Amy Sillman

1995 MFA, Bard College, Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship

 

1979 BFA, School of Visual Art

 

1975 New York University

 

1973 Beloit College

2013

“The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl”, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, and travelling to: ICA Boston, Boston, MA (April 15 - September 5, 2011) Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (March 18 – June 10, 2012) Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (July 14 – October 7, 2012)

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

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

Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation

 

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, January 18- March 21

 

New Orleans Contempor Arts Center, New Orleans LA, April 11-June 15ary

 

University of North Texas, Denton TX, August 25- October 18;

 

Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA: January 12- March 13, 2004

 

"Rendered", Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY June 17- August 1

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. January 24- May 31 2002

 

"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

 

"I’m 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 1990’s”, 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

2012

Roben, Scott, “Dance/Draw: The Institute of Contemporary Art”, Frieze, April

 

Caranicas, Devon, “Thumb Cinema: Amy Sillman at Capitan Petzel”, Berlin Art Journal, January 12

2010

“New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

 

Rosenberg, Karen, “Boldness Comes With Manifesto”, The New York Times, May 10 (link)

 

Burton, Johanna, “Amy Sillman, Sikkema Jenkins & Co.”, Artforum, September

 

Nickas, Bob, Painting Abstraction, Phaidon

2008

Schmuckli,Claudia, "Painter Amy Sillman works in the gap between representation and abstraction” Der Tagesspiegel, September 14

 

Butler, Sharon, "Jilaine Jones: Sculpture”, The Brooklyn Rail, June 5 - September 12

 

Capps, Kriston, "Amy Sillman: Washington DC + Saratoga Springs, NY”, ArtPapers, September/October

 

Rich, Sarah K., "Review: Amy Sillman, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden”, Art Forum, September

 

"The Curse of Critical Laziness”, The Chicago Art Blog, April 18

 

Venart, Lynne, "Amy Sillman’s Third Person Singular at the Hirshhorn”, DCist, April 4

 

Butler, Sharon, "Lame Review of the Week: O’Sullivan reviews Sillman at the Hirshhorn”, Two Coats of Paint, March 28

 

O’Sullivan, Michael, "The Story Behind The Work”, The Washington Post, March 28

 

O’Sullivan, Michael, "’Third Person’: The Thrill Is Gone”, The Washington Post, March 28

 

Judkis, Maura, "Third Person Singular”, Washington City Paper, March 19

 

"17 Couples for Amy Sillman”, Flash Art Online, March 12

 

Yablonsky, Linda, "Poll Positions”, Artforum.com, February 6

 

Saltz, Jerry, "Emerging, After All These Years”, artnet, February 4

2007

Fitzpatrick, Tony, "The ‘It’ Factor”, artnet, February 19

 

Norden, Linda, "Amy Sillman: The Elephant in the Painting”, Artforum, February

 

Ellis, Patricia, "Catching up with Charles (Saatchi)”, FlashArt, January/February

2006

Sillman, Amy, "The Artists’ Artists: Edvard Munch”, Artforum, December

 

Douglas, Sarah, "Paint-Hearted”, Art + Auction, June Issue, Vol. XXIX No.10, pg.158

 

Koestenbaum, Wayne, "The Sexual Awkwardness of God: Sentences for Amy Sillman”, Amy Sillman—Works on Paper, Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York

 

Knight, Christopher, "Adventurers enticed by the landscape”, Los Angeles Times, pp E1, E5, February 28

 

Berwick, Carly, "A Homegrown Contemporary Art Fair on Piers”, New York Sun, pgs 1,18, March 9

2005

Myers, Terry, "Amy Sillman: The Other One”, Modern Painters, June Issue

 

Pagel, David, "Depicting the Delights of Spring”, The Los Angeles Times, E26, April 8

2004

"Horizon Line, Amy Sillman”, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, (Exhibition Catalog)

 

"Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, (Exhibition Catalog)

 

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

 

Halle, Howard, "Local Color", BKLYN,, Spring, 2004, pg.29-30

 

Lovelace, Carey, "How to visit a Studio", ArtNews, October, p.179

 

Roberston, Johny, "Amy Sillman: Horizon Line”, Glass Tire, Texas Visual Art, September

 

Knecht, Lyndsay, "Scattered Imagination”, NT Daily, August 31

 

Horsley, Carter, "Whitney Biennial 2004”, The City Review, March

2003

Rubenstein, Raphael. "8 Painters: New Work,” Art in America, November, pp. 130-141

 

Wei, Lilly. "Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema” Art in America, September, p. 128

 

Caniglia, Julie. "Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema” Artforum, September, pp. 226-7

 

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

 

Viveros-Faune, Christian, "Amy Sillman", New York Press, May 15

 

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

 

Saltz, Jerry, "A Stumblebum's Progress", Grace and Gawkiness in Chelsea, Village Voice, May

2002

Wolfe, Kristin L., "When the "No!” Becomes "Aha!” The School of Visual Arts Alumni Magazine, Summer 2002, pp. 8-9

 

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

 

Parkett, 4 page insert, October issue

 

McDevitt, Siobhan, "Amy Sillman at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Frieze, issue 67, June, July, August, pg. 110

 

Knight, Christopher, '"Sillman Celebrates Struggle and Wonder" / Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects', Los Angeles Times, April 19

 

Eve Wood, "Luminous Vision", artnet, April 26

 

"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, "I’m 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: "Art’s 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 Sillman’s 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

2002

Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

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

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

1990-1995

Co-organizer/curator, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY