With a Doctorate in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona (where she currently teaches), she also holds a Master of Art in Media Studies from the New School University in New York. She has been awarded the Deutsche Bank International Prize and the Gold Medal from the Italian Government for her career, among others. The artist works and lives between Barcelona and Mallorca.
She has exhibited individually and collectively on more than 200 occasions since 2000, in galleries, museums, and international fairs. Her work is found in renowned private and public collections such as MoMA, the Guggenheim, the West Collection (Chelsea Museum of Contemporary Art-NY), MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome), Taylers Museum (Haarlem-Holland), Artium, Deutsche Bank of Berlin, Fundación Loewe, Col·lecció Testimoni de la Caixa, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Casal Solleric, Es Baluard Museu d’art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, among others.
Amparo Sard began her career piercing small white papers. Self-portraits in surrealistic situations where she expressed herself with a very personal language and technique. She continued evolving in her research by enlarging papers and creating huge white fiberglass installations or aluminum sculptures. Today, Sard uses all kinds of materials: resin paintings, polyurethane, videos, and recently recycled plastic, being also involved in the conservation of the planet and trying to raise awareness. In her work, the white color represents what we see from the eyes outwards, a linear reading of our environment. Black, deformations, or exorbitant dimensions show other kinds of totally opposite images. They allow what really moves us, what we perceive from the eyes inwards, what provokes effective emotions, the tension that awakens our intuition.
Piercing helps me to connect everything, breaking the old idea of the image, but also a representation of this going through inside, and hint at its most sinister meaning. To create tension, there has to be an initial image, the one that reminds us how it should be, projected by our memory; and a final image, presented to us in the artwork.
