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Amy Bennett - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Amy Bennett in her studio, Cold Spring, NY, 2024.

Amy Bennett (b. 1977 in Portland, ME) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1999 from the University of Hartford, CT and her Master of Fine Arts in 2002 from the New York Academy of Art.

Bennett has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; and Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

Her work has been included in institutional group exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, and elsewhere.

In 2011, Bennett was selected by MTA Arts & Design to install her mosaic “Heydays” at the 86th Street & 4th Avenue MTA Station in Brooklyn, NY. Other awards and accolades include the New York State Council on the Arts’ Painting Fellowship; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fine Arts Fellowship; and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Award, among others.

Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA. 

Amy Bennett lives and works in Cold Spring, NY.

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