Amy Bautz

Artist/ Professor of Fine Art

Saint Louis, MO, USA

Work Experience

Saint Louis University

Professor of Studio Art

August 1999 - Present Missouri, United States

Wonderwall Studio

Artist

June 2015 - Present Texas, United States

Blue Peach Media

Animator

June 2009 - Present New York, United States

Education

Southern Illinois University

Masters of Fine Arts

August 1995 - May 1998 Edwardsville, Illinois, United States

University Of Texas At Austin

Bachelor of Journalism

August 1985 - May 1990 Austin, Texas, United States

Languages

German (Fluent),
English (Native),

Skills

Animation, Collaboration, Drawing, Fibers, Illustration, Installation, Motion Graphics , Oil Painting, Photography,

DETAILED WORK HISTORY

Full Professor, current position since 1999 at Saint Louis University, Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Co-Founder, Full Colour English, ESL Visual Puzzles

Artist at Wonderwall Studio, Austin Texas current since 2015

Animation Team Member, Blue Peach Media, NYC current since 2009

Program Director, Studio Art, current position since summer 2014, at Saint Louis University

Director, Visual Communication Certificate since 2007, at Saint Louis University

Freelance Photojournalist, 1994-2003 at Riverfront Times, St. Louis

Adjunct Assistant Professor, August 1997 to May 1999 at the UMSL, Fine Art Department

Freelance Computer Graphic Artist, August 1994 to August 1999, St. Louis, Missouri

Software Instructor, May to December 1998, at Forest Park Community College

Photography Instructor, August to December 1998, at Fontbonne University, St. Louis

Drawing and Photography Teaching Assistant, January 1996 to May 1998, at SIUE

Computer Graphic Artist, June 1992 to August 1994, at Logibyte Software Distributor, Berlin, Germany

Freelance Computer Graphic Artist, September 1991 to July 1993, Berlin, Germany

Editorial Assistant, January 1990 to July 1992, at Walther de Gruyter Publishing House, Berlin, Germany

EXHIBITION RECORD

Animations and digital drawings for Blue Peach Media project, a documentary about the failed
music festival Woodstock 50, Spring 2020

Commission of a design for Holy Family sculptures for Catholic Studies' Chapel in Boileau Hall on
the Saint Louis University campus, 2019- 2020

Invitational exhibit of three paintings in a group show at Studio Montclair Gallery in New Jersey, 2019

Participated in production of several paintings for a travelling exhibit on transfuturism for the
Justice Fleet, art work shown in multiple venues, 2019

Invitational exhibit of a digital drawing at Los Angeles Digital Art, 2019

Invitational, three-person exhibit of paintings and digital art at Jacoby Art Center, Alton, Illinois, 2018

Artists Choose Artists, invitational exhibit of painting at COCA, St. Louis, 2017

Poetry Scores, invitational exhibit and event, Mad Art, St. Louis, 2017

In the Raw: The Sketchbook Considered, invitational exhibit at Edwardsville Art Center,
Edwardsville Il, 2017

Multiple Illustrations for ESL education project, Full Colour English, Lewes, England, current since 2016

Animation exhibited at Public Media Showcase, St. Louis, June 2016

Two-person exhibit at Wonderwall Studio, Austin, Texas, November 2015

Collaborated on activist installation/upcycled sculpture for Artica Arts Festival in protest of planned football stadium expansion, St. Louis, October 2015

Collaborated on a fire installation at St Louis Fringe Festival, Grand Center, June 2015

Featured artist at Wonderwall Studio, Austin, Texas, May, 2015

Utopia Everywhere Zine published by Fort Gondo with support from the Mellon Foundation. April, 2015.

Invited to participate creating a collaborative installation artwork at Artica, an annual arts festival in
North St. Louis on the Mississippi river, October 2014.

Exhibition Record Continued

Painting commissioned by Spellman Brady design firm for St. John’s Mercy women’s clinic, St. Louis, June, 2014.

Digital drawing commissioned for cover of a book on Sylvia Plath, Stephen F. Austin University Press, January 2014.

Invitational exhibit of ten paintings in a two-person exhibit at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, January 2013.

Invitational exhibit of digital photograph, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, August 2012.

Invitational exhibit of drawing made as part of an interview series published in Feast Magazine, Booze Doodles, where St. Louis artists were given cocktails and pens and napkins, Aisle 1 Gallery, St. Louis, November 2012.

Two Paintings exhibited in a group show, Yellow Bear Gallery, St. Louis, November 2012.

Painting commissioned on the topic of parenthood and artmaking for exhibition at the Millstone Gallery, St. Louis, Summer 2011.

Three paintings included at an invitational exhibit at the Edwardsville Art Center, April 2011.

Sixteen new paintings exhibited August 2010 in an invitational six-person exhibit at Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis.

Six computer artworks maintained in the invitational Flat Files collection of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, currently since 2007.

Six paintings shown in an invitational, two-person show at East Central College, February through March 2009.

Three new paintings were shown in an invitational exhibit with other contemporary painters at the Edwardsville Arts Center, June through August 2008.

Paintings and computer artwork exhibited in an invitational, two-person show at Culver-Stockton Fine Art Gallery in Canton, Missouri, October through November 2005.

Photography, computer artwork and painting exhibited 2006 through 2009, in an annual invitational exhibition at Hoffman La Chance Contemporary Gallery, St. Louis.

Computer artwork selected for the 7th Annual Renaissance Regional juried Art Exhibit outside of Nashville, Tennessee, November 2005.