Amy Hughes (artist)
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Amy Hughes | |
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 Hughes studio portrait, 2016 | |
| Born | 1992 Leicester, Leicestershire, UK |
| Education | |
| Known for | Conceptual art, contemporary art, painting, realism |
| Awards | Prince of Wales Foundation |
| Website | amyvhughes |
Amy Hughes (born 1992), also known as Amy V. Hughes,[1][2] is a British-born New York City-based contemporary painter.[3] She is best known for the portrait painting of her late grandfather and for her feminist take on the relationships between body and mind.[4][3]
As of 2018, she teaches painting at the New York Academy of Art, a private graduate art school, and works out of her studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.[5]
Hughes has been recognised for her efforts towards advancing the status of women artists and promoting equality.[6]
Hughes was born in Leicester and was raised in Cheshire, United Kingdom and Moscow, Russia.[6] At a young age her artistic abilities were identified and nurtured by her professors.[7] At the age of sixteen, Hughes won the Cransley School Award for Art.[1][4]
Hughes studied at Sir John Deane's College, followed by Liverpool Hope University where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art.[1] At her graduate show in 2013, she was awarded the “Purchase Prize Award” and her painting [Untitled, 2012] was purchased by the Liverpool Women's Hospital for their permanent collection. The painting currently hangs in the hospital’s main atrium.[8][1]
In 2014, Hughes completed an artist residency at Sir John Deane’s College, where a painting of hers remains in private collection.[1] Later that year she relocated to New York City to earn a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art. Hughes graduated from the academy in 2016, her studies supported by awards including a New York Academy of Art Merit Scholarship and HRH Prince of Wales Award.[8]