Ambera Wellmann
Growth#29
Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
5/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
9/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
8/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
3/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
2/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Pricing
- 2021 2022
- Note
- Peak period with auction record established
- Range
- $107,100 GBP - $189,000 USD
- 2023 2024
- $27,940 – $133,350 USD (larger/named 2018 works)
- 2021 2022 Peak
- $107,100 (GBP) – $189,000 USD for major works
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- 2025 Secondary
- Smaller works softening — e.g., Modern Bistro $5,645 (Phillips, Jun 2025)
- Early Works 2010s
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- Works from 2009-2010 'Cloud' series
- Range
- $8,000 - $12,000 USD
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- Primary Market 2025 2026
- Gallery-controlled. New 2025 large-scale oils on linen (72x77 in to 90x132 in and larger) offered via Hauser & Wirth and Sadie Coles HQ at 'Request Price & Availability' — contact galleries for pricing. Monumental works (e.g., Death Masks Eternity, 110x216 in) at top of primary range.
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- Collector Base
- Collector Type
- Major museums/foundations (Guggenheim, MFA Boston, National Gallery of Canada, Mudam, Aïshti, Philara), private collectors
- Market Segment
- Growth-stage contemporary painter, gallery-controlled primary market
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- Geographic Distribution
- International: North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East
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- Primary Market
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- Gallery-controlled market with 'Request Price & Availability' on recent works
- Gallery Pricing
- Contact Hauser & Wirth or Company Gallery for current pricing
- Works Size Range
- Small works: 12x16 inches to monumental: 120x168 inches (10x14 feet)
- Pricing by Period
- Post-2023 gallery representation: Contact galleries. Pre-2023: $20,000-$189,000 at auction
- Auction History
- Date
- May 2022
- Work
- This Will Always be Beneath Us
- Year
- 2022
- Liquidity
- Thin secondary market; roughly 27–28 lots tracked at auction across houses (MutualArt/Artnet). Volume modest and cooling from 2021–2022 peak.
- Market Entry
- Works began appearing at major auction houses from 2021 onwards
- Auction House
- Sotheby's New York
- Highest Price
- $189,000 USD
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- Trajectory Note
- Bifurcated market: strong institutional/primary-market demand (gallery 'Request Price & Availability') vs. cooling secondary market where smaller works now clear at $5,000–$50,000, well below 2021–2022 peaks of $107,000–$189,000.
- Price Trajectory
- Rapid ascent from 2021-2022, stabilizing 2023-2024 with strong institutional acquisition period
- Record Status 2026
- Auction record remains $189,000 USD (This Will Always be Beneath Us, Sotheby's New York, 2022). No new record set 2023–2026; peak was 2021–2022.
- Total Lots Tracked
- 22+ works at auction
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- Works on Paper Record
- $12,600 USD (works on paper)
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- Recent Results 2024 2025
Work Date Auction House Note Mrs. Robinson (2017) Jun 27, 2024 / offered again Oct 2024 Sotheby's — Cloud #38 (2010) Oct 30, 2024 — early 'Cloud' series work at auction Crimsons (2022) Mar 20, 2025 — offered at auction 2025 Modern Bistro (acrylic and oil on linen, 23.5 x 19 3/8 in) Jun 2025 Phillips Small-format work; sold below estimate, signaling secondary-market softening for smaller/less-significant works - Works on Paper Record Meta
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- Recent Auction Results 2023 2025
Work Date Auction House Estimate Realized Ritz (2018) November 2023 Phillips New York $40,000-60,000 $133,350 Pieta (2018) May 2023 Phillips New York $30,000-40,000 $120,650 Coil Comprehension (2018) March 2024 Phillips London £10,000-15,000 £20,320 YTBT (2018) May 2024 Phillips New York $50,800 Simper II (2016) September 2024 Phillips New York $27,940 Crimsons (2022) November 2024 Christie's —
- Market Position
- Emerging blue-chip painter with elite gallery + rapidly strengthening institutional validation, but auction record (<$200k) and thin/cooling secondary market keep her in Growth tier. Primary-market demand outpaces secondary liquidity.
- Investment Outlook
- Positive institutional trajectory (Guggenheim acquisition Jan 2026, multiple 2026 museum shows, new London gallery relationship) supports long-term value; near-term secondary prices have softened from 2021–2022 speculative peak. Watch for whether 2025 Hauser & Wirth body of work re-rates the secondary market.
