Amanda Hughen has exhibited her solo and collaborative work in museums and galleries internationally, including the Asian Art Museum (CA), the Berkeley Art Museum (CA), Danese (NY), Knoedler & Co. (NY), and White Columns (NY). She has been an artist-in-residence at the DeYoung Museum of Art (CA), the Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Oxbow (CA), and Yaddo (NY). Hughen did undergraduate work at California College of the Arts (SF) and received an MFA from UC Berkeley, where she was awarded a full Block Grant Fellowship and the Eisner Prize. Her 10+year collaboration with the artist Jennifer Starkweather (Hughen/Starkweather) has been commissioned to create a permanent artwork on the glass exterior of the Union Square Central Subway station, which will open in 2017. Hughen has served on the advisory boards of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Southern Exposure. She lives and works in San Francisco.