b. 1981 Portland, Maine, USA
Lives and works in Sydney, New York, Atlanta
Amber Boardman is an American-born, Sydney-based artist whose work explores how digital life shapes crowd behaviours and shared beliefs. Boardman’s exhibitions of paintings function as linked anthropological studies. Working in series, she construct each exhibition as an unfolding sequence of scenes, where every canvas operates like a sentence within a longer story about how humans adapt and mythologise themselves in digital space.
Boardman’s 20+ year history of exhibiting her work internationally includes shows in arts institutions in New York, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Miami, Atlanta, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Notable exhibitions include BAM’s Next Wave Festival in New York, Postmasters Gallery in Rome, and the Archibald, Mosman, and Geelong Prizes in Australia.
Over two decades, Boardman has been committed to fostering artistic talent — lecturing in art and animation at leading universities across the US and Australia, and speaking at galleries and museums internationally since 2011. She holds a PhD in Fine Art. Boardman has founded shared studio and exhibition spaces in Brooklyn and Sydney, and continues to facilitate exchange between artists worldwide through her Virtual Studio Visit events.
Her work is held in private and public collections including Artbank and the City of Sydney, and the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. It has been featured in publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Artist Profile, Art Collector, and ArtMaze Magazine. This year, Boardman presented new work at Felix Art Fair, held her first solo exhibition in Paris at Brigid Mulholland Gallery, and presented a major solo exhibition, The Puppet Show, at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
