Amy Finkbeiner

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Born: Little Rock, Arkansas
Lives: Brooklyn, New York

Education
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2001
MFA, School of Visual Arts, 2001
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, 1990

Solo Exhibitions
2009
"Secrets are impossible here," Wilson Hall, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
"Leave Me, Desire," Drawing Installation, Invisible NYC, New York

Group Exhibitions
2009
"Fresh Asphalt," Gallery Satori, New York
"Plenty of Room on the Couch," Eastern District, Brooklyn, New York


2008
122 For $122, PS122 Gallery, New York
"Supernatural," curated by Dan Tague, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans
"And So on..." Blog project curated by Dan Halm
Kentucky Derby Party Art Auction and Benefit, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York

2007
"Jouissance," Autoversion, Ltd., New York
"Stories Real and Vividly Imagined," curated by Patrik Qvist, Galleri Niklas Belenius,
Stockholm, Sweden
Group Show for "transFigures," by Lear deBessonet, Women’s Project, New York
Kentucky Derby Party Art Auction and Benefit, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York

2006
"Paradise Lost," curated by Dan Tague, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
Vault Series, curated by Joan Backes, New Bedford Art Museum, Massachusetts
Kentucky Derby Party and Art Auction Benefit, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
Site 92, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2005
"Extraordinary Visions," curated by Katherine Chan, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
"16 Rooms," curated by Eun Young Choi, Junho Lee, and Herb Tam,
Hall Street, Brooklyn, NY
"Ladylike," Naked Duck Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Project Diversity, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2004
Winter Auction, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York
"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Concerning the Spiritual in Art),"
curated by Michael Wilson, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York
Supersalon, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
"Manifesto: Art Without Consensus," Asterisk Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Anthology of Art: Art and Theory in Dialogue, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2003
"Gifted," curated by Lilah Freedland, Rare Plus Project Room, Rare, New York
Contemporary Perspectives, curated by Jeremy Mangan, HOME Projects, LIC, New York
D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, New York
Rally for Triple Candie, Triple Candie, New York
"Notebook," Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

2002
Laurier: New York Salon, Vertu, New York
"Reactions," Exit Art, New York
Anthology of Art: Art and Theory in Dialogue Internet Project, organized by Jochen Gerz

2001
"Wedding, Reception, and Subsequent Annulment," with Dan Schank, Skowhegan, Maine
"Synthetic Dystopia," curated by Loren Madsen and David Row,
Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Special Projects, curated by Elizabeth Burke and Abby Messitte,
Visual Arts Gallery, New York

2000
"Seasonal Musings," Eastside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York
"Snapshot," Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Maryland
"Fantasy Worlds," Eastside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Website Exhibition

1997
"Generations," curated by Joan Backes, New Bedford Art Museum, Massachusetts

1996
Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Works on Paper, Arkansas Artists’ Registry, Little Rock
Arkansas Women Artists, Repertory Theatre Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas

1995
New Works, with Brad Cushman, Gallery 26, Little Rock, Arkansas

1993
Summer Show, Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

1992
Self-Portrait Salon, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

1990
Solo Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute Gallery, Missouri

Bibliography
Trieschmann, Werner. High Profile Feature. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 8 February, 2009: 1D, 8D.

Ekholm, Rikard. “Evanoff fascinerar med ofrivillig naivism, Svenska Dagbladet, 6 October, 2007.

Pantzar, Robert. Stories Real and Vividly Imagined. Kulturstan.se, 23 September, 2007.

Oates, Leah. "Responding to Location in DUMBO." NY Arts Magazine, July/August 2006, Vol. 11, No. 7/8.

Pacheco, Richard. “Following a Familial Thread.” The Standard-Times 8 May, 1997: 1B.

Parker, Suzi. “Works in Progress.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 28 January, 1996: 10D.

Grants/Awards
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, 2006
Residency, Carmelite Monastery of Indianapolis, 2004
School of Visual Arts Matching Fellowship for Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture, 2001

Projects
Juror, Interior Space II, Nelson Fine Arts Gallery, Lexington, Virginia, 2007
Artists’ Talk, Project Diversity, Tabla Rasa Gallery, 2005
ArtSlam, Asian Arts Centre, New York, 2003
Drawing Class Series, Youthnet Services Summer Art Program, Kansas City, 1991

Publications
Generations Exhibition Catalogue, forward by Joan Backes, New Bedford Art Museum, 1997.

Cohen, David. “Seed Project,” ArtWorld Digest, Brooklyn, New York, 2007.

Cohen, David. "unambiguous," ArtWorld Digest, Brooklyn, New York, 2006.

Ladylike: A Collection of Writings on Feminism and Feminist Art, forward by Amy Talluto Donelson and Amy Finkbeiner, Naked Duck Gallery, 2005.

Gerz, Jochen. Anthology of Art: Art and Theory in Dialogue. Germany: Dumont; France: Actes Sud, 2004.