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Institutional Presence
- Exhibitions
- Solo 2025
Year Venue Note Exhibition 2025 Hauser & Wirth, New York (Wooster Street) First solo with Hauser & Wirth; seven massive paintings, 'orgiastic and apocalyptic' Darkling 2025 Company Gallery, New York (Elizabeth Street) Second solo with Company; parallel body of work to Darkling One Thousand Emotions - Solo 2025 Meta
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- Group 2025 2026
Year Dates Venue Note Exhibition 2025-2026 21 Nov 2025–3 May 2026 Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw — The Woman Question, 1550-2025 2026 10 Feb–23 Aug 2026 Mudam Luxembourg Wellmann's work presented from 22 Apr 2026; alongside Anne Imhof, Bernard Frize, Edi Hila, Masaya Chiba, Berthe Lutgen, Monique Becker Seven Paintings – Seven Encounters (Mudam Collection highlights) 2026 21 Jan–21 Mar 2026 Sadie Coles HQ, London (Kingly Street) Showed 'The Pure Present' (2025) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 2026 27 Feb–11 Apr 2026 Hauser & Wirth, New York (Wooster Street) Listed presentation/group involvement — - Biennials and Fairs
Year Event 2019 16th Istanbul Biennale 2024 15th Gwangju Biennale 2024-2025 FOG Design + Art, San Francisco 2025 Frieze Los Angeles - Group 2025 2026 Meta
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- Upcoming Exhibitions
Year Dates Venue 2025-2026 November 21, 2025 - May 3, 2026 Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 2025 February 2025 Frieze Los Angeles - Major Group Exhibitions
Year Venue Location 2021 New Museum New York, NY 2024 15th Gwangju Biennale Gwangju, South Korea 2019 — Istanbul, Turkey 2022 ICA Boston Boston, MA 2022 Palazzo Bollani Venice, Italy 2021 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany 2021 Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles, CA 2021 Columbus Museum of Art Columbus, OH 2019 MoMA Warsaw Warsaw, Poland 2019 Australian Center for Contemporary Art Melbourne, Australia 2019 Palais de Tokyo Paris, France 2022 David Zwirner New York - Solo Institutional Exhibitions
Year Venue Location Exhibition 2023 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, Italy Antipoem 2023 Stavanger Art Museum Norway — 2021 MAC Belfast (Metropolitan Arts Centre) Belfast, UK UnTurning 2021 Pond Society Shanghai, China — 2019 MoCO (Montpellier Contemporain) Montpellier, France — 2025 Hauser & Wirth New York Darkling 2025 Company Gallery New York One Thousand Emotions
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- Museum Collections
Name Tier Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Tier 1 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA Boston) Tier 1 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Tier 1 (national) Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) Tier 1 (national/regional) Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Tier 2 Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway Tier 2 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin Tier 2 (foundation) Philara Collection, Düsseldorf Private foundation Aïshti Foundation, Beirut Private foundation Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH Tier 2 ICA Miami Tier 2 Stavanger Art Museum, Norway Tier 2 X Museum, Beijing Tier 2 (private) Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Tier 1 - Awards and Recognition
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- Prior awards confirmed: Joseph Plaskett Award (2016); RBC Canadian Painting Competition winner (2017). No new prizes identified 2025–2026; recognition now expressed via major institutional acquisitions and biennial/museum inclusion.
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Career & Biography
- Career
- 2025 Update
Year Event 2025 Dual New York solo exhibitions: 'Darkling' at Hauser & Wirth (Wooster Street, 5 Sep–25 Oct 2025) and 'One Thousand Emotions' at Company Gallery — first solo with Hauser & Wirth, second with Company 2025 New body of large-scale work introduced (e.g., 'Death Masks Eternity' 110x216 in, 'Siren', 'Blue to the Blind', 'Greener Than Grass and Almost Dead') 2025-2026 Featured in MoMA Warsaw 'The Woman Question, 1550-2025' (21 Nov 2025–3 May 2026) 2026 Painting 'Sacrum' (2025) acquired by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York — announced Jan 2026, first inclusion in the collection 2026 Included in Sadie Coles HQ, London group show 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' (21 Jan–21 Mar 2026), showing 'The Pure Present' (2025) — indicates emerging London gallery relationship 2026 Featured in Mudam Luxembourg 'Seven Paintings – Seven Encounters' (10 Feb–23 Aug 2026); her Mudam-collection diptych presented from 22 Apr 2026 - 2025 Update Meta
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- Identity
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- Confirmed: Ambera Wellmann, b. 1982, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada; Canadian; lives and works in New York. Gender: female (works engage non-binary/queer themes).
