art Patron’s Mission to Share Her Collection With the World

Nov 30 2021

W Magazine

Changing the Perspective

Nov 24 2021

Art Basel

Liquid skin, blurred lines: how Ambera Wellmann creates startlingly intimate scenes

Nov 4 2021

New York Times

New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power

Oct 27 2021

ArtNews

8 Standouts at the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Poetic Resistance, Barely-There Beings, and More

Dec 12 2020

Mousse Magazine

Ambera Wellmann “Nosegay Tornado” at Company, New York

Dec 9 2020

Art Agenda

Ambera Wellmann’s “Nosegay Tornado”

Oct 22 2020

Frieze

Ambera Wellmann’s Fluid Bodies

Aug 1 2019

Vault Magazine

Ambera Wellmann: An Artistic Palimpsest

Oct 10 2018

Editorial Magazine

The Strange World of Ambera Wellmann

Oct 1 2018

Whitehot Magazine

Ambera Wellmann: (Wo)man and Beast in the Round of Their Need

Jan 1 2018

Border Crossing

Ambera Wellmann's Drawings

Oct 18 2017

CBC Arts

Ambera Wellmann wants her paintings to have 'a subconscious of their own'

Oct 7 2017

Studio Beat

Ambera Wellmann, Painter

Mar 8 2017

Vice

These Extremely Uncomfortable Photographs Are Guaranteed to Make You Squirm