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Four hugely oversized doors decorated in the style of the seasons

Amanda Ross-Ho

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Amanda Ross-Ho’s practice spans installation, sculpture, painting, and photography, often transforming ordinary, mass-produced objects into sites of intimacy and inquiry. Across these varied forms, she meditates on time, memory, and devotion, reframing artifacts from her lived experiences as potent vessels that hold personal and collective histories. In the installation on view here, Ross-Ho presents a succession of four monumental doors, meticulous replicas of the door to her father’s room in a residential nursing home, where she has long been a caretaker. Scaled to twice the size of a typical entryway, the doors bear the wear and tear of a high-traffic medical facility. Each is adorned with oversize seasonal decorations, faithfully remade based on those she has documented over years of visits. Nursing home staff use these disposable adornments to soften the institutional environment, bring the outside world in, create occasion for celebration, and mark the cyclical passage of time. In Ross-Ho’s installation, chronology collapses: Temporal markers accumulate across the fixed surfaces like a time-lapse exposure, transforming into poetic monuments to days, seasons, and lifetimes.

Amanda Ross-Ho was born in 1975 in Chicago. Ross-Ho considers her artistic practice a form of experimental archival research, driven by impulses to commemorate and analyze life’s intimacies. Selected solo exhibitions include ILY2, Portland, OR (2023); Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Art, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (2024); Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2017); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2017); Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, Netherlands (2016); The Approach, London (2014); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2025); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2025, 2018); Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (2024); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2024, 2022, 2017); Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2023); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (2019); Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2019); 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2019); EXILE, Vienna (2019); Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2017); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008). Her public art commissions include Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (2024); Public Art Fund, New York (2015); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013). Ross-Ho is the recipient of numerous honors including the Marciano Art Foundation’s Artadia Award (2025); an Anonymous Was a Woman award (2023); a California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2017); and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2013). Ross-Ho is a Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. She earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998), and an MFA from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2006).