Amy Sillman

Untitled (blue, black), 2023
Acrylic and ink on linen
59 x 55 inches (149.9 x 139.7 cm)

About

A woman stands in front of a fence with yellow flowers on the sidewalk

Photography by Calla Kessler

Amy Sillman was born in 1955 in Detroit, Michigan, and currently lives and works in New York. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including: Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois; Camden Arts Centre, London; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. In 2014, Sillman’s solo exhibition, one lump or two, traveled from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, to the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. In 2022, Sillman participated in The International Exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams. Sillman's book of writing on art, Faux Pas, was published by After 8 Books in Paris, in 2020, and is now in its third printing. Sillman’s works are held in the public collections of prominent institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Sillman has two major solo exhibitions currently on view, Oh, Clock! at Ludwig Forum in Aachen until August 2025 and Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) at Dia Bridgehampton until May 2026.

Exhibitions

Publications

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The Work of Amy Sillman and a Conversation with Jordan Carter

Luncheon Magazine

June 30, 2025

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For Amy Sillman, Making an Abstract Painting Is Like Finding Parking in New York: Endless, Improvised, and Torturous

CULTURED

Mara Veitch

June 23, 2025

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Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32)

Apollo

June 20, 2025

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Notes from Bern

Curator

Sascha Behrendt

January 22, 2025

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Amy Sillman at Kunstmuseum Bern

Spike

Beniamo Foschino

January 15, 2025

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Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Whitehot Magazine

Edward Waisnis

July 4, 2024

Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise

Artpyre

Lyssa Sartori and Ian Pedigo

June 24, 2024

Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise

The Brooklyn Rail

Louis Block

June 1, 2024

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