Ama Amoedo

Ama Amoedo has spent much of her life looking at art, living with it, and helping artists make more of it. In 2026, she is also asking audiences to look at her.

This September, Amoedo opened Entre dos lunas at Ungallery in Buenos Aires’ La Boca neighborhood, an exhibition that reaches into a part of her life she had largely kept private: her years as a competitive figure skater. Across 15 paintings, a two-channel video and a publication bringing together poetry and personal rituals, she connects the physical memory of skating with the way she paints today. Both demand movement, balance and, above all, the willingness to put her body into the work.

The exhibition arrives during a particularly meaningful year. Amoedo turns 50 in 2026, her collection marks its 30th anniversary, and Fundación Ama Amoedo celebrates five years of supporting the Latin American art ecosystem.

Art, however, entered her story much earlier. Amoedo was three when Argentine master Antonio Berni painted her portrait, a work now housed in Colección AMALITA, the Puerto Madero museum created by her grandmother, celebrated collector Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. At 19, Amoedo received a painting by Gachi Hasper from her brother for her birthday. It became the beginning of a collection that today numbers approximately 800 works, with a strong foundation in Argentine art and an expanding Latin American scope.

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Her influence has extended well beyond collecting. Amoedo was the first woman president of arteBA and serves on advisory committees connected to the Americas Society, Centre Pompidou, and MoMA. In 2024, the city of Buenos Aires named her a Distinguished Personality of Culture.

Through Fundación Ama Amoedo, established in Uruguay in 2021 and expanded with an organization in Argentina in 2025, that commitment has become increasingly institutional. Its programs include the FAARA residency at Casa Neptuna in José Ignacio, Uruguay, alongside grants and other initiatives supporting artists and the broader cultural ecosystem. The foundation’s 2026 grant call offered ten $10,000 awards and drew 3,306 applications from projects across 73 countries.

Yet Entre dos lunas makes this milestone year feel especially personal. Amoedo is no longer present only as the collector choosing the work, the patron funding it, or the leader creating opportunities around it. She is standing on the other side of that relationship, putting her own memories and paintings before an audience.

After three decades devoted to art, is still finding new ways to participate in its story.