Solo Exhibitions
2018 Expressions of TreeQuility, Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, Ontario
2018 TreeCentricity: A Collection of Tree Paintings, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Amy Ferrari Art, The Accelerator Center, Waterloo, Ontario
2017 Local LandShapes, Moksha Yoga Studios, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 Amy Ferrari Art, The Boat House, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 State of the City Breakfast, RIM Park, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 Planning and Public Works Offices, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 The Mayor’s Offices – Councilor Mark Whaley’s Office, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 Serene Yellow Spaces, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 Kitchener Public Library – Central Library Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2014 The Mayor’s Offices – Board Room, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 Vegetationage, McCormick Library, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 LandShapes, Harper Library, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 Expressions in Abstract Agreement, Moksha Yoga Studios, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 LandShapes, Moksha Yoga Studios, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 LandShapes, Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 Bodacious Bucolic Extracts, The Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario
2011 The Burgundy Room, University of Waterloo Faculty Club, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 MUKsters!!!, Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 Adventures in Canadian Landscapes, Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, Ontario
2010 The Mayor’s Offices, Waterloo City Hall, Waterloo, Ontario
2010 Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2010 Expressions in Abstract Agreement, The Performance Studio at the Button Factory, WCAC, Waterloo, Ontario,
2010 Expressions in Abstract Agreement, The Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario
2010 Carousel Clothing, Kitchener, Ontario
2009 Expressions from the Floressence, Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2007 Bering and James, Houston, Texas
2006 Karen Derr & Associates, Galveston, Texas
2006 Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas
2006 Zebo’s Coffee House, Katy, Texas, and Tomball, Texas
2005 Karen Derr & Associates, Houston, Texas
2005 Zebo’s Coffee House, Katy, Texas, and Tomball, Texas
2004 Hot Tops Hair Salon, Houston, Texas
1998 The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
1998 Huske Hardware Store Micro-Brewery, Fayetteville, North Carolina
1998 Gallery 122, Fayetteville, North Carolina
1997 The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Group Exhibitions
2022 Connexions Summer Art Exhibition, Paris Bohemian Gallery, Paris, Ontario
2022 Moving Forward, Three Sisters Cultural Centre, St. Jacobs, Ontario
2022 2022 AGH Art Sale, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
2022 51st Annual Art Auction, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario
2022 Art Feeds, Online Auction, Welcome Inn Community Centre, Hamilton, Ontario
2021 Concepts in Abstraction, Group Exhibition, Studio K2, Hamilton, Ontario
2021 2021 AGH Art Sale, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
2021 50th Annual Art Auction, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario
2021 Art Feeds, Online Auction, Welcome Inn Community Centre, Hamilton, Ontario
2021 Warm Up to Creativity, Group Exhibition, Studio K2, Hamilton, Ontario
2020 Good Luck Moon, Invitational Online Art Auction, Three Sisters Cultural Centre, St. Jacobs, Ontario
2020 Your Happy Place, Invitational Online Art Auction, Three Sisters Cultural Centre, St. Jacobs, Ontario
2020 Art in the Workplace, Juried Art Show and Sale, McMaster Innovation Park, Hamilton, Ontario
2018 Fresh Air, Fresh Art, Invitational Tent Show & Sale, Ariss, Ontario
2018 Elemental, presented by The Art District Gallery, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2018 Annual Instructor Exhibition, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2018 Ootla 2018, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2018 The Ferrari 500 – Mach 3, Catalyst 137, Kitchener, Ontario
2018 Art District Gallery, Member and Exhibitor, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Art$Pay’s Out of the Box, Art Show & Sale, The Walper Hotel, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Juried Show: Hidden Valley Revealed, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario (Honorable Mention)
2017 Alchemy: Making Magic with Metal, WalterFedy, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 The Ferrari 500 – Mach 2, Communitech, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Filling the Palette Art Show & Sale, The Food Bank of Waterloo Region, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Glorious and Free, presented by the Art District Gallery, Central Library Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 A Grand Fabrication, presented by the Art District Gallery, The Cotton Factory, Hamilton, Ontario
2017 The Art District Gallery Show, WalterFedy, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 The Ferrari 500, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2017 Art District Gallery, Member and Exhibitor, St. Jacobs, Ontario
2016 Art District Gallery: Downloaded at the Accelerator Center, Waterloo, Ontario
2016 Art District Gallery Paints the Blues, Berlin Tower Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario
2016 Art District Gallery Touches Down at The Museum, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2016 Art District Gallery, Member and Exhibitor; Kitchener, Ontario and St. Jacobs, Ontario
2016 Elevate, Budd’s Department Store Invitational Pop-Up Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2016 The Food Bank: Filling the Palette Art Show, Kitchener, Ontario
