Education

1995           MFA, Bard College, Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship

1979           BFA, School of Visual Art

1975           New York University

1973           Beloit College

Awards and Residencies

2002           Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

2001           John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting, New York, NY

1999           Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

                  Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship

                  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship

                  Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship/Residency, Umbria, Italy

1995           NEA Fellowship in Painting

1993               NYSCA Project Residencies, Painting Grant, Hillwood Art Museum, L.I.U.

1990               Art Matters, Inc., Painting Grant

Solo Exhibitions

2008           Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, Directions: Amy Sillman,

                  Third Person Singular”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

                  Traveling to the Tang Museum, at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

2007           “Suitors and Strangers”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston Art Museum, Houston, TX,

                            curated by Claudia Schmuckli

2006           “Amy Sillman”, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

2005           “The Other One”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2004           ICA Ramp Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

                  “Horizon Line”, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2003           "I am curious (yellow)", Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

2002           "Letters from Texas", Jaffe-Friede Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College,

                  Hanover, New Hampshire

                  "Paintings", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

                  "A Long Drawing", Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY

2001           Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

2000           Brent Sikkema Gallery, NYC

1998               Casey Kaplan, NYC

1996               Casey Kaplan, NYC

1994               Lipton Owens Company, NYC

1991           Ledis Flam Gallery, NYC

1988           Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad, India

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009           “Paint Made Flesh”, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, curated by Mark Scala

2007           “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006           "The Triumph of Painting", Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (in progress)

2005           “CUT”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA.

                  "Post Modern", Greene Naftali, New York, NY

2004           "Dana Schultz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker", Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

                  The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

                  "Open House: Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

                  "Wonderland", Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston MA,

                  "Affect", Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA

                  "True Stories", Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS,

                  "Beginning Here: 101 Ways", SVA Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

 2003             Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation

                  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, January 18- March 21

                  New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA, April 11-June 15

                  University of North Texas, Denton TX, August 25- October 18;

                        Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA: January 12- March 13, 2004

                  "Rendered", Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY June 17- August 1

 2002              "Officina America ReteEmiliaRomagna", Gallaria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy,

                  Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola, Italy

                  Galleria Comunale ex Pescheria, Via Pescheria, Cesena, Italy

                  Palazzo dell’ Arengo, Rimini.  January 24- May 31 2002

                  "A Long Drawing", Brent Sikkema, New York January 5- February 2

2001           "I'm Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century", Susquehana Art Museum,

                               Harrisburg, PA

                  "7181 Brooklyn", Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL

                  "Works on Paper", Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY

                  "The Approximative", Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

                  "Expanding Tradition, Contemporary works influenced by Indian miniatures", Deutsche

                               Bank Gallery, New York, NY

                  "American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture", New York, NY

                  "Pixerina Witcherina", University Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

2000           Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, “The Brooklyn Zoo”, (curated by Gregory Volk & Sabine Russ as

                               part of “Solitude im Museum”)

                  “Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, Joanne Greenbaum – three New York based painters”,

                  James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium,

                  "Greater New York", PS1, Long Island City, NY

1999               "Cosmogram", Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

                  “I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century”, Susquehanna Art

                               Museum, Harrisburg, PA

                  “The Stroke” (selection by Kerry James Marshall), Exit Art, New York, NY

1998           “The New Surrealism”, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, NYC, (with Team SHaG,

                              collaborative painting with David Humphrey and Elliott Green), Pamela

                              Auchincloss Project Space, New York, NY

                  "Cluster Bomb", Morrison-Judd, London

                  "Personal Touch", Art in General, New York, NY

                  “From Here to Eternity: Painting in the 1990’s”, Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY

                  “Pop Surrealism” (with Team SHaG), The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

                  "Codex USA", Entwistle Gallery, London

                  "Drawings", Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY

                  “The Secret Charts”, Jonctions Festival, Brussels, (collaboration with filmmaker Peggy

                  Ahwesh)

 1997              “Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels”, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,

                           Boulder, CO

                  "Art on Paper", The Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina

                  “Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn”, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

                  "Distraction", TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago

                  “Team SHaG” (collaborative with Humphrey and Green), Postmasters Gallery, New York

