AMY STACEY CURTIS

Education

MA Art and Psychology, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont, 2000
BA Studio Art (Phi Beta Kappa, highest distinction), University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 1993 Grants, Awards, and Honors
2011 Artists' Fellowship, Inc. Grant, New York, New York
2011 Change Inc. Grant, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
2011 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts
2009 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts
2009 Rebel Blend Fund, Coffee By Design
2007 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts
2005 Individual Artist Fellowship, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts
2005 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts
2003 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts
1993 Ruth Stebbins and Edmund G. Schildknect Art Honor Award

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012 SPACE, October 6-26, Maine mill TBD
2011 Perceiving Space, October 22-November 18, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2011 Amy Stacey Curtis: 270 Minutes, January 29, The Garage, San Diego, California
2010 TIME, October 9-28, Pepperell Mill, Biddeford, Maine. Sixth solo biennial
2009 27 Minutes, 27 Hours, November 6-28, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2009 Amy Stacey Curtis: Sort, October 7-24, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts
2008 LIGHT, October 4-24, Sanford Mill, Sanford, Maine. Fifth solo biennial
2007 Currents 4: Amy Stacey Curtis, November 15-April 13, 2008 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
2007 Lightwork, November 2-24, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2006 Biennial Paintings, November 9-December 14, Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery, Unity College, Unity, Maine
2006 SOUND, October 7-27, Lockwood Mill, Waterville, Maine. Fourth solo biennial
2005 99 Sounds, November 4-26, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2004 CHANGE, October 9-27, Fort Andross, Brunswick, Maine. Third solo biennial
2003 Antecedent:Change, November 7-29, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2003 Please Start Here, October 10-November 11, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002 Amy Stacey Curtis, October 15-November 17, North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Maine
2002 MOVEMENT, October 12-26, Old Sebago Shoe Mill, Westbrook, Maine. Second solo biennial
2002 Ere Movement, May 3-4, Portland Stage Company, Portland, Maine
2000 EXPERIENCE, July 7-August 15, Bates Mill Complex, Lewiston, Maine. First solo biennial
2000 Thesis Exhibit, March 31-April 8, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Emerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth, and Andrea Sulzer, June 10-September 10, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine; October 6-November 5, 2011, University of Maine Farmington Gallery, Farmington, Maine
2010 Fuzzy Logic, April 9-June 17, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts
2009 Studio Walls, March 6-28, SPACE, Portland, Maine
2009 Black & White & Red, February 14-March 14, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2009 Recent Acquisitions, January 23-March 30, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
2008 Drawn, September 4-October 8, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut
2008 The Crossing of Time and Environment, Outdoor Micro-Installations Exhibition, June 8-17, Toshei Village, Danei Township, Tainan County, and Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan
2007 New England Now, November 15th-January 11, Paper New England, Hartford, Connecticut
2007 Tiny, November 10-December 22, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
2007 15th Anniversary Exhibition, August 3-30, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Soundmarks: New Work by NB Aldrich/Zach Poff and Amy Stacey Curtis, June 7-August 15, Art Interactive, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2007 Sound Exchange (two-person), January 5-February 24, Grothaus+Pearl Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 Road Movies, June 14, The LAB, San Francisco, California
2006 Signal and Noise, April 27-29, Video In Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2006 Laterna Magica II: Video Art Festival, March 24-May 7, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2006 Activator, January 19-March 19, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
2005 A New Order: Appropriation Art in the Digital Age, December 3-February 5, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts
2005 Luminous Recurrence, December 1-January 9, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey
2004 Subterranean Angels, June 6-August 31, Revolving Museum LAB, Lowell, Massachusetts
2004 UMVA Annual, February 5-27, College of the Atlantic Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor, Maine
2003 ISC@GFS, International Sculpture Center Member Juried Exhibition, July 26-September 28, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
2003 The Four Elements, June 15-August 31, Forest Hills Educational Trust, Boston, Massachusetts
2002 Terrain: Sculpture Today, March 9-April 24, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2000 H2O 2000: Water as a Theme in Art, June 6-July 30, T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont
1997 Area Artists 1997, Lewiston-Auburn College, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston, Maine
1993 Senior Thesis Exhibit, Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, Maine

