Amy Jean Porter Info

	Amy Jean Porter

	Solo Exhibitions 2008 -- Freaked Out Monkeys in the Trees, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, and Finesilver Gallery, Houston 2006 -- Tiny Horses Say What, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago 2005 -- Birds of North Africa Speak French and English Both at Once, G-Module, Paris 2003 -- North American Mammals Speak the Truth and Often Flatter You Unnecessarily, Debs and Co., New York Group Exhibitions 2008 -- Lots of Things Like This, Apex Art, NY (catalogue; curated by Dave Eggers) -- G-Salon, G-Module, Paris 2007 -- Aqua Wynwood, Miami (Lisa Boyle Gallery) -- Year_07 Art Projects, London (Lisa Boyle Gallery and G-Module) -- A Drawing Show, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago -- Millay Colony Artists, Columbia Council on the Arts Gallery, Hudson, New York -- John/Jane Project, Artspace, New Haven, CT -- Tiny Horses Say What, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles -- Why Look at Animals? Artspace, New Haven, CT (curated by Denise Markonish) 2006 -- Beast, Finesilver Gallery, Houston -- Small Stories: A Mini-Comics Reading Room, Memphis College of Art, Tennessee 2005 -- 19th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts -- Aqua Art Miami (Lisa Boyle Gallery) -- FIAC, Paris (G-Module) -- Haskins Laboratories, Yale University (Artspace satellite show), New Haven, CT -- The Obligation to Endure: Art and Ecology since "Silent Spring," New York Academy of Sciences (curated by Nick Debs) -- Things Fall from the Sky, Evanston Art Center, IL (catalogue; curated by Ciara Ennis) 2004 -- New Works on Paper, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago -- Drawing II (Selected), G-Module, Paris, France -- D. Dominick Lombardi and Amy Jean Porter, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago -- Art Star/Sausage Factory, Debs and Co., New York -- BirdSpace: A Post Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans (catalogue; curated by David Rubin; touring through 2006) -- For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, CT (catalogue) 2003 -- Birds of North America. . ., Project Room, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA -- Birds of North America. . ., Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2002 -- Birds of North America Misquote Hip-Hop and Sometimes Pause for Reflection, Project Room, Debs and Co., New York -- Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery Published Work -- Jubilat; artist-poet collaboration, Bats of Nicaragua (Issue 14) -- McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern; artist’s project, Tiny Horses Say What (Issue 25) -- The Next American City; drawings for cover and inside (winter 2005) -- Happy Pappy; artist’s project, published by Milch Gallery, London (December 2003) -- Cabinet magazine; artist’s project, Birds of North America Misquote Hip-Hop and Sometimes Pause for Reflection (summer 2002) -- Columbia (annual journal of art and literature); cover art (2002) Bibliography -- "Art for Healing, The Stunning Art Collection of the Dell Children's Medical Center," Rebecca S. Cohen, Austin Chronicle (Jan. 18, 2008) -- "Basel's Orbit," Jen Graves, Art and Auction (Sept. 2007) -- "A Drawing Show," Lauren Weinberg, Time Out Chicago (Aug. 16–22, 2007) -- "Amy Jean Porter," Grace Bonney, designsponge (designsponge.blogspot.com) -- "All Species, All the Time," Graphic Design Bar (www.graphicdesignbar.com) -- "Beast, Houston," Christopher French, Art Papers (Jan-Feb 2007) -- "Tiny Horses Say What," Flavorpill Chicago (flavorpill.net; issue 87) -- "Tiny Horses Say What," LeisureArts (leisurearts.blogspot.com) -- "Amy Jean Porter at Lisa Boyle Gallery," Bad at Sports (badatsports.com; episode 34) -- "Report from Paris," Lucinda Masson, Art New England (April-May 2006) -- "In Brief: Amy Jean Porter," Stephen Sartarelli, Art on Paper (Jan–Feb 2006) -- "Art Gone Avian," Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly (February 9-15, 2006) -- "Amy Jean Porter at G-Module," Chris Sharp, GoGo Paris (December 2005) -- "Expos, Galeries," Molly Mine, Paris Capitale (Sept–Oct 2005) -- "Things Fall from the Sky," Kathryn Hixson, Time Out Chicago (June 30–July 7, 2005) -- "All Is Not What It Seems," Claire Lieberman, d'Art International (winter 2005) -- "For the Birds," Britt Brown, Flaunt magazine (winter 2004) Teaching, Talks, Residencies* -- Weir Farm NHS, Wilton, CT (February 2007) -- Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY (May 2006) -- New York Studio Program; visiting artist (April 2005) -- The Cleveland Institute of Art; visiting artist and juror for student independent exhibition (January 2005) -- Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; lecturer in art history and humanities (2002–2003) -- Burren College of Art, Co. Clare, Ireland; lecturer in art history and cultural studies (1999–2000) Public Collections Dell Children's Medical Center, Austin, TX Deutsche Bank Education 2000 -- M.Phil. Textual and Visual Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 1997 -- B.A. Humanities, Yale University * * * * Send $1.00 for comics to: P.O. Box 206909, New Haven, CT 06520 Special thanks to Chris Sleboda for design and web savvy 2/2008