“By reproducing ordinary objects at a scale and with a fastidiousness that give sculptural expression to the psychic dimensions of those things–emotive powers, social demands, cultural legacies–Amanda Ross-Ho, for the past two decades, has been a leading voice in the Los Angeles art discourse and has indelibly shaped our understanding of props, artifacts, and monuments.” – juror Anna Katz, Senior Curator, MOCA LA.

Ross-Ho is the recipient of the 2025 Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Award.

Amanda Ross-Ho (b.1975 Chicago, IL) is an interdisciplinary artist and a Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. Her work reshapes the complex collateral of time into alternative archives and monuments, sustaining attention on precarious subjects in a type of real-time archaeology. By elevating relics to withstand conditions of pressure and time travel, her work encourages and commemorates survival. Her current research negotiates collisions of generational, familial, and cultural inheritances held in physical archives and memory. As the custodian of these fraught heirlooms, her practice is a form of legacy work, shaping the vestiges left behind.