Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman (* 1955 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American painter .
Life
Amy Sillman worked at a canning factory in Alaska and at a feminist screen printing plant in Chicago . She attended Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, before studying at New York University to work as a translator for the Japanese language at the United Nations . She then began studying at the School of Visual Arts in Rose Hill , New York City, from which she graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts .
Silman received his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Bard College in 1995 . In the following years she was awarded various scholarships and exhibited simultaneously in the USA and in galleries abroad.
From 2015 to 2020 she was professor of painting at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.
Scholarships and Awards
- 1995: Scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts in the field of painting.
- 1995: Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship.
- 1999: Scholarship from the Pollock Krasner Foundation .
- 1999: Scholarship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
- 2001: Guggenheim grant .
- 2009: Scholarship holder for fine arts from the American Academy in Berlin .
- 2010: Elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1988: Kanonia Center for Arts , Ahmedabad , India
- 2004: ICA Ramp Project , Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, USA
- 2007: Suitors Strangers , Blaffer Gallery - The Art Museum of the University of Houston , Texas, USA
- 2008: Third Person Singular , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, DC, USA.
- 2013: One Lump or Two , Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston , Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 2015: Yes & No , Kunsthaus Bregenz , as part of the KUB-ARENA exhibition format , until Jan. 10, 2016.
- 2016: The ALL-OVER , Portikus , Frankfurt am Main.
- 2017: a couple , Capitain Petzel , Berlin.
- 2018: Landline , Camden Arts Center, London
Works in museums (selection)
- Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago
- Museum of Fine Arts , Boston
- Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City
- Whitney Museum of American Art , New York City
Individual evidence
- ^ Nech the website of MoMa , New York. Other years of birth are also given
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "S" / Sillman, Amy, NA 2010 ( Memento from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed July 15, 2015)
- ↑ Painting pictures means painting your own doubts. In: FAZ of August 2, 2016, p. 12.
- ^ Exhibition a couple, 2017. Capitan Petzel, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Amy Sillman on Country Line at Camden Arts Center, 2018 Camden Arts Center, accessed on 30 March 2020 .
Web links
- Karen Rosenberg: Boldness Comes With Manifesto. New York Times , May 10, 2010
- Amy Sillman on kunstaspekte.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sillman, Amy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |