My kite broke. I had to do something. Flying kites on the beach in Homer, Alaska was hands down one of the greatest days of 2008. If we happen meet I will tell you the incredible story of this fighter owl kite. This website is full of many photos of me, stories about me, and information about me and my work. Basically it’s all about me me me, because it’s a website with my f*cking name on it. At least I don’t have a myspace page, which means I’m over thirty and I’m not a total dweeb.
BIOGRAPHY
Once upon a time...(in the third person)...
Amy Caron is a multidisciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She grew up raising hell in Vermont, the land of dairy farms and white church steeples. Her atypical background as a former World Cup-level aerialist for the US Freestyle Ski Team is often cited as the foundation for her gutsy approach to contemporary art. Her athletic career prompted her move to Utah, plus she was looking for another predominately white, church going, gun packing red state to live in.
Amy completed her B.F.A. in modern dance at the University of Utah (in eight short years), where she also dabbled in animation and video. Her early student works were performed by Repertory Dance Theatre and screened at the prestigious Monaco International Dance Biennial and American Dance Festival. This recognition propelled her exploration of movement and video. Recently her films received an award from the Hong Kong Dance Festival and presented in varied locations that range from Missouri to Australia and Switzerland.
In addition to her creative work, Amy is a respected film festival screener, programmer, and coordinator and worked for Sundance Film Festival and Fear No Film Festival for a number of years. She is also an Associate Instructor in the Fine Arts College at the University of Utah where she developed and teaches a unique course focused on the evolution of dance in cinema.
A notorious workaholic, which she blames on her blue collar rearing, Amy is a determined and dedicated artist with a prolific career that spans virtually all mediums of visual and performance art. She was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Utah Arts Council in 2007 and recently received a Creation Fund Grant from the National Performance Network in conjunction with a commission from New York’s Performance Space 122, to produce and tour Waves of Mu - her new neuroscience-based installation/performance piece about mirror neurons. This irrefutably ambitious work, which premiered at the Firehouse Gallery in March 2008 and continues to tour nationally, marks a critical turning point in Amy’s career with a successful leap toward large-scale evening-length productions that refuse categorization and tackle complex scientific concepts by way of intriguing collaborations with distinguished professionals from outside the art world.
Not a careful person, Amy rides her bike in the dead of winter, eats McDonald’s regularly, and likes her music LOUD. She makes rash decisions and enjoys abrupt changes on any course, so if you think her trademark flaming red tresses will stay forever think again – same goes for the art.
Check out the nitty gritty: Amy_CV.pdf