Amy Ellingson

Episode 551 / Amy Ellingson
Amy Ellingson is an artist interested in contemporary digital experience and modalities of abstraction. Her work has been exhibited nationally and in Tokyo, Japan, and is held in various public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the US Embassies in Algeria and Tunisia. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the Artadia Grant to Individual Artists and has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Ellingson received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from CalArts. She was Associate Professor of Art at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2000 to 2011 and has served on the Board of Directors at Root Division (rootdivision.org), a San Francisco nonprofit arts organization, since 2011. A Day in the Sun, her commission for San Diego International Airport’s New Terminal 1, opened in September 2025. Other public art commissions include large scale mosaic murals at the San Francisco International Airport and Sam Houston State University in Conroe, Texas. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Amy Ellingson has lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2018. She is a contributor to Hyperallergic, covering exhibitions in the Santa Fe region. Her book, On Painting and the Nature of Work, was published by N+Co. in July 2026. She has an upcvoming solo show, “Plastic Hour” at Sho +1 gallery in Tokyo.