Born in 1974 in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
Amy Cutler was born in 1974, now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 1997. Amy Cutler creates intricate paintings on paper and detailed graphite drawings of women, animals, and hybrid beings engaged in enigmatic situations. These narrative works give form to latent feelings, societal observations, and personal memories, building a complex, layered world of visual metaphors.
Her first solo museum show took place in 2002 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA, and was followed by one-person exhibitions at institutions such as the Indianapolis Museum of Art, IA, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, among many others. In 2004, her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial. She has participated in numerous major surveys of contemporary art at institutions worldwide, including the Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY; and the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Her work is represented in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; New Museum, New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
education
1999
- The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1997
- BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1994–95
- Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
solo shows
2024
- Truce, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
- Amy Cutler: Limbo, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
- Amy Cutler: Past, Present, Progress, Ruby City/The Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX, USA
2021
- Amy Cutler: A Narrative Thread, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, USA
2020
- Amy Cutler, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, USA
2019
- Amy Cutler: Colloquies, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
- Amy Cutler: Points of Egress, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
2016
- Amy Cutler, Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
- Amy Cutler: Fossa and Other Works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
2014
- Amy Cutler, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
2013
- Amy Cutler: Brood, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
2012
- Amy Cutler, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, USA
2011
- Amy Cutler: Acquainted, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
- Amy Cutler: Brood, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
- SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2010
- The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2008
- Fantastical Fables: Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Amy Cutler, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA
- Alterations, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
2007
- Alteraciones/Alterations, Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
- Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
2006
- David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
2004
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
- Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
2003
- Once Upon A Time, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, USA
2002
- Dialogues: Amy Cutler / David Rathman, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
2000
- Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
group shows
2024
- Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA
- Who Is There?, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
- Pour, Tear, Carve, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA
- Threads That Bind, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, USA
2022
- Plants Now!, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Humor Me, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
- We are Family, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA
2021
- Seeing Differently, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA
- New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
2020
- Telling Stories: Resilience & Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing, Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, OH, USA
- Labor: Motherhood & Art, New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM, USA
2019
- Re/New: Recent Acquisitions by Contemporary Artists, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN, USA
- Drawn Together Again, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
- Labor & Materials, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
- We Contain Multitudes, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
2018
- Stockholm Calling, Galleri Magnus Karlsson at Asia House, London, UK
- Of Legends and Lore, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, USA
- You Tell Me, Foley Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
- The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
- Dialogues in Drawing, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Female/Feminist/2017, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, USA
- Women Painting, Kendall Campus Gallery, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, USA
2016
- Decade by Decade: Art Acquired in Its Time, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
- Belief + Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, The Nova Southeastern University Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
2015
- Talking Back: New Acquisitions, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- 20 Years 20 Shows: Summer, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Drawing Now, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
- Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA
2014
- The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona., Girl’s Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- PaperWork, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NY, USA
- On Paper: Alternate Realities in Contemporary Prints, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, USA
- Folklore: Original Fraktur Drawings in Conversation with Contemporary Works of Art, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA, USA
2013
- Time Waits for Us, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
- Ladies & Gents, Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
- Alter Egos and the Magical Other: John Bankston, Amy Cutler, Jeremiah Johnson, Fred Stonehouse, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, USA
2012
- Pressing Print, Universal Limited Art Editions 2000-2010, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY, USA
- Drawing Stories: Narration in Contemporary Graphic Arts, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
- The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- A Space for Dialogue, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
- Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, USA
2011
- Make Believe, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
- Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
2010
- Hecate’s Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- I-Lands, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Toreby, Lolland, Denmark
2009
- I-Lands, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
- Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
- Universal Limited Art Editions: Then and Now, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Fantastical Imaginings, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, USA
2008
- Every Man’s Life is a Fairytale, Larissa Goldston Gallery, NY, USA
- Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, The American Folk Art Museum, NY, USA
- Ultra Concentrated Joy – Ecstatic Drawings by Contemporary Artists, New York Academy of the Arts, NY, USA
- The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years, curated by Marilyn S. Kushner, International Print Center, New York, NY, USA
- In Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
- Tales of Wonder and Woe: Fable and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Art, The College of New Rochelle, NY, USA
- Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, DE, USA
- Utopia/Dystopia, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks +Projects, NY, USA
- Pandora’s Box, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2007
- You Know What’s Real, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA
- Domestic Departures, California State Fullerton Main Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA, USA
- Collected Visions: Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
- Global Feminisms, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, Traveled to: Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA
- Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2006
- Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
- Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2005
- Recent Acquisitions from the Grunwald Center, Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Drawing Narrative, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH, USA
- The Gallery, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
- Extraordinary Visions, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Surface, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Singular Expressions: A Sheldon Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, NE, USA
- Greater New York, P.S. 1/MoMA, NY, USA
2004
- Beauty Matter, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
- Conceptual Realism, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Print Publisher’s Spotlight: Universal Limited Art Edition, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
- The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
- Matrix 213: Some Forgotten Place, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
- About Painting, The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
- Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
- Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Abeyance, Ziehersmith Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003
- Pixerina Witcherina, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Adventure and the Contemporary Miraculous, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
- G Fine Art, Washington, D.C., USA
- American Art Today: Faces and Figures, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
- The 5th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA, Traveled to: Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN; Art Center/ South Florida, Miami, FL; Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
- Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Summer Group Show, Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2002
- Works on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
- LeslieTonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
- One Thousand Words, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, USA
- Drawings 2002, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, USA
- Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001
- Terrors and Wonders: Monsters in Contemporary Art, De Cordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
- Pixerina Witcherina, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
- Brooklyn Collects, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, USA
- Stranger Than You, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Wonderland, Bakalar & Huntington Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA
2000
- Gallery Artists, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA
- Selections Summer 2000, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
- Artists in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY, USA
- Miracle Whip, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999
- Art For Parks, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
- Summer Voices, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
- Clarke Bedford, Amy Cutler and Leslie Roberts, Eyewash Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Rural Crossing, 195 Bedford Avenue, New York, NY, USA
- Packing A Punch, Eyewash Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1998
- Regional Arts Issues: Painting, No B.I.A.S. Gallery, Bennington, VT, USA
- Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY, USA
1997
- Thesis Show, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA
public collections
Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Eskinazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
21C Museum Foundation, Louisville, KY
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
New Museum, New York
New York Public Library, New York
Nova Southeastern University Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, OH
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
awards
2025
- Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Residency
2022
- Space at Rider Farm Residency
2017
- NYFA Grant
2003
- Publishing Residency Lower Eastside Printshop
1999
- Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
1997
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, Lowe Award
