Amy Lange is an artist based in San Francisco, California. She is a native of the west coast, having grown up half her life in the San Francisco Bay Area and the other half in rural Central Oregon. She received her BFA in Fibers from the University of Oregon in 2009, and received her MFA from California College of the Arts in spring 2017. She is a founding member of Borderline Art Collective in San Francisco and has worked in arts education since 2011.
EDUCATION
2015-2017 California College of the Arts: MFA Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004-2009 University of Oregon: BFA Fibers, Eugene, OR
2008 Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio: Silk Weaving Studio, Florence, Italy
2007 Danish Institute for Study Abroad: “Textile Design in Scandinavia,” Copenhagen, Denmark
EXHIBITIONS
2023-2024 SF Artist Gift Shop, San Francisco, CA
2023 Intertwined, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
2023 Wave Group Show, Wave Collective, San Francisco, CA
2023 Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 TMI solo show, Your Mood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Threads, Yarn-bombing Interactive Exhibit, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA
2022 SFMOMA’s Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park, official trophy artist for “Most Amorphous” car, San Francisco, CA
2022 Small Works group show, Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021-2022 SFMOMA Staff Art Show, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2021 Showbonian’s Where’s My Hat?, 2358 Market St., San Francisco, CA
2021 Spell of the Senses, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (postponed from 2020)
2021 Smoke and Mirrors, Little Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA
2020 Slow Build: A Collaborative Art Exhibition with Borderline Art Collective, Museo Eduardo Carillo, Santa Cruz, CA
2020 Collective Genus, San Francisco, CA
2020 Covid Landscapes, Sense of Press, Baltimore, MD
2019 Unsettled Surfaces, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
2019 Surfaces, Diskurs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 Slow Build [working], 1065 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
2019 ...to take root among the stars…, the Galallery, San Francisco, CA
2018-2019 “Leaf Your Mark” and “Woodland Creature Village,” 826 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
2018 After, After Party, Borderline Art Collective, San Francisco, CA
2018 At the Borderline, Virago Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Transformed: 30 Shirts by 30 Artists, Borderline Art Collective, 1340 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA
2017 After Party, Borderline Art Collective, 1340 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA
2017 Geared Up, MFA Exhibition, Perry Family Event Center, 350 Kansas Street, San Francisco, CA
2017 Text Tales, College Avenue Galleries, 5241 College Avenue, Oakland, CA
2016 Fault Lines, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016 Shelters and Future Fossils, Simpson Library, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Present Ground, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA
2016 #ccatextstyling, College Avenue Galleries, 5241 College Avenue, Oakland, CA
2015 Outside Ourselves/ Ourselves Outside, 1340 Bryant Street, San Francisco, California
2015 LAGE/EGAL #TABS: Temporary Artist Book Sale, RAUM FÜR AKTUELLE KUNST, Berlin, Germany
2014 Doubles, Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2014 Tasty Too! Food Inspired Quilts, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
2010 Knot, Subversion Gallery, Eugene, OR
2009 Mounds, Stacks, and Piles, Building A, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2009 Untitled (Fort), BFA Thesis Exhibition, Laverne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2008 Arte Della Seta Group Show, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
TEACHING / ART EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
2024 Instructor, Intro to Crochet, Project Week Day 1, Gateway High School, San Francisco, CA
2023 Instructor, Intro to Crochet, San Jose State Art & Design Society, San Jose, CA
2023 Substitute Instructor, Creative Reuse Workshop, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
2023 Instructor, Sustainable Fashion Design summer program, SCRAP, San Francisco, CA
2023 Instructor, Crochet Outside the Lines, SCRAP, San Francisco, CA
2022-present Board member, Youth Art Exchange, San Francisco, CA
2021-2022 Visiting Artist instructor, Language of Thread, Intersession course, Design Tech High School, Redwood City, CA
2019-present Senior Program Associate, Family Programs, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018-2019 Adjunct Educator, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018 Mentor, Problem Children summer art program for teens, San Francisco, CA
2016 TA, Saturated Cloth, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2011-2015 Art teacher, Mid-Peninsula High School, Menlo Park, CA
TALKS
2020 Speaker, with Borderline Art Collective, Art of the State Symposium: California Community: Artist Colonies and Collectives Past, Present, and Future, Monterey Art Museum, Monterey, CA
2019 Participating Artist, with Borderline Art Collective, One Plus Two Critique: BORDERLINE COLLECTIVE “SLOW BUILD” at 1065 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
2018 Speaker, with Marissa Geoffroy of Borderline Art Collective, Keeping Momemtum After Graduation, Career Talks, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Speaker, with Marissa Geoffroy of Borderline Art Collective, Building an Artist’s Life, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 Lead Discussant, One Plus Two Critique, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES
2018 Encounters Residency, Mendocino, California
2016 FOR-SITE Foundation's Educational Residency Program, Nevada City, California
2014 Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany