Lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. MFA in Art Practice. Full Block Grant Fellowship, Eisner Prize.
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA. BFA candidate. National Endowment for the Arts Scholar, CCAC Scholarship.
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. BA in English Literature. Cum Laude.
Artist-in-Residence, Oxbow, 2010; Visiting Lecturer, Skidmore College, 2009; Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2005; Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, 2003; Visiting Artist, Colby College, 2003; Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2003; Artist-in-Residence, DeYoung Museum, 2000
2011
Danese, New York, NY. In the Presence of Light
Montalvo, Saratoga, CA. Records and Marks
University of Michigan, Work • Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI. Topophilia
Danese, New York, NY. Works on Paper
Electric Works, San Francisco, CA. Hughen / Starkweather: Approach, Transition, Touchdown (two person)
2010
Danese, New York, NY. Works on Paper.
Good Citizen, St. Louis, MO. Fantastic Logic, Speculative Models. (two person)
Brenau University, Atlanta, GA. A Logical Lapse (two person)
2009
Knoedler & Company, Project Space, New York, NY. Drawings: Sid Garrison and Amanda Hughen. (two person)
San Francisco State University, Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art, San Francisco, CA
University of Wisconsin, Foster Gallery, Drawings Beyond Edges, Eau Claire, WI
Electric Works, San Francisco, CA. Hughen / Starkweather: The Airport Project (two person)
David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL. Golden Ratio.
2008
Tulane University, Newcomb Art Gallery, Vital Signs, New Orleans, LA
2007
Oakland Museum at the Oakland Airport, Oakland, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. Drawings: Visions, Surfaces and Beyond
2007
Galerie Immanence, Paris, France. Firmament (two person)
Electric Works, San Francisco, CA. Between Above and Below (two person)
San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Project, San Francisco, CA. Hughen / Starkweather (two person)
Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Amanda Hughen, New Works (solo)
Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA. Transtructural (two person)
2006
Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA. Firmament (two person)
2005
Turpentine Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. Firmament (two person)
2004
White Columns, New York, NY. Score: Action Drawing
Oregon College for the Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR. Periphery
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. The Drawing Room
Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA. Amanda Hughen, New Works (solo)
2003
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Far Away Nearby
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Makeshift World
Benicia Arts Center, Benicia, CA. CREAM
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA. Bay Area Currents
WORKS, San Jose, CA. New California Masters
The LAB, San Francisco, CA. What We Saw When We Got There,
2002
Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley, CA. Amanda Hughen, New Works (solo)
Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA. Amanda Hughen (solo)
2000
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA. The Civic Center Drawings (solo)
a.o.v., San Francisco, CA. Amanda Hughen: Within Rigid Structure (solo)
Institution, San Francisco, CA. Amanda Hughen (solo)
The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA. Signal Detection and Recognition by Human Observers: Amanda Hughen, Shawn O'Dell, and William Swanson
2001
Refusalon, San Francisco, CA. Never Underestimate a Drawing
a.o.v., San Francisco, CA. Amanda Hughen, Recent Work (solo)
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Emerge
2011
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sonoma State University, Spring Lecture Series
2009
Skidmore College
California College of the Arts
2005
Headlands Center for the Arts
University of California, Berkeley
2004
Kala Art Institute
2003
Colby College
Berkeley Art Museum
Oakland Art Gallery
California College of Arts and Crafts
2002
Townsend Center for the Humanities, Symposium on Amanda Hughen: Forms of Mediation, Berkeley, CA
2001
Crosstown Traffic Series at California College of the Arts
UC Santa Cruz
Washington and Lee University
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, 2011/present
Visiting Faculty, Oxbow, 2010
Visiting Faculty, Skidmore College, 2009
Guest Instructor, Colby College, 2004
Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, 2002-3
2007 California College of the Arts, Juror, Architecture
2006 Chair of Advisory Board, San Francisco Arts
Commission Gallery
2005 Curator, Sprawl, Haley Martin Gallery
2005 Search Committee, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Director
Search
2003 MFA Admissions Committee, University of California, Berkeley
2002 Research Assistant, Fred Wilson, Berkeley Art Museum
2002 Panelist, Discussion On Art Practice,
Intersection for the Arts
Buuck, David. Between above and below: Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather. San Francisco Arts Commission, 2007.
Consolini, Marella. Drawings: Sid Garrison and Amanda Hughen. New York: Knoedler & Company, 2009.
Corwin, Sharon and Dungan, Elizabeth. Forms of Mediation: New Work by Amanda Hughen. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities, 2002.
Haley, Catherine. Sprawl. Haley Martin Gallery, 2005.
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. Far Away/ Nearby. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2003.
Knowlton, Jody and Wilcox, Tessa. Fine Art Collection, United States Consulate. Capetown, South Africa, 2005.
Frock, Christian. New California Masters. San Jose: Works, 2003.
Maloney, Patricia. Firmament: Amanda Hughen and Arngunnur Yr. Turpentine Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2005.
Works on Paper. Danese, New York, 2010
Works on Paper, Danese, New York, 2011
Baker, Kenneth. “The Airport Project.” San Francisco Chronicle, February 2009.
“--___. “ Close Calls at Headlands Center for the Arts.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 2004.
--___. “Makeshift World at Wirtz.” San Francisco Chronicle, August 2003.
Beardshear, Kristi. “Anatomy of an Airport.” Artslant, January 2009.
Bing, Alison. “Art Pick: SoExquisite at Southern Exposure.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 2002.
Borman, Greg. “Signal Detection and Recognition by Human Observers at the Luggage Store.” San Francisco Art Magazine, January 2001.
Broder Van Dyke, Michelle. “The Airport Project: Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather.” SF Bay Guardian, January 2009.
Buuck, David. “The Drawing Room at Kala.” Artweek, April 2004.
___. “Amanda Hughen and Arngunnur Yr at Ampersand.” Artweek, Dec/Jan 2003.
___. “What We Saw When We Got There at The LAB,” Artweek, March 2003.
Cash, Stephanie. “Report from San Francisco,” Art in America, January 2006.
Cullum, Jerry. “Object Lessons: A Topology that Pleases”, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 2007
Downs, David. “Natural Fallout,” East Bay Express, March 2006.
Freedman, Marcy. “Amanda Hughen: New Work at The Grotto,” San Francisco Weekly, February 1998.
Helfand, Glen. “Signal Detection and Recognition by Human Observers at the Luggage Store.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 2001.
Jacobs, Joseph. “Strange Forces: Four Painters Create,” Art & Antiques, June 2007.
Jonsdottur, Eftir. “Arngunnur Yr and Amanda Hughen at Turpentine,” Morgunbladid (Iceland National Newspaper), October 2005
Swanhuyser, Hiya: “Art Space: Head for the Land,” San Francisco Weekly, October 2005.