bio
b. 1978, Augusta, GA, USA
Amy Sacksteder's work explores personal and collective relationships to landscape and artifact. She works across media, most commonly in painting, collage, drawing, cut paper, ceramics, and stained glass. Her work has been included in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo and two-person venues include Ox-Bow House (Douglas, MI); James May Gallery (Milwaukee, WI); University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS); Ann Arbor Art Center (MI) and University of Michigan Institute for Humanities (Ann Arbor, MI). Recent group venues include Good Naked x The Middle Room (Los Angeles, CA); Contemporary Art Matters (LIC, NY and Columbus, OH); Tyger Tyger Gallery (Asheville, NC); and Tiger Strikes Asteroid—Greenville (SC). Current and upcoming group exhibition venues include Saint Kate Arts Hotel (Milwaukee, WI); Cluster Museum (Ann Arbor, MI); I Like Your Work (online w catalog); David Lusk Gallery (Nashville); Ceramics x Fibers at Boyer Campbell Building in conjunction with NCECA (Detroit, MI). She has a forthcoming spring/summer 2026 solo and three-person exhibitions at River House Arts (Toledo, OH) and Studio Waveland (Waveland, MS), respectively.
Sacksteder has completed artist residencies at SÍM (Reykjavík, Iceland); Takt (Berlin, Germany); The Hungarian Multicultural Center (Budapest, Hungry); and the Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL); among others. In 2012 she was awarded a Gallery-as-Studio Residency and solo exhibition at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has been featured and reviewed in journals such as The Offing, Flint Magazine, New American Paintings and the Chicago Tribune and has been included in the curated registries of The Drawing Center, White Columns, and the Flat File 2022 Program at Ortega y Gasset Projects, where she is also highlighted as a 2022 and 2024 Artist to Watch. She presently has work included in the Flat File Index at Real Tinsel in Milwaukee.
Affiliations include invited membership in the Long Island City Studios (LIC, New York) and Ypsi Alloy Studios (Ypsilanti, MI)—a studio dedicated to her ceramic work. Sacksteder and her family live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, outside of Detroit. Sacksteder works from her studios in Ypsilanti and is a professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.
For inquiries and to view work contact:
Ox-Bow House, Douglas, MI
River House Arts, Toledo, OH
ArtClvb, Detroit, MI
CLUSTER Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
Current registries / flat files:
Real Tinsel, Flat File Index, Milwaukee, WI
Interviews and podcasts:
Visual Quitter Podcast interview with Jodi Hays, February 2026
Engaging Process Podcast interview, September 2023
Studio Break Podcast interview, January 2023
I Like Your Work Podcast interview, April 2022
Artist / Mother Podcast interview, January 2021
To view work in the studios outside of Detroit or in Long Island City, NY, email amy@amysacksteder.com to set up an appointment
Photo credit: Abby Rosenbaum, Ann Arbor, MI