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Representation: Resource Art, Buffalo, NY
Education
MFA Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (2001)
BFA Fine Arts, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY (1998) - Painting (summa cum laude)
Minor in Museum Studies, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY (1998)
Selected Exhibitions (• Solo Shows)
2022
The Harvest, Play/Ground, a Resource:Art project, Buffalo RiverWorks, Buffalo, NY
• Blue Mythologies, Raft of Sanity, Buffalo, NY (September)
• Nature Magic, Buffalo Club, Buffalo NY
• Transit of Venus (film screening) Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Life As Clouds, String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY
2021
Cadeau, Raft of Sanity, Buffalo, NY
2020
Botanical Phantasm, Proximity, a Resource:Art project, Buffalo, NY
2019
• Spring, The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry: a Resource:Art project, Buffalo, NY
Counting the Hours, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Persephone, Play/Ground, a Resource:Art project, Medina, NY
•Wrapped in Plastic: Botanical Paintings by Amanda Besl, View Arts, Old Forge, NY
Biophilia, Two-person Exhibition, Exhibit A, Corning, NY
2018
How to Disappear Completely, Play/Ground, a Resource:Art project, Medina, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry, a Resource:Art project, Buffalo, NY
2017
• I’ll Try Not to Breathe, Anna Kaplan Contemporary, Buffalo, NY
Various Flora & Fauna, View, Old Forge, NY
2016
Echo Art Fair, NYC curated by Resource Art
2015
• The Forest Electric, BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2014
• Psyche’s Knot, BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2013
Unicorns & Rainbows, Studio Hart, Buffalo, NY
Red Thread, Indigo Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Faculty Exhibitions: SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY & Daemen College, Amherst, NY
2012
Youthful Indiscretions, Studio Hart, Buffalo, NY
Fireflies, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Echo Satellite curated by Leslie Zemsky, Larkin Square, Buffalo, NY
• Undertow, Nichols School, Buffalo, NY
2011
Forty for Forty, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
24/7: Always On, Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC, NY
Evolution | Revolution, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Thresholds of Visibility: A Survey of Miniature Art, Studio Hart, Buffalo, NY
Figuration and Its Disconnects, University at Buffalo Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY Figuration, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
MARK Making, Artspace, Buffalo, NY
2010
• Riding Lessons, Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC, NY
Moxie and Mayhem, Burchfield Penney Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Alchemy of Delusion, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Group at Loft, Galerie Sandrine Mons, Nice, France
Status Update, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Another Damn Good Painting Show, Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC, NY
Playground, Rusart, Moscow, Russia
2008
• If the Slipper Fits..., Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
• She's So Cosmogirl! Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, NYC, NY
Karma Cab Boa, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Small Treasures, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2007
•The Girl with the Most Cake, Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Beyond/In WNY Biennial, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
8 Hour Drawing, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
Goodbye 511, Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, NYC, NY
2006
• Line My Eyes And Call Me Pretty, Galerie Zervudacki, Nice, France
• Smells Like Teen Rococo, Lyons Wier Ortt, NYC, NY
Distinctive (Witzenhausen Gallery), Amsterdam, Netherlands (3 person)
Consuming Passions: Exquisite Horizons, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Selected Collections
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo
Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
Tullman Collection, Chicago