Amy Boone-McCreesh

Amy Boone-McCreesh (b. 1985, Caribou, Maine) is a multidisciplinary artist whose vibrant and maximalist works explore themes of decoration, material culture, and constructed environments. She has exhibited widely across the United States, with recent solo presentations at Future Fair (New York), Penn State University, the Academy Art Museum (MD), and Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia). Her work has also been shown at the Kreeger Museum, the Walters Art Museum, Asya Geisberg Gallery, and David B. Smith Gallery, among others. Boone-McCreesh was a finalist for the 2024 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize and a 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowship nominee. 

She is the founder and editor of INERTIA, an online studio visit series, and has contributed writing to BmoreArt. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, Artblog, New American Paintings, and Beautiful Decay, and is included in collections such as Facebook, Capital One, and the U.S. Department of State's Art in Embassies program.

Boone-McCreesh holds an MFA from Towson University and a BFA from the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at both the Maryland Institute College of Art and Towson University. She has held visiting professorships at Dickinson College and Franklin & Marshall, and regularly lectures as a visiting artist and critic. Her residencies include Loghaven (2024), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a two-year Hamiltonian Fellowship in Washington, DC. She lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.