Amy Hughes (artist)

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]

Hughes' work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows internationally.[1] Notably, her work has been exhibited at Paul Anavian Gallery at the Manhattan Arts & Antiques Center,[9] and the International Portrait Biennial at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art.[5] She has exhibited and sold work twice at Sotheby’s "Take Home a Nude" art auction, alongside pieces by Eric Fischl, Yoko Ono, Kiki Smith, and Judy Chicago.[1][10]

In 2016, Hughes created a painting for the Westminster Kennel Club which was exhibited at the Annual Dog Show at Madison Square Gardens and printed on the show tickets.[7]

As of 2018, she has a drawing in the collection of fashion designer Misha Nonoo.[1]