Amanda Bittner is an award-winning painter with an MFA from Boston University and a BFA from Montserrat College of Art. Her work explores the intersection of observation and abstraction. Represented by Bromfield Gallery, her art has been widely exhibited and is held in private collections worldwide. A dedicated educator, Amanda recently completed a residency at Penland School of Craft and shares her creative practice on a popular blog with over 25,000 followers.
Boston University
MFA
2021
Montserrat College of Art
BFA
2014
Bromfield Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
Rocky Neck Art Colony Board of Trustees, Gloucester, MA, 2021-2024
Penland School of Craft Winter Residency, 2023
Solo, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, 2025
Inter / Play, Cove Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2025
Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Unique Prints, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2025
Nano, Pillar Gallery, Concord, NH, 2024
New Faculty Exhibition, Heftler Visiting Artist Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, 2024
To Sail on Solar Wind, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN, 2024
Art Blade Outside Locations at Longwood, Boston, MA, 2024
Faculty Exhibition, Heftler Visiting Artist Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, 2024
Outside In, Over Here Studio, Portland, ME, 2024
Grounding, Cove Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2024
The Lens Through Which We See, Tribeca, NY, 2023
Place, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME, 2023
Growing, Solo, NestBio Bioworks, Cambridge, MA, 2023
Holiday Smalls, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA, 2023
Following Traditions, Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA (Curator), 2023
Drawing and Composition I
Drawing and Composition II
Color Theory and Light
2-Dimensional Design
Foundation Seminar
The Artist`s Sketchbook
Media dn Metaphor: Nature
Painting Out in the Open. (2025, June 11). The Provincetown Independent.
Drysdale, S. (2021, April 16). MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition Highlights. BU Today.
Brown, L. (2019, February 16). Amanda K. Hawkins. The Boston Globe.