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Amy Casey 

b. 1976 in Erie, PA. Currently residing in Cleveland, OH

amy@amycaseypainting.com

 

I am represented by Zg Gallery in Chicago.

Solo Exhibitions

Languages

Skills

2024  Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, Headlong Towards a Precipice

 

2022  Canton Museum of Art, Canton OH, Continued Continuing

          Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL, Teeter Totter in Hotter Water

2019  Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL, Lost at the Bottom of The World

2018  Foley Gallery, New York, NY, A Forest of Uncertain Things

2017  Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL, Critical Mass

2016  Foley Gallery, New York, NY, Hold On

2015  Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, AK

          Zg Gallery, Chicago IL, Expansion

2013  Foley Gallery, New York, NY, Balancing New Growth

          Zg Gallery, Chicago IL, Putting Down Roots

2012  Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, W Lafayette, IN, Establishing a Solid Ground

          Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Building Towards a Solid Ground


2011  Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL, Boom Town


2010  Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

          Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009  Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL, Uncertain Times


2008  POV Evolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


2007  Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL, Things Fall Apart

2006  Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH, Strange Days

2010 - present

2010 - present

Selected group and 2 person shows

2024  Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH, Proximity of Fate


2023  Foley Gallery, New York, NY, Land(E)scapes

 

2022  Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH, State of the Art: Constructs

          Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL, State of the Art: Constructs

          CAN Triennial @ ARTneo & Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland OH

2021  Fitchburg Art Museum, MA, Joyride: Cars in American Art  

          Foley Gallery, New York, NY, Other Nature  

2020  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, State of the Art

2019  Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Nature vs Everything

2018  Antler Gallery, Portland, OR, Urban Legends

          Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, OH,  A House is Not a Home

2017  Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Projection/Convergence/Intersection

2015  Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, New American Paintings, Curator: Staci Boris

2014  White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Space//Squared, Curator: Sven Davis

          Maria Neil Project, Cleveland, OH, Rarely Home

2013  Underline Gallery, New York, NY, Norwood and Underline Present

2012  Reinberger Galleries, The Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, A Tale In Two Cities

          Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA, Architectural Deinforcement

          Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

2011  Foley Gallery, New York, NY, Looking Forward

          Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN, Bodies of Waters

          Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY, April Sky, Curator: Maya Brym

          Clifton's Brookdale, Los Angeles, CA, In the Trees, Curator: Rob Wilson


2010  Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, State of the City

          POV Evolving, Los Angeles, CA, Amy Casey & Jeremy Mora

2009  Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, The American Scene

          The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, There Goes the Neighborhood

2008 Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL, Painting Pink Pajamas

         Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO Parallax: Amy Casey, Amy Kligman & Minerva Ortiz

2007 South Bend Regional Museum of Art, IN, Biennial 24

         Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, 84th Annual Spring Show

Awards, Residencies

2024 Carrizozo Artist in Residency


2023 Paul and Norma Tikkanen 1st place painting prize realist category
 

2022 CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize

 

2020 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship, Residency, Taos NM

 

2019 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship

         Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award

 

2018 CAN Triennial exhibition prize

 

2017 Arteles Creative Residency Program, Hämeenkyrö, Finland

 

2015  Rasmuson Foundation  Artist in Residence, The Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska 

 

2011  Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award

 

2010  Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Summer Resident, sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council

 

2009 Creative Workforce Fellowship Grant

         The Cleveland Arts Prize, Emerging Artist Award

 

2007  Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award

 

2006  Artist in Residence, Zygote Press, Cleveland OH

 

2003  Full Fellowship Award - The Vermont Studio Center

          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

1998  Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship- Yale Summer School of Art and Music

Selected Bibliography/Reproductions

32 Poems, Literary magazine,No 43 Summer 2024, cover

CAN Magazine Spring 2024, cover ,“Fantastic and Resolute” preview by Jo Steigerwald

Continue as a Guest,  album by New Pornographers, Merge Records, 2023, cover art

The Plain Dealer, “The fantastical worlds of Amy Casey” feature by John Canale, 1/15/23

