Amanda Ross-Ho and Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, discuss the new MCA plaza project, THE CHARACTER AND SHAPE OF ILLUMINATED THINGS, including its inspirations, background, and construction.

Amanda Ross-Ho was born in Chicago in 1975. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include:

TEENY TINY WOMAN at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2012, and Amanda Ross-Ho: The Cheshire Cat Principle at the Pomona Museum of Art in 2010. Her work has been included in New Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (2010), the Whitney Biennial (2008), and Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside and Out at MCA Chicago (2010), among numerous others. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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