Amy Casey
born 1976 in Erie, Pennsylvania
currently residing in Cleveland, Ohio


Education

1994-1999 B.F.A, Painting major, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH
1998(summer) Yale Summer School of Art and Music


Solo Exhibitions

2011    Boom Town, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
   Amy Casey, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
    Amy Casey, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009    Uncertain Times, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008    
New  Paintings, POV Evolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007    
Things Fall Apart, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006    
Strange Days, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2004    
Creeping Through, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH
2002    
Amy Casey, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH


Selected Group and 2 person Exhibitions

2011     Looking Forward,  Foley Gallery, New York, NY
             
Bodies of Waters, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
             
April Sky, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY.  Curator: Maya Brym.
    Spacelift , Walleye Gallery, Cleveland OH.  Curator: Kristin Bly
    In the Trees, Clifton's Brookdale, Los Angeles, CA.  Curator: Rob Wilson

2010    
State of the City, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
    Community and Loneliness, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
    House WARNING, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus OH
    MMX  group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
    Amy Casey and Jeremy Mora, POV Evolving, Los Angeles, CA

2009    
The American Scene, The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
    There Goes the Neighborhood, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
    Clusterf*#K, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
    The Big Three, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Movers and Shakers, POV Evolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    The Halpert Biennial,  The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC

2008    
Painting Pink Pajamas, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL
    Hello Comrade, POV Evolving, Los Angeles, CA
    Living in Your Imagination, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
    National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
    Infrastructure, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
    Alex Lukas, Chris Pew, Amy Casey, White Walls San Francisco, CA

2007    Amy Casey & Breehan James, Parish Hall, Cleveland, OH
    Biennial 24, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, IN

2006    Amathin, Amy Casey, Liz Maugans, E Gordon Gallery, Cleveland, OH


Awards, Honors

2011    Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
2010    Fine Arts Work Center Summer Resident, sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council
2009    Creative Workforce Fellowship
    The Cleveland Arts Prize, Emerging Artist Award
2008    Juror's Mention, National Works on Paper Exhibition
2007    Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
    Juror's Award, Biennial 24, SBRMA, jurors, Meg Sheehy & Myra Casis
2006    Artist in Residence, Zygote Press, Cleveland OH
2003    Full Fellowship Award - The Vermont Studio Center- one month artist residency
    Jurors Award, Erie Art Museum 80th Annual Spring Show, juror, James Yood
2002    Kroger Award of Excellence, Juror's Award, Art on View, juror, Petra Fallaux
2001    Juror's Award, Erie Art Museum 78th Annual Spring Show, juror, Fred Wilson
2000    Katherine and Lee Chilcote Foundation Award for New Work, Drawn Together
1998    Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship- Yale Summer School of Art and Music


Selected Bibliography/Reproductions

Chicago Tribune, July 28, 2011, "Apocalyptic ends, intriguing starts", review by Lori Waxman
Little Thing, February, 2011 "Amy Casey's World" feature
Free Hugs, December 2010-January 2011, cover, feature
Juxtapoz, January 2011, One page profile
The Forest of Sure Things, Megan Snyder Camp, Tupelo Press, 2010, cover
Elephant   "Post Real" summer 2010
art  ltd., March 2010, “Amy Casey at Michael Rosenthal”, review by Chérie Louise Turner
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland, Graywolf Press 2010, cover
CAN, Sept 2009
New American Paintings no.83, The Open Studios press, 2009, cover
Middle Cyclone, Neko Case
The Plain Dealer 7.26.09 "Poetic, provocative works echo the plight of cities"  Review by Steven Litt
Cleveland Scene June 17-23, "Cities in Flight" Feature by Douglas Max Utter
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing  vol.29.1, The University of Central Missouri, 2009, cover
Then We Saw the Flames , Daniel Hoyt, The University of Massachusetts Press, May 2009, cover
Map of the Folded World , John Gallaher, The University of Akron Press, April 2009, cover  
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing Vol 28. 2 2008,The University of Central Missouri, cover
The Cleveland Free Times 7.2-7.8, cover
The Plain Dealer 5.10.08 "Imagination is Heavy on Reality"  Review by Steven Litt
The New York Times 4 .14. 08, reproduction on Op Ed page
Hi-Fructose Volume 7, 2008
MUSE issue 04.08, featured artist
The Plain Dealer  11.30.07,"Drawing on local landscape.." Review by Dan Tranberg
Flavor Pill Issue 164, 11. 6. 07
Time Out Chicago / Issue 140 : Nov 1,  07 Review by Alicia Eler
New American Paintings no. 71, The Open Studios Press
Cleveland Free Times June 6  07,"You Can't Go Home Again", Review by Douglas Max Utter
Angle Magazine Jan/Feb  07, Portfolio
Artefakt Oct/Nov 05, "The World As We Know It" Review by Douglas Max Utter
The Cleveland Free Times 3/2/05, "Creature Discomforts" Review by Lyz Bly
Art Papers 1.05 "Amy Casey at Dead Horse Gallery" Review by Douglas Max Utter
Scene,11.13.02 "And A Pig Shall Lead Them" Review by Amy Sparks


I am represented by Zg Gallery in Chicago