Amy Renee Webb

B. 1996 Columbus, MS, USA
Based in Water Valley, MS, USA

 

“Born in 1996 in Columbus, MS, Webb studied at The University of Mississippi, in Oxford, from 2018 to 2022. It was at U of M that she earned a BFA in painting after previously earning an associates in business at Itawamba Community College  and working for three years at the GumTree Museum of Art in Tupelo Mississippi. Since 2022, the artist has lived and worked out of a downtown studio in the rural art colony of Water Valley, MS. The artist has shown at several galleries in the state of Mississippi, most closely working with the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. In 2023, Webb completed her first residency at the MacGown Artist Retreat and Studios in Starkville, MS, receiving a grant and a solo show at the Starkville Area Arts Council that showcased the artist’s dark landscapes.

 

Education/training:

2018-2022: BFA Painting, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA

 

Selected solo exhibitions:

2025, Delta Arts Alliance, Cleveland, MS* (forthcoming)

2023, M.A.R.S. Resident Exhibition, Starkville Area Arts Council, Starkville, MS, USA

2022, Exhibition and Artist Talk ,W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center, Fulton, MS, USA

2022, Yoknapatawpha Arts Council Exhibition Series 

2019, Quasar Arts Showcase, Small Hall on the Square, Oxford, MS, USA

 

Selected group exhibitions:

2023, The Welcome, Bozarts Gallery, Water Valley, MS, USA

2023, We’ve Always Been Here, Gallery 130, Oxford, MS, USA

2022, Treehouse Gallery, Fall Exhibition, Oxford, MS, USA

2022, The Little Yellow Building, online exhibition

 

Awards: 

2022, Outstanding Painting Award, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA

 

Residencies:

2023, MacGown Artists’ Residency, Del Rendon Foundation, Starkville, MS, USA

 

Grants: 

2024, Mississippi Arts Commission Individual mini grant, Water Valley, MS, USA

 

Selected press:

Caroline McCutchen, Artist Amy Webb Sheds Light on Her Creative Experiences, The Daily Mississippian (2023).
Abigail Sipe Rochester, “From Working on the Farm to Painting in the Studio” in The Dispatch (2023).
Nature Humphries, “Young Artists to Watch at Double Decker this Year” in The Local Voice (2023).
Christina Nafzinger, “Featured Artists” Create Magazine Issue #32 (2022).

Product Magazine issue #36, Cover Artist, 2022

 

Professional contributions:

2015-2018: Administrative Assistant, GumTree Museum of Art, Tupelo, MS USA
2019-2023: Event Coordinator of Quasar Arts Showcase, Oxford, MS, USA
2023-2024: Board Chair of IRIS Arts MS, Oxford, MS, USA