CSCA Lecture: Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman (b.1955, Detroit, Michigan) has lived in NYC since the mid-1970s. Sillman’s work has been exhibited widely since the 1990s at institutions and galleries in North America and Europe, and she is best known for her intense formal interactions with painting and simultaneously her curiosity and engagement with forms that lie adjacent to painting itself, especially in time-based media, do-it-yourself animations, writings/zines, and large-scale drawing installations. As well as maintaining a rigorous studio practice, Sillman also regularly publishes her writing on art. Her book Faux Pas, published by After 8 Books in Paris, is in its fourth reprint since its initial publication in 2020. 

Sillman’s most recent solo exhibition is entitled ”Oh, Clock!” and is currently on view at the KunstMuseum Bern in Switzerland, a solo show of painting, drawing, printmaking and videos, with a curated collection intervention/exhibition on a separate floor.  At UCL, Sillman will articulate some of the ideas that animated the making of her exhibition in Bern, and will also give a broad and freewheeling talk about some of the greater ideas and principles that undergird her own thinking process, and that of various friends, colleagues and fellow travellers.
 
Image captions: Amy Sillman. Oh, Clock!, Installation view Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, 2024
© Amy Sillman