SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2023

  • Technosignatures, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

• 2021

  • LOOP, Eli Ridgway Gallery, Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

  • The Mountains Are In Us, Eli Ridgway Gallery, Bozeman, MT

• 2020

  • Firmament, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

• 2018

  • Sweetbitter Beast, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

• 2016

  • Chopping Wood on the Astral Plane, Eli Ridgway | Contemporary Art, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

• 2014

  • Field Theories, ProjeKcts by Projects/Shoichiro, Tokyo, Japan

  • Iterations & Assertions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

• 2013

  • Recent Work, Miami Project, Eli Ridgway Gallery, Miami, FL

• 2010

  • SUMMER FRIEZE, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• 2008

  • Recursions, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

• 2006

  • Recent Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• 2004

  • Semper Augustus, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

• 2003

  • Ec/centric Compositions, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• 2002

  • Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, Fassbender/Stevens Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

• 1999

  • Between Repetition and Insistence, jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

• 1997

  • A Hankering..., Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

• 1994

  • Flora and Fauna, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA

• 1992

  • The Princess and P., Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2026

  • Ostinatos, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

  • Women in Abstraction, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• 2025

  • Duologies, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

• 2024

  • Berggruen Gallery booth, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL

  • Material Instinct, 120710, Berkeley, CA

  • Intervals, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

• 2023

  • 45+, Part II, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

• 2022

  • New Work, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

• 2020

  • Topographies, Alcoves 20/20, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

  • Inaugural Exhibition, Eli Ridgway Gallery, Bozeman, MT

• 2017

  • Concatenation: Amy Ellingson, Linda Fleming, Katy Stone, Jae Ko, Ted Larsen, Derrick Velasquez, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

  • Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists, Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

  • About Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

  • Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

  • Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

  • Spectral Hues, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

  • Artadia booth, Untitled, San Francisco, CA

• 2015

  • Resonate, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

• 2014

  • Women and Print, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalogue)

  • Shift—Five Decades of Contemporary California Painting, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

• 2012

  • Her Elegant Universe, Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA (curated by Diana Daniels)

• 2011

  • One Thing Leads to Another: Seriality in Works on Paper, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

  • Driven to Abstraction, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • New Editions: Amy Ellingson, Stefan Kirkeby and Inez Storer, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

  • Ucross Retrospective Exhibition, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Ucross, WY

• 2010

  • Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY (catalogue)

  • Out of Order: Geometric Systems in Contemporary Bay Area Art, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

• 2009

  • Color and Construct: Amy Ellingson, Patsy Krebs, Bruce Robbins, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • San Francisco Art Institute Faculty & Alumni: A Thin Slice, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

  • Art on Market Street: A Selection of Kiosk Posters from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

• 2008

  • Gallery 16 Fifteenth Anniversary Group Show: These Are The People In Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

• 2007

  • Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

• 2005

  • Director's Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • Twofold: Collaborations on Campus, Richard L. Nelson Gallery (Project Room), University of California, Davis

  • Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

• 2004

  • Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

  • The Big Spin: 2004 Faculty Exhibition, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

• 2003

  • Matter & Matrix, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalogue)

• 2002

  • Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

  • A Chance Operation: 2002 Faculty Exhibition, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

  • The Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA

• 2001

  • Calligraphic Legacy, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA

  • [climax], jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

  • Icon-O-Pop, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • The Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA

  • ExtraOrdinary: 2001 Faculty Exhibition, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

  • KABOOM!, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• 2000

  • Light Fantastic, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

  • Head Cheese, Ft. Haggis Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • People as Material, institution, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

  • backroom, jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

  • Emotionally Annoyed, ESP, San Francisco, CA

• 1999

  • Works by the Recipients of the 1999 Artadia Award to Visual Artists, Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

  • jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

• 1998

  • emerge: Gen Art SF's Premier Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

• 1996

  • New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition (Lisa Phillips, Juror), Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX (catalogue)

• 1995

  • Bloom, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY

• 1994

  • FOOD HOUSE Two Year Anniversary Exhibition, Santa Monica, CA

• 1993

  • Germinal Notations, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA

  • Peculiar Paintings (Randy Sommer, Curator), Woodbury University, Burbank, CA

  • New American Talent: The Ninth Exhibition (Kerry Brougher, Juror), Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX

“I am fascinated by fluctuating states of technology and craft, whether established, evolving, or evanescent. I have identified primarily as a painter over the last four decades, and have combined traditional painting methodologies with computer graphic design elements since 1990.

Increasingly, I use the data files associated with my painting process—raster and vector files, primarily—to create related, tangential objects, such as bronze and glazed porcelain sculptures, robotic drawings, hand-drawn graphite drawings, and Jacquard tapestries. The various manifestations of the data, in a range of media, suggest the mutable, trickle-down, and omnipresent effects of digital information. The works relay the same basic informational “code” with varying degrees of digital and material mediation. Together, they address the multiplicity of expressive possibilities within a limited system that explores the nature of formal repetition, image, and object-hood.

I am interested in the incalculable effects of the rise of digital technology on both artistic production and on the experience of looking at art. My process is a conflation of traditional methodologies and new technologies, of hand-made and digitally produced, of strict protocol and strategic work-arounds, of natural and artificial, and of fast and slow. My work addresses this moment in time, in which we, as a species, are betwixt and between the analog past and a digitally immersive future.”

- Amy Ellingson