Bio

Currier was born in Morristown, TN, a small town north of Knoxville. Morristown has the distinction of being the home of Davy Crocket’s family in 1794. Davy was her hero as a child – his deep connection to nature, and his independence. Perhaps he planted a seed in her that grew into a reverence for the natural world – its intricate and ingenious designs inform her work. Currier’s awareness of its potential to reveal our truest selves has become an aesthetic cornerstone. The imagery she creates is a visual bridge to this desire for connection and balance.

The wood assemblages are an extension of her intent to create an object that is laden with a pre-linguitic essence. She believes wood is the perfect material to embrace and condense the ‘stream of time’, as it is heavy with its own history. By carving and building a universal form, Currier can tap into and channel the true silence that once existed.

Amelia Currier: Education and Honors

B.F.A. Printmaking, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Università degli Studi della Tusia, Viterbo, Italy

Best in Wood Media Award – Octagonal: The All Media Show, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA, 2022
Honorable Mention- Scarab Club Gold Medal Show, Detroit, MI 2020
Featured Artist, R&F Handmade Paints, July- August, 2013

Proclamation of Excellence, Nevada Senate, 2013

Amelia Currier: Selected Exhibitions

SOLO
Hitsuzendo, Healthspan Community Gallery, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, 2021

Hydroglyphs, Nevada Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV, 2020

Glyphs and Houses, CCAI, Carson City, NV, 2016

Cave Translations, UNR Gallery,  Reno, NV, 2015

Late Blooms, The Vision Place Gallery, Reno, NV, 2014

Oasis, College Gallery, Western Nevada College, NV, 2013

New Works on Paper, Vine Street Gallery, Reno, NV, 2013

Nevada Jewels: Prints & Collages, Southside Cultural Center, Reno, NV, 2009

Collages & Etchings: Beyond Landscape, Quaker Meeting House, Reno, NV, 2009

Silent Poetry, The Vision Place Gallery, Reno, NV, 2008

GROUP
Detroit Artist Market, off site invitational exhibit, David Whitney Bldg., Detroit, MI, 2022

Introspection, The Contemporary, Watersmeet, MI, 2022

Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2022
Octagonal: The All Media Show, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA,
 Wood Media Award, 2022
108th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2021

8×8 Season 3, FLATFILE Gallery, NY, NY, 2021

All Media Exhibition, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit MI, 2021

Dual Visions, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2021

Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
, Honorable Mention, 2020
Mandala: India and the World Exhibit, curator, Mia Risberg, Ann Arbor Library, Ann Arbor, MI, 2020
8×8 Season 2, FLATFILE Gallery, subsidiary of Schweitzer Gallery, NY, NY, 2020
Pleins Feux, Open Studios Event, Paris, France, 2019

58th Annual Greater MI Art Exhibit, Alden B. Dow Museum, Midland, MI,
 2019

50 states/200 Artists, Encaustic Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2019

38th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham, MI, 2019

Wild, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2019

Monotype Guild of New England Juried Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI, 2019

Paperworks, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2018

7th Annual Encaustic Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2018

Terrains, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI, 2018

Projects Gallery, Art Aqua Miami, Miami, FL, 2017

Then and Now, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, 2017

Contemporary Edges, Group Invitational, Nevada Fine Arts Gallery, NV, 2017

5th Annual Group Show, Capitol City Arts Initiative, Carson City, NV, 2014

Poetry Bleeds Rust, N.A.W.A Gallery, New York, N.Y., 2014

Tenth Turner Nat’l Print Exhibition, Janet Turner Museum, Chico, CA, 2014

Ninth Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2014

Fusion, Int’l Encaustic Show, Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2013

Twenty Fourth Annual Juried Show, CAC, Las Vegas, NV, 2013 

Eighth Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2013

SENate Spotlight Series, Legislature Building, Carson City, NV, 2013

Sixth Biennial National Print Exhibition, N. Arizona University, AZ, 2012

Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2012

Reno Open Studios Group Exhibit, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno NV, 2011

Printmaker’s Conspiracy Group Show, St Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, NV, 2011

Playing with Fire, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ, 2011
Medley of Masterpieces, Blueline Gallery, Roseville, CA, 2011

Amelia Currier: Public Collections

Fidelity Investments
Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV

The Roeper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI

The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA

Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Waikiki, HI
The Duffy Collection, WSU, Detroit, MI
Ontological Museum, Santa Fe, NM

Amelia Currier: Publications

Detroit Cultural,  April Issue, 2021

Member Spotlight – Catalyst Art Lab, 2021
Vasari 21, ‘The Art of Recycling’, Feb, 2020

Ontological Museum: New Acquisitions, 2019

American Art Collector, 2017

Local Artist Explores Past and Present, Jordan Russell, Nevada Sagebrush, 2015