EDUCATION

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.

AWARDS & HONORS

2005 Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2005
2003 Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo
2003 Visiting Artist, Colby College
2003 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
2000 Artist-in-Residence, DeYoung Museum

SOLOL AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2006 Ampersand International Arts, Firmament, San Francisco, CA
2006 33 Grand, Natural Fallout, Oakland, CA
2005 Turpentine Gallery, Firmament, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Ampersand International Arts, Structured Vistas, San Francisco, CA
2002 Townsend Center for the Humanities, Forms of Mediation: New Work by Amanda Hughen, Berkeley, CA
2002 Ampersand International Arts, Synthetic, San Francisco, CA
2000 San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Amanda Hughen: The Civic Center Drawings, San Francisco, CA
2000 a.o.v., Amanda Hughen, Within Rigid Structure, San Francisco, CA
2000 Institution, Amanda Hughen: Work, San Francisco, CA
2000 Luggage Store, Signal Detection and Recognition by Human Observers, San Francisco, CA
1998 The Grotto, Amanda Hughen, New Work, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 White Columns, Score: Action Drawing, New York, NY
2004 Oregon College for the Arts and Crafts, Periphery, Portland, OR
2004 Kala Art Institute, The Drawing Room, Berkeley, CA
2004 Ampersand International Arts, Nuit Blanche (Lost in Translation), Paris, France
2004 Headlands Center for the Arts, Close Calls, Sausalito, CA
2003 Berkeley Art Museum, Far Away Nearby, Berkeley, CA
2003 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Makeshift World, San Francisco, CA
2003 Goliath Visual Space, Studio G, Brooklyn, NY.
2003 Benicia Arts Center, CREAM, Benicia, CA
2003 Oakland Art Gallery, Bay Area Currents, Oakland, CA
2003 Spanganga, Centre of Attention, San Francisco, CA
2003 WORKS, New California Masters, San Jose, CA
2003 The LAB, What We Saw When We Got There, San Francisco, CA
2002 Arts Benicia, Woodward, Benicia, CA
2001 Refusalon, Never Underestimate a Drawing, San Francisco, CA
2001 a.o.v., Recent Work, San Francisco, CA
2001 San Francisco Art Institute, Emerge, San Francisco, CA
2001 Berkeley Art Center, Annual Juried Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
1997 Southern Exposure, Shrink, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED CATALOGUES

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.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Baker, Kenneth. "Close Calls at Headlands Center for the Arts." San Francisco Chronicle, January 2004.
--___. "Makeshift World at Wirtz." San Francisco Chronicle, August 2003.
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.
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.
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.
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.

SELECTED LECTURES

2005 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence Lecture
2005 University of California, Berkeley, Guest Lecturer
2004 Kala Art Institute, Artist's Talk.
2003 Colby College, Visiting Artist's Lecture
2003 Berkeley Art Museum, Far Away/Nearby Artist's Talk
2003 Oakland Art Gallery, Bay Area Currents Artist's Talk
2003 California College of Arts and Crafts, Guest Lecturer
2002 Townsend Center for the Humanities, Symposium on Forms of Mediation, Berkeley, CA
2002 UC Berkeley, Department of Art Practice, Guest Lecturer
2001 Crosstown Traffic Series, Artist's Talk, at CCAC, sponsored by Small Press Distribution
2001 UC Santa Cruz, Guest Lecturer, Department of Art
2001 Washington and Lee University, Guest Lecturer

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2005-6 Chair of Advisory Board, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
2005 Curator, Sprawl, Haley Martin Gallery
2005 Search / Interview Committee, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Director Search
2003 Admissions Committee, University of California, Berkeley, MFA Admissions
2002 Research Assistant, Fred Wilson, Berkeley Art Museum
2002 Tour Guide, Berkeley Art Museum, Fred Wilson Retrospective
2002 Panelist, GenArt Panel, Discussion On Art Practice, Intersection for the Arts