1. Amy Sillman was born on 1955 and is a New York-based visual artist, known for process-based paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, and engage nontraditional media including animation, zines and installation.
19 Facts About Amy Sillman
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Amy Sillman has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Portikus.
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Amy Sillman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the Joan Mitchell, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Pollock-Krasner foundations, and her art belongs to the public collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Tate Modern, among other recognition.
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Amy Sillman was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1955 and raised in Chicago.
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Amy Sillman exhibited sporadically, participating in group shows at PS 122, New Museum, Drawing Center and PS1, among others.
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Amy Sillman began gaining attention in the mid-1990s for solo exhibitions at Lipton Owens Company, Casey Kaplan, and in the early 2000s, Brent Sikkema.
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Amy Sillman taught in Bard's MFA painting program from 1997 to 2013, and served as chair of the painting department from 2002 to 2013.
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Amy Sillman subsequently taught at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Amy Sillman's art is marked by a direct engagement with materials and radical shifts in palette, brushwork, scale and the structuring logic of either drawing or painting.
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In 2007, Amy Sillman began creating large gestural abstract paintings based on black-and-white drawings she made from observing couple friends in casual moments of domestic intimacy.
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Amy Sillman exhibited the paintings and drawings at the Hirshhorn Museum in 2008; Artforum described the drawings as "equally tender and ruthless" in touch and economical in their markmaking.
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Amy Sillman mounted several exhibitions in the 2010s that were noted for their invention, restlessness and new formats that emphasized temporal aspects of her work.
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In 2017, Amy Sillman presented After Metamorphoses, a five-minute, looped and projected animated drawing that was her most complex and ambitious to date.
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Amy Sillman presented less process-oriented work marked by current-day political concerns in the exhibition "Landline".
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In 2009, while living in Berlin, Amy Sillman began producing a zine, The O-G, that she often paired with her exhibitions or paintings; in 2020 it had reached its fourteenth issue.
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Amy Sillman has written about art and artists for catalogues and journals such as Artforum, ARTnews, Texte zur Kunst, and Frieze.
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Amy Sillman has published four collections of her writing, the last being Faux Pas, which includes essays on John Chamberlain, Eugene Delacroix, Rachel Harrison, Laura Owens, and contemporary painting's inheritances from Abstract Expressionism.
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Amy Sillman has curated exhibitions at MoMA, Hammer Museum and Artists Space.
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Amy Sillman has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Joan Mitchell, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Pollock-Krasner foundations, American Academy in Berlin, and Brooklyn Museum, among others.