About Me
✦LIGHTPAINTERR__begining as an Instagram screename and aesthetic framework is a multimedia image project.
Isaiah Mamo is an image-maker and multimedia artist based in Richmond, VA. Their work explores themes of mysticism, Queer futurism, and interpersonal narratives. Drawing from a multi-ethnic Christian upbringing, their work often reappropriates religious imagery, stories, and concepts through a Queer lens. Using alternative photography processes-especially long exposure & cyanotype—their work tells stories rooted in alternative subcultures, Queer nightlife, and the communities and spaces they inhabit.⟢
Mamo is currently a 2024-2025 Virginia Mueusum of Fine Art (VMFA) Visual Arts Fellow and Studio Access Resident at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts).
Mamo’s group exhibitions include Color Theory at Art Works in Richmond, VA (2024), Beyond the White Picket Fence at The Material Room in Richmond, VA (2024), Growing Pains at The Anderson in Richmond, VA (2023), and the Cabell Library Reflections exhibition (2024), receiving the Best-in-Show honor. Additional exhibitions include Dark Art at Art Works in Richmond, VA (2024), Page Bond Gallery’s 2024 Emerge Exhibition at Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, VA (2024), Strange Oasis at The Material Room in Richmond, VA (2024), Coming Into Contact at The Anderson in Richmond, VA (2023), and Black Fidelity at The Anderson in Richmond, VA (2022 & 2024). Mamo received the Amendment Literary and Art Journal Art Award in 2022, and their work in INK Magazine Volume 16, Issue 1 ("Streets") earned 3rd place in the ACP’s Fall 2023 Clips & Clicks Contest (Magazine Page/Spread category).
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Isaiah Mamo is an image-maker and multimedia artist based in Richmond, VA. Their work explores themes of mysticism, Queer futurism, and interpersonal narratives. Drawing from a multi-ethnic Christian upbringing, their work often reappropriates religious imagery, stories, and concepts through a Queer lens. Using alternative photography processes-especially long exposure & cyanotype—their work tells stories rooted in alternative subcultures, Queer nightlife, and the communities and spaces they inhabit.⟢
Mamo is currently a 2024-2025 Virginia Mueusum of Fine Art (VMFA) Visual Arts Fellow and Studio Access Resident at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts).
Mamo’s group exhibitions include Color Theory at Art Works in Richmond, VA (2024), Beyond the White Picket Fence at The Material Room in Richmond, VA (2024), Growing Pains at The Anderson in Richmond, VA (2023), and the Cabell Library Reflections exhibition (2024), receiving the Best-in-Show honor. Additional exhibitions include Dark Art at Art Works in Richmond, VA (2024), Page Bond Gallery’s 2024 Emerge Exhibition at Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, VA (2024), Strange Oasis at The Material Room in Richmond, VA (2024), Coming Into Contact at The Anderson in Richmond, VA (2023), and Black Fidelity at The Anderson in Richmond, VA (2022 & 2024). Mamo received the Amendment Literary and Art Journal Art Award in 2022, and their work in INK Magazine Volume 16, Issue 1 ("Streets") earned 3rd place in the ACP’s Fall 2023 Clips & Clicks Contest (Magazine Page/Spread category).
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