Ami Muranetz

Ami Maria Muranetz was born in Victoria, British Columbia, where she studied at Camosun College in a two-year visual arts program combining theory with technical studies in ceramics, painting, drawing, graphic design, performance, critique, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and film.

The distinct spiritual eclecticism found within her painting, photography, and sculpture is notable in the fusion of new world iconography with old world religious symbols. Even at its most abstract, her work tends to invoke the human body. Her ultimate goal is to use art as a tool that transcends historical and cultural differences. Opening up a space for collective culture through her work, she encourages people to reexamine their identities in relation to their surroundings.

Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally in the Burning Man Arts Festival in Nevada, Viking Union Gallery in Washington, and most recently in Agora Gallery in New York City. Among other publications, she has also been interviewed in Art Resource, MyArtSpace, and was nominated for Most Promising Artist of 2010 by Victoria’s Monday Magazine.