Manter was born and raised in the State of Maine and has been living and working between New York City and Seal Cove, Maine. She is a photographer and painter and has a BFA and an MFA from University of New Mexico and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work is based on the elements of weather, the environment and landscape. Recently, Dieu Donne Press is publishing a limited edition book, collaborating with poet Stuart Kestenbaum, titled Water Prayers. Upcoming exhibitions include “Huellas,” a one-person exhibition at the College of the Atlantic, “Arboreal” the Central Park Arsenal Gallery and a travel group exhibition titled “American Abstract Artist International” at the Aragonese Castle of Otranto and to Berlin, Germany. Recent exhibitions and projects include: “Desire Lines, ” Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine; “Weatherly,” Snug Harbor Newhouse Gallery, New York; “Road Work,” DM Contemporary Gallery, New York; “Natural Routes” Aucosico Gallery, Portland, Maine; and “Drawings” at Sideshow Gallery, New York. Manter’s projects include an invitational artist-in-residence at the Princeton University Atelier, founded and directed by author Toni Morrison. She has created a site-specific installation at the Saint Peter’s Cathedral Citicorp Building, New York. Her work is in numerous collections including Whitney Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Fogg Museum, Boston, among others. She recently was a recipient of a Verrazano Foundation Grant, a David Garner Project Fund, Princeton University, two New York Foundation for the Arts Grants and an Ariana Foundation Grant, among others. She was a nominee for the Tiffany Foundation and the Smithsonian Art Fellowship. Manter founded and directed The Mount Desert Symposium in the Arts; LandEscapes, which was a yearly national interdisciplinary arts and science program held in Maine until 2006. Inducted into the American Abstract Artist Association, she has been exhibiting widely with this invitational organization since 1996. Recent Fellowships include the MacDowell Colony, Virginia center for Creative Arts, The Heliker- Lahotan Foundation and an upcoming Fellowship at the Fundacion Valparaiso (TBA). She has taught extensively at Princeton University, Parsons School of Design and currently is the Drawing Coordinator for the Cal-Arts Department at Stevens Institute of Art and Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Manter has traveled in Central America, South America and Europe. And has working knowledge of the spanish language.