ArtistAmy Yoes

Amy Yoes grew up in Houston, Texas, and lived in Chicago, where she received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After several years in San Francisco, she settled in New York City in 1998. Room Tone, her first exhibition with Michael Steinberg Fine Art, in 2005, featured mostly paintings and a retrospective sculpture; she has since shown installation/wall drawing works in Out of Bounds at Wave Hill, New York, curated by Jennifer McGregor, Zip at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut curated by Denise Markonish, Ex-Ode to the Corporeal Conversation, a collaborative project by J. Morgan Puett in Beach Lake, PA., and Site 92 at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn.
She is currently working on 50,000 Beds, a collaborative film project curated by Chris Doyle, which will be shown at three institutions in Connecticut: the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Real Art Ways in Hartford, and Artspace in New Haven. She is also working on an installation project for James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and an installation project for a new high school in the Bronx through the Percent for Art program. Her website is http://www.amyyoes.com.