Amy Cutler was born in 1974 in Poughkeepsie, New York. She attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany from 1994 to 1995, earned her BFA from The Cooper Union in 1997. In addition to Cutler’s upcoming solo exhibition at The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, (August, 2019) one and two-person shows of her works have taken place at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, respectively, followed by solo shows at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California Santa Barbara; and many other institutions.

Cutler has participated in numerous group shows and major surveys throughout the US and Europe including, among others, the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Greater New York, MoMA PS 1, Long Island City; ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki; Global Feminisms, the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York; I-Lands, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense; Drawing Stories: Narration in Contemporary Graphic Art, Museum Folkwang, Essen; and Drawing Now, at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. Works by the artist are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, N.Y.; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and those of many other distinguished institutions and private individuals. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, NY and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.