Raised in rural upstate New York, Means has lived and worked in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY for 25 years.
She’s a graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from SUNY Buff alo. Her work is held in the collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US, as well as in London, Madrid and Jerusalem. She is represented in New York City by the Ricco/Maresca Gallery and by
Gallery 339 in Philadelphia, and has been shown at the Yezerski Gallery in Boston.

Amanda Means photographs are currently in a  solo exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History entitled Looking at Leaves, through February 8, 2009.

Ricco/Maresca Gallery will launch the 2008-2009 season with the exhibit Amanda Means: Glass and Light. September 4 - September 27, 2008.