Rick Amor was born in Frankston, Victoria and studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. Rick has held over 60 solo exhibitions since first exhibiting at Joseph Brown Gallery in 1974. In 1999 he was appointed the official war artist to East Timor by the Australian War Memorial.
Major survey exhibitions of his paintings have been curated by McClelland Gallery in 1990 and 2005 and by Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2005.
In 2001 The Miegunyah Press published Gary Catalano’s biography The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his Art. In 2008 The Beagle Press published the monograph Rick Amor by Gavin Fry.
Rick Amor is represented in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria; Geelong Gallery and State Library of Victoria.