Amy Wilson is an artist who currently lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. She received her BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 from the School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...

 in New York in 1995, and her MFA from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1997. She primarily works with watercolor and pencil on paper, with which she makes drawings, artist’s books, and three-dimensional sculptures. Her work is narrative and often involves the re-telling of stories from the artist’s life. She is represented by BravinLee programs

BravinLee programs

BravinLee programs is a contemporary art gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The gallery's programs support the exhibition of works on paper, artist books, public art projects, and artist-designed hand-knotted rugs....

in New York.

External links

• Amy Wilson The artist’s personal website.
• New York Times article, January 16, 2009.
• “Art in America” review, September 2005.