2004 Master of Fine Arts, Photography (Honors), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1993 Bachelor and Master of Science (Diplom), Mathematics, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

2023 Saltonstall residency, Ithaca, NY
2023 NYSCA Artist Grant
2023 Faculty Development Fund Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2022 Grant in Photography, Puffin Foundation
2022 Individual Small Artist Grant, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)
2021 Faculty Development Fund Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2021 German Peace Prize for Photography (Feliz Schoeller Photo Award 2021), shortlist
2021 Finalist, Hellerau Portrait Competition, Dresden, Germany
2020 Global Peace Award, shortlist. Organized by UNESCO and Austrian parliament, among others
2020 Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida
2019 Critical Refugee Studies Collective Artist Grant, University of California
2019 Sabbatical Leave, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2018 Puffin Foundation, Grant in Photography
2018 Faculty Development Fund Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2018 Europe Travel Grant, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2017 MacDowell Colony residency (unable to attend)
2017 Travel and Study Grant, Jerome Foundation
2015 Faculty Development Fund Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2014 Faculty Development Fund Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2013 Nominee for the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award
2012 Research Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2012 Foundation Grant, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2011 Resident Artist, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2011 Research Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2010 Resident Fellow, Spanish Academy in Rome
2010 Grant "Propuestas", Fundación Arte y Derecho, Madrid
2010 Grant for the Support of Spanish Emerging Artists, Spanish Ministry of Culture'
2009 Artist in residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2009 Commendation, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
2008 John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund Grant
2008 Conneticut State University Research Grant
2007 Grant for Emerging Artists, Spanish Ministry of Culture'
2006 Professional Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
2006 Grant for Emerging Artists, Spanish Ministry of Culture
2006 Resident Artist, Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny, France
2005 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 26), Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2005 Second Prize, Salón Nacional de las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires
2004 Workspace residency, Lower Manhattan Culture Council (LMCC), New York
2003 Honorable Mention, Premio Joven de Artes Plásticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2003 Finalist for best portfolio, III Concurso de Fotografía El Culturel
2002 Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design

2022 Archipelago, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2012 Lo primero es la niña, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana
2012 Lo primero es la niña, Casa de Iberoamérica, Holguín, Cuba
2011 Yolanda del Amo, Pascal Gallery, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah
2010 Archipelago, Light Work Main Gallery, Syracuse, New York (catalog)
2007 Archipelago, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York
2006 Yolanda del Amo, Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College , Bronxville, NY

2024 The Distance Between., Giertz Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign, IL
2023 Spolia al centro del Tempietto, Halfhouse, Barcelona
2021 Refuge – Refugee, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
2021 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, Berrie Center Galleries, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2021 Portrait Competition Hellerau 2021, Museum of Science and Technology, Dresden (catalog)
2020 Trust, Helsinki Photo Festival: Cultural Center Stoa, National Museum of Finland and other venues
2019 OFF Spring, 21c Kansas City, MO
2019 The Space Between, Julie Saul Gallery, New York City
2018 OFF Spring, 21c Lexington, KY
2017 Nasty Women, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2017 OFF Spring, 21c Oklahoma City, OK
2016 Visual Arts Faculty Show, Ramapo College of New Jersey (catalog)
2016 OFF Spring, 21c Durham, North Carolina
2015 "I Didn't Ask for it to be Over, but then again, I Never Asked for it to Begin" by Ghost of a Dream at"AndI Feel Fine," the Re-Institute, Millerton, NY
2014 The Female Gaze: A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19th to the 21th Centuries, Marshall Center, Haverford College, Pennsylvania
2014 VII Premio de Fotografía Fundación AENA, Palacio de Fernán Nuñez, Madrid
2014 The Three Disciplines (curated by Stuart Pilkington), online exhibition
2013 The Kids Are All Right, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (catalog)
2013 40 years/40 artists, Light Work Main Gallery, Syracuse, New York
2013 All the World's a Frame, Harn Museum of Art, Univesity of Florida, Gainesville
2013 Making Pictures of People (curated by Andy Adams), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
2013 40 years/40 artists, Palitz Gallery a the Syracuse Univesity Lubin House, New York
2013 The Kids are All Right, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (catalog)
2012 The Kids Are All Right, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog)
2012 Certamen de Artes Plásticas el Brocense, Cáceres, Spain
2012 Visual Arts Faculty Show, Kresge and Pascal Galleries, Ramapo College
2011 Scope Art Fair NY presented by Light Work
2010 All my Lovin; Fotofestival Lodz, Poland (catalog)
2010 Transit, Real Academia de España, Rome
2010 Accademie delle Accademie, Complesso Municipale Santo Espirito, Roma (catalog)
2010 20 eventi, centro Culturale, Toffia, Italy (catalog)
2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC (catalog)
2009 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009, National Portrait Gallery, London (catalog)
2009 El Ojo de tu Vecino (curated by Rafeal Díaz Casas), Instituto Cervantes, New York (catalog)
2009 XVII Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la UNED, Espacio "Cruz Novillo", Cuenca, Spain (catalog)
2009 Domesticated (curated by Al Miner), Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
2008 Descubrimientos, Photospaña, Consejeria de Cultura y Turismo, Madrid (catalog)
2008 Art Faculty Exhibition, Artspace, New Haven
2007 About This, The School of the International Center of Photography, New York
2007 Salón Nacional de las Artes Visuales, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires
2007 Concurso de Artes Plásticas Gobierno de Cantabria, Casa de la Cultura, Torrelavega, Spain
2007 Premio Platt, Galería Isidro Miranda, Buenos Aires (catalog)
2006 BAC! 06, Festival de Arte Contemporáneo Barcelona (catalog)
2006 Echo, Dam, Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Family Album, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
2006 RISD NYC Biennial (curated by Robert Storr), Exit Art, New York (catalog)
2006 Ties & Tides, LocalProject, Long Island City, NY
2006 Concurso Purificación García 2006, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (catalog)
2006 Alone with Eveybody, Hudson Frankln Gallery, New York
2006 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 26), Bronx Museum of Art, New York (catalog)
2005 LIX Salón Nacional de Rosario, Museo Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina (catalog)
2005 Premio Argentino de Artes Visuales, Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires (catalog)
2005 Faculty Biennial, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
2005 Salón Nacional de las Artes Visuales, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (catalog)
2005 Crushed Crushes, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Home Sweet Home, Rongio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Contemporary Vernacular, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2004 Remember my Name, Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 Girl Art Now, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2004 Annual Graduate Show, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2004 On/Off, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2004 Oculus Photofolio, ASA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM and Spark gallery, Syracuse (catalog)
2003 Premio Joven Artes Plásticas, Centro Cultural de Moncloa Madrid (catalog)
2003 Concurso de Fotografía Purificación García, Jardín Botánico, Spain (catalog)
2003 Oculus Photofolio, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
2003 New England Photographers, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2003 Memory and Artifact, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence
2002 Introduction, Red Eye Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
2002 Buenos Aires Vida Cotidiana, traveling show through South East Asia (catalog)

