Works by Amy Sillman at Sotheby's
Amy Sillman Biography
Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Amy Sillman’s work has an innate ability to merge abstraction and figuration into her own Contemporary abstract language. Sillman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of Visual Arts in 1979, and she has been professor of painting at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main since 2015. Her paintings, drawings, installations and animations have emerged over the last three decades as a premier exemplar of Contemporary art in the twenty-first century. Through her unique artistic process in which traditional modes of painting and drawing are melded with contemporary forms of media, Sillman’s work draws heavily upon the dynamic, gestural forms of Post War Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston.
Amy Sillman’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Drawing Center, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Sillman’s solo exhibition, "one lump or two" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2014, traveled to the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. Her works are also held in the public collections of such prominent institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