Selected Bibliography/Media

2011 Sebastian Smee, The Boston Globe, "Artists lay it on the line", August 19
2011 Taryn Plumb, Artscope, "Emerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth, and Andrea Sulzer," July/August
2011 Daniel Kany, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Art Review: Wyeths, women at Bates illustrate power of drawing," July 24
2011 Susan Grisanti, Maine Home+Design, "Current Work," April
2010 Gillian Graham, Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, "It's about time," October 14
2010 Annie Larmon, The Portland Phoenix, "Amy Stacey Curtis's Sixth Solo Biennial," October 12
2010 Tammy Wells, Journal Tribune, "Mill hosts perceptions of time," October 12
2010 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Time Zone", October 7
2010 Edgar Allen Beem, DownEast Magazine, "Art on the Edge", August
2010 Christine Temin, Art New England, "Seven Sculptors to Watch," June/July/August
2009 Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, "In the Arts: Area Artists show brimming with talent, energy", February 22
2008 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "LIGHT", October 19
2008 Maine Art Scene, Maine Arts & Culture Online Magazine, "Maine Artist Interview: Amy Stacey Curtis", October 18
2008 Andrea Rose, Weekly Observer, "Let There Be Light," October 15
2008 Chloe Johnson, The Wire, "Let There Be Light," October 9
2008 Renee Worthing, Sanford/Springvale Register, "Weekly Interview: Amy Stacey Curtis," September 25
2008 Nancy Heiser, PortCity Life, "Mill Work," September
2008 Elena Sarni, Big RED & Shiny, "Amy Stacey Curtis @ Millstone Place", September 29
2008 Donna Landry, Journal Tribune/York County Weekend, "Aspects of Light," September 27-28
2008 "Maine Art Scene," on Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, February 8
2008 Elena Sarni, Artscope, "Currents4: Amy Stacey Curtis," January/February
2007 Ray Routhier, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Big, yet tiny," December 9
2007 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, Arts Dispatches: "Installation artist featured in annual Colby exhibition," November 18
2007 Matt Eagan, The Hartford Courant, "New England Art On Paper," November 15
2007 Ken Johnson, Boston Sunday Globe, Critics' Picks, "Now hear this," June 17
2007 Jacqueline Houton, Big RED & Shiny, "Soundmarks @ Art Interactive," June 13
2007 Ray T. Barker, The Pitch, Kansas City, "Sound Exchange," February 5
2006 Doug Harlow, Morning Sentinel, "Art as sound: Hear what you see," October 8
2006 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Interactive 'Sound' installed in old Waterville plant," October 1
2006 Amy Calder, Morning Sentinel, "Art on a grand scale," August 28
2006 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "Retooled," February 2
2005 Michael Townsend, The Bollard, "99 pictures of sound on the wall," November 9
2005 Rich McKown, Art New England, February/March
2005 Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, "When the lines blur," January 7
2004 Discovering Advanced Algebra: An Investigative Approach, Key Curriculum Press; Fragile introduces chapter about matrices and linear equations
2004 Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, "A show where light is very heavy," December 19
2004 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "You're invited to help artist create," October 17
2004 Chris Thompson, Portland Magazine, "The Shape of Things," September
2004 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "Risky Business: Visual art's a great gamble this fall," September 17
2004 Sam Pfeifle, The Portland Phoenix, "Portland's Most Influential (Women)," August 13
2004 Maine Times, "Eight Experts Focus on the Year Ahead: Curtain Rises on New Talents and Venues," January
2004 Maggie Knowles, The Portland Phoenix, "The Touchables: Hands-on in SPACE," January 23
2003 Burt Wasserman, Prime Time, "Meeting the third dimension," September, Art Views
2003 Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, "A show with a good sense of humor," August 10
2003 Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, "Cemetery branches out with subtle, site-specific artwork," July 20
2002 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "Your own risk," October 17
2002 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Movement invites viewers to play," October 13
2002 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "The art of raw," May 2
2002 Jason Wilkins, Casco Bay Weekly, "Moving art: Local artist's latest venture combines movement with the psyche," May 2
2002 Jenna Russell, The Portland Phoenix, "On solid ground: The ICA's 'Terrain' provides sculpture that explores," March 22
2002 Phil Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, "No doubt about it, sculpture show sizzles," March 17

Curatorial

2007 Sound Exchange, January 5-February 24, Grothaus+Pearl Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 Touch, January 9-February 27, SPACE, Portland, Maine
2003 Women, Trauma, & Visual Expression, October 17-November 13, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Learn about Curtis's book Women, Trauma, & Visual Expression Selected Professional Experience
2011- Assistant Professor, Professional Development, Intermedia MFA Program, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
2010 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Intermedia MFA Program, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
2009 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2009 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts

Selected Collections

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Paper New England, Hartford, Connecticut
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine Selected Juried Slide Registries
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, New York
The Painting Center, 52 Greene Street, 2nd Floor, New York

Representation

June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine, works on paper

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