Biography

M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 1992
B.A. (Studio Art) Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 1986

[from artist's personal web site, 08/05/13]

Amy Ellingson’s paintings have been exhibited nationally. She is the recipient of the 2009 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the 1999 Artadia Grant to Individual Artists and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Notable group exhibitions include Bay Area Now 3 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction at the Crocker Art Museum; and Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. Her work is held in various public and corporate collections, including the Crocker Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the U.S. Embassies in Tunisia and Algeria, and the Contemporary Museum in Hawaii. Ellingson’s paintings have been reviewed in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, NYArts Magazine, Art issues, and  Kunstbeeld. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from CalArts.  She lives and works in San Francisco and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 2000.

[from artist's personal web site, 08/05/13]

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