AMY BAY // CV

Born 1970, Elkhart, IN
Lives and works in Portland, OR

EDUCATION
2017 Turps Banana, London, England, Correspondence Course in Painting
1997 Winchester School of Art, University of Southhampton, Barcelona, Spain and Winchester, England, Master of Fine Art
1993 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Bachelor of Fine Art

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Book of Love, Nationale, Portland, OR
2023 They Always Have, and Still Do, Nationale, Portland, OR
2023 Me and You and You and Me, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
2021 Blush, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
2018 Yes Please Thank You, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
2018 Amy Bay and Justyn Hegreberg, Snag Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 That Reminds Me (to nature the roof and the floor holding heart), Bardo-29, The House Museum, Gillams, Newfoundland, Canada
2016 Wet Paint, with Joan Mellon, Pleat Gallery, pleatgallery.com
2011 Bramble, Artscapes, Spaceworks, Tacoma, Tacoma, WA
2006 land, sea, sky..., Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburg Branch, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Elevations, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NY
2002 Be Here Now, with Bellamy Printz, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2000 View: A Site Specific Project, Queens Theater in the Park, Flushing Meadows, NY
1997 Floor, Galería Panorama, Barcelona, Spain

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 A Place Between, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Growth, The Luminary, Saint Louis, MO
2024 Life, Still, Casa Santa Ana, Roux Foundation, Panama City, Panama
2023 Super-Natural, Oregon State University, President’s Residence, Corvalis, OR, 2023
2023 Edition 13, Cygnet’s Way, Kingston, NY, 2023
2023 2023 Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2023
2023 Homemaker, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA, 2023
2022 It’s Personal, Nationale, Portland, OR, 2022
2022 On the Verge of Recognition, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR, 2022
2021 COALESCE, Stelo Arts, Portland, OR, 2021
2021 hard & SOFT, Congress Yard Projects, Portland, OR, 2021
2020 Eartha, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR, 2020
2020 Heathers, Rubus Discolor Project, Portland, OR, 2020
2020 Plus One, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY, 2020
2019 Faculty Art Show, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2019
2018 Faculty Art Show, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2018
2018 The First Writing, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2018
2017 Faculty Art Show, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2017
2017 artlikelifelike, UNA Gallery, Portland, OR, 2017
2017 Newfoundland: Real and Imagined, BARDO-29, The House Museum, Gillams, Newfoundland, Canada, 2017
2017 The Bedroom, T.W.A.T. Collective, Na Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, 2017
2017 The Bedroom, T.W.A.T. Collective, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, 2017
2016 The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York, NY, 2016
2016 ArtWorks NW Exhibit, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Hallie Brown Ford Gallery, Roseburg, OR
2016 Environs, Occasional Gallery, Burlington, WA
2015 Salon Salon, The Portland 'Pataphysical Society
2014 Somewhat Slightly, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Around Oregon, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
2011 Street Art, Project Grow and The Gallery at Port City, Portland, OR
2011 Inaugural Exhibition, Paula Lalala MVSEVM, The Guest Room, Corwallville, NY
2010 Curators: Raising Humans, Buzzer Thirty, Long Island City, NY
2010 Over Water, Nisus Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Four More Years, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NY
2005 Inside/Out, The Garage, Jersey City, NJ
2005 d.um.b.o. art under the bridge festival, d.um.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Look Closer…, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Street Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2002 Projects ’02, with Oona Stern, The Carriage House at The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2002 Paper Remix, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY
2001 Editions 2001, The Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
2001 In Color, Museum at FIT, New York, NY
2001 The Worst of Gordon Pym, continued..., Printed Matter, New York, NY
2000 Chicago Printmaker's Collaborative: A Decade of Prints, Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Wish You Were Here, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Line Up...Sequences and Scopes, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
1998 Apt., 268 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY
1998 Artist in the Marketplace 18th Annual Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1998 Ground Control: Site-Specific Works, 95 Norman, Brooklyn, NY
1997 MFA Exhibition, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England
1997 Foreign Affairs, Can Felipa, Art Public, Barcelona, Spain
1997 Mysterious Worlds, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1997 Views: Selections from the Lower East Side Printshop, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1995 Printed at the Lower East Side Printshop, La Mama La Galeria, New York, NY
1994 Unknown Chicago, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1994 Books and Bookishness, DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

AWARDS
2024 Forest for the Trees, Seattle, WA - Hotel Westland Residency and Commission
2024 Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR - Individual Artist Fellowship
2021 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR - Make|Learn|Build Grant
2020 Rauschenberg Foundation And New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY - Rauschenberg Emergency Grant
2019 Stelo Arts, Portland, OR - Papermaking Residency
2017 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR - Professional Development Grant
2006 Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium - Artist-in-Residence
2001 Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY - Special Editions
2001 Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH - Artist-in-Residence 
1999 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY - 21 For 25 Grant
1998 Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY - Artist-in-Residence, Workspace Program
1998 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY - Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship
1997 Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY - Artist-in-Residence

