Amy Sillman Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1955 -

Amy Sillman (born 1955) is an American painter. Her artistic practice also includes drawings, cartoons, collage, iPhone video, and zines. Sillman is Co-chair, Painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and a Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule.

Amy Sillman was born in Detroit, Michigan. Prior to graduating from Manhattan's School of Visual Arts in 1979, she held a wide variety of jobs, including working in a cannery in Alaska, a feminist silkscreen factory in Chicago, and training at New York University as a Japanese interpreter for the United Nations. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, Sillman contributed to Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. She received her MFA from Bard College in 1995.