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Biography - Amy Sillman

Lives and works in New York.

Education

1995 Bard College, NY, MFA, Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship
1979 School of Visual Arts, NY, BFA
1975 New York University
1973 Beloit College

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
2007 Amy Sillman: New Color Etchings, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Amy Sillman - Person, Place or Thing Galerie Carlier
Gebauer, Berlin
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
Amy Sillman: Suitors & Strangers, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2006 Amy Sillman, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2005 The Other One, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Culver City, CA
2004 ICA Ramp project, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2003 I am curious (yellow), Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2002 Letters from Texas, Jaffe-Friede Strauss Galleries, Hopins Center, Dartmouth College
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
2000 Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
1998 Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
1996 Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
1994 Lipton Owens Company, New York, NY
1991 Ledia Flam Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad, India

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS
The Line of Time and the Plane of Now Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Gifts Go in One Direction, Apexart, New York, NY
New Now Next - The Contemporary Blanton Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
The Triumph of Painting - Part 4 The Saatchi Gallery, London (England)
Landscape Confection Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2005 Cut, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Culver City, CA
Post Modern, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Landscape Confection Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2004 “Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker,” Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, The 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
200 Drawings: Annie Herron and Barry Blinderman Select from the Pierogi Flatfile Illinois State University, Normal, Il
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh PA, January 18- March 21; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA, April 11-June 15; University of North Texas, Denton TX, August 25- October 18; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA: January 12- March 13, 2004, Armory Center for the Arts, Old Pasadena, CA, June 27- August 15
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
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
A Long Drawing, Brent Sikkema, New York
2001 Six Contemporary Artists, The Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
I’m Not Sure: Contructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna
Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
718 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
Passing Through, Shaqab College of Design Arts, Doha, Qatar
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 Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboyan, WI
Painting Generation: 1920 –2000, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, Joanne Greenbaum, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Greater New York, P.S.1, New York, NY
Group Show, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
1999 Works on Paper: Mentor, Sillman, Chagoya, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Stroke (selection by Kerry James Marshall), Exit Art, New York, NY
Parallel Lines: Mix and Match, Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York, NY
Compliment (collaboration with Jef Scharf), The Educational Alliance, New York, NY
New etchings and monotypes, Quartet Editions, New York, NY
Cosmogram, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna
Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Turning the Century, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York
Paper View, Fordham University, New York, NY
Drawing Into Paint, Alfred University, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, NY
Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
New Work, Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
1998 The New Surrealism (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
Commitment to Image, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
From Here to Eternity: Painting in the 1990’s, Max Protetch 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 Drawings and Paintings, Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Current Undercurrents: Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
New York Drawers (Pierogi 2000 flat files), Gasworks, UK
Distraction, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
Irredeemable Skeletons, Sillman + Smith, London, UK
Team SHaG (collaborative paintings with David Humphrey and Elliot Green), Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Nu-Glu, Joseph Hellman, New York, NY
1996 Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, NY
1995 Summer Group Show, Stefano Basilico , New York, NY
Wheel of Fortune, Lombard Fried Gallery, New York, NY
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, NY
International Graphics Biennial, Gyor, Hungary
Invitational Exhibition, Anina Nosei, New York, NY
Obsession, Chassie Post Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Arabesque, PPOW, New York, NY
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
Paintings, Trial Balloon Gallery, New York, NY
Mating Instinct, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition, Stux 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 Amy Sillman and Terry Adkins, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
The Painting Project, Part 1, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
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
1990 Amy Sillman/Dina Ghen, Ledis Flam Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Climate ‘89, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY
1988 1988 Real Democracy, Four Walls at White Columns, New York, NY
1987 Artists Books, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1986 Selections 34, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1984 On View: Michael Byron, Lisa Hoke, Amy Sillman, The New Museum, NY
1982 Visionary Landscapes, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY

Awards & Fellowships

2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting, NY
1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship/Residency, Umbria, Italy
Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1995 NEA Fellowship in Painting
1994 NYSCA Project Residencies, Painting Grant, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University
1992 Macdowell Residence, Peterborough, NH
1989 Art Matters Inc., Painting Grant
Yaddo Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY
1988 Kanoria Centre for Art, Artist in Residence, Ahmedabad, India
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Grant, New York, NY
1984 Yaddo Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY
1982 New Jersey State Council for the Arts, Painting Grant, NJ
1981 Ossabaw Island Colony, GA

