This work is from the Biotransformation series which explores the “loaded gun” theory of illness: genetics loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger. In this series, Hughen layers fragmented imagery from architecture, industrial design, engineering, chemistry, astrology and biology to create undefined moments of transformation.

Amanda Hughen has exhibited her solo and collaborative work in museums and galleries internationally, including the Asian Art Museum (CA), the Berkeley Art Museum (CA), Danese (NY), Knoedler & Co. (NY), and White Columns (NY). She has been an artist-in-residence at the DeYoung Museum of Art (CA), the Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Oxbow (CA), and Yaddo (NY). Hughen received an MFA from UC Berkeley, where she was awarded a full Block Grant Fellowship and the Eisner Prize. Hughen/Starkweather, the 10+year collaboration with the artist Jennifer Starkweather, has been commissioned to create a permanent artwork on the entire glass exterior and roof deck of the new Union Square Central Subway station, which will open in 2018. Hughen has served on the boards of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Southern Exposure. She lives and works in San Francisco.