Amy Bennett was born in Maine in 1977. She lives and works in Brooklyn after having completing her studies at the New York Academy of Art.

She has held solo shows at the Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles (which represents Marcel Dzama) and the Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm (representing Jockum Nordstrom and Mamma Andersson). The lake series is an expansion on the January 2001 show, "At the Lake" held at Richard Heller, and the monotypes from "Out in the Open" held at Galleri Magnus Karlsson in September 2009.