Amy Bessone

Amy Bessone was born in New York in 1970 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Educated in the US and Europe — at Barnard College, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Parsons Paris School of Design, and De Ateliers, Amsterdam — her multidisciplinary practice combines paintings, ceramics, bronze and prints. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group shows internationally, notably with Salon 94 and David Kordansky Gallery, as well as The Pit, Los Angeles; Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami. Her work is held in the collections of the latter as well as MOCA, LA, and those of Frac Bretagne in France, the Saatchi Collection, London, and the Rennie Collection, Vancouver.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Amy Bessone: Amy’s World, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, Texas, USA
2016
  • Amy Bessone: In The Century of Women, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011
  • Amy Bessone, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
2010
  • Amy Bessone: Dancing Girl is Four Heads High, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2008
  • Amy Bessone, With Friends Like These, Salon 94 (Freeman A), New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Cracked, Tristan Hoare, London, UK
  • Tiger in a Tropical Storm, Louise Alexander Gallery | AF Projects, Porto Cervo, Porto Cervo, Italy
  • Possibility Made Real: Drawing & Clay, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, Texas, USA
2020
  • Riders Of The Red Horse, The Pit, LA, Glendale, California, USA
  • ONLINE: New Beginnings…, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • All Of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Yarrow Pickers, Harper’s Apartment, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2019
  • The Pleasure Principle, Maccarone, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Quartet, Harper’s East Hampton, East Hampton, New York, USA
  • Amy Bessone, Francesca Dimattio, and Natalie Frank: Paint, Porcelain and Pulp, Salon 94 Bowery, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2018
  • Sweet cheeks, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • By Fire, Ceramic Works, Almine Rech, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Pussy, King of the Pirates, Maccarone, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
2017
  • Mother’s House, Yours Mine & Ours, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Likeness, fused, San Francisco, California, USA
  • The Roger Ailes Memorial Show: Fair and Balanced, Yours Mine & Ours, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Flaming June VII (Flaming Creatures), Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Not I, We, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
2016
  • Haptic, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
2015
  • NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Ten Year Anniversary, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Ten Year Anniversary, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  • Present Conditional, Nino Mier Gallery 3, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Torsos & Buckets, Salon 94 (Freeman A), Lower East Side, New York, USA
2014
  • More Material, Salon 94 Bowery, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2013
  • Body Language, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA
  • Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA
2012
  • Eye of Horus, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
2011
  • Sentimental Education, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  • Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA

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