Amy J. Dyck is a contemporary and multimedia figurative visual artist, and writer, residing near Vancouver, BC, in Canada.

While working toward an education in design at the age of 20, Amy’s body collapsed. What followed were many, many years of elusive and debilitating symptoms that baffled even her medical team and placed her into a wheelchair. To cope with the challenges and to help her understand and process what she faced, she leaned into art-making.

Her intimate struggle with her body increased her fascination and appreciation for the human figure as a vessel that holds struggle, emotion, story, memory. She studied anatomy alongside classical drawing and painting strategies, and began to use these as tools alongside playful experimentation to compose her own stories, and to create analogies for what she was experiencing and imagining.

Amy exhibits regularly, and her wok can be found in private collections in North America and internationally. Featured in recognized magazines, blogs, and a publication, she has also earned prizes from international art competitions, including several first-place awards. Amy was presented with a coveted Canada Council for the Arts grant in 2024, and loves sharing her story and passion for art through podcasts, speaking engagements, and in her forthcoming memoir on the intersection of art and illness.