Amy Trachtenberg’s practice as a painter has expanded to explore subjects such as space, light, memory and history. For over two decades, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows. Represented in San Francisco by Brian Gross Fine Art, she has also shown at the Luggage Store Gallery and The Monterey Museum of Art. She created a series of artworks in kiosks along Market Street for the Art in Transit Program of the San Francisco Art Commission.

Trachtenberg is known for her collaborative projects with poets, musicians, choreographers and architects: permanent installations include Groundwork for a San Jose branch library, The Atrium Project at Children’s Hospital in Oakland and Illuminance at Pixar Studios in Emeryville.

Theater designs include sets and costumes for plays by poets Leslie Scalapino, Carla Harryman, Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch, as well as “The Butterfly” for Darvag Iranian Theater Company. Chamber Opera designs include: “A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil,” by Erling Wold (adapted from Max Ernst), Poulenc’s “The Breasts of Teresias,” “Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle,” and Ullman’s “The Emperor of Atlantis” for the Cinnabar Opera Theater. She provided costumes for ODC Dance performances at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Trachtenberg’s visual work and collaborations with poets have been published in Zyzzva, avec, VOLT, Mirage, Five Fingers Review, Chain, factorial and United Artists Press. In 2007 she created “Sub Rosa Artifact,” a graphic score projection for Rovaté performed by an ensemble of eight musicians.

Amy Trachtenberg received a BA in French and Liberal Studies from California State University Sonoma and the Diplôme d’Art Plastique from L’école National Superieure des Beaux-Arts. She lives and works in San Francisco.