AMY PLEASANT

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RESUME

Born 1972 in Birmingham, AL
Lives and works in Birmingham, AL

EDUCATION

1999	Master of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1994	Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012	Surround, site-specific wall drawing installation, Candyland, Stockholm, Sweden
2011	On The Ground Below, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
	Paintings and Drawings, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, AL
2010	Suspended, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2009	Tight Shot, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
	The Bed, After Lautrec, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2007	The Night Before, Tandem Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2006	You Are Here, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2005	Out of Nowhere, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2004	The Lure of Telling, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
	Environment and Influence, with John Pleasant, The Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
2003	The Making of a New Tale, The Ruby Green Contemporary Arts Center, Nashville, TN
	Time Lapse, University of Alabama at Birmingham Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham, AL, (catalog)
2000	Meanwhile…, Hotel Brazil Fine Arts Gallery, Birmingham, AL
1996	What Shall I Wear?, The Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, AL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012	Shared Southern Stories, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, GA
	Suspended, Uptown Columbus Sculpture Walk 2012, Columbus, GA
2011	Pulp, Beta Pictoris/Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL
	Something along the lines of Rock 'n' Roll, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2010	Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
	The Hunter Invitational 2010, The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN (curated by Nandini Markrandi)
	To Kill a Mockingbird: Awakening America's Conscience, The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL
2009	Give Them What They Never Knew They Wanted, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
	Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama, The Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, AL
2008	The Columbus Biennial, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA, curated by Paula Katz
	Southern Gothic Now, Space 301, Mobile, AL
	GEN-X: Post Boomers and the New South, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
	Samford Selects, Visiting Artist Series, Samford University Gallery, Birmingham, AL
	Forms of Figuration,Clifford Chance, New York, NY
2007	Conversations in Color, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
	Explorations, 21st Street Studios, Birmingham, AL, curated by Ron Platt
	Tablet, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
	Drawing on Alabama, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
	Spring, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
	Exhibition,Joyce Goldestein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2006	Made in Birmingham, Space 301, Mobile, AL, curated by Brett Levine
	Contour: The Definitive Line, Schedler Minchin Fine Art, Birmingham, AL
2005	New Currents in Regional Painting, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
	From the Committees, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
	The Saltline Biennial, The Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL (catalog)
	Homegrown: Southeast, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
	MAX 2005, The Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, curated by David Moos
	2005 Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, curated by Helena Reckitt (catalog)
	south X east: Contemporary Southeastern Art, Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton, FL (catalog)
	We are Not Aimless, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
	New Currents in Regional Painting, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2004	BAMA, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL, (catalog)
	Simply Drawn, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
	Art in Embassies Exhibition Program, U.S. Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic (catalog)
	Focus-Alabama, Space 301, Mobile, AL
	Alabama Masters 1, The Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL
2003	Switchyard, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
	Alabama Signatures, Painting and Photography, Alabama Artist Gallery
2002	The Red Clay Survey of Contemporary Art, The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (catalog)
2001	Fourth Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, NY, juror Anne Ellegood
1999	Tyler at White Box, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Richard Torchia

AWARDS AND HONORS

2008	Individual Artist Grant, The Cultural Alliance of Birmingham
2003	Individual Artist Fellowship, The Alabama State Council on the Arts
	Emerging Artist Award, Magic City Art Connection

RESIDENCIES

2012	Artist Residency, NKF Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
2010	Coleman Center for the Arts, York, AL

COLLECTIONS

	Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
	Wiregrass Museum of Art, Alabama
	The Progressive Art Collection
	Columbus Museum, Georgia