Amy Stephens

B. 1981

Lives and works in London

Education

2008 Chelsea College of Art and Design, MA Fine Art

2006 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art (Distinction)

2001-2005University of Reading, BA (Hons) Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2011Restless Nature, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin

 This Urban Silence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 Spatial Territories, La Scatola Gallery, London

2010Aestheticising the Inanimate, Islington Museum, London

 The Rise of the Wapiti, Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Canada

2007Perceived Intervention, St. Peter's Church, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011Synthetic Real, Edel Assanti, London

 Piece of Paper, Madder139, London

 visit, Open Studios, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London

 Culture Night, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 Restrike, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London

 Open House, Studio Voltaire, London

 Line, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London

 Common Logic, IMT Gallery, London

2010Sunday Art Fair, London with the Zabludowicz Collection

 two sides of the same plain, Stour Space, London (two person show with Gary Colclough)

 No Soul For Sale - A Festival of Independents, The Drawing Shed with PSL, Tate Modern, London

 Artbeat, Bedford Street Gallery, Woburn

 Things I Made, Things I Found And Made, Salon Contemporary, London

 Spin Spin Utopia, 242 Gallery, London (two person show with Charlie Franklin)

2009My Island Downtown, SÍM, Hafnarstraeti Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

 Meet Pamela, Project Space Leeds, Leeds

 The Monochromatics, The Kiddell Gallery, Sotheby's, London

 Meet Pamela, John Jones Project Space, London

 Open, Studio Voltaire, London

2008195 Miles, Project Space Leeds in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery (collaboration with Rory Macbeth)

 Salon08, VINEspace, Vyner Street, London

 Collect4, The Empire Gallery, Vyner Street, London

 Print Basel, Switzerland

 Papers, Scissors, Stone, RKB Gallery, London

 Condensation, Decima Gallery, London

 nearly now, nearly me, nearly show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

 Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland

 The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2007Reconnaissance, The Empire Gallery, Vyner Street, London

 Art for Youth, Mall Galleries, London

2006Hostel, Keith Talent, London

 The Works of Others, Whitechapel Library, London

 Grow Bag, Mile End Pavilion, London

 I'll Show You Mine, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2005Allotment Plot 180A, Reading

 Animated Spaces, New Greenham Arts, Newbury

2004Gaslight Gallery, Mougins, France

Residencies

2011 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, August - November

2010 Banff Centre, Visual Arts Self-directed Creative Residency, Canada, September - October

2009 Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM), Artists Residency, Reykjavík, November

Awards

2011The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture (Shortlisted)

 Converse / Dazed Emerging Artists Award (Shortlisted)

 Artist's Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Awarded)

2009 The London Group Open Submission (Awarded)

2008 Salon08 Open Submission (Awarded)

  DLA Piper Art Award (Shortlisted)

2007 Mary Grob award, Chelsea Arts Society (Awarded)

Commission/Auctions (Selected)

2009 British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel, Gala Dinner and Auction, Work Donated, November

  The Whitechapel Gallery Gala Auction, Work Donated, February

Publications/Reviews/Articles (Selected)

2012The Visual Artists' News Sheet - Review of Restless Nature, Curt Riegelnegg, January

2011BBC News - Entertainment and Arts: Female artists top Threadneedle shortlist, September

 Independent, Arts and Entertainment, Shortlisted Artists for The Threadneedle Prize, September

  Aesthetica Magazine, Spatial Territories at La Scatola Gallery, October Issue

  The World of Interiors, Exhibition Diary, October Issue by Charlotte Edwards

  Time Out, Review of Line, May Issue by Rosalie Doubal

  Dazed Digital, Interview with Poppy Sebire, April Issue by Felicity Shaw

2010 No Soul for Sale - A Festival of Independents, Tate by Charlie Independents

  Heaver Magazine, Art Scene, Spring Issue 2010 by Ashley Eldridge-Ford

  a-n Magazine, Review of Meet Pamela, February Issue 2010 by Lara Eggleton

2009 Guardian - Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week, 4 December by Frances Stark

  A Touch of Colour, by British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel

  Square Mile Magazine, Seeing The Bigger Picture, September Issue by Lou Cooper

  Tatler, Exhibit A-List, May Issue by Ticky Hedley-Dent

2008 Art Monthly, Prizes, residencies and commissions, December Issue

  MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, September, self-published

2007 Art Monthly, Perceived Intervention, Amy Stephens, July Issue

Professional Practice

2009 Meet Pamela, Panel Discussion with Sam Thorne, Associate Editor, Frieze, September

  195 Miles, Panel Discussion with the artists and Directors from Project Space Leeds, February

  Visiting Lecturer, University of Reading, Fine Art

2008 Visiting Lecturer, University of Reading, Fine Art

Public and Private Collections

The Azam Collection

The Munster Collection

The Zabludowicz Collection

Penny Mason and Richard Sykes

Private Collections in London and Colorado