lives and works in Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Between The Dog and The Wolf, Stumptown Artist Fellowship; Portland, OR
Unknown, The Witch, Ditch Projects; Springfield, OR
2017 A Lover’s Race, Nationale; Portland, OR
2015 The Liminalists, Nationale; Portland, OR
Testable Predictions, Carl and Sloan Contemporary; Portland, OR
2014 Notes, Nationale; Portland, OR
Highlighter, Nationale; Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
2021 A Good Line, A Good Lie AI Gallery, London, England
2018 (re)buffer, Private Places; Portland, OR
2017 I Am This, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust Education; Portland, OR
A Lot A Lot, Galleri Thomassen; Gothenburg, Sweden
2016 2016 Salon: Portland2016, The Studio Visits, Disjecta; Portland, OR
And From This Distance, One Might Never Imagine That It Is Alive, The Art Gym; Portland, OR
Portland Museum of Modern Art/Houseguest Residency Group Exhibition, Pioneer Courthouse Square; Portland, OR
2014 Collider, Littman Gallery at Portland State University; Portland, OR
Perceptual Control, Worksound Gallery; Portland, OR 2
2015 Art & Leisure, Colonel Summers Tennis Courts; Portland, OR
2010 Re: Port, Gallery 114; Portland, OR
Bubble Letters, Car Hole Gallery; Portland, Oregon
Dump Art, Alexis Knowlton’s Old Place; Berlin, Germany
Writing/Criticism
2019 Instructor in Residence, Graduate Critique Seminar, Oregon College of Art and Craft; Portland, Oregon
2018 Graduate Mentor and Guest Critic, Oregon College of Art and Craft; Portland, Oregon
Visting Critic, Hartford Art School; Hartford, Connecticut
Catalogue Author: Tom Prochaska: The Koan of the Living Ghost, Hallie Ford Fellow Traveling Exhibition Catalogue, curated by
Diana Nawi
2017-2019 Mentor and Guest Critic, MFA Program, Oregon College of Art and Craft
2016 Visiting Critic, University of Oregon
2014 Visiting Critic, University of Oregon
2013 When the Walls are White, for Appendix Project Space Catalogue
2012 Sassafrass, for Weekday
2011 The Strip Mauling of Sanctity, for YA5
2010 Detritrustus, for Dump Art catalogue
2008 Interview with Jonathan Lasker for L.A. Louver’s catalogue of Recent Paintings
2006-2017 Contributing critic for the online art blog, PORT www.portlandart.net
Awards
2019 Peel Award, St Edmund Hall, Oxford University
2018 Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum
Stumptown Artist Fellowship, Stumptown Coffee Roasters
2017 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
Nominated for Consideration, Art in the Governor’s Office Program, Oregon Arts Commission
Artist in Residence, Arteles, Hameenkyro, Finland
2012 Individual Project Grant Recipient, Regional Arts and Culture Council
2010 Short Form Arts Writers Grant Recipient, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation
Selected Bibliography
2019 The Ford Family Foundation and The University of Oregon, Connective Conversations, Curator and Critic Tours 2015-2019
2019 Paul Maziar, Iterations of Vision: Amy Bernstein’s “Between The Dog and The Wolf”, Oregon Arts Watch
2018 Lusi Lukova, (re)buffer at Private Places, 60 Inch Center
Nim Wunnan, Viz Arts Monthly, Oregon Arts Watch Amy Wang, Art Picks, The Oregonian
2017 Megan Burbank, The Artists Resist, The Portland Mercury
Jill Singer, Excerpt: Exhibition, Sight Unseen
2016 Barry Johnson, Considering The Art Gym’s Abstractions, Oregon Arts Watch
2015 Graham Pierson and Jessica Bell, In the Dark of Space, A Light: Amy Bernstein and Patrick Kelly at Nationale, Noise and Color
Ryland Quillen, Saturday Selects: Week of October 26, 2015, Sight Unseen
Featured on Women-Artists.org
Enid Spitz, North Portland Gets A New Art Infusion, Willamette Week
2014 Ryan Fish, Interview: The Influences and Limits of Painter Amy Bernstein, Beautiful Savage
John Motley, March 2014 Previews, The Oregonian
Jeff Jahn, Weekend Picks, PORT
Eva Lake, Interview with Artist Amy Bernstein, Art Focus, KBOO FM
Education
2020 M.F.A. (With Distinction), The Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University
2004 B.F.A. in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
Collections
Portable Works Collection, City of Portland and Multnomah County
State of Oregon, Percent for Art in Public Places Program , Portland State University
EF Education First Permanent Collection