2016 Planed Lifetime Networks: Side by Side 2016, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 Collective Identity’s Fast Forward Waterloo Region, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 Stone Soup Blues Pop Up Gallery, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 Art District Gallery, Member and Exhibitor; May – December, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 3rd Annual Spring Art Sale in Support of the Waterloo Region Food Bank, The Accelerator Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 The Fire and Ice Gala, Leadership Waterloo Region, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 Chrysalides House of Art, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 The Artisan Zone, Kitchener, Ontario
2014 The Fire and Ice Gala, Leadership Waterloo Region, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 The Artisan Zone, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 Box 13 Juried Show, Double R Steel, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 Art Allies: Reunion, presented at The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 Chrysalides House of Art, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 Maxwell’s House of Music, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 Fantasy and Gothica Art Exhibit, Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, Kitchener, Ontario
2012 Maxwell’s House of Music, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 Art Allies: Coalescence, presented at Walter Fedy, Kitchener, Ontario
2011 Art Allies: Art Movement, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 WCAC Colors of Art, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 Organic Poetry, The Communitech Hub, at the Tannery Building, Kitchener
2011 Organic Poetry, The Accelerator Center, Waterloo, Ontario
2010 Box 10 Juried Show, The Breithaupt Block, Kitchener, Ontario
2007 Cinco; Landscapes & Stills, Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006 Fun, Fantasy & Art, Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas
2006 Mind Puddles, Houston, Texas
2006 Aroma’s Coffee & Tea House, Houston, Texas
2006 Alex Daniyel Art Show Benefiting the Periwinkle Foundation, Winter Street Studios Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006 Art on the Avenue: 2nd Annual Winter Street Studios Artists Exhibition, Winter Street Studios Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005 Art on the Avenue: 1st Annual Winter Street Studios Artists Exhibition, Winter Street Studios Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005 Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas
2005 April Showers Bring May Flowers, Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005 “Havana Nights” Benefiting The Regional Arts Council, Augusta Pines Country Club, Spring, Texas
2005 Orangeburg Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
2005 Empower Art Competition, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston Texas
2005 KGA Compound Group, Houston, Texas
2005 Texas Ten x Ten, Galerie Ana Julia Aguado, Zacateros No. 32, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
2005 Anniversary Show, Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas
2005 In The Minds Eye; Beam Me Up Scottie, Sippora Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004 The $100 Box” Benefit for “I Have a Dream”, Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004 The $100 Box; Benefit for “I Have a Dream”, Mindpuddles, Houston, Texas
2004 Art on the Avenue Show; Soft Frequency Hard, Gallery 101, Houston, Texas
2004 Grand Opening, Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas
2002 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Abstract?, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2001 The School of Law & The Babcock School Fall Art Show: Organic Language, Wake Forest University, The Worrell Professional Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2001 Point, Counterpoint, Davidson County Community College, Lexington, North Carolina
2000 I Could Do That, William Throckmorton Library, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
2000 Current Work: A National Competition, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, (Third Place)
2000 AAWS – Dimensions 2000: The Art of the New Millennium, The Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2000 Arts Council Center, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2000 The Portfolio Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina (1997 – 2000)
1999 Image, Media, & Technology: Artists and the Creative Process, I.P. Stanback Museum at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, South Carolina
1999 Facets of the Prism: Adventures in Color, Form and Family Art, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, North Carolina
1999 Wet, Gallery 122, Fayetteville, North Carolina (Best of Show)
1999 Sun and the Moon, Level Three, Fayetteville, North Carolina
1998 AAWS – Untitled, The Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1997 Women Artists, The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
1995 Madison Avenue Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1995 New Light, Wild Studio and Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
Public Art
2018 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Instructor for an Abstract Portrait Drop-In as part of Create Waterloo’s “We Are Waterloo Portrait Project”, Waterloo Museum, Waterloo, Ontario
2017 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Founded ‘The Ferrari 500’ Pop-Up Art Show, Sale, and Fundraiser, Multiple Venues in Kitchener-Waterloo
2017 ArtsSmart Project Arts Teacher at Elizabeth Ziegler Public School, Waterloo, Ontario
2017 Panelist for Leadership Day, Leadership Waterloo Region, Baden, Ontario
2016 Juror for Button Factory Arts Annual Juried Show, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2016 Summer Nights 2016: REEP Green Solutions Barrel Painting, Kitchener, Ontario
2016 GRT and Button Factory Arts: Art That Moves You, Region of Waterloo, Ontario
2016 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2015 ArtsSmart Project Arts Teacher at Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 Art District Gallery, Curation Committee Chair; May – December, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 KWARTZ Lab’s KWARTZ-Bot, Maker Expo, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 National Youth Art Week’s eyeGO to the Arts event, Extra Curricular: “Amy’s Art Attack”, Waterloo Public Square, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2015 The Brush Off, Contestant, Button Factory Arts, Ontario
2015 Panelist for Leadership Day, Leadership Waterloo Region, New Dundee, Ontario
