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Amy Wilson
Biography
Born 1973, New York City
Lives in Jersey City, NJ
Teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY
Education
1997
Yale University, New Haven, CT, MFA in Sculpture
1995
School of Visual Arts, New York City, BFA in Fine Arts/Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Please Pay Attention Please, Jersey City Museum
2006
Artist's Project: Brillo Box Outpost, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
2005
The Global Appeal of Liberty, Bellwether, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Talk to Me, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Still Missing, Westport Arts Center, CT
Will 100 Artists Please Draw a 1950 Ford From Memory, Art Gallery of Alberta,Edmonton, Canada
The Print Fair, Diane Villani Editions booth, NYC
2006
Choplogic, Bellwether, NYC
Tabletop, Josee Bienvenue Gallery, NYC
The 'F' Word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life, School of Visual Arts Museum, NYC
Only the Paranoid Survive, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Among the Trees, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
Tropicalisms, Jersey City Museum
Hot off the Presses, The Grolier Club, NYC
The Studio Visit Exit Art, NYC
The Armory Show - Bellwether and Diane Villani Editions booths, NYC
Headlines, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2005
Greater New York, PS1, Queens, NY (catalogue)
The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW, NYC
Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub Wesleyan University, CT (catalogue)
The Armory Show, Bellwether booth, NYC
Fine Line, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Talespinning, The Drawing Center, NYC (catalogue)
Hello Chelsea, Bellwether, NYC
2003
NADA, Art Miami, Bellwether Booth
Scope Art LA, Bucheon Gallery Booth
Art Chicago 03, Diane Villani Editions Booth
Brave NewWorld, OIA, New York, NY
Transgressing Boundaries, Paint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
The June Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
INBOX vol. V, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, NY
Annual, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)
2001
Fast Forward Miami, Bellwether booth, Miami, FL
Jeanne Lorenz/Sarah Bedford/Amy Wilson, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Kosmobiologie, curated by Nancy Chaiken, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
Flat File, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
The Meat Market Art Fair, Bellwether booth, New York, NY
The UFO Show, curated by Barry Blinderman and Bill Conger, University of Illinois at Normal/Bloomington. Travels to University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff; State University of New York, Pottsdam.(catalogue)
INBOX vol. II - IV, Sleep Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999
The Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY (catalogue)
Artists Books and Multiples '99, Brooke Alexander Editions, NYC
Sightings, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Ground Control, Brooklyn, NY
1997
MFA Thesis Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Selections from Rutgers and Yale, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1996
Curve, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Enterprise Zones, Spot, New York, NY
Bibliography
2007
Hill, Jason and Aram Moshayedi. “On The Afterlife of Not Getting Along”, Artlies: The Texas Contemporary Art Journal, December.
2006
Falkenstein, Michelle. "The Artist as Tree Hugger," New York Times, March 26
Genocchio, Benjamin. "The Medium is the Message and Vice Versa," New York Times, May 28
2005
Baker, RC. "Voice Choices." Village Voice, April 23.
Boucher, Brian. " Amy Wilson." Art in America review section; September.
"Drawing Center move to WTC site in doubt. " Art in America, September.
Cohen, David. "Gallery Going." New York Sun, May 12.
Eleey, David. "Greater New York."Frieze, May.
Feiden, Douglas. "Draw the Line, Now!" The NY Daily News, cover story, June 24.
Feiden, Douglas, and Joe Mahoney. "Nutty 9/11 Art Nixed" The NY Daily News, cover story, June 25.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Meet Grandma Moses With an Attitude." The New York Times, May 8.
Haber, John. "Politics in the Gallery, Spring 2005: Emily Jacir, Guy Richards Smit, and Amy Wilson." haberarts.com
Halle, Howard. "Showdown at Ground Zero." Time Out New York, August 1- 7.
Heartney, Eleanor. "Return to the Real? " Art in America, June-July.
Johnson, Ken. "Amy Wilson, The Global Appeal of Liberty"The New York Times, May 6.
Kerr, Merrily. "Amy Wilson, The Global Appeal of Liberty." Time Out New York May 5- 11.
Leech, Gwenyth. "Keeping America Safe from the Arts. " Art New England, September. "Amy Wilson", The New Yorker, April 27.
2004
Boucher, Brian. "I realize this is all insanity. " Thing.net.
Glueck, Grace. "Working Words Into Images, Artists Become Storytellers, " The New York Times, September 24.
Holliday, Frank. "Gallery Hops the River Into Chelsea, " Gay City News, June 10
2002
Pollack, Barbara. "Art on the Waterfront," ArtNews, April issue, pg 113.
Garnett, Joy. ed. Newsgrist splash page.
Hirsch, Faye. "INBOX, vol. V," December issue, Working Proof section.
2001
Cotter, Holland. "Sarah Bedford, Jeanne Lorenz, Amy Wilson," The New York Times, March 16.
2000
Hirsch, Faye. "INBOX," Art on Paper, March/April issue, Working Proof section.
Rootes, Dave. "Art Break: Beam Me Up," The Colorado Springs Independent, December 14 - 20.
"Kosmobiologie," The New Yorker, July 10 issue, review section.
Panels and Lectures
2005
On Kitsch, Moderator. School of Visual Arts, NYC
Headlines: Politics and Art, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2002
Corcoran Museum Artist Mentoring Program, NYC/Washington DC
2001
Young Artists Trying to Make it in New York, Artists Talk on Art, Gallery, NYC
2000
Panel Discussion: The UFO Show, University of Illinois; Normal, IL