Archipelago. Monograph. Kettler Verlag, Dortmund, Germany. 2025 (forthcoming)

Spolia al centro del Tempietto. Exhibition catalog. Halfhouse, Barcelona, 2023

Sesé, Marta. “Ni tan lejos, ni tan cerca.” EXIT magazine, issue 84: Home, Sweet, Home, Nov. 2021

Jansen, Sofie. “L’Archipel des Sentiments.” CitizenK magazine, Oct. 2021

Portrait Competition Hellerau 2021. Exhibition Catalog. Museum of Science and Technology, Dresden, Feb. 2021

“Yolanda del Amo: Refuge.” Curious Photo Blog, 25 Jan. 2021

Fraction Magazine issue 141 (special Critical Mass Issue). December, 2020.

Kesberger, Andreas. "Hassliebe Technik: Format ohne Rückversicherung," Photonews [Hamburg, Germany] September, 2019

Luscombe, Belinda. “Why are we all having so little Sex,” TIME.com, 26 Oct. 2018

PhotoDot magazine (spread), Korea, Jun. 2017

Foundry, Online Poetry magazine, Issue # 4, 2017

“Habitare.” Landscape Stories. Issue 26, 2017

The Female Gaze: A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19th to the 21st Centuries. Exhibition Catalog. Haverford

College, Pennsylvania. 2014

VII Premio de Fotografía Fundación Aena. Exhibition Catalog. Madrid. 2014   

40 years/40 artists. 2013. Exhibition Catalog. Light Work, Syracuse, New York. 2014

Kuan, Deborah. “La Tortuga y el Zorro,” Buenos Aires review, 2013

Beattie, Ann. “Implied Portraits,” Exhibition Catalog to The Kids are All Right, 2012     

All my Lovin’. Exhibition Catalog. Fotofestival Lodz, Poland. 2010     

Yolanda del Amo, Contact Sheet no. 159. Light Work, Monograph. 2010          

Contact Sheet no. 157. Light Work, Essay by Hannah Frieser p-56-61. Syracuse, New York. 2009

Accademie delle Accademie. Exhibition Catalog. Complesso Municipale Santo Espirito, Roma. 2010        

20 eventi. Exhibition Catalog. Centro Culturale, Toffia, Italy. 2010      

Wahnsinnig Reich. Text by Andreas Beck and W. Dieter Enkelmann. Context Verlag, Augsburg. 2010

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009. Exhibition Catalog. National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. 2009

El Ojo de tu Vecino. Exhibition Catalog. New York, Essay by Rafael Díaz Casas. 2009   

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Exhibition Catalog: London. 2009

XVIII Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la UNED. Exhibition Catalog. Cuenca, Spain. 2009

Descubrimientos, Photoespaña. Exhibition Catalog. Madrid. 2008       

Debora Kuan, “All the Silences Between Us.” Exhibition Catalog to Archipelago (solo show). New York, NY, 2007

Salón Nacional de las Artes Visuales 2007. Exhibition Catalog. Buenos Aires. 2007       

Premio Platt. Exhibition Catalog. Buenos Aires. 2007           

“Forum: Yolanda del Amo.” Camera Austria. Graz, Austria. 2006, pp. 50–51

BAC! 06. Exhibition Catalog. Festival de Arte Contemporáneo Barcelona. 2006

RISD NYC Biennial. Exhibition Catalog. Exit Art, New York, NY. 2006           

Concurso Purificación García 2006. Exhibition Catalog. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. 2006   

AIM 26. Exhibition Catalog. Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. Essay by Erin Salazar and Lydia Yee. 2006. p. 3.

