Dr Amao is an associate curator for photography at the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou in Paris.

She has co-curated exhibitions such as Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Photography, Weapon of Class (Centre Pompidou, 2018) and Dora Maar (Centre Pompidou, Tate, Getty, 2019) and co-edited the accompanying catalogues. She recently curated and edited the following projects : Charlotte Perriand. Politics of photomontage (Rencontres d’Arles,
2021), Nicole Gravier. Myths and Clichés (Rencontres d’Arles, 2023) and Décadrage colonial.
Anticolonialism, Surrealism, Modern Photography (Centre Pompidou, 2022)

She is the author of Eli Lotar et le mouvement des images (2017) and has contributed to
numerous publications including Bernar Venet. Photographies ; James Barnor. The
Roadmaker (2021) ; Variétés et l’esprit contemporain (2019), Le Spectre du Surréalisme
(2017)