Amy Brener (b. 1982, Victoria, BC, Canada) lives and works in New York. She is a full time faculty member at Hamilton College. Since graduating with an MFA from Hunter College in 2010, Brener’s work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions in the US, Canada, Europe and China. Highlights include MoMA PS1 and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, The Speed Museum of Art in Kentucky, Galerie Pact in Paris, Reyes Projects in Detroit, Wentrup Gallery in Berlin, MacLaren Art Centre in Ontario and Riverside Art Museum in Beijing. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, CURA, Hyperallergic, Artnet News and The Brooklyn Rail.
Amy Brener
b. 1982 Victoria, BC
Lives and works in New York
Education
2011 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2010 M.F.A. Sculpture, Hunter College, New York, NY
2006 B.A. Studio Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Exhibitions
Solo
2024 Servers, Jack Barrett, New York
2023 Harbingers, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2022 Pinnacles, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York
2019 Consolarium, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2018 Flexi-Shields, Adelphi University Art Gallery, Long Island, NY
2017 Invisiblers, Galerie Pact, Paris, FR
2016 Flexi-Shield, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2015 Rig, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014 Recliners, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Two-Person
2018 Shellwork, Karen Azoulay and Amy Brener, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON
2017 Amy Brener/Lucas Blalock, Bottle, Comb, Crutch, Wrench, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Cristian Anderson and Amy Brener, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, DE
2013 Amy Brener and Michael Doerksen, Cloud Quarry, Deluge Contemporary, Victoria, BC
2013 Facundo Argañaraz and Amy Brener, The In Between, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Group
2023 Fembot, The Hole, New York, NY
2023 Holding, Kristen Lorello, New York, NY
2023 Rounding the Circle, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
2023 Drawings by Sculptors, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, FR
2022 NYFA: A View from the Mountain Top, 45 Rock Art, New York, NY
2022 X’s, Studio Archive Project, Online Exhibition
2022 Is it not enough that I smile in the valleys?, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2022 Tu es Metamorphose II, Galerie Pact, Paris, FR
2021 Plastic Heart, The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, ON
2020 Spill Over, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2020 Incidental Monumetns, Sibler Art Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, NY
2020 Cult of the Crimson Queen, Ceyson & Bénétiere, New York, NY
2019 Layer Mask, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, New York
2019 Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 Pairings: Sculpture in the Nasher & Rachofsky Collections, Nasher Sculpture Ctr, Dallas
2018 Towards a New Archaeology, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Socrates Anual, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, New York
2018 Myths, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2018 Body So Delicious, Reyes Projects, Detroit, MI
2018 Of Fictive Intentions, Vacation, New York, NY
2018 States of Matter, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2017 Veils, Aquarius Studios, Queens, NY
2017 Tu es Métamorphose, Galerie Pact, Paris, FR
2017 Hot Mud Fest, Hudson, NY
2017 Her Eyes are Like Doves Beside Streams of Water, Adams and Ollman, Portland
2017 Four High, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Vein Section, Berthold Pott, Cologne, DE
2017 Parallel City, Ms. Barbers, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Futur Futuriste, Galerie Projet Pangée, Montreal, QC, Canada
2016 and, something like fire dancing, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2016 GEOMAGIC: Art, Science and the Zuhl, University Art Gallery, NMSU Las Cruces
2016 Future Perfect: Picturing the Anthropocene, University Art Museum, U at Albany
2016 OnSite, Katonah, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2016 Other Better Things, Annual Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2015 Broken Colours, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 A Rare Earth Magnet, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Finally Every Dimension of the Soil, American Medium, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Bulletproof Heart, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
