EDUCATION
1992 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1986 B.A. (Studio Art) Scripps College, Claremont, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 “Recent Work,” Charles Cowles Gallery, NY
2006 “Recent Work,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 “Semper Augustus,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Ec/centric Compositions,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall,” Fassbender/Stevens Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall,” Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 “Between Repetition and Insistence,” jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 “A Hankering...,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Flora and Fauna,” FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1992 “The Princess and P.,” thesis exhibition, CalArts, Valencia, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
“Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of the Contemporary Museum,”
The Contemporary Museum, Makiki Heights, Hawaii
2005
“Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
“NEOMOD,” Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“The Big Spin: 2004 Faculty Exhibition,” Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
2003
“Matter and Matrix,” The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2002
“Bay Area Now 3,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“The Group Show,” R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
“A Chance Operation: 2002 Faculty Exhibition,” Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
2001
“The Necessary Beauty,” R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
“ExtraOrdinary: 2001 Faculty Exhibition,” Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
“KABOOM!,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Calligraphic Legacy,” Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
2000
“[climax],” jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA
“Light Fantastic,” Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“Icon-O-Pop,” Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Head Cheese,” Ft. Haggis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“People as Material,” California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA
“Emotionally Annoyed,” ESP, San Francisco, CA
1999
“Works by the Recipients of the ArtCouncil's 1999 Grants to Individual Artists,” Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts,
San Francisco, CA
jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA
“emerge: Gen Art SF’s Premier Exhibition,” San Francisco, CA
1996
“New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition,” Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
1995
“New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition,” Bloom, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
1994
“FOOD HOUSE two year anniversary exhibition,” Santa Monica, CA
1993
“Germinal Notations,” FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
“Peculiar Paintings,” Woodbury University; Burbank, CA.
“New American Talent: The Ninth Exhibition,” Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006
“Look Deeper,” Where Magazine, June 2006, pg. 34.
Kleinman, Susan. “Mid-Country Modern,” Metropolitan Home, p.98. March 2006
2005
Turner, Mary Louis. “’Neo Mod’ at the Crocker Art Museum,” Artweek, March 2005.
van der Beek, Wim. “Amy Ellingson,” Kunstbeeld, March 2005.
2004
Johnson, Ken. “Amy Ellingson: Semper Augustus,” (“The Listings”), The New York Times, December 24, 2004.
2003
MacNaughton, Mary Davis. “Matter and Matrix” (Exhibition Catalog), Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
2002
Cash, Stephanie. “Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving,” Art in America, November.
De Guzman, Rene. “Amy Ellingson,” Bay Area Now 3 catalogue.
Tromble, Meredith. “Bay Area Now 3,” Stretcher.org, November.
Baker, Kenneth. “’Bay Area 3’ show peeks into artists’ inner worlds,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 30.
Artner, Alan. “Amy Ellingson,” Chicago Tribune, May 17.
Roth, Charlene. “Jac Chartier & Amy Ellingson at Frumkin/Duval Gallery,” Artweek, March.
Welles, Elenore. “Jac Chartier & Amy Ellingson at Frumkin/Duval Gallery,” ArtSceneCal, January.
2001
Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco e-mail: “Kaboom!” at Haines, etc.,” Art issues., September/October.
Bonnetti, David. “’KABOOM!’ is Summer Show to Beat,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 7.
2000
Tabios, Eileen. “CLIMAX: A Group Exhibition As Taoist Poetry,” Reviewwest.com, December.
Coleman, Sarah. “Emotionally Annoyed,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 2.
Keats, Jonathon. “Double Vision: An Exhibition of New Diptychs Based on Work by Three Bay Area Artists,”
San Francisco, February.
Berry, Colin. “Emotionally Annoyed,” San Francisco City Search, January.
Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco e-mail: Michael McDowell; Amy Ellingson, Carrie Lederer,” Art issues, January - February.
1999
Eich, Maureen. “Amy Ellingson, Between Repetition and Insistence,” NYArts Magazine, November.
Small, Irene. “Amy Ellingson at jennjoy gallery,” Reviews, NY Arts, p. 92.
Van Proyen, Mark. “Amy Ellingson at jennjoygallery,” Artweek, February.
1998
Coleman, Sarah. “emerge,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 22.
1997
Schiche, Ericka. “Consumer Culture Art,” Art, Public News, October 15.
1994
Barden, Lane. “Report from the FOOD HOUSE booth: the alternative space at ART/LA93,” Artweek,
January 6.
AWARDS / HONORS / COMMISSIONS
Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA 2009
Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA 2007
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbria Italy, Summer 2007
Grant; Faculty Development Grant, San Francisco Art Institute
Commission; San Francisco Arts Commission Market Street Art in Transit Program Kiosk Poster Series 2000.
Grant; The Art Council Grants to Individual Artists, San Francisco, 1999.
TEACHING
2005-Present, Associate Professor, San Francisco Art Institute
2003 – 2005, Resident Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
2000 – 2003, Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
Fall 2002, Visiting Faculty (Senior Lecturer), California College of Arts and Crafts
LECTURES / PANELS
2007
Panelist; Talking Art: How to Play the Game, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2005
Panel Moderator; “What Artists Need to know,” jointly sponsored by SFAI and Lifescapes Magazine,
San Francisco Art Institute
Visiting Artist; lecture; Visiting Artist Lecture Series; The Oxbow School, Napa, April 2005.
2004
Panelist; A Meditation on Networks, moderated by Stretch.org co-publishers Meredith Tromble and David
Lawrence; one of a series of discussions for The Way We Work, Southern Exposure’s 30th Anniversary
Exhibition, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, October 2004.
2003
Visiting Artist; lecture; Scripps College, November
Visiting Artist; slide lecture, Graduate Painting Seminar, California College of the Arts, October
Visiting Artist; Advanced Painting Studio/Visiting Artist Class, California College of Arts and Crafts, June
Visiting Artist; slide lecture, Scripps College, February
Visiting Artist; slide lecture, California College of Arts and Crafts, October
Visiting Artist Series Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, October
Panelist, “What is Art For?,” Oakland Museum of California, May
1993
Visiting Artist; Slide and Panel Discussion, Woodbury University, Burbank, November
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Paul Allen Collection, Seattle, WA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
McKenna. Long & Aldridge, Washington D.C. & Albany, NY
Permanent Collection, U.S. Embassy, Tunisia
Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Wellington Management, San Francisco, CA
The Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
