# Amy Myers URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/amy-myers/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Amy Myers: The HandHeld Universe](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/amy-myers-the-handheld-universe.md): November 18, 2023 — January 27, 2024 · Gallery III · Artists: Amy Myers ## Biography 1965 b. Austin, TX Lives and works in New York, NY 1999 MFA, Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1995 BFA, The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO **Selected Solo Exhibitions** 2024 "Solo," Flinn Gallery Greenwich Library, CT (forthcoming) 2023 "The HandHeld Universe," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "Symmetries of the Sublime," The Core Club, curated by Space2Curate, New York, NY "The Gift," Colorado Springs Art Center at The Colorado Museum, Colorado Springs, CO "The Virtual Underground," Mark Moore Fine Arts ARTSY Show, Los Angeles, CA 2022 "Amy Myers," Elaine L. Jacob Museum, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI "A Hydromelodic Event," Malin Gallery, Aspen, CO "Amy Myers: Ultraviolet Underground," Mark Moore Fine Art, Artsy Show, Los Angeles, CA "The Gift," Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 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 Show-O, Paris, France "ART-in-the-Loop," Mural Reproduction, Kansas City, MO 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," Susanne Vielmetter 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 "Centric 60," University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA "New Drawings," Rhona Homan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 "The Virtual Underground," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA **Selected Group Exhibitions** 2023 "The Gift," Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, CO 2022 "Now Here," Malin Gallery, Miami, FL "Hurry Slowly," Selections from Permanent Collection, The Kleefeld Museum of Contemporary Art, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 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 Brucennial," New York, NY Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO "The Way of Drawing," Gallery Momo, Tokyo, Japan 2013 "Looking Forward," Randall Scott 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 "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 "Zeichen und Zeichnung," Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria "Summer Eyes / Summarize," Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO "Size Matters: 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 "Reverence," Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY "Technocraft," Chaee College Museum of Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 2005 "Brides of Frankenstein," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA "Stars and Stripes," Biagiotti 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 Homan 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 Homan Gallery, Chicago, IL "National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Letters, 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 **Bibliography** 2023 Mulson, Jennifer. “Colorado Springs installation uses stars to reflect on loss, grief.” The Gazette, May 5 Mason, Kara. “Star Power: Immersive Experience The Gift Blends Art with Astrophysics.” Southwest Contemporary, March 27 Hulting, Aidan. “District 11 student artwork on display at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.” KOAA NEWS55 Southern Colorado, March 21 Yager, Brett. “Fine Arts Center features student artists in collaborative exhibit.” FOX21 Local News, March 21 2022 McCoy, Anne. “Dimensions of Science and Spirit, A Conversation.” The Brooklyn Rail, March 18 2020 Gibson, Je. “Amy Myers, Daughter Universe.” ARTFORUM, January 3 2019 Stewart, Nan. “Amy Myers, Daughter Universe.” Editors’ Picks, ARTNET, Nov 4 2015 Haynes, Clarity. “Drawing a Universe of Cosmic Sexuality.” Hyperallergic, October 23 Mermall, Madeline. “Amy Myers, Light as Spiral.” Artefuse, September 19 2014 Johnson, Kimberley. “An Artistic Lesson in Physics.” Inland Empire Weekly, October 23 Stallings, Tyler. “Amy Myers’ Monumental Drawings.” KCET ARTBOUND, October 9 Koester, Megan. “Dierent Particles and Indeterminate States: New Monumental Drawings by Amy Myers at UCR Artsblock.” FABRIK, October 7 Benedetti, Alejo. “Amy Myers: Atomic Cosmologies.” Glasstire, June 25 Granberry, Michael. “Gallery Spotlight.” The Dallas Morning News, June 12 2011 Wypolski, Bondo. Easy Reader, Manhattan Beach, November 18 Self, Dana. “A Show of Local Strength.” Kansas City Star, January 29 2009 Taylor, Alex. “Reviews: New York, Amy Myers.” Artnews, Jan., p. 118. Halperen, Max. Art Papers, Feb., p. 58. 2008 Thorson, Alice. “Downtown ARTwall To Get Liquid.” The Kansas City Star, Kansascity.com, June 17 2007 Wicks, Stephen C. "Amy Myers, New Directions in American Drawing." Columbus, Georgia, Columbus Museum, 2001, pp. 33-34. “Homecoming.” The Kansas City Star, February 2006 Thorson, Alice. “Local Artists Go Make Good.” The Kansas City Star, November 26 2005 Hobbs, Robert. "Amy Myers, The Opera Inside the Atom." Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. 2004 Sobiezeck, Robert. "Fearful Symmetry, Amy Myers." Claremont: Montgomery Art Center, Pomona College. Fischl, Eric. “Artists on Artists: Eric Fischl on Amy Myers.” BOMB, Spring pp. 60-61. 2003 Cotter, Holland. “Uptown, Too, Has Heat and Light Aplenty.” The New York Times, May 30, pp. e31, e35. 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Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco E-mail.” Art Issues, March- April, pp. 32-33. **Awards & Grants** 2024 Maison Dora Maar Fellowship, Menerbes, France 2023 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Creativity Conference Resident, Sea Island, GA (Joyce Carol Oates) 2019 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2018 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY 2008 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 Letters, New York, NY The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant, New York, NY **Public Collections** American Express Corporate Collection Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY The Kleefeld Museum of Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan UT Perez Art Museum, PAMM, Miami FL Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY