Amy Sillman

Page 1 | Biography

Lives: and works in New York

Education
1973 Beloit College

1975 New York University

1979 School of Visual Arts, NY, BFA

Solo Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions


2009 Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, curated by Mark Scala

2007 Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS, April 19-August 5

2007 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, January 18- February 24

2007 Suitors & Strangers, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

2007 Person, Place or Thing, carlier | gebauer, Berlin (solo)

2006 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY (solo)

2006 Gifts Go in One Direction, Apexart, New York, NY, July 5-August 12

2006 The Other One, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Culver City, CA (solo)

2006 "The Triumph of Painting", Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2005 The Other One, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA (solo)

2005 Cut, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Culver City, CA, October 15- December 3

2005 Post Modern, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, January 14- February 19

2004 Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, September 7- October 2

2004 ICA Ramp project, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

2004 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2004 Affect, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA

2004 True Stories, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS

2003 I am curious (yellow), Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (solo)

2003 Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA (traveled to New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA; University of North Texas, Denton TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Armory Center for the Arts, Old Pasadena, CA)

2002 Letters from Texas, Jaffe-Friede Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH

2002 Officina America ReteEmiliaRomagna, Gallaria d�Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola, Italy; Galleria Comunale ex Pescheria, Via Pescheria, Cesena, Italy; Palazzo dell� Arengo, Rimini

2002 Paintings, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

2001 I�m Not Sure: Contructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Musuem, Harrisburg, PA

2001 Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)

2000 Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (solo)

2000 Greater New York, P.S.1, New York, NY

1999 I�m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

1999 Brooklyn, New Work, Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH

1998 Pop Surrealism (with Team SHaG), The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

1998 Casey Kaplan, New York, NY (solo)

1997 Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1996 Casey Kaplan, New York, NY (solo)

1996 Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, NY

1995 Summer Group Show, Stefano Basilico, New York, NY

1995 Wheel of Fortune, Lombard Fried Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, NY

1995 International Graphics Biennial, Gyor, Hungary

1995 Invitational Exhibition, Anina Nosei, New York, NY

1995 Obsession, Chassie Post Gallery, New York, NY

1994 Lipton Owens Company, New York, NY (solo)

1994 Out West and Back East New Work from LA and NY, Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1993 Figure as Fiction, Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH

1993 Paintings, Trial Balloon Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Mating Instinct, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Invitational Exhibition, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Paintings, Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY

1993 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

1991 Ledia Flam Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1988 Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad, India (solo)


Bibliography

2007 Norden, Linda, Amy Sillman: The Elephant in the Painting, Artforum, February 2007, pp. 238-245

2007 Molesworth, Helen, Looking Back: Solo Shows, Artforum, January 2007, p.134

2007 Baker, Kenneth. �Photographer Sugimoto to be all over town,� San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday February 17, 2007

2007 Halle, Howard. �Art Goes Boom,� Time Out New York, Feb 22-28, p.16

2007 Hinrichsen, Jens: �Die Liebe ist eine Baustelle,� in: Der Tagesspiegel, 17.03.2007.

2007 Hamed, Sherin: �Shut your eyes and see,� in: Artnet Magazine, http://www.artnet.de/magazine/reviews/hamed/hamed03-19-07.asp, 19.03.2007.

2006 Who Cares, c. 2006 Creativetime ISBN: 1-928570-02X

2006 Selected by the Stars, The Art Newspaper, Saturday-Sunday 14-15 October, 2006, p.6

2006 Ashford, Doug, and Anne Pasternak. Who Cares, d.a.p. ISBN 1-928570-02-X

2006 Richer, Francesca, and Matthew Rosenzweig, ed. No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, d.a.p. ISBN 1-933045-09-4.

2006 Maine, Stephan. �Amy Sillman at Sikkema Jenkins,� Art in America, September, 2006.

2006 Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.

2005 Israel, Nico. �Candyland,� Vogue, March 2005

2005 Pagel, David. �Depicting the Delights of Spring,� Los Angeles Times, Friday April 8, p. E26

2005 �Amy Sillman: The Other One,� review, Modern Painters, June 2005

2005 Spaid, Sue. �Landscape Confection,� ArtUS, Issue 9, July-September p. 44

2004 �Whitney Biennial,� The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 11- June 13 (Exhibition Catalog)

2004 �Open House: Working in Brooklyn,� Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, (Exhibition Catalog) c. 2004 ISBN 0872731502

2004 Installation, Selected by Dana Schutz, Modern Painters, Autumn 2004, p.64

2004 Halle, Howard. �Local Color,� BKLYN, Spring, 2004, p. 29-30

2004 Lovelace, Carey. �How to visit a Studio,� ArtNews, October, pp.178-9

2004 Modern Art, Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Daniel Wheeler, Third Edition, c. Pearson/Prentice Hall 2004, ISBN 0-13-189565-6



Grants/Awards
Grants / Residency

1988 Kanoria Centre for Art, Artist in Residence, Ahmedabad, India

1989 Art Matters Inc., Painting Grant

1989 Yaddo Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY

1992 Macdowell Residence, Peterborough, NH

1995 Bard College, NY, MFA, Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship

1995 NEA Fellowship in Painting

1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY

1999 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship/Residency, Umbria, Italy

1999 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship

1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting, New York, NY