Ama BE is an artist-researcher living and working between the United States and West Africa.

Her practice is rooted in African land stewardship, labor and migration ecologies. She works with plant material and natural elements as collaborators, engaging botanical matter shaped by paradoxes of hyper commodification, violence, healing and spirituality. Through these materials, her work explores how the natural world might rescript its own narratives in relation to Black and African bodies. Her process moves with the suppleness of time, memory and the archive, drawing from sculpture, performance, moving image, technology and paper making.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, RAW Material Company, the 15th Dakar Biennale, Ars Electronica, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Miami Art Basel’s Satellite Art Show. She is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Wherewithal Research Grant, and her collaborative project Black Body Radiation: Rescripting Data Bodies received a 2024 S+T+ARTS Prize Africa Award of Distinction.