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- Current Location
- New York, NY
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- Artistic Context
- Confirmed practice: 'painterly catachresis' and erasure-driven layering of wet oils/oil stick. 2025 works push apocalyptic/climate-cataclysm register — 'orgiastic and apocalyptic' zones of indeterminacy where boundaries between bodies and worlds dissolve (per Artforum). Continued engagement with art-historical motifs (the Minotaur; nude-bather trope in 'Siren').
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Artistic Profile
- Evolution
- Progression from single isolated porcelain figures to complex multi-figure compositions; from intimate scale to monumental works; from glossy impermeable surfaces to fluid, dissolving forms; increasing complexity of layering and erasure; growing engagement with apocalyptic and environmental themes
- Influences
- Historical: Goya, Bosch, Bruegel, Courbet, Ingres, Velázquez, El Greco, Fuseli, Italian Renaissance, Netherlandish Baroque, Spanish Baroque
- Modern: Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Yves Tanguy
- Literary/Philosophical: Georges Bataille, Simone Weil, William Blake, Julia Kristeva, Sappho (via Anne Carson), Silvia Federici
- Evolution Update
- 2025 'Darkling'/'One Thousand Emotions' bodies of work mark intensification of the Monumental Period: even larger scale (e.g., 'Death Masks Eternity', 110x216 in / ~9x18 ft), explicitly apocalyptic and climate-cataclysm imagery ('nuclear heat', 'the end'), multi-figure orgiastic tableaux, and continued confrontation with art-historical motifs (the Minotaur; the nude bather in 'Siren'). Erasure/wet-oil catachresis persists as core method.
- Themes and Subjects
- Reinforced 2025
- Apocalyptic/climate cataclysm and 'the end'Orgiastic multi-figure entanglementDissolution of boundaries between bodies and worldsQueer/non-binary erotic figurationArt-historical motif reappropriation (Minotaur, nude bather)
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- Key Themes and Subjects
- Amorphous, ambiguously gendered bodies in intimate/erotic scenariosHuman-animal metamorphosisSkeletal forms and death imageryFloral and botanical elementsPorcelain-like translucent bodiesInterior spaces (beds, bathtubs, still lifes)Nocturnal landscapesClimate catastrophe and Anthropocene imageryHistorical and mythological references (Minotaur, Medea, etc.)
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- Movements and Periods
- Distinctive Style Markers
- Translucent, clay-like bodies with 'liquid skin' effectPale pink/flesh tones against dark or chromatic backgroundsAmbiguous anatomical morphing where bodies blend into each otherVisible underpainting and erasure marksTechnical virtuosity combined with deliberate 'incorrectness'Simultaneous beauty and disquietNon-hierarchical composition
- Signature Works Update
- RitzPietaCrimsonsThis Will Always be Beneath Us (auction record)Sacrum (2025, Guggenheim)Siren (2025)Death Masks Eternity (2025)Blue to the Blind (2025)The Pure Present (2025)
- Techniques and Mediums
- Oil (and oil stick) on linen/canvas; alla prima wet-into-wet flesh construction over flat saturated grounds; glazing/scumbling; erasure (electric sander) integral to layered, archaeological surfaces.
- Fingerprint Verification
- Egon fingerprint largely CONFIRMED by current research: oil-on-linen figuration, uncanny/confrontational mood, entangled ambiguous nudes, warm/coral-salmon grounds vs. pale flesh masses, dissolving anatomies, figure-ground tension. 2025 sources reinforce Surrealist + gestural-figurative registers and 'the body/the uncanny' themes.
