David Zwirner Gallery now represents New York–based artist Amy Sillman. Sillman, whose colorful paintings and drawings expertly straddle the line between figuration and abstraction.
She previously worked with Gladstone Gallery. Her first show there, “Mostly Drawing” in 2018, offered viewers “a thrilling, rollercoaster-like experience,” as Phyllis Tuchman wrote in her review for ARTnews.
Before that, Sillman showed with Capitain Petzel and carlier | gebauer in Berlin, Sikkema Jenkins and Casey Kaplan in New York, Campoli Presti in Paris, Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles, and various other galleries.
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In a statement, David Zwiner praised Sillman’s practice as “endlessly intelligent” and said he admired her “remarkable ability to mine the entire history of [painting] in the process.”
While Sillman has been showing her work internationally for decades, Zwirner specifically mentioned her recent show the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Germany. The two-part show (which debuted at Kunstmuseum Bern in 2024) featured Sillman’s paintings, drawings, prints, collages, large installations, and animations from the past decade, as well as a companion exhibition of works chosen by Sillman from the museum’s collection.
“Using the museum’s walls as a support for her painterly gesamtkunstwerk, Amy managed to reframe the art of her colleagues with a deep sense of humanity and humor, creating an environment that was entirely novel and contemporary,” Zwirner said in the statement.
Sillman’s work is in the collections of museums around the world, and she has won many prestigious awards, including those from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has also taught at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and has published art criticism and catalog essays. Her first show at Zwirner will be in 2027.
