Professional Website: amysuzuki.net
Instagram: @foamymontage
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Current Location: New York, New York
Amy Suzuki (b. 1998) is an artist and designer from Los Angeles, California. With a background in architecture, her work focuses on the relationship between the built environment, land, and socio-economic structures. Currently a graduate student at Columbia University’s GSAPP, Suzuki researches the intersections of art, architecture, materials, energy, and climate. Her creative interests span sedimentation, atmospheric rivers, spatial and climate justice, breakfast foods, and little white dogs. Through her practice, she investigates how landscapes formed by natural and human forces embody both environmental resilience and societal impact.
Featured Artwork
Title: Entangled Shorelines
Medium: Phragmites australis, found materials
Dimensions: 1′ x 1′ x 7′
Year: 2024
Price: $6,000
Description:
Inspired by the resilient ecology of Jamaica Bay’s salt marshes, Entangled Shorelines explores the hybrid landscapes formed by cordgrass and marine debris. Utilizing harvested Phragmites australis and found plastics transformed through traditional cordage techniques, Suzuki constructs an installation that reflects the blurred line between nature and human intervention. The work draws attention to issues of shoreline erosion, invasive species, and plastic pollution, offering an alternative narrative of ecological entanglement and coexistence.
Artistic Vision
Amy Suzuki’s work reflects a deep commitment to examining how materials, ecologies, and human interventions shape the landscapes around us. Through installations that blend environmental science, architecture, and art, she seeks to create new ways of thinking about resilience, adaptation, and our collective future alongside non-human species.
Exhibition Information
May 2025: Echoes of the Earth – Environmental Art
Curated by: Mekhi Deleon
Theme: Exploring the intersection of art and environmentalism, advocating for the planet through eco-art and other mediums.
Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 8, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1 | 6 PM – 8 PM
(for accessibility: full transcript below)
A landscape, unraveled and rewoven.
In entangled shorelines, Amy Suzuki brings together harvested phragmites and found debris, binding them into a fragile, hybrid form. What appears simple—a bundle of grass and thread—reveals a deeper ecology: one shaped by tides, resilience, and intervention.
Notice the textures—natural reeds clashing against synthetic lines, bright plastics braided into the organic. Each material speaks of disruption and survival, of coastlines both eroding and adapting.
Inspired by Jamaica Bay’s salt marshes, Suzuki’s work is an act of mending—imperfect, necessary, ongoing. It invites us to see shorelines not as fixed borders, but as shifting negotiations between nature and human touch.
entangled shorelines offers no final answers. Instead, it holds a quiet tension: between resilience and ruin, memory and possibility.