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Amy Myers

Education

1965
Born in Austin, TX
1999
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Painting and Drawing
1995
B.F.A., The Kansas City Art Institute, MO, Painting and Drawing

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
"Amy Myers," Flinn Gallery Greenwich Library, CT (forthcoming)
2023
"Solo," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
"The Gift," Colorado Springs Art Center at The Colorado Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
"The Virtual Underground," Mark Moore Fine Arts ARTSY Show
2022
"Amy Myers: Ultraviolet Underground," Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles, Artsy Show
"Amy Myers," Elaine L. Jacob Museum, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"A Hydromelodic Event," Malin Gallery, Aspen, CO
"The Gift," Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York NY
2023
"Symmetries of the Sublime," The Core Club, curated by Space2Curate, New York NY
2020
"Painting," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019
"Daughter Universes," Malin Gallery, New York, NY
"The Opera Inside the Atom," The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
2015
"Spiral Light," Valerie McKenzie Gallery, New York, NY
2014
"Atomic Cosmologies," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013
"Monumental Drawings," Sweeney Art Museum, California State University, Riverside, CA
2011
Manhattan Beach Cultural Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2010
"Amy Myers On-Line," Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Feminine Space," Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2009
"Partner to Quark," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2008
"Spin Zero," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Show-Off, Paris, France
2006
"The Particle Zoo," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"The Opera Inside the Atom," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2004
"Fearful Symmetry," Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA
"Fearful Symmetry," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"The Particle Zoo," Suzanne Vielmeer Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"String Series: The Handheld Universe," Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2002
"Heterotic String Series," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2001
"Amy Myers," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
"New Drawings," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
"The Virtual Underground," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
"Culver@10," Sweeney Art Museum, Culver Center for Arts, Selections from The Permanent Collection
2019
"Points of Light in a Nocturnal World," 7 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
2017
"Gothic," Lehman Gallery of Art, Bronx, NY
2016
"Something Else," The Painting Center, New York, NY
"No Toxic Factor," On-Line Booking, New York, NY
2015
"Painting Now," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Selections for the Permanent Collection," Sweeney Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2014
The Last Brucenial, New York, NY
Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
"The Way of Drawing," Gallery Momo, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
"Looking Forward," Randall Sco Projects, Washington, DC
2012
"Abstraction," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Oppenheimer Collection Celebration, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2010
"Inflection," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2009
"Ten Year Anniversary Show," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Selections from Permanent Collection," Greenville County Museum, SC
2008
"Five Year Anniversary Show," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Something New," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Art on Paper," Drawings, Morris Art Museum, Morristown, NJ Biennial Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2007
"VS. Featuring Amy Myers, Carlos Maer, John Newsom and Arnulf Rainer," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Zeichen und Zeichnung," Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria "Summer Eyes / Summarize," Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Size Maers: Drawings from the MFA Houston Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"New Directions in American Drawing," Columbus Museum, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
"Sirens," Thom Andriola / New Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
"Homecoming," JCC Gallery of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
"Realm of the Spirit," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Reverence," Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
"Technocraft," Chaffee College Museum of Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2005
"Brides of Frankenstein," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"Stars and Stripes," Biagioi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2004
"New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct," Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
"5th Anniversary Exhibition," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Summer Painting and Drawing," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
"Black/White," Danese Gallery, New York, NY Online, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
"Under Glass: Works on Paper 1960-2000," Anthony Grant, Inc., New York, NY
"Art at the Edge of Science," Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2002
"Big and Beautiful," H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
"Collecting: A Community Dialogue," Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
"The Accelerated Grimace," Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings and Works on Paper," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Leers, New York, NY
"Cyborg Manifesto," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Blurry Lines," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2000
"Society of Contemporary Art," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999
"New Space/New Work," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
"Works on Paper," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
"Perspective: Kansas City," Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, KS

Awards & Honors

2019
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2018
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2014
Ellen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Studio Residency and Award
MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2008
ART-in-the-Loop, Mural Reproduction, Kansas City, MO
Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Visiting Artist, Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France
2004
Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2002
National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Leers, New York, NY
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant, New York, NY

Bibliography

2020
Gibson, Jeff. “Amy Myers, Daughter Universe.” ARTFORUM, January 3
2019
Stewart, Nan. “Amy Myers, Daughter Universe.” Editors’ Picks, ARTNET, November 4
2015
Haynes, Clarity. “Drawing a Universe of Cosmic Sexuality.” Hyperallergic, October 23
Mermall, Madeline. “Amy Myers, Light as Spiral.” Artefuse, September 19
2014
Benedei, Alejo. “Amy Myers: Atomic Cosmologies.” Glasstire, June 25
Granberry, Michael. “Gallery Spotlight.” The Dallas Morning News, June 12
Johnson, Kimberley. “An Artistic Lesson in Physics.” Inland Empire Weekly, October 23
Stallings, Tyler. “Amy Myers’ Monumental Drawings.” KCET ARTBOUND, October 9
Koester, Megan. “Different Particles and Indeterminate States: New Monumental Drawings by Amy Myers at UCR Artsbloc.” FABRIK, October 7
2011
Self, Dana. “A Show of Local Strength.” Kansas City Star, January 29
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2009
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Halperen, Max. Art Papers, February, p. 58.
2008
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2000
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1999
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