VISITING ARTIST
2019, 2018, 2024 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2018 Portland State University, Portland, OR
2017, 2018 Public Annex, Portland, OR
2007 Parsons School of Design, Continuing Education, New York, NY
2002 Kent State University, Blossom Program, Kent, OH
2002 Winchester School of Art, Barcelona, Spain

COLLECTIONS
Miller Miegs Collection, Portland, OR
Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
Public Art Collection, Portland, OR
Hotel Westland, Seattle, WA

PHILANTHROPY
2023 Ditch Projects 15yr Anniversary Auction, Eugene, OR
2022 Oregon Contemporary’s 15th Annual Art First Artist’s Auction, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018 Disjecta’s 12th Annual Auction, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
2018 Soil's Exquisite Auction, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Nasty Women, Killjoy Collective, Portland, OR
2016 Disjecta 10th Annual Art Auction, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
2009 Visual Aids 11th Annual Postcards From the Edge Benefit Exhibition, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Take Out Auction, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Daghlian, Ním. Amy Bay at Nationale, mmmx.cloud
2023 Costello, Lindsay. Amy Bay: They Always Have and Still Do, Ever Out
2022 Duyao, Justin. Coalesce at Stelo, Oregon Artswatch, Portland, OR
2021 Munson, Portia. BROADSIDE: Amy Bay and Portia Munson, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
2021 Adams, Amy. Cultured City Guide: New Artistic Ventures Underline Portland, Oregon’s Independent Spirit, Cultured Magazine
2021 Rina, Amelia. Studio Visit: Amy Bay, BOMB Magazine, NYC
2021 Gilsdorf, Bean. Say It With Flowers, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
2020 Costello, Lindsay. The allure of interconnection, Oregon ArtsWatch, Portland, OR
2019 Clem, Amanda. Art Focus, KBOO, Portland, OR
2019 Schell, David. Semi-Finalist Presents: Amy Bay, Semi-Finalist, Portland, OR
2018 Anonymous. Yes Please Thank You at Melanie Flood Projects, Try Harder PDX
2018 Daghlian, Ním.  VizArts Monthly: The past lingers, the future beckons, Oregon ArtsWatch
2018 Gifford, Ashley. Artist Interview with Amy Bay: Pattern and Painting, Art & About PDX, Portland, OR
2018 Warde-Aldam, Grace. Yes Please Thank You, Selvedge Magazine Daily Blog, London, England
2018 Roberts, Prudence. Yes Please Thank You, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
2018 Things to Do. The 15 Best Ways to Enjoy the Arts This Week, Portland Mercury
2017 Art Beat. ‘The Bedroom' Currently on Display at Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, The Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY
2016 Collins, Beth. Studio Visit: Amy Bay, Pleat Gallery, pleat.gallery/blog
2016 Hochhausen, Bill. The Retrieval of The Beautiful, The Painting Center, NYC
2015 365 Artists 365 Days. Amy Bay - Portland, Oregon, 365artists365days.com
2011 Evans, Katy.  Worthy of Woolworth?, Post Defiance, Tacoma, WA
2005 Burns, Kelly.  I NY: New York Street Art, Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co., Berlin, Germany
2003 Alvarez, Desiree.  A Quite Revolution, Printshop Newsletter #13, Lower East Side Printshop, NYC
2003 Schmerler, Sarah.  Street Selections, Time Out New York, NYC
2003 The Drawing Center.  Drawing Papers 37, Street Selections, NYC
2002 Ramoran, Edwin.  Visual Mischief, 2002
2002 Vivieros-Faune, Christian.  Editions 2001, Lower East Side Printshop, NYC
2002 Harrison, Helen, Projects 2002, The New York Times
2002 Ramoran, Edwin.  Paper Remix:  Dieu Donne Workspace Program 1995-2000, Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC
2001 Smith, Roberta.  The Worst of Gordon Pym Continued, The New York Times, NYC
2001 Women's Studio Workshop.  21 for 25, WSW, Rosendale, NYC
2000 McGowen, Glen.  Through the Looking Glass, Newsday, NYC
2000 Love, Robyn.  View:  A Site-Specific Installation for Queens Theater in the Park, Queens Theater in the Park, Flushing Meadows, NY
1999 Noelle, Sally.  Investigations into Creative Space, element.  issue number 6: space.  mermaid turbulence publications.  Dublin, Ireland
1999 Georgia, Olivia.  Line Up: Sequences and Scopes, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, NYC
1998 Cotter, Holland.  One Museum, Five Shows and a Million Lives and Passions, The New York Times, NYC
1998 Nieves, Marysol.  Artist in the Marketplace 18th Annual Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1998 Vayzman, Liena.  Ground Control, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Catafal i Rull, Jordi.  Silencis de Llum, Can Felipa, Art Public, Barcelona, Spain
1998 Lombardi, Dominick.  Bound Together:  Bookworks by Women, Night.  Number 31, NYC