Amy Park received her B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003.  Amy also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Ox-Bow Summer Art School.  Her studio practice is focused on large scale watercolor paintings that investigate the history of architecture and abstraction.  Park was a recipient of a Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Award in 2007-2008.  Her work has been exhibited widely in the US at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City; Project Row House in Houston; The Poor Farm Experiment in Manawa, WI.  Park is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in NYC.  She will have a solo show at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles in June 2012.

EDUCATION
2003    MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2003    Ox-Bow Art School, Saugatuck, Michigan (Merit Scholarship)
1999    BFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1991-   School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Merit Scholarship)
1992
 

AWARDS
2012    Serenbe, Artist in Residence, Chattahoochee Hills, GA
2007-   Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2008
2006    Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY
2005    White Columns Curated Artist Registry, New York, NY
2003    O’Shaughnessy Merit Scholarship, Ox-Bow Art School, Saugatuck, Michigan

ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012    Archive, CA, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011    Amy Park, The Study, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2007    Amy Park and Melissa Baumgartner, Thatcher, Proffitt and Wood, New York, NY 2006    Amy Park and Philip Vanderhyden, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (Catalog essay by Lane Relyeaand     Annika Marie)
Amy Park and Grace Park, Occasional Art, St. Paul, MN (Catalog essay by Aaron Van Dyke)
Amy Park, Project Room, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005    Amy Park, Project Row House and The Suburban, Houston, TX (Catalog)
2003    New Work, 734 Gallery, Madison, WI
1999    Paintings, Red Gym Gallery, Madison, WI
1998    Recent Work, Kohler Art Library, Madison, WI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012    Works on Paper, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011    Pulse NY, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
            ArtMarket, San Francisco, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Faculty Exhibition 92nd Street Y, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, New York, NY
 
2010    ArtBogota, Bogota, Colombia, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Next Fair Chicago, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
            Aqua Art Fair, Miami, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
This Mess We’re In, Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
 
2009    The Great Poor Farm Experiment, The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
Good News: Alumni Living in New York City, Porter Butts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Faculty Exhibition 92nd Street Y, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, New York, NY
 
2008    X Marks the Spot, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
Faculty Exhibition 92nd Street Y, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, New York, NY
                               
2007     Faculty Exhibition 92nd Street Y, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, New York, NY
 
2006     Darling project, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Moreover: Practicing Representation + Abstraction, Curated by Michelle Grabner, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Faculty Exhibition 92nd Street Y, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, New York, NY
Art Brussels, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Brussels, Belgium  -Scope, Wendy Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Year 06, Wendy Cooper Gallery, London, England
 
2005    Representations, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
5 X 7, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
            No Monument, The Guest Room, Chicago, IL
The Drawing Project, Art Chicago in the Park, Chicago, IL
 
2004    Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich, Germany
            A More Perfect Union, Max Fish, New York, NY and The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
5 X 7, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
The Party, Track House, Oak Park, IL
Resident Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
 
2003   Contingent Living, curated by Michelle Grabner at Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)
            The Group Show, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Muestra 2, International Art Fair, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
            Ready for War, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL
           75th Annual Art Show, Porter Butts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
                        (Juror’s Honorable Mention Award)
            The Bowerhaus, The Bower, San Antonio, TX
 
            Amy’s Friends, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
            5 X 7 San Antonio, The Bower and Arthouse Jones Center, San Antonio, TX
 
2002    The Stray Show, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Tasty Dog, Atelier Top 25, Krems, Austria (The Suburban Gallery, Oak Park, IL)
            Puerto Rico 02, Fortaleza, Guayabo, Puerto Rico
            Portable 3, Embassy Suites, Chicago, IL
            Heavy, 2040 Winnebago, Madison, WI
            Triagainnial, in close proximity to the Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
            156 Miles to Madison, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
            Catch 22, Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
 
2001    Art Miami, International Art Exhibition, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
            Portable 2, Embassy Suites, Chicago, IL      
            Graduate Review, Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
            73rd Annual Art Show, Porter Butts Gallery, Madison, WI
 
2000    Wendy’s Wonderland, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
Little Pictures, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI (three person show)    
            Painter-ific, Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
 

COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS                                                     

2010    Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
            Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2009    College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
            The Poor Farm, Artist’s Residency and Exhibition Space, Manawa, WI
2008    Drawing Center’s Artist Archive, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005    Deloitte & Touche USA, Chicago, IL
2004    Kimberly-Clark Photo Archive, Neenah, WI
2003    Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA
2001    Tempo, Wisconsin Women’s Business Organization, Madison, WI
Cornbloom’s Shoe Store, Madison, WI                                                         
 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012    Q and A with Violet Shuraka, Cheap and Plastique Contemporary Art, Issue 10, 2012, pgs 39-44.
2010    Can You Come Over to My House? The First Ten Years of the Suburban, The Suburban, publisher, 2010, pgs 546-557
            Lisa Wurster, “Watercolor with an Edge”, The Artist’s Magazine, September 2010, pgs 38-42
           
2006    Chicago Reader, Exhibition Announcement with Image, Chicago, IL, October 13,   2006, p. 24.
Lane Relyea and Annika Marie, “Modernism Now”, Exhibition Catalog, Amy Park and Philip Vanderhyden, College of DuPage, 2006.
Aaron Van Dyke, “Amy Park-Grace Park”, Exhibition Catalog, Occasional Art, 2006.
Jeff Ward, “Round 23”, Art Lies, The Texas Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 49, 2006.
 
2005    Living Art, Interview KPFT, Houston, TX, October 14, 2005.
 
2004    Simone Dattenberger, “Munchener Merkur” August 27, 2004.
Marco Eisenack, “SZ-Extra”, August 2004, p. S1.
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2003    Chicago Reader, Exhibition Announcement with Image, Chicago, IL, November 21, 2003, p. 27.
D. G. Goddard, “Birds of a Feather”, San Antonio Express-News, August 17, 2003, p. 1J.
Michelle Grabner, “Contingent Living”, Exhibition Catalog, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, 2003.
Michelle Grabner, “Tasty Dog: Suburban in Austria”, The Suburban: The Early Years, The Suburban, publisher, 2003, p. 86.
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Michael Workman, “Beer Goggles”, New City, July 3, 2003, p. 18.
 
2000    Creative Agenda, Interview, WORT radio, Madison, WI, January 2000.
Isthmus Newspaper Critic’s Choice, “Little Pictures”, Madison, WI , April 5, 2000, p. 23.