Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • MFA 1994 Rackham Merit Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • BFA 1987 University of Texas , Austin, Texas

  • MSE 2011 Quincy University, Quincy, IL                                                                                                                             

    Public Works

  • 2012     Pulaski CTA “Chicago Celebration” 270 foot mural

  • 2011     Irving Park and Keeler, Chicago, IL “Welcome to Old Irving Park” 153 foot mural

    Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024 East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Jan Brandt Gallery, Normal, IL

  • 2002     Amy Hanks, Mary Bell Galleries, Canvas and Works on Paper

  • 1995     Box Canyon, installation and drawing, 10 Weston Arts Center, Grand Rapids, MI

  • 1996     Reconstructed, Drawings by Amy Hanks, St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor

  • 1995     Lyric, Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI  

  • 1994     Amy Hanks and Nanette DeJong, Musical Night, University of Michigan                                                                                                                                 

    Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 Beverly Art Center, 48th Annual Art Competition, Chicago, IL

  • 2024 ARC Gallery, Collage/Assemblage: Beautiful &Strange Fragmentation, David Reif, Juror

  • 2023 Woman Made Gallery, Members Exhibition

  • 2023 4th Presbyterian Church, "Light in the Darkness", Monica J. Brown, juror

  • 2023 Woman Made Gallery, Time, Memory, Mythos, Monica J. Brown, juror

  • 2019     Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Houston Watercolor Society, Purchase Award

  • 2006     Celebrating 30 Years, New Work, Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago

  • 2005     Work, Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago    

  • 2004    New Work by Gallery Artists, Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago

  • 1997     Portraits, Real and Otherwise, Ann Arbor Art Center

  • 1996     Celebrate Michigan Artists, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, MI

  • 1995    Michigan Gallery Invitational, Detroit, MI   

  • 1995     Out of Clay, Storch Gallery, Dexter, MI      

  • 1991     Feats of Clay IV, Rudy Autio, Juror, Lincoln, CA  

    Grants and Awards

  • 2024     Fulbright Award Alumni

  • 1994     Artist-in–Residence Fellow, Ox-Box School of the Arts, MI 

  • 1994     Rackham Thesis Grant 

  • 1992     Rackham Merit Fellow, University of Michigan

  •  1991     Individual Artist Fellowship, State of Illinois, Illinois Arts Council