Amy Ernst

1953: Amy Ernst is born in Rowayton, a coastal village in the city of Norwalk, Connecticut.

1966-1973: During the summer months, she works in Guild Hall at the John Drew Theater in East Hampton, New York, where she is particularly interested in lighting and scenic design.

1974-1978: Studies set design at Emerson College, Boston; works for Boston Summer Opera Theater, meets her future husband, opera singer Eric Donald Johnson.

1984: Receives M.A. degree in Arts Administration and Business at Indiana University Bloomington. Indiana.

1988: First group exhibition at Guild Hall Museum, Southampton, others followed in New York galleries.

1991-1994: Participation in the Robert Blackburn Printmaking workshop in New York. There and in further master workshops she refines her artistic techniques, a sophisticated combination of different printmaking and photographic methods.

1992: First solo exhibition titled “Metamorphosis” at Clayton & Liberatore Gallery, NY.

1996: Master Workshop with John Baldessari, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico.

1999: Master Workshops: Solar Plate Etchings, Dan Weldon, New York.

2011: Master Workshops: Monotype, Lisa Mackie, New York.

The artist lives and works in Nokomis, Florida.