Amy Bessone (born 1970) is an American contemporary

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

based in

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. Bessone studied at

De Ateliers De Ateliers (formerly Ateliers '63) is an independent art school in located in Amsterdam. It was founded in Haarlem in 1963, among others by Ger Lataster, Mari Andriessen, Nic Jonk, Theo Mulder and Wessel Couzijn. This "group of established ar ...

in Amsterdam,

Parsons Paris School of Art and Design Paris College of Art, is an international college of art and design with U.S degree-granting authority and accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) located in Paris, France. History In 1981, the school was ...

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, and

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Education

1995 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1993 BFA, Parsons Paris School of Design, Paris, France 1992 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1989

, New York, USA

Exhibitions

Bessone has presented

solo exhibition A solo show or solo exhibition is an art exhibition, exhibition of the work of only one artist. Rather than a group of artists who collaborate to form an exhibition. The artwork may be paintings, drawings, etchings, collage, sculpture, or photogr ...

s at

Salon 94 Salon 94 is a New York-based contemporary art gallery owned by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. History East 94th Street The gallery opened in 2003 in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on New York City’s Upper East Side as an integral part of Jeanne ...

in New York, the Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles, the

David Kordansky Gallery David Kordansky Gallery is an art gallery established in Los Angeles's Chinatown neighborhood in 2003. History The gallery was founded by David Kordansky, a former conceptual and performance artist, in a space on Bernard Street in L.A.’s Chi ...

in Los Angeles, Praz-Delavallade in Paris, and Veneklasen Werner in Berlin. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's ori ...

, Frac Bretagne, Chateaugiron, the

Saatchi Collection The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the D ...

in London, the Rennie Collection in Vancouver, and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. Bessone's work features in a number of museum collections including Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Frac Bretagne, Châteaugiron. Her work has also been acquired by foundations, including Rennie Museum, Vancouver, and

Rubell Family Collection The Rubell Museum, formerly the Rubell Family Collection, is a private contemporary art museum with locations in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami, Florida, and the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Opened to the public in ...

, Miami.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bessone, Amy 1970 births Living people 21st-century American women artists Barnard College alumni American people of Italian descent