BORN
1977 Portland, Maine, United States


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Stories, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Frieze Art Fair, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, London
Pulse Art Fair, Richard Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
The Armory Show, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, New York, NY
LA Art Fair, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY
ArtLA, Linda Warren Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2005
Visitors from the East, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
The Gallery, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden Spike Gallery, New York, NY
Something is Somewhere, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago, International Art Fair, Chicago, IL

2004
Points of Muse, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
Public Domain, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Space Invaders, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY
CAA, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY

2002
Ana 31, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2000
Wood Memorial Millennium Biennial National Juried Competition, CT
15th Annual National Works on Paper, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas, TX


AWARDS
2006 NY Foundation for the Arts / Deutsche Bank Fellowship
2006 Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship
2004 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2003 Prince of Wales Scholarship to Normandy, France
2002 Research Fellowship, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1999 Felicia C. Miller Award Barbara Podorowsky Memorial Award


PRESS
2005 Hawkins, Margaret, Amy Bennett, ArtNews, Sept. Hawkins, Margaret, Amy Bennett, Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 22. Hinkel, Joanne, Art Trips, Centerstage Chicago, Apr. 18. 2004 Skolnik, Lisa, The Art of Amy Bennett, Design & Architecture, Chicago, Aug. pp. 8, 10, 32-35. Littman, Margaret, Ten Things to do this Weekend, Crain’s Chicago Business Online, Aug. Zoltak, Benjamin, Can of Culture, Centerstage Chicago, Aug. & Nov. 2003 Krenz, Marcel, Space Invaders: Six Painters and Two Sculptors Reconstruct Representation, Contemporary, Issue 55, pp 72-73. Up & Coming, Brooklyn Free Press, May 2-8.


EDUCATION
2002 MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1999 BFA, summa cum laude, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT


ADDITIONAL STUDIES
St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Pratt Institute, New York, NY
The New York Studio School, New York, NY
University of Georgia Art School, Cortona, Italy



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