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BioEden (Amber) Imrie (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator rooted in the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas. Raised off-the-grid and largely homeschooled, Eden left formal education at sixteen and went on to earn a BA with honors from UC Berkeley, receiving the department's Excellence in Sculpture award. They later earned their MFA from Stanford University, where they were awarded the Anita Squires Fowler Award in Photography and the Murphy Cadogan Award for hybrid practice.
Eden’s work explores queer rural belonging through photography, textiles, sculpture, video, and language. Their installations often center water, erosion, and devotional craft as metaphors for transformation and intimacy with land. Their work has been exhibited across the U.S. and Europe and is held in the permanent collections of the Bates Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. In 2025, Eden was an artist-in-residence at ACRE and returned as a curatorial fellow with Independent Curators International (ICI) through the Mississippi Basin Project. Recent solo exhibitions include the year my heart turned to water (2025) at Midnight Gallery in Bentonville, AR and the forthcoming From Where the Current Slows (2026) heading to LHUCA in Lubbock, Texas. A founding member of The Alternative Art School, Amber has taught and mentored artists internationally since 2020. They have served as juror for numerous exhibitions and fellowships, and curated shows including Transfigure, Chosen Families, and others. They are currently co-authoring a commissioned text on Art in Rural America with Kate Bowen for ICI. In 2023, Amber received both the Creative Exchange Fund Spectra Grant and the Artist 360 Grant, and was invited to speak at EXPO Chicago and the ArtBo International Art Fair in Bogotá, Colombia. Eden lives and works in Northwest Arkansas with their two dogs, continuing to build a poetic, material practice that honors queer resilience, community memory, and the entangled rhythms of land and life. (Eden updated their name in 2026. Thank you for adjusting.) |