BORN
White Plains , New York
EDUCATION
1990 California College of Arts and Crafts: B.F.A. Drawing, with Distinction
1978 Barnard College , New York : B.A. Art History
2005 Traywick Contemporary, San Francisco , California
2004 Mills College Art Museum , Oakland , California
2003 Traywick Gallery, Berkeley , California
2001 Traywick Gallery, Berkeley , California
2000 Mills College Art Museum , Oakland , California
1999 Traywick Gallery, Berkeley , California
1997 American Institute of Architects, Oakland , California
1996 Gensler Architecture and Planning, San Francisco , California
1994 The Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley , California
1993 Okeanos Press, Berkeley , California
TWO/THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2001 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco , California
2000 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport , New York
1998 Traywick Gallery, Berkeley , California
1997 1078 Gallery, Chico , California
1996 Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton , California
1995 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco , California
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 13, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque , New Mexico
It’s About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose , California
NeoMod Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum , Sacramento , California
2003 Fine Lines, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara , California
25 th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco , California
Visible Rhythm, San Jose Museum of Art , San Jose , California
2002 Bay Area Printmakers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco , California
2001 First Impressions, Prints from Paulson Press, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Fresh Marks, Palo Alto Art Center , Palo Alto , California
Finely Drawn, Weatherspoon Art Gallery , University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2000 Abstraction: From Raucous to Refined Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek , California
Monterey Museum of Art , Monterey , California
1998 The First Fifty Years: A Celebration of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco , California
Small Works Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica , California
California College of Arts and Crafts Alumni Exhibition Mills Building , San Francisco , California
Revolver Traywick Gallery, Berkeley , California
14th Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center , Berkeley , California
1997 Get In Here (Again), Traywick Gallery, Berkeley , California
New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley , Massachussetts
1996 Bay Arts 1996, San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont , California
American Drawing Biennial V, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg , Virginia
Stockton National Print and Drawing Exhibition , The Haggin Museum , Stockton , California
1995 Biennial Print and Draw Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art , Santa Clara , California
Oriental Influence, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos , California
1994 The Alphabet Show, Okeanos Press, Berkeley , California
Drawing 1994 , Larsen Gallery, Brigham Young University , Provo , Utah
Summer Print Show , Okeanos Press, Berkeley , California
Drawn Conclusions, Firehouse Gallery, Garden City, New York
1993 Drawing into the 90s, Laguna Gloria Art Museum , Austin , Texas
Drawings , Peconic Gallery, Riverhead, New York
Prints from Six Artists, Okeanos Press, Berkeley , California
Bay Arts 1993, San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont , California
Pro Arts Annual, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland , California
Crocker Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum , Sacramento , California
14th Annual Paper in Particular, Columbia College , Columbia , Missouri
1992 8th Annual Works on Paper, Berkeley Art Center , Berkeley , California
Drawing 1992, Larsen Gallery, Brigham Young University , Provo , Utah
Drawn West, 3rd Biennial, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University , Logan , Utah
Works On or Of Paper, University Gallery, 25th University of Delaware Biennial, Newark , Delaware
AWARDS
1995 Merit Award, Biennial Print and Draw Exhibition, Triton Museum , Santa Clara , California
1992 Silver Award, Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards, Napa , California
Purchase Award, University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware
Purchase Award, Brigham Young University , Provo , Utah
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 2000
Black Ice, University of Colorado , number 10, 1993
Brenneman, Christine, “Amy Kaufman at Traywick Gallery” Artweek, May 2003
Cebulski, Frank, ”Eight Printmakers.” The Guide, August 1994
Chiapella, Julia, “Orient Expressions.” Santa Cruz Sentinel , February 1995
Harrison, Helen A., ”When Drawings’...” The New York Times, November 1993
Hill, Angela, ”Kaufman’s Big Swirls...” The Oakland Tribune , September 2000
Huddleston, Joanne, “SFWA: A Long Tradition.” San Francisco Arts Monthly , June 1992
Liljequist, Peder, “Drawing on Their Energy.” Chico News & Review , December 1997
Rodriguez, Juan, “Amy Kaufman at Mills College Art Museum ” Artweek, November 2000
Zyzzyva, Fall 2002, Spring 2001, Fall 1999
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , California
Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose , California
Brigham Young University , Provo , Utah
Fair Isaac, San Rafael , California
Werner Kramarsky, New York , New York
Monterey Museum of Art , Monterey , California
San Jose Museum of Art , San Jose , California
United States Embassy, Hong Kong , Singapore and Tunisia
University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware
Weatherspoon Art Gallery , University of North Carolina at Greensboro