Selected Bibliography

2007 Molesworth, Helen. Frieze, January-February 2006, p. 134
Halle, Howard. “Art Goes Boom,” Time Out New York, Feb 22-28, p.16
“A Phrase Guide for the Spring Art Season,” German Architectural Digest, December 2006/ January 2007, p. 146
Baker, Kenneth. “Photographer Sugimoto to be all over town,” San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday February 17, 2007
Norden, Linda, Amy Sillman: The Elephant in the Painting, Artforum, February 2007, pp. 238-245
Molesworth, Helen, Looking Back: Solo Shows, Artforum, January 2007, p.134
2006 Selected by the Stars, The Art Newspaper, Saturday-Sunday 14-15 October, 2006, p.6
Ashford, Doug, and Anne Pasternak. Who Cares, d.a.p. ISBN 1-928570-02-X
Richer, Francesca, and Matthew Rosenzweig, ed. No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, d.a.p. ISBN 1-933045-09-4
Maine, Stephan. “Amy Sillman at Sikkema Jenkins,” Art in America, September, 2006
Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Coggins, David. “Amy Sillman,” Modern Painters, July-August 2006
Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, May 1, 2006
Saltz, Jerry. “Gypsy,” The Village Voice, April 24, 2006
Baker, R. C. “Best in Show”, The Village Voice, April 19-25.
Johnson, Ken, “Amy Sillman at Sikkema Jenkins &Co.,” The New York Times, April 28, 2006
Scott, Andrea. “Fresh Direct,” Time Out New York, April 27- May 3, 2006, Issue 552
Cohen, David. “Turn up the Volume,” The New York Sun, April 18, 2006
Bui, Phong. “In Conversation: Amy Sillman with Phong Bui,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 11, 2006
Sicha, Choire. “Sillman, Hesse, walker; How ‘Bout Utah for Some Art?” The New York Observer, March 6, 2006
2005 Israel, Nico. “Candyland,” Vogue, March 2005
Pagel, David. “Depicting the Delights of Spring,” Los Angeles Times, Friday
April 8, p. E26
“Amy Sillman: The Other One,” review, Modern Painters, June 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)
“Open House: Working in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, (Exhibition Catalog) c. 2004 ISBN 0872731502
Installation, Selected by Dana Schutz, Modern Painters, Autumn 2004, p.64
Halle, Howard. “Local Color,” BKLYN, Spring, 2004, p. 29-30
Lovelace, Carey. “How to visit a Studio,” ArtNews, October, pp.178-9
2003 Rubenstein, Raphael. “8 Painters: New Work,” Art in America, November, pp. 0-141
Wei, Lilly. “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema,” Art in America, September, p 128
Maniglia, Julie. “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema,” Artforum, September, pp 226
Mendelsohn, Meredith. “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema,” ARTnews, September, p 133
Kerr, Merrily. “Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema,” Flash Art, July- September, p 118
Bloemink, Barbara and Clark, Vicky A. Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, DAP, New York, ISBN: 1-891024-60-4, p. 172
Halle, Howard. “I am curious (yellow),” Time Out New York, May 15-22 p. 67
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Mellow Yellow,” The New Yorker, May 12, p.14
Glueck, Grace. The New York Times, May 9, 2003, p. E39
Levin, Kim. Voice Choices, The Village Voice, May 9
Cohen, David, Gallery-going, The New York Sun, Thursday May 22 p. 14
2002 Wolfe, Kristin L., “When the “No!” Becomes “Aha!” The School of Visual Arts Alumni Magazine, Summer 2002, pp. 8-9
McDevitt, Siobhan, “Amy Sillman,” Frieze, Issue 68 June July August 2002, pp. 110-111
Crowd vol. 2, issue 1, Summer 2002, ISBN: 0-97133-48-1-1, pp. 18-19
Tatar, Maria, Conger, Bill, and Susina, Jan, “Pixerina/Witcherina,” University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL. c. 2002 ISBN 0-945558- 31-7, pp.54-55
