Amy Ellingson

Amy Ellingson is an American contemporary abstract painter. She lives and works in San Francisco.[1]

Career

Ellingson received a BA in Studio Art from Scripps College and an MFA from CalArts. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship[2] and the Artadia Grant to Individual Artists[3] and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony,[4] the Ucross Foundation,[5] and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.[6] She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2000-2011, attaining the rank of Associate Professor. Since 2011, she has served on the Board of Directors at Root Division,[7] a visual arts non-profit in San Francisco.

Her work has been shown throughout the United States and in Tokyo and is held in various public and corporate collections,[8] including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. Her 2015 public commission, Untitled (Large Variation) is an 1100 square foot mural on view in Terminal 3 at the San Francisco International Airport.[9]

References
  1. Whiting, Sam. "Art installations soothe delays at SFO". SFGate. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  2. "The Fleishhacker Foundation | 2008-2010". fleishhackerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  3. "Past Awardees - Artadia". Artadia. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  4. "The MacDowell Colony". macdowellcolony.org. Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  5. "Ucross Foundation :: Visual Arts". ucrossfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2015-06-11. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  6. exhibit-e.com. "Amy Ellingson - Fellows - Civitella Ranieri". civitella.org. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  7. "Amy Ellingson | Root Division". rootdivision.org. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  8. "About". Amy Ellingson. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  9. "Public Art Collection". flysfo.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
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