Biography

Amie Siegel has received widespread acclaim for her conceptually rigorous artworks that embrace moving image, installation, photography, painting, and performance. She has a long-held interest in the genealogies of objects, artworks, and materials, and in her work frequently considers how cultural value and meaning is assigned or accrued through changing contexts. Siegel received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson and a Masters of Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been a guest artist of the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and Fulton Fellow at The Film Study Center at Harvard University. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including in solo exhibitions at Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX (2019), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2017), South London Gallery (2017), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2016), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2016), MAK- Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (2015), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2014). Amongst the numerous group shows in which she has participated are those held at the 2021 Sao Paolo Biennial, the 2018 Gwangju Biennial, the Dhaka Art Summit, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Hayward Gallery, London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin among many others.  Works by Siegel are held in public collections internationally including Tate, London, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Siegel’s works have screened at the Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and New York Film Festivals. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.