New York–based painter Amy Sillman will be represented by David Zwirner. The gallery announced that Sillman’s first exhibition with the gallery will open in New York in 2027.
Sillman is widely regarded as a leading figure in contemporary painting, with a practice that has evolved steadily since the early 1990s. Her paintings are typically developed through extended processes of layering, erasure, and revision, emphasizing duration and decision-making as integral components of form. Rather than adhering to a single aesthetic, Sillman’s multidisciplinary practice draws from a broad range of historical references, including Abstract Expressionism, hard-edge painting, and minimalism.
“Amy treats painting as a form of thinking itself, where every mark contains both construction and demolition, certainty and doubt,” David Zwirner said in a statement. “She has this remarkable ability to mine the entire history of the medium in the process. Her practice also encompasses much more than painting.”
Born in Detroit in 1955, Sillman studied at Beloit College in New York and the School of Visual Arts, where she graduated with a BFA in 1979. She completed an MFA at Bard College in 1995. Her first institutional show was “Procession,” presented by the ICA Philadelphia in 2004.
Over the last two decades, Sillman has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Notable solo exhibitions include a 2008 traveling presentation co-organized by the Smithsonian Institution and a 2013 survey curated by Helen Molesworth, which traveled from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston to the Aspen Art Museum and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College.
Sillman’s work is currently held at prestigious collections worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Sillman’s most recent show was mounted by Capitain Petzel in Berlin, where she showed “Minute Cinema: 4 videos for 4 seasons,” a collaboration with composer Marina Rosenfeld.
