Amy Pleasant

Pleasant has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as the Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, GA), the Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC), the Art Museum of the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN), the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), the United States Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, the Huntsville Museum of Art (Huntsville, AL), and the 2019 Atlanta Biennial.

In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

In December 2015, Pleasant was announced as one of only 25 recipients of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, which acknowledges painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality through unrestricted career support.

Pleasant was commissioned by the American ambient/post-rock band Hammock to create the album art for its 2013 release, Oblivion Hymns. Her prints were featured in the 20th Annual ART PAPERS Auction held in 2019.

Amy Pleasant (born 1972) is an American painter living and working in Birmingham, AL with representation by the Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York, NY) and Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA). She received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.