Amy Merigo (b. 1997 RO/IT) is a visual artist and writer based in Helsinki, Finland
2022 —
MA Aalto University, Helsinki FI, Master’s of Art and Media
Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA)
2017 - 2021
BA Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara, Bergamo IT
Fine art - New Technologies for art
2020
EGS European Graduate School
guest student at the Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought division (PACT)
(“Materiology & Variantology in Media Archaeology”,
“The rise of obscene masters”)
2018 - 2019
BCU Birmingham School of Art UK
Erasmus program — Fine Art
Work experience
2024
Production assistant, DRIFTS Festival, Helsinki FI
Gallery assistant and art mediator, Maa-Tila Project Space, Helsinki FI
2023
Cinematography / DoP for a film shooting session, collaboration with Migrant ecologies project, Espoo FI
Freelance illustrator
2021
Art mediator and gallery assistant, FuturDome, Milan IT
2020
Videographer, collaboration with Ultravioletto edizioni, Milan IT
Production assistant, On a certain idea of landscape by artist duo Premiata Ditta, edition at Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara, Bergamo IT
Curatorial
2024
FLAT micro festival / 26-27 October 2024 / Helsinki FI
co-curated with Vytautas Bikauskas, Mana Tashakorinia, Celeste Sanja Smareglia
2023
Fog is a cloud that touches the ground events and exhibition, Vuosaari, Helsinki FI
co-curated with students from ViCCA, Aalto University
Ancestral futures exhibition and publication launch, Vuosaari, Helsinki FI
co-curated with Mana Tashakorinia, Martina Seresová, Lau Kaker, Erika Cárdenas Manzanilla, Jade Lönnqvist, Rebekka Yallop;
presenting three selected installations by artists Eirini Tiniakou, Teo Paaer, Gabriella Presnal; a curated reading corner feautirng selected publications responding to the theme; and the launch of a co-edited publication featuring Micol Curatolo, Julia Fidder, Marjolein van der Loo, Delilah Sykes
group/duo shows
2024
Strong wind events foster leaning trees, duo show, V1 Gallery, Espoo FI
2023
Funken, Klub Solitaer at Villa Rosenberg, Chemnitz DE
Story ecologies Vuosaari, Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki FI
Olohuone – Living room – Ruang tamu – 客廳 – 客厅, Vapaakaupunki, Helsinki FI
Contemporary drawing, Beta Gallery, Espoo FI
2021
E Domani? Domani nevica, duo show, Spazio Giacomo, Bergamo IT
Lock.down, Clorofilla, Bergamo IT
2020
Contaminatio, online exhibition, Bergamo IT
Crisalismo, Clorofilla, Bergamo IT
2019
Mars, Sala Viscontea of Orto Botanico Lorenzo Rota, Bergamo IT
Residencies, grants
2024
TuoTuo residency, Joutsa FI
2023
Funken Akademie — Inter·space, residencies in Chemnitz DE, Dresden DE, Linz AU
Selected as artistic researcher to explore creative co-creation with mycelium and 3D printing. Program developed by Klub Solitaer e.V. in partnership with Ars Electronica Center, WRO Art Center, Fraunhofer ENAS and IWU.
2021
Bando Giacomo Grant
Grant recipient for the production of the exhibition “E Domani? Domani nevica”
Editorial, writing
2024
(upcoming) Work featured by Osmosis Press, Surrey/Glasgow UK
Scattered notes presented in Under the leaf bookfair, Suomenlinna, Helsinki FI
2023
Inter·space presented during the exhibition opening of Funken, Chemnitz DE
Scattered notes presented during the open studio Story ecologies Vuosaari, Helsinki FI