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Ricky Amadour
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Ricky Amadour (born 1995), known professionally as Amadour, is an American conceptual artist based in New York City. Their primary media are painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and video installation. Career Ricky Amadour obtained a Bachelor in Visual Art from the University of California, Los Angeles. While working towards their BFA, they worked under photographer David LaChapelle, and studied with Barbara Kruger, Mary Kelly, and Lari Pittman. In 2017, Amadour created a viral ball-pit gown for Girl Crush on the 59th Annual Grammy Awards Red Carpet. Amadour produces sculptural headdresses, videos on non-binary gender identity, and large-scale paintings in abstracted forms. As a musician Amadour has performed with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. Selected performances *2019 All That Glitters is Gold, Art Basel Hong Kong *2019 Rhapsody in Blue, Art Central Hong Kong Awards *2016 John Baldessari Family Foundation Award, University of California, Los Angeles *2018 UCLA Hillel Israel Leadership Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles 
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