About

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
Select Press
The Work of Amy Sillman and a Conversation with Jordan Carter
Luncheon Magazine
June 30, 2025
Download PDF ↓For Amy Sillman, Making an Abstract Painting Is Like Finding Parking in New York: Endless, Improvised, and Torturous
CULTURED ↗Mara Veitch
June 23, 2025
Download PDF ↓Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Whitehot Magazine ↗Edward Waisnis
July 4, 2024
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