1996           "Nu-Glu", Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY

                  "Imaginary Beings", Exit Art, New York, NY

1995           Aninna Nosei Gallery, NYC, Invitational Exhibition

1994                      “Arabesque”, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY

                  “Out West and Back East, Work from LA and New York”, Santa Monica Museum,

                  Santa Monica, CA

1993           "Figure as Fiction", Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH

                  "Paintings", Trial Balloon Gallery, New York, NY

                  "Paintings", Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY

                  "1920", Exit Art, New York, NY

1992           “Seven Rooms, Seven Curators (with Four Walls)", P.S.1, Long Island City, NY

1991           “New Generations: New York”, Carnegie Mellon Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA

                  “Lyric: Uses of beauty at the end of the century”, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY

1987           “Artists Books”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

                  "Selections 34", The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1984           “On View: Michael Byron, Lisa Hoke, Amy Sillman”, The New Museum, New York, NY

Reviews

2006           Koestenbaum, Wayne, “The Sexual Awkwardness of God: Sentences for Amy Sillman”,

                           Amy Sillman—Works on Paper, Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York

                  Knight, Christopher, “Adventurers enticed by the landscape”, Los Angeles Times,

                          pp E1, E5, February 28

                  Berwick, Carly, “A Homegrown Contemporary Art Fair on Piers”, New York Sun,

                          pgs 1,18, March 9

2005           Myers, Terry, “Amy Sillman: The Other One”, Modern Painters, June Issue

                  Pagel, David, “Depicting the Delights of Spring”, The Los Angeles Times, E26, April 8

2004           “Horizon Line, Amy Sillman”, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, (Exhibition Catalog)

                  "Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,

                        (Exhibition Catalog)

                  "Open House: Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

                  Halle, Howard, "Local Color", BKLYN,, Spring, 2004, pg.29-30

                  Lovelace, Carey, "How to visit a Studio", ArtNews, October, p.179

                  Roberston, Johny, “Amy Sillman: Horizon Line”, Glass Tire, Texas Visual Art, September

                  Knecht, Lyndsay, “Scattered Imagination”, NT Daily, August 31

                  Horsley, Carter, “Whitney Biennial 2004”, The City Review, March

2003           Rubenstein, Raphael.  “8 Painters: New Work,” Art in America, November, pp. 130-141

                  Wei, Lilly.  “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema”  Art in America, September, p. 128

                  Caniglia, Julie. “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema”   Artforum, September, pp. 226-7

                  Mendelsohn, Meredith. “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema” ARTnews, September, p. 133

                  Kerr, Merrily. “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema” Flash Art, July- September, p. 118

                  Bloemink, Barbara and Clark, Vicky A. Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New

                        Generation, DAP, New York, ISBN: 1-891024-60-4 p. 172

                  Halle, Howard.  “I am curious (yellow)” Time Out New York, May 15-22 p. 67

                  Schjeldahl, Peter.  “Mellow Yellow” The New Yorker, May 12, p.14

                  Viveros-Faune, Christian, "Amy Sillman", New York Press, May 15

                  Glueck, Grace.  The New York Times, May 9, 2003, p. E39

                  Levin, Kim.  Voice Choices, The Village Voice, May 9

                  Cohen, David, Gallery-going, The New York Sun, Thursday May 22, p. 14

                  Saltz, Jerry, "A Stumblebum's Progress", Grace and Gawkiness in Chelsea, Village

                        Voice, May

2002           Wolfe, Kristin L., “When the “No!” Becomes “Aha!”  The School of Visual Arts Alumni

                        Magazine, Summer 2002, pp. 8-9

                  Crowd vol. 2, issue 1, Summer 2002, ISBN: 0-97133-48-1-1, pp. 18-19

                  Tatar, Maria, Conger, Bill, and Susina, Jan, “Pixerina/Witcherina,” University Galleries of

                        Illinois State University, Normal, IL. c. 2002, ISBN 0-945558-31-7, pp.54-55

                  Parkett, 4 page insert, October issue

                  McDevitt, Siobhan, "Amy Sillman at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Frieze,

