AMANDA CHURCH

EDUCATION Bennington College, B.A. Painting and Drawing

New York Studio School, New York City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY

2003 Artek Contemporaries LLC, NY

2001 Art Resources Transfer, Inc., NY

2000 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France

1999 Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

1997 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 In Polytechnicolor, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY

Paste It, curated by Jean Lee and Martina Schmacher, Angel Studios,

Berlin, Germany

Bad Touch, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL

Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, NY

Toxic Pop, curated by Edward Winkleman,

Plus Ultra Gallery, NY

2003 NADA Art Fair, Plus Ultra Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida

New Museum New Group benefit: 10 Artists Personalize

the Fendi Chef Bag, the Maritime Hotel, NY

Presence, Scope Art Fair, curated by David Gibson, the Dylan Hotel, NY

Before and After Science, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Tasty Buds, curated by Theresa Hackett, The Workspace, NY

Bad Touch, Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK, traveling to the

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2002 Schmoology, curated by Bill Previdi, M3 Projects, NY

Some Are Painting II, curated by David Gibson, NY

Three Strong Painters, curated by John Yau, Maryland Institute of Art,

Baltimore, Maryland

Barometer, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY

Reality Revisited, curated by Matthias Groebel,

galerie In Situ, Aalst, Belgium, traveling to

Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne, Germany

A Way of Thinking, curated by Julia Sass,

Susanne Hojriis Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Difference Between You and Us, Five Years, London, UK

Bad Touch, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

2001 Miami Art Fair, curatorial project by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Miami, FL

Buzz (three-person exhibition), Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston MA

The Brewster Project, curated by Christopher Ho, Brewster, NY

Sex Abroad, curated by Naomi Urabe, Five Years, London, UK

Humanoid, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NY

Fhuh…promiscuously subarticulate paintings, organized by

David Humphrey, Fish Tank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Refrigerate After Opening, curated by Edward Winkleman,

Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY

Ripe and Hazy, organized by Mark Keffer, Goliath, Brooklyn, NY

Humanoid, Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas

Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina

Hit and Run, curated by Edward Winkleman, London, UK

2000 The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, curated by Lilly Wei,

Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NY

Paper Products, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

En Garde, curated by Edward Winkleman, Burton Marinkovich Fine Art,

Washington, DC

The MTV Canvas, an online exhibition curated by Tate at Guild.com

Assorted Flavors, Catherine Moore Fine Art, NY

Send in the Clowns, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina

1999 Out of Y2K, organized by Eung Ho Park, Im n Il, Brooklyn, NY

The Flat Files, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

NY2K, curated by Carlo McCormick and Livestock, El Bohio, NY Art for Park, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Galerie du Tableau, two-person show (w/ Bradley Rubenstein), Marseille, France

Brief Encounter, curated by Eduardo Difarnecio (in collaboration with Leanne Sacramone and Nicolas Profit) , Paris, France

Go Figure!, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Nylon, group show (works on paper), London, UK

Size Matters, curated by Mike Weiss, Gale Gates et al., NY

Tuff ‘n’ Tender, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina

A Room with a View, Sixth @ Prince, NY

Trans, curated by Thomas Rieck, Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany

Phenotypology, curated by Maureen McQuillan, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

Humanoid, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1998 Clifford Smith Gallery, group show, Boston, MA

Ten from Brooklyn, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia

Pierogi Goes to College, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY,

traveling to Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY

Pierogi 2000, NY: The Flatfiles, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

The Jewel Box Project, curated by Patrick Callery, GAGA Gallery, NY

Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Project Wall, Art Resources Transfer, Inc., NY

Chick Diptych, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina

Visual Pleasure, Fakiris Gallery, Greenport, NY

Brite Magic, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

Pet Shop, Nicholas Davies Gallery, NY

1997 Affirm Identity, Kingsborough College Gallery, NY

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

New York Drawers: The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Gasworks, London, traveling to Corner House, Manchester, UK

Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

The Chamber Pot Show, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY

1996 Hodgepodge Lodge East, curated by Mark Dean Veca, Hovel, NY

Round Up, Livestock Gallery, NY

Fascination, The Lobby Gallery at the Deutsche Bank, NY

Salon des Trees, organized by Austin Ackles and Mary Jones, NY

Waterline, Black and Herron Space, NY

Fresh and Tasty, curated by Elisabeth Kley, OIA, NY

1995 Oooze, Black and Herron Space, NY

Wacko, The Work Space, NY

Either/Or, organized by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, NY

Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY

Art Sans Frontiere, curated by Claude Simard, La Rouche, Canada

Flip Side, two-person show, Marymount College Gallery, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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October 25-13, 2000

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Condon, Elisabeth, Review, Art Papers, July/August 1998

Natale, Michelle, “I Threw Up/Chick Diptych,” Spectator, July 28, 1998

Scott, Sue, “Affirm Identity” (catalogue essay), November 1997

Herron, Annie, “Fresh Perspectives,” Review, March 1997

Grimm, Jay, “The Chamber Pot Show,” Critical Review,

January 1997

Nahas, Dominique, “Light and Color,” Review, November 1996

COLLECTIONS

The Chambers Hotel, New York

Bondardo Communications, Milan, Italy

GRANTS Artists Grants/Artists Space 1993

Related professional activities: Freelance writer, Flash Art, Art on Paper, artnet magazine, and wburg

Curator (with Courtney J. Martin): Tract, Plus Ultra Gallery, June/July 2002 – reviewed in The NY Times, 6/28/02, The New Yorker, 7/8/02, and Time Out, 7/11-18/02, Sunrise Sunset, Smack Mellon, June 2004