Knight, Christopher, “Sillman Celebrates Struggle and Wonder,” Los Angeles Times, Friday April 19, 2002, p. F26
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. C. 2002. Edizioni Gabriele Mazotta, ISBN 8820215314
Rosenberg, Karen “Traveling Light: Two Artists Explore Topography” The Village Voice, February 5, 2002, p. 57
“Carol Rhodes/Amy Sillman” The New Yorker, January 15, 2002
Richard, Francis “Critic’s Picks” Artforum.com, January 10, 2002
Robinson, Walter “Weekend Update” Artnet.com, January 8, 2002
2001 Gregg, Gail, “Streams of Consciousness,” ARTnews, April 2001, p.120-123
2000 Adelman, Shonagh, Frieze, review, September – October
“Amy Sillman”, The New Yorker, review, April 17
Anton, Saul, Time Out New York, review, April 27 – May 4
Harris, Susan. Art in America, review, October, p. 171
Dailey, Meghan, “Amy Sillman.” Artforum, review, Summer
Humphrey, David, Bomb, review, Summer
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, April 21
1999 Balken, Deborah Bricker. “Drawing in the Present Tense,” exhibition catalog, Parsons School of Design
Decker, Andrew. “Arts Next Wave”, Cigar Aficionado
Goodman, Jonathan. “Medrie Macphee and Amy Sillman”, Contemporary Visual Art
Mellyn, Sean and Jonathan Van Dyke, “I’m Not Here,” exhibition catalog, Susquehanna Art Museum
Young, Geoffrey “Drawing Into Paint” exhibition publication, Alfred University
1998 Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, review
Koestenbaum, Wayne. “The Best of 1998,” Artforum, review
Exhibition catalog, Casey Kaplan Gallery, NY, NY
Harris, Elise. “Sentimental Journey”, Out magazine
Humphrey, David. “New York Fax”, Art Issues
Klein, Richard. Pop Surrealism, exhibition catalog., The Aldrich Museum, Aldrich, CT
Mumford, Steve, Review, review
Nahas, Dominique, Review, review
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Thanks for Painting”, The Village Voice
Volk, Gregory. “Amy Sillman’s New Painting” Amy Sillman,
Yablonsky, Linda. Time Out New York, review
Ziolkowski, Thad. Artforum, review
1997 Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, review
Maldondo, Wasserman & Wasserman. “Distraction”, Exhibition Catalog, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
Paglia, Michael. “Not the Funnies”, Westworld
Smith, Roberta. “Also of Note”, The New York Times
1996 “Ripple Effects: Painting and Language”, New Observations 113
Condon, Elizabeth. New Art Examiner, review
Frankel, David. Artforum, review
Hirsch, Fave. “Crude Oils”, World Art
Kimmelman, Michael. The New York Times, review
Servetar, Stewart. The New York Press, review
Smith, Roberta. “The Gallery Door Open to the Long Denied”, The New York Times
Westfall, Stephen. Art in America, review
1995 Brock, Hovey. “On the Edge: Amy Sillman, Subconscious Riot”, Art News
Camper, Fred. The Chicago Reader, review
Hess, Elizabeth. “Growing Paints”, The Village Voice
King, Elaine E.. The Figure as Fiction, exhibition catalog. The Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
Lipkin, Lawrence and Julie Jaquette, Editors. “Forum of Young Artists”, M/E/A/N/I/N/G 16
Myles, Eileen. Art in America, review
Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting”, Art in America
Schaffner, Ingrid. “Cursive”, Parkett
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, review
Wye, Pamela. “Karmic Kabob” with Amy Sillman, “Six Gouaches”,
1993 Smith, Roberta. “Shades of a Rebirth for Painting”, The New York Times
1991 Cyphers, Peggy. Arts Magazine, review
Hamilton, Carrie. Interview: “Four Walls in Their Own Words”,
King, Elaine E. New Generations: New York, exhibition catalog, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery
WORM Magazine
1989 David, Ester. The Times of India, review
1982 Hales, David. Artexpress, review
Lublin, Mary. Arts Magazine, review
1981 Levin, Kim. “Anarchy in the MC”, The Village Voice