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Amy Sillman SK58, 2018
Amy Sillman
SK58, 2018
Amy Sillman “SK54,” 2018
Amy Sillman
“SK54,” 2018
Amy Sillman, Untitled, 2009, Oil on canvas, 51" x 45"
Amy Sillman
Untitled, 2009
Amy Sillman, Elephant, 2005, Oil on canvas, 78" x 66"
Amy Sillman
Elephant, 2005
Amy Sillman, Cliff II, 2005, Oil on canvas, 72" x 60"
Amy Sillman
Cliff II, 2005
Amy Sillman, Cliff I, 2005, Oil on canvas, 72" x 60"
Amy Sillman
Cliff I, 2005
Amy Sillman, Dog, 2005, Oil on canvas, 84" x 72"
Amy Sillman
Dog, 2005
Amy Sillman, Untitled, 2005, Gouache on collaged paper, 33" x 46"
Amy Sillman
Untitled, 2005
Amy Sillman, Chunky, 2002, Oil on canvas, 60" x 50"
Amy Sillman
Chunky, 2002
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)
2017
“ein Paar,” Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany (Link)
“After Metamorphoses,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY (Link)
2016
“Stuff Change,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
“the ALL-OVER,” Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (Link)
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

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2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
Cateforis, David, Ed., Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Kansas
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2010
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2008
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2007
Fitzpatrick, Tony, "The It Factor, artnet, February 19
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2006
Sillman, Amy, "The Artists Artists: Edvard Munch, Artforum, December
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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"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, "Im 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: "Arts 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 Sillmans 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

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2023
Godfrey, Mark, Katy Siegel, Aria Dean, Laura Owens, Glenn Adamson. “Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection,” Gregory R. Miller & Co, ARTBOOK D.A.P., New York, NY pg 268-287, 2023
2021
DiQuinzio, A., Hejinian, L., and Butler, J. (2021). New time: Art and feminisms in the 21st Century. Pg 198-199. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Sillman, Amy and Vincent Fecteau. " A Summer," Amy Sillman and Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Simmons, William J. "Queer Formalism: The Return," Floating Opera Press, Berlin, Germany
2020
Houette, C., Lancien-Guilberteau, F., Thorel, B. "Amy Sillman. Faux Pas. Selected Writings and Drawings," After 8 Books, Paris, France.
2019
Smith, Valerie and Barry Schwabsky. "Contemporary Painters: Amy Sillman," Lund Humphries: London, UK
2017
Sillman, Amy, Ammer, M., Bois, Y-A., & Schöneich, F., "Amy Sillman: the ALL-OVER," Dancing Foxes Press, Mousse Publishing, and Portikus. Germany
2013
Molesworth, Helen. "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