Grimanesa Amorós

Golden Array was commissioned by Jio World Drive for a cultural center in the Bandra Kurla Complex of Mumbai, India. The light sculpture is Amorós’ largest work at three blocks long and three stories high. The sculpture was inspired by the number of telephone lines found on Indian streets.[5]

Argentum was commissioned by the Bronx Museum for their new location at 80 White Street. The work was created in stainless steel, inspired by the material's historic usage in the building and expansion of Manhattan.

Created as part of the artists’ residence at the Civita Institute in Civita Di Bagnoregio. Cetha is a red light sculpture inspired by the ancient Etruscan connection to the sun.

As part of its 40th anniversary, BRIC commissioned HEDERA, a large light installation for Prospect Park in New York. Amorós said she wanted the sculpture to bring viewers closer to a utopia in which people could “celebrate nature, diversity, creativity, and their shared humanity."[6]

Ocupante Ludwig Museum Koblenz 2016

In 2016 she exhibited the work title "Ocupante" at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz. The Ludwig Museum Koblenz exhibited three works of Amorós’ pieces; two large-scale installations and a video with the Spanish title "ocupante" - meaning occupiers or owners.[7]

Pink Lotus at Peninsula Hotel NY 2016

Golden Waters in Scottsdale, Arizona

Created for Breast Cancer Awareness Month LED lights sculpture installed on the Beaux-Arts façade of The Peninsula New York hotel. The artwork highlights the two Roman goddesses on the facade.[8]

Golden Waters was inspired waterways constructed by the Hohokam tribe in the 13th century.[9] The sculpture is attached to the Soleri bridge, designed by artist, architect and philosopher Paolo Soleri, and runs parallel to the canal channel eighty feet (24 m) west of the bridge.[10] The LED sculpture is a metaphor for the “shifting balance between the city and nature”.[11]

Breathless Maiden Lane at 125 Maiden Lane New York, NY

Breathless Maiden Laneas an installation in the atrium of 125 Maiden Lane, a glass, marble and granite space in New York's Financial District. Amorós used LED lights, diffusive material, and "bubble" sculptures. The LED tubing was an allusion to reeds that grow in northern Peru, and the bubbles meant to suggest the artificial islands of Lake Titicaca.[12] The light installation is a part of VIP The Armory Show (art fair) event.[13]

The Mirror Connection at Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts by Grimanesa Amorós

The Mirror Connection was a light sculpture installation which was opened June 2, 2013 and ran through June 22nd, 2013.[14] It included exposed circuitry and unpredictable light patterns.[15]

Fortuna was a temporary site-specific light installation located at Tabacalera in Madrid, Spain. Commissioned by Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, Fortuna was named after the tobacco brand that was manufactured there in the former factory, La Fragua.[16]

Uros House in Times Square, 2011

In her lighting sculptures, Amorós returns to the theme of the "Uros Islands", which are a series of floating islands in Lake Titicaca bordering Peru and Bolivia. The islands are made from dried totora reeds by the pre-Incan Uros people.[17] When Amorós first visited the islands, she was struck by "the sense of weightlessness and spiritual connectivity" she experienced by walking on them.[18]

The reeds are also used as a structural material to build everything from houses to boats in the Uros culture. Amorós has incorporated the shapes and patterns of these reeds into her lighting sculptures.

Works in the series include: [19]

Uros Island at the 2011 Venice Biennale as part of the collateral project Future Pass

Part of the Times Square Alliance Public Arts Program[20] in collaboration with The Armory Show (art fair)[21] This piece was later on being exhibited at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana[22] Uros House uses the traditional shape and design of the Uros islands houses to mirror the beauty of sea foam.[23]

54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. Part of the Collateral Event FUTURE PASS [24]

Uros Island, an installation by Grimanesa Amorós that was featured at the 54th Venice Biennale's International Art Exhibition.[25] The exhibition traveled to Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan and Today Art Museum in China.[26]

Grimanesa Amorós "Uros" Tribeca Issey Miyake

The bubbles created a tension with the store's exoskeletal designed by Frank Gehry.[27]

At the Chapelle de la Persévérance in Tarascon, France [28]

Racimo on Allure of the Seas in Turku, Finland, 2011

Amorós’ first large-scale lighting sculpture. Commissioned by ICART for Royal Caribbean International to create a lighting sculpture for Allure of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world.

Racimo is inspired by the vineyards the artist grew up near.[29]