Amy Ellingson

Recent group exhibitions include Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Jan 1, 2018 through Jun 30, 2022) and Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University (August 24 – December 23, 2017).

The artist’s most notable artworks include her 2015 public commission Untitled (Large Variation), an 1100 square-foot mural commissioned by the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and the San Francisco Arts Commission. The piece covers a slightly curved wall with 60 different colors of tile and seven shades of grout, was made in collaboration with Montreal mosaic fabricators Mosaika, and is installed in SFO’s expanded Terminal 3.

Her solo exhibitions include Amy Ellingson: Chopping Wood on the Astral Plane at Minnesota Street Project (October 1–29, 2016) and Iterations & Assertions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (June 7–September 13, 2014). The exhibition is an example of how Ellingson can stretch herself and her work in terms of ambitious conception and production.

From 2000 to 2011, Ellingson taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, attaining the rank of Associate Professor. Since 2011 she has served on the Board of Directors at Root Division, a visual arts non-profit in San Francisco. She lectured on the artwork of hard-edge abstract painter Frederick Hammersley at the New Mexico Museum of Art in relation to her own work, highlighting the use of “formal repetition, variation, and mutation within a system.”

Amy Ellingson (born 1964) is an American contemporary abstract painter. She is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.