Akron Beacon Journal, "Surreal cityscapes defy gravity ", Sept 25, 2022 review by Anderson Turner

Precarious Towers,  album by Johannes Wallmann, 2022, cover art
Central Air, poems by George Bilgere, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, cover art

Catalog: The State of the Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, cover art

Hypertext Review: A Literary Anthology of Contemporary Writing, Spring/Summer 2020, cover art
Artists Magazine, “A World in Peril”, October 2020, pp 46-53, interview by John A. Parks

Hyperallergic, "A survey of American Art that isn’t just Coastal", Mar 7, 2020, review by Gregory Volk

Harpers Magazine, “Deep Deep Down", Amy Casey, February 2019, p 23, featured art

The After-Normal by David Carlin & Nicole Walker, Rose Metal Press, 2019, cover art
MTA Arts & Design Poster Program, New York, NY, 2018, poster displayed in NYC Transit stations
Notre Dame Review, No Place Like Home, number 46, Summer/Fall 2018, cover art

Stilt House, chapbook by Jacob Boyd, EMRYS press, 2018, cover art
Beloit Poetry Journal, vol 68 no 2, Fall 2018, cover art
Ethic magazine #30 2017, cover art (Spain)
Alternative Journal, 183, 2016, cover art (Canada)

Cleveland Landmark Series library card, 2015

Homer News, "Spotlight on Homer Houses", October 29, 2015, interview by Annie Rosenthal

Chicago Tribune, "A Bumpercrop of New American Art", August 13, 2015, review by Lori Waxman

New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, no.113, 2014

Zawód:Architekt #39, 2014, cover art (Poland)

The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty, The MIT Press, 2013, cover art

Manufacturing Uncertainty by Marlia Banning. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, 2013, cover art

Journal and Courier, “Thought Provoking Images” October 14, 2012, preview by Lauren Sedam

Pasajes Arquitectura y Critica, No122, April 2012, cover art, feature (Spain)

Parade the Circle, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, poster and t-shirt for Parade the Circle event

Dpi Magazine, vol 155, March 2012, interview (Taiwan)

San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 16, 2012, Visual Arts, “Amy Casey” preview by Stephanie Wright Hession 

Chicago Tribune, “Apocalyptic ends, intriguing starts”, July 28, 2011, review by Lori Waxman

Little Thing, "Amy Casey's World", Issue 16, February 2011, feature (China)

Free Hugs, December 2010-January 2011, cover art, feature (Russia)

Juxtapoz, n120, January 2011, p 20, one-page profile

The Forest of Sure Things by Megan Snyder Camp, Tupelo Press, 2010, cover art

Elephant Magazine #3 "Post Real" summer 2010, pp 76-77, interview by Margherita Dessanay(UK)

art ltd., March 2010, “Amy Casey at Michael Rosenthal”, review by Chérie Louise Turner

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland, Graywolf Press, 2009, cover art

New American Paintings no.83, The Open Studios Press, 2009, cover art

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", 2009, feature by Douglas Max Utter

Then We Saw the Flames by Daniel Hoyt, The University of Massachusetts Press, May 2009, cover art

Map of the Folded World by John Gallaher, The University of Akron Press, April 2009, cover art

Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing Vol 28.2, The University of Central Missouri,2008, cover art

The New York Times 4 .14. 08, reproduction on Op-Ed page

Hi-Fructose Volume 7, 2008 MUSE issue 04.08, featured artist

Time Out Chicago / Issue 140, Nov 1, 2007, Review by Alicia Eler

New American Paintings no. 71, The Open Studios Press

Angle Magazine Jan/Feb 07, Portfolio

Art Papers 1.05 "Amy Casey at Dead Horse Gallery", review by Douglas Max Utter 


Education

1999 BFA, Painting major, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

1998 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT

Public and Corporate Collections:

Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York, NY

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

ASI, St. Petersburg, FL
The Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, OH

The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL

BMO/Harris Bank, Chicago IL

Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH

Kishwaukee College, Malta, IL

Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, OH

The Weston Inc., Cleveland

Huntington Museum of Art, Huntingon, WV

Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH

Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

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