Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman
Judith Zabar Visiting Artist / Fall 2024
Artist Lecture

Wednesday, October 23, 7pm
205 Hudson Street
205 Hudson / Flex Space

Amy Sillman was born in 1955 in Detroit, Michigan, and has lived and worked in NYC since the mid-1970s. She has shown widely and published her writing, both nationally and internationally. Sillman is best known for her rigorous formal interactions with painting and her embrace of issues lying adjacent to painting, from the time-based to the conceptual to the do-it-yourself. Over the decades, she has increasingly experimented with embedding painting shows with animations, zines, digital printmaking and large-scale drawing installations. A large solo exhibition of her work entitled ”Oh, Clock!” is currently on view at the Kunst Museum Bern in Switzerland, along with a curated collection/intervention, featuring 50+ works chosen from the Museum’s collection and organized on walls specially painted by the artist.

Sillman’s work has been exhibited widely since the 1990s at institutions and galleries in the USA and Europe, and her works are in many private and public collections, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Modern in London, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Gallery in Washington D.C. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. In 2022 she participated in the 59th Venice Biennale, in a show called “The Milk of Dreams” curated by Cecilia Alemani. In 2019, she curated a widely-heralded exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, NY entitled “The Shape of Shape” for MoMA’s Artists Choice series. Her own collection of art writing, Faux Pas, is in its fourth reprint since its initial publication in 2020. Sillman is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York.