                        issue  67, June, July, August, pg. 110

                  Knight, Christopher, '"Sillman Celebrates Struggle and Wonder" / Susanne Vielmetter Los

                        Angeles Projects', Los Angeles Times, April 19

                  Eve Wood, "Luminous Vision", artnet, April 26

                  "Officina America", catalog, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy

                  Art Reviews, The New Yorker, January

2001           Gregg, Gail: "Streams of Consciousness", ArtNews, April

                  Dailey, Megan, and Gingeras, Alison, "The Approximative", catalog, Ghislaine Hussenot,

                        Paris

2000              Harris, Susan: Art in America, October

                  Adelman, Shonagh: Frieze, September - October

                  Humphrey, David: “Amy Sillman”, BOMB magazine, Summer

                  Dailey, Meghan: “Amy Sillman”, Artforum, Summer

                  Smith, Roberta: The New York Times, April 21

                  Anton, Saul: Time Out New York, April 27 – May 4

                  “Amy Sillman”, The New Yorker, April 17

                  “Working Proof: Amy Sillman & Jef Scharf, Funny-Guy, Jr.”, Art on Paper

1999           Mellyn, Sean and Jonathan VanDyke, “I’m Not Here” exhibition catalog, Susquehanna Art

                         Museum

                  Young, Geoffrey: “Drawing into Paint” exhibition Publication, Alfred University

                  Balken, Deborah Bricker: “Drawing in the Present Tense”, exhibition catalog, Parsons

                  Decker, Andrew: “Art’s Next Wave”, Cigar Afficianado

                  Goodman, Jonathan: “Medrie Macphee & Amy Sillman”, Contemporary Visual Art

1998               Koestenbaum, Wayne: “The Best of 1998”, Artforum

                  Ziolkowsky, Thad: Artforum

                  Harris, Elise: “Sentimental Journey”, Out magazine

                  Klein, Richard: “Pop surrealism” catalog, The Aldrich Museum, CT

                  Humphrey, David:  “New York Fax”, Art Issues

                  Yablonsky, Linda: Time Out New York

                  Cotter, Holland: The New York Times

                  Schjeldahl, Peter: “Thanks for Painting”, The Village Voice

                  Volk, Gregory: “Regarding Amy Sillman’s new paintings,” exhibition catalog

1997           Cotter, Holland: The New York Times

                  Maldonado, Wasserman and Wasserman, “Distraction” catalog, TBA Exhibition Space,

                         Chicago

1996           Ripple Effects: Painting and Language, New Observations 113

                  Westfall, Stephen: Art in America

                  Hirsch, Faye: “Crude Oil”, World Art

                  Frankl, David: Artforum

                  Kimmelman, Michael: The New York Times

                  Servetar, Stewart: The New York Press

1995           Brock, Hovey: “On the Edge: Amy Sillman, Subconscious Riot”, Art News

                  Schaffner, Ingrid: “Cursive”, Parkett

                  M/E/A/N/I/N/G 16, forum for young artists, edited by Lawrence Lipkin and Julia Jacquette

                  Wye, Pamela: “Karmic Kabob” with Amy Sillman, “Six Gouaches”, Sulfur 35

                  Saltz, Jerry: “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting”, Art in America

                  Myles, Eileen: Art in America

                  Smith, Roberta: The New York Times

                  Hess, Elizabeth: “Growing Paints”, The Village Voice

                  King, Elaine A.: “The Figure as Fiction” catalog, Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art

1993           Smith, Roberta: “Shades of a Rebirth for Painting”, The New York Times

1991           King, Elaine A.: “New Generations: New York” catalog, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery

Teaching and Visiting Artist Experience

2001                       Bard College, Co-Chair in Painting, MFA Program

1996-present           Bard College, Assistant Professor in Painting, undergraduate level

2001                           Resident Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

2000                       Visiting Artist, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

1996-2000               Visiting Critic, Parsons School of Design, MFA / Fine Art program

1998, 1996, 1993     The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist, Painting

1990-1995               Bennington College, Instructor in Painting and Drawing