Amy Wilson

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

Selected Exhibitions

Solo
2012
We dream of Starfish and Geodesic Domes, BravinLee programs, New York, NY

2010
It takes time to turn a space around….., BravinLee programs, NY

2010
Sego Art Center, Provo, UT

2009
There are always such beautiful things…, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

2008
The Myth of Loneliness, BravinLee programs, NYC
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

Group

2008
Benefit Exhibition Honoring David Kiehl, Dieu Donne, NYC
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

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


Selected Press

2010
Muse Mgazine, Amy Wilson, Summer 2010

2009
Genocchio, Ben. "An Imagination Revealed with Text Bubbles." The New York Times, January 18

2008
"Amy Wilson," The New Yorker, Oct 13th issue

2007
"On the long afterlife of not getting along," Artlies, September

2006
Falkenstein, Michelle. "The Artist As Tree Hugger," The New York Times, March 26 Genocchio, Ben. "The Medium is the Message and Vice Versa," The New York Times, May 28

2005
Baker, RC. "Voice Choices." Village Voice, April 23. Boucher, Brian. "Amy Wilson." Art in America review section, 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. Halle, Howard. "Showdown at Ground Zero," Time Out NY, August 4-10 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, Gwyneth. "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, Sept. 24. Holliday, Frank. "Gallery Hops the River Into Chelsea, " Gay City News, June 10

2002
Pollock, Barbara. "Art on the Waterfront," ArtNews, April issue, pg 113. Garnett, Joy. ed. Newsgrist splash page. Hirsch, Faye. "INBOX, vol. V," Dec.  issue, Art on Paper, 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.