Introducing 2022 AIM Fellow Santina Amato @santina_amato. Over the next two weeks, we will dedicate a post a day to introducing the 14 members of our current AIM Fellowship cohort. Read more below and click the link in our bio to learn more about Santina. Santina Amato is a multimedia artist who explores the experience of the intimate body, especially the female body. In her work, desire and erotica are translated into a broader consideration of the physical, psychological, and social functions of the female body. Amato’s work has received financial support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Australia Council for the Arts among others. Amato has participated in residencies and exhibited at MOCA Tucson, AZ, MASS MoCA, MA, Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, PA, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, and HERE Arts Center, NY, NY. Her work has been written about in Emergency Index, CreateMagazine, and Lenscratch and included in collections at The Joan Flasch Artist' Book Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. Amato recently completed a commission for the New York Botancial Gardens that is on view until September and is an AIR at 4Heads Portal on Governors Island until the end of summer, 2022. Amato is a current AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum of Art and holds an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Artworks (in order of appearance): "Angeliki" (Part of an ongoing series titled "Portraits of Women With Their Weight In Dough"), 2019 Photograph, 22” X 30” "Untitled", 2020 Domestic furniture, household junk mail, garbage bags,, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. 46" X 45" X 34". Photo by Jason Wyche #aimfellow2022 #aimbxma #bronxmuseum