Amy Bautz
Artist/ Professor of Fine Art
Saint Louis, MO, USAWork Experience
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
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.
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.
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.