LIX Salón Nacional de Rosario. Exhibition Catalog. Museo Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina. 2005

Premio Argentino de Artes Visuales. Exhibition Catalog. Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires. 2005

Salón Nacional de las Artes Visuales 2005. Exhibition Catalog. Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires. 2005         

Oculus Photofolio. Exhibition Catalog. Albuquerque, NM and Syracuse, NY. 2004

Premio Joven Artes Plásticas. Exhibition Catalog. Centro Cultural de Moncloa, Madrid. 2003      

Concurso de Fotografía Purificación García. Exhibition Catalog. Jardín Botánico, Madrid. 2003 

Buenos Aires Vida Cotidiana. Exhibition Catalog. Traveling show through South East Asia. 2002

“The Space Between at Julie Saul Gallery” GalleryIntell, 2019

Yu, Ashley. “Art Out: The Space Between,” Musée, 17 April 2019.

Révy, Suzanne. “The Space Between,” What Will you Remember? 10 April 2019

Rushworth, Katherine. “Light Work exhibit considers the silence, distance of relationships,” Syracuse Post Standard, 14 Nov. 2010.

“Southern Profiles: A Certain Kind of Quietness–Del Amo’s Photographs of Silence and Space”,Southern Life,

New Haven, December 2009

O’ Sullivan, Michael. “Portraits not just a moment in time,” The Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2009

Collado, Adriana. “Nueva York vista con otros ojos”, El Setinel, 29 Aug. 2009

Bauch, Chelsea. “Recap: Men and the Domestic Interior at Transformer”, Decider, 4 June 2009

Dawson, Jessica. “When a Man’s Home Is His Castle to Care For”, The Washington Post, 22 May 2009

Judkis, Maura. “Al Miner curates “Domesticated” at Transformer Gallery, Washington City Paper, 20 May 2009

Nordmann, Monika. “Museum takes AIM”, The Highbridge Horizon, April 2006, p.3

“Dos galerías de Nueva York y Madrid acogen un intercambio de artistas”, La Vanguardia [Barcelona], 26 Sept. 2006

Quigley, Ryan. “Hitting the mark”, NY Arts, Vol. 2 # 5/6. 2006, p. 55

Vignoli, Beatriz. “Cuando el arte se añora a si mismo”, Rosario 12 [Argentina], 10 Dec 2006

Feeney, Mark. “The Extra in the Ordinary,” The Boston Globe, 19 Nov. 2004 p. C21

Millis, Christopher. “Treasures Among Dross,” The Boston Phoenix, 24 Nov. 2004, p. 24

McNatt, Glenn. “Here, the Setting is More Worthy than the Stone”, The Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2004, p. 3D

Cullum, Jerry. “Reality with a twist,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 12 Aug. 2004, p. 13

Rodriguez, Johnette. “Women’s Work,” The Providence Phoenix, 16 June 2004, p.8

2024 Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois (virtual)
2023 Center for Photography at Woodstock, “Meet the Artist” series
2022 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon (canceled due to COVID)
2021 East Tennessee State University (virtual artist talk)
2021 Northern Illinois University Art Museum: Panel discussion with artist Eddy López and Prof. Heide Fehrenbach (virtual)
2019 Stanford University
2019 UC Merced, Critical Refugee Studies Collective Conference
2017 School of the International Center of Photography
2014 Concordia University, Montreal
2014 Purchase College, State University of New York
2014 Librería Alma Mater, Havana
2012 College of Staten Island, City University of New York
2012 Unión de Escritores y Artistas (UNEAC), Havana, Cuba
2011 Ramapo College of New Jersey
2010 Terra Foundation for American Art, International Symposium "Geographie of Art: Sur le Terrain", Paris
2010 Cornell University, Rome
2007 Southern CT State University
2006 Sarah Lawrence College
2003 Universidad Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires

21c Museums Hotel Art Collection
University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Canada
Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
Fundación Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Colección Gobierno de Cantabria, Spain
Light Work, Syracuse, New York
Real Academia de España en Roma

2015-today Ramapo College of New Jersey, Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media
2010-2015 Ramapo College of New Jersey, Assiatant Professor of Photography and Digital Media
2007-2010 Southern CT State University, Assistant Professor of Photography, Tenure Track appointment
2006 State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase Collage, Adjunct Professor
2005-2007 International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, Part-Time Faculty
2004-2008 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, Critic