About the Artist

Amy Ellingson's paintings have been shown in solo exhibitions in New York, San
Francisco, Chicago and Santa Monica. Notable group exhibitions include Bay Area
Now 3, a triennial survey at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco;
Matter & Matrix at Scripps College in Claremont, CA; and Neo Mod: Recent
Northern California Abstraction at the Crocker Art Museum and the Monterey
Museum of Art. Ellingson is the recipient of the 2009 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka
Fellowship, the 2007 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship and the Artadia 1999
Grant to Individual Artists. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College
and an M.F.A. from CalArts. Her work is held in various public and corporate
collections, including the Oakland Museum of California, the U.S. Embassies in
Tunisia and Algeria, and the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is
represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco and is affiliated with Charles Cowles
Gallery in New York. Ellingson is Associate Professor of Painting in the School of
Studio Practice at the San Francisco Art Institute.