About the Artist
Amy Greenan was born in 1970, and raised in the exburbs of Buffalo, NY. She studied at SUNY Purchase (BFA, 1993), and the University at Buffalo (MFA, 2007). Her first post-graduate solo show in 2009, part of the TopSpin Series introducing emerging artists at Niagara University’s Castellani Art Museum, brought her to the attention of serious collectors and institutions.
Her work has since been shown internationally, and has been accessioned into the permanent collections of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY, the Gibson Art Gallery at SUNY Potsdam, and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS.
Greenan is a recipient of the John Hartigan Memorial Painting Scholarship for the Ox-Bow artist residency, Saugatuck, MI (2011) as well as several NYFA SOS grants (2008–2011). She lives and works in Niagara Falls, NY.
She is represented by Uprise Art and Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City, and Exhibit A in Corning, NY.
Artist Statement
I experiment with color and comic book-inspired directness. Into these simple narratives, I investigate and interweave personal mysteries. Techniques such as direct paint drips and obscured notations result in telling stories that reflect a very subjective truth and history.
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SELECTED SOLO*/TWO/THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016
The Rest Is Silence with Elizabeth Switzer, Studio Hart, Buffalo, NY
Title TBD with Patrick Robideau, Indigo Art, Buffalo, NY
Title TBD with Betty Tompkins and Brad Phillips, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2014
*Greenan@Kenan, Kenan Art Center, Lockport, NY
2013
*Feeling Minnesota, Macrostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
*Little Things, Peter and Mary Lou Vogt Gallery at Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
2012
*10 Works, Exhibit A Gallery, Corning, NY
2011
*Looking Out, Thinking Back, Houghton Gallery, 171 Cedar Arts, Corning, NY
*Works on Paper, The Steele Gallery at the Poly, Falmouth, England
2009
*Nothing Was about to Happen, Castellani Art Museum at Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Art Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with Susan Eley Fine Art)
Art Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL (with Susan Eley Fine Art)
2014
Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco Art Fair, San Mateo, CA (with Susan Eley Fine Art)
echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
Elements of Domesticity, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Emerging/Converging, Damon Morey Law Offices at the Avant, Buffalo, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Spring, New York, NY (with Uprise Art)
Landscape/Structure, Exhibit A Gallery, Corning, NY
Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence, Youme Haus, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Vascular Modes, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY (view video of participating
artists, including Amy Greenan starting at 5:20, here)
2012
TopSpin10/The Ten-Year TopSpin Retrospective, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY
The Other New York: 2012 Biennial, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Spring, New York, NY (with Uprise Art)
echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
2011
Three Women, Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY (three-person)
Uprise Art Pop-Up Show, OPENSPACE, New York, NY
Buffalo on the Bowery, Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY
echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
2010
Moxie and Mayhem: Acquisitions for a New Museum, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Fifty-Two, Room 212, Bristol, England
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bruce Adams, “On View: Greenan’s Houses,” Buffalo Spree Magazine, Buffalo, NY, February 2014.
Rachel Somerstein, “The Other New York: 2012,” ARTNews, March 2013, p. 104.
Jack Foran, “Amy Greenan’s Paintings at Cansius College,” ARTVOICE, Buffalo, NY, March 28, 2013.
So Eun Kim, “How Painter Amy Greenan Restores Abandoned Houses — From Old to New,”
ARTVOICE, Buffalo, NY, September 29, 2011.
Colin Dabkowski, “In the House: Two Area Exhibits Put Greenan’s Paintings on Display”,
The Buffalo News Gusto Magazine, Buffalo, NY, August 19, 2011.
COLLECTIONS
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, NY
First Niagara Bank, Buffalo, NY
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Roland A. Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Private collections throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
Her work has since been shown internationally, and has been accessioned into the permanent collections of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY, the Gibson Art Gallery at SUNY Potsdam, and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS.
Greenan is a recipient of the John Hartigan Memorial Painting Scholarship for the Ox-Bow artist residency, Saugatuck, MI (2011) as well as several NYFA SOS grants (2008–2011). She lives and works in Niagara Falls, NY.
She is represented by Uprise Art and Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City, and Exhibit A in Corning, NY.
Artist Statement
I experiment with color and comic book-inspired directness. Into these simple narratives, I investigate and interweave personal mysteries. Techniques such as direct paint drips and obscured notations result in telling stories that reflect a very subjective truth and history.
CV
SELECTED SOLO*/TWO/THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016
The Rest Is Silence with Elizabeth Switzer, Studio Hart, Buffalo, NY
Title TBD with Patrick Robideau, Indigo Art, Buffalo, NY
Title TBD with Betty Tompkins and Brad Phillips, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2014
*Greenan@Kenan, Kenan Art Center, Lockport, NY
2013
*Feeling Minnesota, Macrostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
*Little Things, Peter and Mary Lou Vogt Gallery at Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
2012
*10 Works, Exhibit A Gallery, Corning, NY
2011
*Looking Out, Thinking Back, Houghton Gallery, 171 Cedar Arts, Corning, NY
*Works on Paper, The Steele Gallery at the Poly, Falmouth, England
2009
*Nothing Was about to Happen, Castellani Art Museum at Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Art Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with Susan Eley Fine Art)
Art Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL (with Susan Eley Fine Art)
2014
Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco Art Fair, San Mateo, CA (with Susan Eley Fine Art)
echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
Elements of Domesticity, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Emerging/Converging, Damon Morey Law Offices at the Avant, Buffalo, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Spring, New York, NY (with Uprise Art)
Landscape/Structure, Exhibit A Gallery, Corning, NY
Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence, Youme Haus, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Vascular Modes, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY (view video of participating
artists, including Amy Greenan starting at 5:20, here)
2012
TopSpin10/The Ten-Year TopSpin Retrospective, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY
The Other New York: 2012 Biennial, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Spring, New York, NY (with Uprise Art)
echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
2011
Three Women, Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY (three-person)
Uprise Art Pop-Up Show, OPENSPACE, New York, NY
Buffalo on the Bowery, Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY
echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
2010
Moxie and Mayhem: Acquisitions for a New Museum, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Fifty-Two, Room 212, Bristol, England
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bruce Adams, “On View: Greenan’s Houses,” Buffalo Spree Magazine, Buffalo, NY, February 2014.
Rachel Somerstein, “The Other New York: 2012,” ARTNews, March 2013, p. 104.
Jack Foran, “Amy Greenan’s Paintings at Cansius College,” ARTVOICE, Buffalo, NY, March 28, 2013.
So Eun Kim, “How Painter Amy Greenan Restores Abandoned Houses — From Old to New,”
ARTVOICE, Buffalo, NY, September 29, 2011.
Colin Dabkowski, “In the House: Two Area Exhibits Put Greenan’s Paintings on Display”,
The Buffalo News Gusto Magazine, Buffalo, NY, August 19, 2011.
COLLECTIONS
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, NY
First Niagara Bank, Buffalo, NY
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Roland A. Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Private collections throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
