# Amy Sillman URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/amy-sillman/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Perpetual Portrait](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/perpetual-portrait.md): July 8 — August 18, 2023 · Gallery I & II & III & IV · Artists: Laura Aguilar, Sadie Benning, Ellen Berkenblit, Sara Berman, Kwesi Botchway, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Nicole Eisenman, Esther Pearl Watson, Genevieve Gaignard, Karl Haendel, Lavaughan Jenkins, Raffi Kalenderian, The Estate of Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Amy Sillman, John Sonsini, Nicola Tyson, Hannah van Bart, Monique van Genderen - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 1](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-year-anniversary-exhibition.md): July 18 — August 29, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Genevieve Gaignard, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Raffi Kalenderian, Ruben Ochoa, Stanya Kahn, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Esther Pearl Watson, The Estate of Pope.L, Deborah Roberts, The Estate of Steve Roden, Stefanie Schneider, Amy Sillman, Arlene Shechet, John Sonsini, Monique van Genderen, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson - [Amy Sillman: The Nervous System](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/amy-sillman-the-nervous-system.md): May 22 — August 3, 2019 · The Arts Club of Chicago · Artists: Amy Sillman - [Amy Sillman: Landline](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/amy-sillman-landline.md): September 28, 2018 — January 6, 2019 · Camden Arts Centre · Artists: Amy Sillman - [Inherent Structure](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/inherent-structure.md): May 18 — August 12, 2018 · Wexner Center for the Arts · Artists: Angel Otero, Amy Sillman - [Amy Sillman: 2014 Whitney Biennial](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2014-03-amy-sillman-2014-whitney-biennial.md): March 7 — May 25, 2014 · 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY · Artists: Amy Sillman - [Amy Sillman: Amy Sillman: one lump or two](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-10-amy-sillman-amy-sillman-one-lump-or-two.md): October 3, 2013 — January 5, 2014 · Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, Boston, MA · Artists: Amy Sillman - [Summer Group Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-08-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-andrea-bowers-summer-group-show.md): August 7 — 30, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Jane Callister, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Jutta Koether, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillian, Martin McMurray, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Ruben Ochoa, Amy Sillman, Joel Tauber, Tâm Văn Trần - [Inaugural Group Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/culver-city-inaugural-group-exhibition.md): January 23 — March 6, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Jedediah Caesar, Olga Koumoundouros, Wangechi Mutu, Ruben Ochoa, The Estate of Steve Roden, Amy Sillman, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson - [Amy Sillman](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-11-amy-sillman-amy-sillman.md): November 6 — December 13, 2008 · Artists: Amy Sillman - [Cut](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-10-laylah-ali-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-cut.md): October 15 — December 3, 2005 · Artists: Laylah Ali, Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Mark Bradford, Bjorn Copeland, Sean Duffy, Les Leveque, Wangechi Mutu, Amy Sillman, Mathilde ter Heijne - [Amy Sillman: The Other One](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-04-amy-sillman-the-other-one.md): April 2 — May 7, 2005 · Artists: Amy Sillman - [Amy Sillman: Paintings](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2002-03-amy-sillman-paintings.md): March 23 — April 20, 2002 · Artists: Amy Sillman ## Biography Born in Michigan Lives and works in New York, NY 1995 MFA, Bard College, Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1979 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1975 New York University, New York, NY 1973 Beloit College, Beloit, WI **Selected Exhibitions** 2023 "Amy Sillman: Temporary Objects," Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK 2021 "ROCK PAPER SCISSORS," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany 2020 "Twice Removed," Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY 2019 "Amy Sillman: The Nervous System," The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2018-2019 "Landline," Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 2018 "Mostly Drawing," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY ([Link](http://www.gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/14941/#&panel1-1)) 2017 “ein Paar,” Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany ([Link](http://www.capitainpetzel.de/exhibitions/ein-paar/)) “After Metamorphoses,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY ([Link](http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/9/upcoming/1459/amy-sillman/)) 2016 “Stuff Change,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY “the ALL-OVER,” Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany ([Link](http://www.portikus.de/en/exhibitions/201_the_all_over)) 2015 Yes or No, KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria 2013-2014 "one lump or two", curated by Helen Molesworth, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; traveling to the Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2013 "either or and," Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom A shape that listens: new drawings, Campoli Presti, Paris, France 2012 "Draft of a Voice-over for Split Screen Video Loop", castillo/corrales, Paris, France 2011 Thumb Cinema, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany 2009 zum Gegenstand, Carlier / Gebauer, Berlin, Germany Amy Sillman, Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York, NY 2008 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA "Directions: Amy Sillman, Third Person Singular, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, Taveling to the Tang Museum, at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 2007 Person, place or thing, Carlier / Gebauer, Berlin "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 **Group Exhibitions** 2023 "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2022-2023 "Put It This Way: (Re)Visions Of The Hirshhorn Collection," Hishhorn Museum, Washington D.C. 2021 "Spatial Awareness, Drawings from The Permanente Collection," Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, TX 2020 "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY 2019-2020 "Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989," Grey Art Gallery, New York University and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York; travelled to: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 2019 "Artists I Steal From," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK "Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Meditations on the Mediterranean Sea," Chiesa delle Penitenti Fondamenta Cannaregio, Venice, Italy "Notebook," 56 Henry, New York, NY "Amy Sillman," The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2018-2019 "Terres de Femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France 2018 "Parallels and Peripheries," ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, FL 2018-2019 "Personal Space," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 2018 "The Mechanics of Fluids," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY "Inherent Structures," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2017 “Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “Gray Matters,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2016 “A Shape That Stands Up,” curated by Jamillah James and organized by Hammer Museum, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA “Image Tech: Making Pictures in a Post Digital Age,” TCNJ Art Gallery at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ “Nice Weather,” curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York, NY “The Collapse of the Mindís Ordering System Leads to Some Rather Wanton Developments,” curated by Alexi Kukuljevic, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany “Life of Forms,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY “Tales of Ratiocination,” Campoli Presti, London, UK “Autobiography,” The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden 2015 “The Guston Effect,” Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany “48 Drawings,” Spike Berlin, Berlin, Germany “BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II – Brooklyn As The Painting Capital of the World,” Life on Mars Gallery, New York, NY “The Radiants,” Bortolami X Green Tea Gallery, New York, NY The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY "America is Hard to See," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Making Traces," Tate Modern, London, UK "The Guston Effect," Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA "Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany 2014 "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World," curated by Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Live and let die," Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK Whitney Biennial, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (forthcoming) "More Material," Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY 2013 "Blues For Smoke", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2012 "Painting in Space," Luhring Augustine, New York, NY 2011 "A Painting Show," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY "Absence Presence: Contemporary Abstraction," Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 2010 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA "New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009 ", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2009 "Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, curated by Mark Scala 2008-2009 "Prospect.1 New Orleans, International Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA 2008 "Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool, (November 9, 2008) 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 2003-2004 "Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation," Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA; travelled to: New Orleans Contempory Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 2003 "Rendered", Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY June 17- August 1 2002 "Officina America ReteEmiliaRomagna", Gallaria dArte Moderna, Bologna, Italy "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 "Im 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 1990s, 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 **Teaching Experience** 1996-present Bard College, Assistant Professor in Painting, undergraduate level 2001 Bard College, Co-Chair in Painting, MFA Program Resident Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine 2000 Visiting Artist, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 1998 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist, Painting 1996-2000 Visiting Critic, Parsons School of Design, MFA / Fine Art program 1996 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist, Painting 1993 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist, Painting 1990-1995 Bennington College, Instructor in Painting and Drawing **Curatorial Projects** 2019 "The Shape of Shape: Artist’s Choice—Amy Sillman," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1990-1995 Co-organizer/curator, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY **Bibliography** 2023 Durbin, Andrew and Amy Sillman. "Your iPhone Doesn’t Understand Amy Sillman," Frieze, April 27 ([Link](https://www.frieze.com/article/amy-sillman-interview-2023)) Luke, Ben. "A Brush with....Amy Sillman," The Art Newspaper, February 22 ([Link](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/22/a-brush-with-amy-sillman-podcast)) 2022 Sutton, Kate. "Sweet Dreaming," Artforum, April 22 ([Link](https://www.artforum.com/diary/kate-sutton-at-the-59th-venice-biennale-88407)) 2021 Sillman, Amy. "Cezanne Drawing," Artfourm, December Loos, Ted. "Museum Shows With Stories to Tell," New York Times, May 21 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/arts/museum-listings.html?searchResultPosition=1)) Noor, Tausif. "Amy Sillman’s Philosophy of Doubt," Frieze Magazine, February 23 2020 Tuchman, Phyllis. "ArtSeen: Amy Sillman, Twice Removed," The Brooklyn Rail, November Soboleva, Ksenia M. "The Visceral Intimacy of Amy Sillman’s Drawings," Hyperallergic, October 22 Als, Hilton. 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Notes on Queer Formalism: Amy Sillman, Nicole Eisenman, Leidy Churchman, and Elise Adibi," Big, Red, and Shiny, December 16 ([Link](http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?section=article&issue=150&article=2013-11-13-081432510247154195)) Galvez, Paul, "A Lump, A Disco Ball, An Ugly Mountain: On Amy SIllman at the ICA, Boston," Texte zur Kunst, No. 92, December Neal, Patrick, Painting Beyond Belief: Amy Sillman, Peter Doig, and Jordan Kantor Discuss Chagall, Hyperallergic, November 28 Bowen, Jared, Art World Favorite Amy Sillmans First-Ever Retrospective at the ICA Boston, WGBH, November 7 Garza, Evan, "Critics' Picks: Amy Sillman 'one lump or two' at the ICA/ Boston", Artforum.com, November 1 ([Link](http://www.artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks43701)) Green, Tyler, The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Amy Sillman, Artinfo, October 24 Smee, Sebastian, Critics museum picks from around New England, The Boston Globe, October 19 Smee, Sebastian, Witty and bright, Amy Sillmans work is freshly urgent, The Boston Globe, October 5 Triplett, Leah, "Amy Sillman: one lump or two", Big, Red & Shiny, October 3 Zhong, Fan, "Don't Miss: Amy Sillman, the painter's survey at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art," W Magazine, October 2 Cook, Greg, "Amy Sillman: 'I Do Have A Cheerful Vibe, But ... 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"Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two," Prestel Publishing, Munich, Germany **Awards, Grants and Fellowships** 2019 Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY 2002 Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 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 **Public Collections** Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Tate Modern, London, UK Whitney Museum, New York, NY