Amber Lee Williams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in St. Catharines. Following the birth of her daughter, she decided overnight to return to school and is currently in her 4th year of an undergraduate degree in Visual Arts at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. Drawing from a wealth of real life experiences and hard-earned lessons, her work explores themes of identity, family relationships, birth, death, and chance. Amber's areas of art include analog, digital, and experimental photography, drawing, sculpture, assemblage, painting, and more. Her process involves exploring several different mediums within the same piece of work. She searches for meaningful ways that different materials can work together in order to create work that is personal and relevant.

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Education:

Niagara College, Graphic Design, 2008 to 2009

Brock University, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Studio Art, 2014 to present

Exhibitions: (*denotes solo show)

2018 Small Feats, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2018 Self Portrait as a Female Fountain (video installation), In the Soil Arts Festival, St. Catharines, ON

2018 (un)hidden, MIW Gallery, St. Catharines, ON*

2017 Third Annual Art Show, Fundraiser and Toy Drive, Studio 4 Tattoo Parlour, St. Catharines, ON*

2017 ARTBLOCK, MIW Gallery, St. Catharines, ON

2017 Cloth Shells, 1045 Elmwood Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2017 Concrete Cloud (performance), Downtown St. Catharines, ON

2017 Cloak of Cosmoss (performance), In The Soil Arts Festival, St. Catharines, ON

2017 Small Feats, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2017 Common Groundz, MIW Gallery, St. Catharines, ON

2016 Abstract/Abstracted: “This is not a tree”, Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2016 Second Annual Art Show, Fundraiser and Toy Drive, Studio 4 Tattoo Parlour, St. Catharines, ON*

2016 ARTBLOCK, MIW Gallery, St. Catharines, ON

2016 Voix de Ville, First Ontario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2016 The Last Night at the Albert Street Motel, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON*

2016 Devolve: Creation/Movement/Fluidity, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2016 The Last Things, Niagara Artist Centre Flea Market Gallery, St. Catharines, ON

2016 Small Feats, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2016 Post Millennial Body, Mahtay Cafe, St. Catharines, ON

2016 Blind Contour Interactive Exhibit, In The Soil Arts Festival (RHIZOMES), St. Catharines, ON

2016 What About Rodman Hall? (performance), Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2016 Million Dollar Pink Student Juried Show, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2015 Art Show and Charity Drive, Studio 4 Tattoo Parlour, St. Catharines, ON*

2015 ARTBLOCK, MIW Gallery, St. Catharines, ON

2015 IT'S ALIVE! Eerie Art Exhibit, Niagara Falls Art Gallery, Niagara Falls, ON

2015 Mount Carmel Art Show, Niagara Falls, ON

2015 Niagara Night of Art (performance), Niagara Falls History Museum, Niagara Falls, ON

2015 By The Pound, Goodfellas Gallery, Toronto, ON

2015 Live Art (performance), The Crystal Chandelier, Crystal Beach, ON

2015 Small Feats, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

2014 STRUTT Wearable Art Show, WS Tyler, St. Catharines, ON

2014 Small Feats, Niagara Artist Centre, St. Catharines, ON

Awards and Publications:

Second Place, Million Dollar Pink Student Juried Show, 2016

The Sound Magazine, The Contour & The Caustic, September, 2016

Affiliations:

Niagara Artist Centre (NAC)