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Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Recent 2025 2026
Date Publication Subject Feb 2026 Artforum Review of dual NY shows (Hauser & Wirth 'Darkling' + Company 'One Thousand Emotions') Feb 2026 Studio International Review of Sadie Coles HQ 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime', featuring Wellmann's 'The Pure Present' (2025) Sep 2025 Contemporary Art Issue (CAI) Feature on 'Darkling — One Thousand Emotions', framing the twin shows around instability of form, selfhood and historical memory Apr 2026 Wallpaper Coverage of MoMA Warsaw 'The Woman Question, 1550-2025' including Wellmann - Critical Consensus
- Themes
- Female desire and eroticism from feminist perspectiveMetamorphosis and transformationVulnerability and collectivityNon-binary identities and gender fluidityViolence and tendernessHuman-animal hybridityErasure and archaeological layeringClimate catastrophe and apocalyptic imagery
- Strengths
- Technical virtuosity with oil painting reminiscent of Renaissance and Baroque masters
- Sophisticated engagement with art historical canon (Goya, Bosch, Bruegel, Courbet, Ingres, Fuseli, Bacon, Kahlo)
- Innovative approach to queer figuration and non-binary representation
- Unique 'painterly catachresis' methodology
- Ability to create ambiguous, fluid spaces challenging gender binaries
- Mastery of color blending and liquid skin effects
- Comparisons
- Georges Bataille, Simone Weil, William Blake, Julia Kristeva (literary); Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Gustave Courbet, Hieronymus Bosch, Henry Fuseli, 19th-century Romantic painting (visual)
- Key Critical Voices
Name Role Nicolas Bourriaud Curator and critic Sonja-Maria Borstner Curator Jessica Caroline Poet - Recent 2025 2026 Meta
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- Critical Consensus Update
- Reception continues to strengthen: tier-1 editorial coverage (Artforum review) coinciding with Guggenheim acquisition validates the 2025 apocalyptic/climate-cataclysm body of work. Consistent critical framing around dissolution of bodily boundaries, queer/non-binary figuration, and art-historical reappropriation (Minotaur, nude bather).
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- Publications and Media
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- Active coverage across Artforum, Studio International, Wallpaper, Ocula, ArtDaily, Mousse, Hypebeast, CAI (2025–2026). Artist website amberawellmann.com current with 2025 Darkling installation views.
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- Major Publications and Reviews
Title Year Note Author Publication — 2020 Discussed fluid brushstrokes and 'contested terrain' of non-binary identities Sonja-Maria Borstner Frieze — 2020 — — e-flux Criticism Liquid skin, blurred lines: how Ambera Wellmann creates startlingly intimate scenes 2021 — Coco Romack Art Basel — 2019 Featured 'Ritz' as Image of the Day — Elephant Magazine The Hellbound Heart: Monstrous plasticity in the work of Ambera Wellmann 2024 — Natalia Sielewicz CURA Magazine Ambera Wellmann's Big Swing 2020 — Kristian Vistrup Madsen Momus Ambera Wellmann: Darkling—One Thousand Emotions 2025 — — Contemporary Art Issue (CAI) — 2025 Review of dual exhibitions — The Brooklyn Rail Ambera Wellmann Delivers on the Hype With a Two-Gallery Banger 2025 — Johanna Fateman Cultured Magazine — 2023 Coverage of Hauser & Wirth representation announcement — Artsy — 2023 Coverage of 'Collective Impact' collaboration — ARTnews
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Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
Year Note Fair 2024 — FOG Design + Art 2025 Solo booth presentation Frieze Los Angeles 2025 Solo booth presentation by Hauser & Wirth/Company Frieze Los Angeles 2024-2025 — FOG Design + Art, San Francisco - Representation
- Current
Note Gallery Model Since Tier Staged first solo with the artist, 'Darkling', Sep–Oct 2025; continues to present her works ('Request Price & Availability') Hauser & Wirth Joint representation via 'Collective Impact' initiative with Company Gallery December 2023 Tier 1 mega-gallery — Company Gallery, New York Joint representation partnership with Hauser & Wirth 2020 Mid-tier established Included Wellmann in group show 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' (Jan–Mar 2026) and lists/offers her 2025 work 'The Pure Present' with 'Request Price & Availability'; appears on gallery's artist roster on Ocula. Indicates possible expanded European/London representation beyond Hauser & Wirth — verify for exclusivity. Sadie Coles HQ, London — — Tier 1 (London) - Current Meta
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- Gallery Statements
- Hauser Wirth
- Marc Payot: 'Ambera possesses a remarkable combination of skills—she is an astonishing technician, expert in the prerogatives and effects of art historical movements—which she deploys to create visual poetry that's both magnetic and unsettling.'
- Company Gallery
- Sophie Morner: 'A joint partnership will be the strongest way to support her career right now.'
- Representation Model
- Hauser & Wirth's 'Collective Impact' initiative - innovative collaboration between blue-chip gallery and smaller gallery with transparent resource sharing. Second artist in this program (first was Uman with Nicola Vassell Gallery)
- Previous Representation
Period Location Gallery 2018-2023 Berlin, Germany Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler 2018 Brussels/Antwerp Office Baroque 2019 Mexico City Lulu - Previous Representation Note
- Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2018–2023); Office Baroque, Brussels (2018); Lulu, Mexico City (2019).
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- Geographic Reach
- New York + London (Sadie Coles) + European institutions (Mudam, MoMA Warsaw). Gallery-controlled availability; high demand, limited supply of new large-scale works.
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