2014 The Brush Off, Contestant, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2014 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2014 ArtsSmart Project Arts Teacher at Forest Hills Public School, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 The Brush Off, Contestant, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2012 Artist in Residence, REAP, The Felt Lab at the Quarry Building, St. Jacobs, Ontario
2012 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group, Kitchener, Ontario
2011 Jury Member for Kitchener Consolidated Maintenance Facility Public Art Competition
Workshops & Presentations Given
2018 International Women’s Day Lunchtime Lounge: About my Art by Amy Ferrari, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2018 “Color Boot Camp”, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2018 “Making the Most of Color”, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 “Hidden Valley Revealed” Meet the Artists, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario (Honorable Mention)
2017 Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, Interviewed by Susan Cook-Scheerer at Roger’s Community Television Studio, Kitchener, Ontario, February 23
2017 “Color Theory for Beginners”, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Mini Lecture Series: “Composition Concentration”, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 Abstract Portrait Workshop for Seniors, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2017 “Abstract Portrait Drop-In”, We Are Waterloo Portrait Project, City of Waterloo Museum, Waterloo, Ontario
2017 Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, Interviewed by Susan Cook-Scheerer at Roger’s Community Television Studio, Kitchener, Ontario, February 23
2016 “Color Studio”, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 “Language of Line” REAP Lunch and Learn Presentation, The Felt Lab, St. Jacobs, Ontario
2015 “Amy’s Art Lab”, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 “Color Lab”, ”Art From Random Elements”, “Explorations in Tessellations”, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, Interviewed by Mark Paine at Roger’s Community Television Studio, Kitchener, Ontario, January 24
2013 “Visual Literacy”, REAP, The Felt Lab at The Quarry Building, St. Josephs, Ontario
2013 “Trouncing the Color Wheel”, “Art From Random Elements”, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 “Trouncing the Color Wheel”, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, Interviewed by Jay Changnon at Roger’s Community Television Studio, Kitchener, Ontario, January 31
2011 “Art From Random Elements”, “Trouncing the Color Wheel”, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2010 Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, Interviewed by Jay Changnon at Roger’s Community Television Studio, Kitchener, Ontario, January 5
2009 “Art From Random Elements”, Kitchener, Ontario
2008 “But..,But,.. I’m not Creative…” Workshop, Jerry’s Artarama, Houston, Texas
2006 Demonstration of Techniques, Marble Falls Art League, Marble Falls, Texas
2005 “But..,But,.. I’m not Creative…” Workshop, Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas
2005 Beginning Abstracts with Acrylics Workshop, Amy Ferrari Art Studio, Tomball, Texas
2000 A Time to Draw, Orangeburg Fine Arts Center, twice monthly, February 3 – November 2
1999 Symposium on “Image, Media & Technology: Artists and the Creative Process”, I.P. Stanback Museum, SC State University, Orangeburg, SC
1998 “Turning Your Doodles into Art” Workshop, Orangeburg League of Artists, Orangeburg Fine Arts Center
Collections
• Communitech, Kitchener, Ontario
• Grand River Hospital Cancer Center, Kitchener, Ontario
• Lyondell Chemical Company Worldwide Headquarters, Houston, Texas
• Susan Aude Fisher, News Anchor, Columbia, South Carolina
• Corbin Van Arsdale, Texas State Representative, District 130, Houston, Texas
• Austin James and Blakely Bering, Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
• Acura of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
• Methodist Oaks Retirement Home, Orangeburg, South Carolina
• Fayetteville Urology Associates, Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Numerous private collections in Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Ontario, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Bibliography
• “Fast Food for the Soul”, Kitchener Post, Kitchener, ON, January 31, 2014, front page
• “Art Chat”, Cambridge Times, Cambridge, ON, February 17, 2011, page 3
• “Snowrenity”, Cambridge Times, Cambridge, ON, February 10, 2011, front page
• “What They’re Reading”, Waterloo Region Record, Waterloo, ON, February 12, 2011, Etcetera page E7
• “Art Outside the Box – Box 10 Show and Sale” by Valerie Hill, Waterloo Region Record, Waterloo, Ontario, November 6, 2010, Record Arts & Life page C1
• “Pushing the boundaries of art”, by Laura Carlson, Editor-In-Chief; The Cord, Wilfrid Laurier University Paper, Waterloo, ON, March 24, 2010, page 13.
• “Movin’ On Up”, by Nick Keppler, Houston Press, Houston, TX, August 31 – September 6, 2006, page 34.
• “Subject and Meaning Found in Local Gallery Exhibits”, by Soni Martin, Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, September 1 – 14, 1999, page 21.
• “Ferrari women create a show diverse in style and mood”, Art Beat, by Melissa Clement, Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC, September 3,1999, Weekender, page 19.
• “Ferrari takes ‘doodles,’ revs up Orangeburg art world with ‘Inkscape’ “, by Thomas Brown, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg SC, Thursday, November 5th, 1998, Vol. 117, No. 309, pages 4B-5B.
• “Artist’s work is inspired by shapes, patterns, motorcycle”, Closer Look, by Melissa Clement, Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC, August 7, 1998, Weekender page 20.
• “April Fourth Friday Artists Draw Inspiration from Air Filters to Pears and Functional Pottery” by Jolyn Key, Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, April 29 – May 12, 1998
• “Emerging Artist and Community Favorites Featured at Maxwell Street Galleries”, by Jolyn Key, Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, April 15 – 28, 1998.
Education
1986 North Carolina State University, School of Design, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Bachelor in Product Design, December 1986. Magna Cum Laude.
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