Associate Professor of Art / Photo Digital Media

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7239
• Email: ydelamo@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-203
• Office Hours: Mon and Thurs, 1:00-2:00 PM and 6:00-6:30 PM
• Personal Website

Courses Offered:

ARTS 206 - BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY

ARTS 207 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

ARTS 328 - PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

ARTS 315 - MEDIUM AND LARGE FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY

ARTS 318 - INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

ARTS 324 - DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

ARTS 390 – TOPICS: THE BUSINESS OF ART

ARTS 406 - ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY

Education:

2004    Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI

Master of Fine Arts, Photography (Honors)

1993    Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Mathematics

Recent Scholarly and Professional Accomplishments:

Exhibitions

2017     Nasty Women, the Institute Library, New Haven

2016     Faculty Exhibition, Kresge and Pascal Galleries, Ramapo College of New Jersey

2015     Part of “I didn’t Ask for it to be Over, but then again, I Never Asked for it to Begin” by Ghost

of a Dream at And I feel Fine, The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY

2014     The Female Gaze: A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19^th to the 21^st Centuries,

Marshall Fine Arts Center, Haverford College, Pennsylvania

2013     The Kids are All Right, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

40 years/40 artists, Light Work Main Gallery, Syracuse, New York

Making Pictures of People (curated by Andy Adams), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 All the World’s a Frame (curated by Carol McCusker), Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville

2012     Lo primero es la niña, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba (solo)

             The Kids are All Right, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

             Certamen de Artes Plásticas el Brocense, Cáceres, Spain

2011     Scope Art fair, Light Work, New York

             Yolanda del Amo, Pascal Gallery, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah (solo)

2010     All my Lovin’, Fotofestival Lodz, Poland

Transit, Real Academia de España, Rome

Archipelago, Light Work Main Gallery, Syracuse, New York

2009     Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.

El Ojo de tu Vecino (curated by Rafael Díaz Casas), Instituto Cervantes, New York

Domesticated (curated by Al Miner), Transformer Gallery, Washington D.C.

2008     Descubrimientos, Photoespaña, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, Madrid

Art Faculty Exhibiton, ArtSpace, New Haven

2007      About this, The School at the International Center of Photography, New York

Salón Nacional de las Artes Visuales, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Archipelago, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York (solo)

Recognitions and Awards 

2017       Travel and Study Grant, Jerome Foundation

2015       Faculty Development Fund Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey

2014       Faculty Development Fund Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey

2013       Nominated for the Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards

2012       Separately Budgeted Research Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey

2011       Resident Artist, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Separately Budgeted Research Award, Ramapo College of New Jersey

2010       Resident Fellow, Spanish Academy in Rome

Grant “Propuestas”, Fundación Arte y Derecho, Madrid

Grant for the Support of Spanish Emerging Artists, Spanish Ministry of Culture

2009       Light Work Artist in Residence, Syracuse, NY

Commendation, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery,

Washington DC

2008       John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund Grant

Connecticut State University Research Grant, New Haven

2007       Spanish Ministry of Culture Grant for Emerging Artists , Madrid

2006       Professional Development Fund Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence¬¬

Grant for the Support of Spanish Emerging Artists, Spanish Ministry of Culture

Resident Artist, Terra Foundation for American Art, in Giverny, France

2005       Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Second Prize, Salón Nacional de las Artes Visuales 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Visiting Scholar, New York University, NY

2004       Artist in residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Council (LMCC) New York , NY,