1992

M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 

1986

B.A. (Studio Art) Scripps College, Claremont, CA

2004

Semper Augustus, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Ec/centric Compositions, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002

Winter, Spring, Summer &  Fall, Fassbender/Stevens Gallery, Chicago, IL

Winter, Spring, Summer &  Fall, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1999

Between Repetition and Insistence, jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

A Hankering..., Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

1994

Flora and Fauna, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA

1992

The Princess and P.,  thesis exhibition, CalArts, Valencia, CA

2004

Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

The Big Spin: 2004 Faculty Exhibition, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2003

Matter & Matrix, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA *

2002

Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA *

The Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA

A Chance Operation: 2002 Faculty Exhibition, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2001

The Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA

ExtraOrdinary: 2001 Faculty Exhibition, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

KABOOM!, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Calligraphic Legacy, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA

2000

[climax], jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

Light Fantastic, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Icon-O-Pop, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Head Cheese, Ft. Haggis Gallery, San Francisco, CA

People as Material, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

Emotionally Annoyed, ESP, San Francisco, CA

1999

Works by the Recipients of the ArtCouncil's 1999 Grants to Individual Artists, Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

jennjoygallery, San Francisco, CA

emerge: Gen Art SF’s Premier Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

1995-6

New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition, Bloom, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY ; Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX

1994

FOOD HOUSE two year anniversary exhibition, Santa Monica, CA

1993

Germinal Notations, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA

Peculiar Paintings, Woodbury University; Burbank, CA

New American Talent: The Ninth Exhibition, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX

2002

Cash, Stephanie.  “Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving,” Art in America, November.

Tromble, Meredith.  “Bay Area Now 3,” Stretcher.org, November.

Baker, Kenneth.  “’Bay Area 3’ show peeks into artists’ inner worlds,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 30.

Artner, Alan. “Amy Ellingson,” Chicago Tribune, May 17.

Roth, Charlene. “Jac Chartier & Amy Ellingson at Frumkin/Duval Gallery,” Artweek, March.

Welles, Elenore. “Jac Chartier & Amy Ellingson at Frumkin/Duval Gallery,” ArtSceneCal, January.

2001

Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco e-mail: “Kaboom!” at Haines, etc.,” Art issues., September/October.

Bonnetti, David. “’KABOOM!’ is Summer Show to Beat,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 7.

2000

Tabios, Eileen. “CLIMAX: A Group Exhibition As Taoist Poetry,” Reviewwest.com, December.

Coleman, Sarah. “Emotionally Annoyed,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 2.

Keats, Jonathon.  “Double Vision: An Exhibition of New Diptychs Based on Work by Three Bay Area Artists, San Francisco, February.

Berry, Colin. “Emotionally Annoyed,” San Francisco City Search, January.

Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco e-mail: Michael McDowell; Amy Ellingson, Carrie Lederer,” Art issues, January - February.

1999

Eich, Maureen. “Amy Ellingson, Between Repetition and Insistence,” NYArts Magazine, November.

Small, Irene.  “Amy Ellingson at jennjoy gallery,” Reviews, NY Arts, p. 92.

Van Proyen, Mark. “Amy Ellingson at jennjoygallery,” Artweek, February.

1998

Coleman, Sarah. “emerge,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 22.

1997

Schiche, Ericka.  “Consumer Culture Art,” Art, Public News, October 15.

1994

Barden, Lane. “Report from the FOOD HOUSE booth: the alternative space at ART/LA93,” Artweek, January 6.

2000

San Francisco Arts Commission Market Street Art in Transit Program Kiosk Poster Series

1999

The ArtCouncil Grants to Individual Artists, San Francisco