Amy Wilson
Education
1997 Yale University, New Haven, CT; MFA Sculpture
1995 School of Visual Arts, New York City; BFA Fine Arts
Awards
2018 NJ State Council on the Arts; Fellowship in Craft
Solo Exhibitions
2018 We lit up the sky, SVA Flatiron Project Space, NYC
2012 We dream of starfish and geodesic domes, BravinLee Programs, NYC
2010 The space between us, University of Mississippi, Oxford
It takes time to turn a space around, Installation at West Thames Park, NYC, sponsored by the Downtown Alliance
It takes time to turn a space around, project space, BravinLee Programs, NYC
2009 There are always such beautiful things…, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
The Myth of Loneliness, BravinLee Programs, NYC
Please Pay Attention Please, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2006 Brillo Box Outpost (site-specific, commissioned installation), Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
2005 The Global Appeal of Liberty, Bellwether Gallery, NYC
Group Exhibitions
*denotes catalogue
2019 On the Edge of the Wilds, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, NYC
2018 Our silences did not protect us, Fort Gansevoort, NYC
2017 Ideographs, Pointe Green, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Pink Noise: Flexing the Frequency, Girls’ Club, Miami, FL
2015 Untitled Fair, BravinLee Programs booth, Miami, FL
2014 Space is the Place, BravinLee Programs, NYC
Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, NYC
2013 The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
Envision, online exhibition and project by MoreArt, NYC
2012 Canceled, The Center for Book Arts, NYC
Campaign, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, C24 Gallery, NYC
2011 The Influentials, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Visual Arts Gallery, NYC*
Seven, BravinLee Programs, Miami, FL
2010 It’s Personal, Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, NJ
2009 Octet, Pera Museum of the Arts, Istanbul, Turkey*
Gallery artists, BravinLee Programs, NYC
Pulse Fair, BravinLee Programs Booth, NYC and Miami, FL
2008 Recent Editions, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2007 Ink Fair, Miami – Diane Villani Booth
Group show, Grolier Club, NYC
The Print Fair, Diane Villani Editions booth, NYC
2006 Choplogic, Bellwether Gallery, NYC
Tabletop, Josee Bienvenue Gallery, NYC
The F Word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Only the Paranoid Survive, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Tropicalisms, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life*, School of Visual Arts Museum, NYC. Travels to the Westpoint Center for Contemporary Art, CT
Headlines, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Among the Trees, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
The Armory Show - Bellwether and Diane Villani Editions booths
2005 Greater New York, PS1, Queens, NY*
The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW, NYC
Disasters of War, Wesleyan University, CT
The Armory Show, Bellwether booth, NYC
NADA Fair, Bellwether booth, Miami, FL
Fine Line, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Talespinning, The Drawing Center, NYC*
Hello Chelsea, Bellwether, NYC
2003 NADA, Bellwether Booth, Miami, FL
Scope Art LA, Bucheon Gallery Booth
Art Chicago 03, Diane Villani Editions Booth
Brave New World, 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*
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.*_
INBOX vol. II - IV, Sleep Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 The Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY*
Artists Books and Multiples '99, Brooke Alexander Editions, NYC
Sightings, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Curve, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Press
“Masks for all?” The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, April 2
2017 Donohue, Brian. “Positively New Jersey,” News 12, December 5th
Lindgren, Michael. “Craft Faire,” medium.com
2016 Jones, Marya. “Cut and paste: zines about women musicians,” Bitch media, May 25
2014 Celembast, Robin. “Avant-garde Quilt Explosion,” ArtNews online edition, January
2012 Carroll, Brendan. “A wondrously naïve universe,” Hyperallergic, March 20
Fateman, Joana. “Campaign,” Artforum Picks, January 27th
Howard, Christopher. “The show must go on: Canceled,” The L Magazine, May 23
Miller, Leanne. “Look out,” Art in America website, March 2
Vartanian, Hrag. “The wonderous world of Amy Wilson,” Hyperallergic, February 17
2011 Carroll, Brendan. “This is Jersey City: An Insider’s Guide,” September 2
2010 Muse Magazine, Amy Wilson, Summer
2009 Genocchio, Ben. “An Imagination Revealed with Text Bubbles.” The New York Times, January 18
Biesenbach, Klaus. Henry Darger, Prestel Publishing, NYC
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 Pollack, 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.
Collections:
Yale Art Galleries, Harvard Business School, New York Public Library, Debevoise & Plimpton Hong Kong, and others.