Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and New Mexico. His BA is from Beloit College. In 1994 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Fine Art in Boston. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Tiffany Foundation, and The Artist Foundation of Massachusetts. He has had one person exhibitions in scores of museums, public spaces and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than twenty museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

He has been a Professor of Art at Columbia since 1994 and was recently appointed as the inaugural Eve and Herman Gelman Professor of the Visual Arts in the School of the Arts. He has also taught at The School of Visual Arts in New York, Rhode Island School of Design, Yale, Skowhegan and numerous other schools.

He is represented by Alexandre Gallery in New York, Nielsen Gallery in Boston, The Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe and Vidal St. Phalle Galerie in Paris.