2015 FAWC exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2014 Cemeterium, Regina Rex and Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Future Touch, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Articulated Lair’s, Helper, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Destiny’s Fleshies, Knowmoregames, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Totem, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Material Conceptualism - The Comfort of Things, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, DE
2013 Saturation Point, Dutton, New York, NY
2013 Into The Light, permanent installation, Dufferin Liberty Center, Toronto, ON
2012 More and Different Flags, Marlborough Chelsea, NY
2010 Image and I, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Art Fairs
NADA NY, 2023, with Jack Barrett, NY
NADA NY, 2022 with Galerie Pact, New York, NY
Dallas Art Fair 2021 with Jack Barrett Gallery, Dallas, TX
Armory Art Fair 2021 with Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY
NADA NY 2020 with Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY
NADA Chicago 2019 with Galerie Pact, Chicago, IL
NADA Miami, 2018 with Galerie Pact, Miami, FL
Material Art Fair 2018 with 315 Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Sunday Art Fair 2018 with Galerie Pact, London, EN
Independent, Brussels 2017 with Galerie Pact, Brussels, BE
NADA NY 2017 with 315 Gallery, New York, NY
Collections
The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York
The Francis Greenberger Collection, New York
The Liz and Jonathan Goldman Collection, New York
The Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, DE
The Mary and Al Shands Collection, Louisville, Kentucky
Residencies and Awards
2018 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NY 2018 The Shifting Foundation, Project Grant
2017 Canada Council Visual Arts Project Grant
2015 NYFA Fellowship in Crafts/Sculpture
2014 Fellowship at Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 2012 Artist in Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Selected Press
Jerry Cullum, The Shakers, moon walks and fly fishing, this “nature” exhibit covers it all, Arts Atlanta, May 26th, 2022
Alia Ayoubi, Amy Brener, Coevel Magazine, February 14th, 2022
Neha Jambhekar, Pinnacles at Jack Barrett, New York, Artnet News, February 1st, 2022 Noelani Kirschner, Amy Brener: Totems to Knick-Knacks, American Scholar, January 24th, 2021
Di Chidozie Obasi, Casey Lesser on the Multifaceted Prism of Female-Led Contemporary Art, Vogue Italia, March 19th, 2021
Will Heinrich, Art Reviews: Amy Brener, The New York Times, December 4th, 2019 Rebecca Storm, Amy Brener's Consolarium, The Editorial Magazine, December 2nd, 2019
Francesca Aton, Amy Brener on the Ritual Use of Utilitarian Objects, Art in America, November 22, 2019
Alina Cohen, These 8 Artists are Using Silicone to Create Strange, Radical Artworks, Artsy, March 25th, 2019
Alice Newell-Hanson, Marble Fruits, With Ceramic Whipped Cream, The New York Times Style Magazine, May 4th, 2018
Owen J. Duffy, Amy Brener's Anachronic Matter, CURA, issue 25, 2017
Laurie Rojas, The Best Booths at Miart, Artsy, March 30, 2017
Claire Voon, Feeling Anxiety and Relief at NADA New York, Hyperallergic, March 3, 2017 Casey Lesser, 15 Must-See Works at NADA NY, Artsy, March 3, 2017
Martha Schwendener, What to See at New York's Art Fairs this Week, NY Times, March 2, 2017
Alyssa Buffenstein, "Meet the Exciting Young Female Artists Rendering the Body in Grotesque Plastic", Artnet News, August 10, 2016
Andy Battaglia, “The Art of Curation”, V Magazine, Issue V99, Spring, 2016. 54-59 Sarah Goffstein, Bodies and Cities in Greater New York, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 9, 2015 Christian Viveros-Fauné, Why You Should See Greater New York, Artnews, Oct. 14, 2015 Howard Halle, Great Expectations, Time Out New York, issue 1023, 2015 Roberta Smith, In Review: A Rare Earth Magnet, New York Times, August 14, 2015 Alaina Lexie Beddie, Compelling Works From Some of Today’s Most Innovative Artists and
Designers, T Magazine, New York Times, June 17, 2015
Jonathan Openshaw, Postdigital Artisans. Amsterdam: Frame Publishers, 2015. 116-119 Jane Szita, Amy Brener: Monolith Maker, Frame 104, 2015
Liza Eurich et al., Amy Brener: Crusty Crunchy Roundy Smoothy, Moire, issue 2, 2014 Robert Amos, "Artifacts from an Imagined Future," Times Colonist, August 31, 2013
Kelsey Campbell-Dolleghan, "Shimmering Crystal Totems From An Unknown Future," Co.Design, September 21, 2012
Lucas Blalock, "Without a Rational Past... Just What Passes For a Future? On Amy Brener's recent sculptures," Under the Influence Magazine 10 (2012): 196-201.
Ruijun Shen, "Amy Brener," City Pictorial China 266 (2010): 52.