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Amy Bennett - Artists - Miles McEnery Gallery

Amy Bennett in her studio, 2019, Cold Spring, NY

AMY BENNETT (b. 1977 in Portland, ME) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1999 from the University of Hartford, CT and her Master of Fine Arts in 2002 from the New York Academy of Art.

Recent solo exhibitions include Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming); “Land of Plenty,” Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden; Permanent Mosaic Installation, 86th Street & 4th Avenue Brooklyn Subway Station, MTA Arts for Transit, Brooklyn, NY; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; and Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Recent group exhibitions include “The Spring,” Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden; “We Are Family,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; “My Sweet Dopplegänger,” Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; “2020 VISION,” Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; “2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; “Stilla liv/Still Life,” Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden; Richard Heller Gallery at EXPO Chicago; The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI; Southampton Art Center, Southampton, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY; Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden; Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and “XS,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Bennett is the recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (Fine Arts); Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Painting; American Academy of Arts & Letters Purchase Award; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program 2010/11; New York Foundation for the Arts/ Deutsche Bank Fellowship; Smack Mellon Studio Program; Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant; Prince of Wales Scholarship to Normandy; New York Academy of Art Research Fellowship; Felicia C. Miller Award for Artistic Excellence; and the Barbara Podorowsky Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting.

Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Amy Bennett lives and works in Cold Spring, NY.