Amy Rahn

Amy Rahn is Associate Professor of Art History and the Charles Danforth Gallery Director at the University of Maine at Augusta, and an art writer. She completed her PhD at Stony Brook University in 2019, and has since published gallery catalog essays on Beverly Fishman (Miles McEnery Gallery), Jen Wink Hays (Sears Peyton Gallery), Carolyn Salas (Mrs. Gallery), the exhibition Mobilized Landscape (Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State University), and the exhibition Tales of Brave Ulysses (Garth Greenan Gallery/Van Doren Waxter) featuring Howardenda Pindell, Richard Van Buren, Al Loving, and Alan Shields. She was interviewed on the subject of Joan Mitchell by Sotheby’s Magazine for their summer 2023 issue, and has written reviews and an essay for the Brooklyn Rail. She wrote two essays for auction catalogs on Joan Mitchell (Heffel), and catalog essays for two museum exhibitions: Joan Mitchell, the retrospective exhibition that traveled to SFMoMA, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton (SFMoMA and Yale University Press) in 2021-23, and Frisson: The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection (Seattle Art Museum), 2021-22. She published the first scholarly essay on painter Elise Asher (Eric Firestone Gallery) in 2024, and an essay on Jane Lackey in 2025. She is currently researching and writing on Joan Mitchell’s mentorship of younger artists, and the historical consequences of women artists’ networks of understanding and camaraderie.

In addition to her courses on art history and architecture at UMA, Rahn is the director of UMA’s Charles Danforth Gallery. The gallery’s rotating exhibitions feature contemporary artists and the work of art and architecture students from UMA and the wider community.

Learn more at amyrahn.com.