Amanda Means uses photography to explore the duality of natural and human built environment and how the mysterious presence of natural forces can be found even in small, mass-produced objects such as light bulbs and water glasses.
Means earned her BA from Cornell University and her MFA from SUNY in Buffalo, New York. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, England, among others. She was a recipient of the 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. Presently she lives and works in Beacon, New York.