Amy Schissel
Amy Schissel is a Canadian artist based in Miami, FL. She works across media from drawing, painting, printmaking, to paper-based site-specific installation with recent exhibitions transforming museum and gallery spaces into immersive landscape experiences.
She obtained her BFA and MFA from the University of Ottawa. She has been awarded multiple grants and awards for her work, including a 2026 Oolite Arts Ellie’s Creator Award, a 2024 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Award, Miami-Dade Individual Artist Grants spanning 2022-2025, a South Arts Creative Practice Grant, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Residency, and a 2017 Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award.
Recent solo projects include site-specific drawing installations at Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL, Project Row Houses in the 57th Southern Biennale 2025, Houston, TX, Hemphill Artworks in Washington DC, Periscope Gallery in Salzburg Austria following a winter residency at Kunstlerhaus Salzburg, the Orlando Museum of Art in the 2023 FLORIDA PRIZE of Contemporary Art Exhibition, NYC’s ARMORY SHOW in the museum curated ‘FOCUS’ section (curator Jamillah James, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), VOLTA International Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland, for BASEL art week, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Montreal’s Patrick Mikhail Gallery, and has been featured in Forbes, Border Crossings, the Washington Post, Installation Magazine, Art Pulse, LandEscape Art Review, and more.
She has also exhibited projects at West Virginia University Museum of Fine Art, Frost Art Museum, FL, Huntington Museum of Art, WV, Florida State Museum of Fine Arts, FL, Joan Mitchell Center in NOLA, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art, Spartanburg Art Museum, SC, Clay Centre for the Arts and Science’s Juliet Museum, WV, Hollywood Center for Arts and Culture, FL, Perdue University Gallery, Sjalso Studios in Sweden, EY! Studios in Madrid, Spain, the University of Brussels Art Gallery, Belgium, Jonathan Ferrera Gallery, New Orleans, and the National Arts Center in Canada.
Schissel’s work has been written about in Forbes, The Washington Post, Installation Magazine, Border Crossings Magazine, WhiteHot Magazine, Art and Signature, and more. Collections include Miami Dade’s Art in Public Places, Google Corporation, West Virginia University Museum of Fine Art, Canada’s Department of Global Affairs, (works placed in Canadian Embassies in Brussels, Belgium, Lima, Peru, and Stockholm, Sweden), the New Zealand Consulate Ottawa house, the University of Brussels, Gotland Museum, (Sweden), the City of Ottawa, Canada’s Council for the Arts Art Bank, and private collections in Europe, Asia, and America. Schissel is represented by Hemphill Artworks in Washington, DC, and PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY in Montreal, Canada.