Amy Burek // awkwardladies@gmail.com
based in Alameda, CA // works in Oakland, CA
Education
2006 M.S. in Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2004 B.S. in Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology, Arizona State University
Residencies & Awards
2018 Artist in Residence at Air Air (Round 4)
2018 Two Photon Scicomm Grant Recipient
2014, 2015 & 2016 International Printmaking Residency at Druckwerk Studio in Basel, Switzerland
2012 – 2014 Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA
2011 – 2012 Artist in Residence at REDUX Studios in Alameda, CA
Exhibitions (selected)
2023 Riso-Rama at Weil Gallery, Corpus Cristi, TX
2021 Art Kala 2021 at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2019 On the Tip of My Tongue at Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2019 Zine Machine at Pew Fine Arts Center @ Grove City College, Grove City, PA
2019 Bay Area Prints at The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Print It! California Society of Printmakers Group Show, Village Theater Art Gallery, Danville, CA
2018 Great Hope at Tiny Town Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018 Air Air Round 4 Group Show at Mother, Atlanta, GA
2018 Great Hope at Student Union Art Gallery, UMass Amherst
2017 ANIMATION + PRINTMAKING at The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2016 Collective Consciousness at The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 SWARM at Kaskadenkondensator Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Sensorum at The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Writ Large: A Festival of Text at The Great Wall of Oakland, Oakland, CA
2015 Time Capsule at The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Unbemerkt/Unnoticed at Kaskadenkondensator Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Invisible Forces (with Kate Mink) at The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 Animated Type Showcase, College Book Arts Association Conference "Print, Produce, Publish" in Salt Lake City, UT
2014 Artists Annual at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2014 GRID/FLOW: What Remains at Kaskadenkondensator Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Animated Type at the Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
2013 Fresh Work at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2013 Art of Letterpress II at The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Amsterdam Zine Jam at Rekult, Amsterdam, Holland
2013 Art of Zines at Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA
2013 Father Tween and the Holy Zine at Sicky Nar Nar Gallery, Savannah, GA
2013 Molecular Biology As Art at Fridge Gallery, Alameda, CA
2012 Didn’t You Get The Memo? at Mauve? Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Events (Selected)
2023 Small Press Book Bazaar at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2023 East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, Oakland, CA
2023 Leica Photo Zine Fair, San Francisco, CA
2023 Place Non Place with Beatrice Thornton and Alexis Madrigal, Clio’s Books, Oakland, CA
2023 Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Seattle Art Book Fair, Seattle, WA
2022 Small Press Book Bazaar at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2022 East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, Oakland, CA
2022 Short Run Comix & Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
2022 San Francisco Zine Fest, San Francisco, CA
2022 San Francisco Art Book Fair, San Francisco, CA
2021 Tokyo Art Book Fair (Virtual), Tokyo, Japan
2019 East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, Oakland, CA
2019 Short Run Comix & Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
2019 San Francisco Zine Fest, San Francisco, CA
2019 Tiny Tech Zines, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Zine Fest: Show Me Your Stories at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019 MACE: Mission Arts & Comic Expo, San Francisco, CA
2018 East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Festival, Berkeley, CA
2018 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
2018 Los Angeles Zine Fest, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Short Run Comix & Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
2016 Photo Zine Fest, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2016 Monsters of Zines, Patreon, San Francisco, CA
2016 Literally: Zines in Between, The Shop at Flywheel Press, San Mateo, CA
2016 The Lucky Number Seven Show, E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland, CA
2015 My Body Is a Prison of Pain with Amy Berkowitz, Sarah Godfrey & Kristen Leckie
E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland, CA
2015 Instructor, Write, Copy, Share: A Collaborative Zine Making Workshop, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
with Emily Alden Foster
2015 Moderator, Pulling Print Off Shelves: Zine Panel in Partnership with LACUNA, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2014 (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS at the New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2014 Portland Zine Symposium, Portland, OR
2014 Thinking Captions: Cartoonists Reading Their Cartoons, Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013 Alternative Press Expo, San Francisco, CA
2012 San Francisco Zine Fest, San Francisco, CA
Collections
SFMOMA Library
Whitney Museum Library
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, John M. Flaxman Library/The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
Pace University Library
New York Public Library
Multnomah County Library
Press
2018 ZCENE Podcast, “Vancouver Art Book Fair SUPERSODE” (link)
2018 “フォロワーは家族３人だけ。４年間父親が呟いたジワジワくるツイートをまとめた『Dad Tweets』”
HEAPS Magazine, Japan (link)
2017 "What we saw (and loved) at Short Run" | Seattle Review of Books, Seattle, WA (link)
2015 “Awkward Ladies Club | Amy Burek" | People of Print, London (link)
2015 "Amy Burek's Never Date Dude From the Internet" | Womanzine, Oakland, CA (link)
2015 “Profiles in Printmaking" | Uppercase Magazine Issue 25, Calgary, AB (link)
2014 “New York Art Book Fair 101” | MoMA Inside/Out, New York, NY (link)
2014 "Alphabet" | Printeresting.org (link)
2014 . “Drinking Stories” | (The) Absolute (link)
2014 “Get to know your zinester: Awkward Ladies Club” | L.A. Zinefest, Los Angeles, CA (link)
2013 “Artworld Oakland: Amy Burek” | Satellite Magazine, Toronto, ON (archived link)