began 2005
AM Hoch (aka Amy Hotch) has exhibited her paintings and interdisciplinary installations combining painting, sculpture, original text, and digital technologies in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe. Currently her work is featured in the international group show, “Inferno riflesso. La guerra nello specchio dell’arte” (“Reflections of Hell: War in the Mirror of Art”) in the Museo Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Mantua, Italy.
Her solo shows include “Who Remains,” at Nelumbo Gallery, Bologna, Italy; “Metamorphosis,” a five-year installation in Ionian University, Corfu, Greece; “Young Boat (Future Reflection Sister Past),” a Special Project installation for SetUp Art Fair 2015, Bologna, Italy; a live broadcast of excerpts (in Italian) of “The Diary” from Bologna’s Radio Città del Capo from Casa dei Pensieri Libreria for the national Festa dell’Unità; “Diary of a Young Boat in Three Movements,” a site-specific installation with live narrator at Cartoleria 18 Cooperativa, Bologna, Italy; an installation at Laboratorio degli Angeli, Bologna; “Metamorfosi di una barca,” a site-specific installation in the Museo del Castello, Bagnara di Romagna, Italy; “Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells,” an interdisciplinary installation, commissioned and exhibited by the Beall Center for Art and Technology, in Irvine, California, and later adapted for the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy; “interstices,” a site-specific installation at the Alice Austen House Museum, New York; “I keep forgetting . . . it’s not working,” a site-specific installation at the Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany. Solo painting exhibitions include one-person shows at Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York City; and LaMama La Galleria, NYC.
Ms. Hoch has received numerous grants throughout her career, including an artist-in-residency from Altos De Chavon, in the Dominican Republic; a project grant from the State Senate in Berlin, Germany; and two Gottlieb Emergency Grants. She was a research artist at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Museum, New York. Ms. Hoch received a large-scale commission from the Beall Center for Art and Technology to launch their 2004 season. In 2014/2015 she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. In 2018 AM Hoch was awarded the Seal of the Ionian University of Corfu in recognition of her artistic career. Her currently exhibited “Untitled” oil painting in the international group show, “Inferno riflesso. La guerra nello specchio dell’arte”, in the Museo Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Mantova, Italy, received an Honorable Mention.
Born in New York City, AM Hoch currently lives and works in Bologna, Italy.