Amy Talluto was born and mainly raised in New Orleans, LA, except for a short stint in early childhood when she lived in Cheyenne, WY and Madison, WI. As a teenager in New Orleans, she began painting and photographing landscapes, inspired by a large and wild, thistle-filled field across the street from her mother's apartment in Chalmette, a New Orleans suburb. She earned her BFA at Washington University in St. Louis in 1995 and then moved to New York, where she has lived since. She earned her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2001.

She has shown her paintings in both New York and Chicago, and is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago and a 3-person show at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, both in January 2009. Also, in March 2009, she will be participating in a group show curated by Jennifer McGregor at Wave Hill Gallery in the Bronx. Previous shows include a 2-person exhibition at PS 122 Gallery in 2006, and several group shows in 2007 & 2008, including exhibitions at Black & White Gallery and the Abrons Art Center in New York; the Kentler International Drawing Center, Metaphor Contemporary Art, and The Brooklyn Arts Council in Brooklyn; and the Kelinert/James Art Center in Woodstock, NY.

Her work has been mentioned in The Chicago Reader, The Brooklyn Rail, PAINTERSNYC Blogspot, The Brooklyn Paper, The Advocate, and Antiques & the Arts Weekly. She has also been invited as an artist-in-residence to the following artist residency programs: The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, Ucross Foundation in Ucross, WY and The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock, NY, where she was awarded a Pollack-Krassner residency sponsorship.

She lives in Brooklyn with her cartoonist husband and her 2 cats, Buddy & Frankie.