Amina Ross is an undisciplined creator and educator. They work across mediums, shaping spaces that celebrate darkness, physicality and love through language, video installations, sculpture, and curatorial engagements.
Amina studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited work at venues throughout the United States. Amina has spoken on panels and taught workshops at a wide range of events and venues including Wayne State University, the College Arts Association Conference, the Alphawood Foundation, and Women’s Center for Creative Work among others. Amina was a part of Chicago Artist Coalition’s BOLT Residency in 2015-2016. They co-run a black and femme centering space in the Little Village, Chicago, called F4F.
Additionally, Amina runs the ongoing workshop and participatory performance series “Beauty Breaks”.
Amina is a co-founder of 3rd Language (2011-2015), queer arts collective.
In their work as an educator within institutional settings, Amina is co-lead artist of Teen Creative Agency at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and a part-time lecturer at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Currently, Amina is exhibiting new work in their solo exhibition “Daisy Chain” at Prairie (Chicago, IL), alongside a new participatory webcam performance project entitled 2:22 on Acretv.org.