AARON JOHNSON

 

 

BORN

 

1975            St. Paul, Minnesota

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

 

EDUCATION

 

2005            MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY.

1999             Pratt institute, Brooklyn, NY.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2010            Don’t Be Scared, You’re Supposed to Be, Irvine Contemporary,
             Washington DC.

 

2008            Star Crossed, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

Where the Buffalo Roam, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2007            Love Songs for Demons, Mogadishni, Aarhus, Denmark

            Hellbound Rodeo, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY

 

2005            Fiend Club Lounge, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY

 

2004            Bubblin’ Crude, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2010             Dawn Frasch, Aaron Johnson, Wes Lang, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo,
             Norway.
             American Ship (“A Merry Kinship”), Junto Meeting Center, Brooklyn, NY.
             The Irrascible Assholes, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
             Bushwick Schlacht, Fortress to Solitude, Brooklyn, New York.
             You Are Free, The Tape Club, Berlin, Germany.
             Inflection, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY.
            The Antidote, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY.
            The Rise and Fall of Excess Culture, Stux Gallery, New York, NY.

 

2009            Low Blow, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

            Ridykeulouse Hits Bottom, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York, NY.
            Desires, Nightmares, Dreams, The Running Horse Contemporary Art             Space, Beirut, Lebanon.
            Octo Pusses, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA.
            Tales of Wonder and Woe, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY.

 

2008            Size Matters Part One: XS – Recent Small Scale Paintings, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

            From Head to Toe, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

            Grotesque Histories, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

             Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY.

 

2007            Size Matters Part One: XS – Recent Small Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

Size Matters Part Two: XXL – Recent Large Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

            Irrational Exuberance, Maddox Art, London, Englad

 

2006            Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

            Six Degrees of Separation, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

 

2005            New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria

            Kiss Me Long and Hard, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY

            Go Figure!, JET Art Works, Washington D.C.

MFA Thesis Exhibition XXV, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

            Group Show, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

2004            On-Site – A Site-Specific Group Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

New American Talent – The 19^th Exhibition, Art House Texas, Austin, TX, curated by Jerry Saltz

            Surface Tension, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY

            A Sense of Place, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

 

2003            Tits and Art 3, GV-AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            Dirty Old Toy Box, Fluxcore Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

            Love, Art, and War, Altman Gallery, New York, NY

 

2002            Launch, Fluxcore Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

            Memetics, Meme Project, New York, NY

 

AWARDS

2006 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program.

2006 Chashama Studio Grant.

2004 William F. Graf Grant.

 

 

 

 

 

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

 

 

PUBLICATIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Judkis, Maura.  “Barnaby Whitfield and Aaron Johnson at Irvine Contemporary.” Washington Citypaper,  5/14/2010.

Dawson, Jessica.  “Aaron Johnson’s Hyper-Realism.” The Washington Post, 6/4/2010.

Inflection, exhibition catalog, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, 2010
Beautiful/Decay book 2.  2010.

 

Indrisek, Scott, “Aaron Johnson.” Whitewall Magazine, issue 13, pg 64-65, 2009.

Smith, Roberta, “Art In Review.” The New York Times. 10/17/08.

Gladstone, Valerie, “Reviews: New York.” ARTnews, pg 168, 11/08.

 

Pedersen, Anja Moller. “Bonnie og Clyde I Farver.” Aarhus.nu, 12/2007

 

Sumpter, Helen. “Irrational Exuberance.” Time Out London, 11/5/2007

 

Chambers, Christopher Hart. “Grilling Up the Hellhound Rodeo.” dArt International, v.10 #2, 2007

 

Amir, Yaella. Exhibition Review. Beautiful Decay, Issue T. 8/2007

 

Baker, R.C. “Best in Show.” The Village Voice. 6/5/2007

 

Dressler, Christiane. “New York Kitzely Heraus, Was Du In Dir Hast.” Welt, 10/13/2007

 

Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review.” The New York Times. 11/4/2005

 

Baker, R.C. “Voice Choices.” The Village Voice. 10/26/2005

 

Exhibition Catalog: “New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition.” Published by Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria. 2005.

 

Animal Magazine Issue 6: Instincts. Fall 2005.

 

New American Paintings, 55^th edition The Open Studio Press, 2005.

 

Buck, Louisa. “The Other Fairs.” The Art Newspaper, Art Basel/Miami Beach Daily. 12/2/2004

 

Polgar, Robi. “New American Talent – The 19^th Exhibition.” The Austin Chronicle. 8/6/2004

Van Ryzin, J.C. “Curator Weaver New Craftiness into ‘New American Talent’.” Austin 360, 7/1/2004

 

Cotter, Holland. “Politics that Makes Peace with the Beauty of Objects.” The New York Times, 6/18/2004.

 

Levin, Kim. “Voice Choices.” The Village Voice. 6/15/2004

 

Exhibition catalogue “New American Talent – The 19^th Exhibition”, Arthouse Texas, 2004.

 

Pratt Publications “Two Years After”. Gateway. Volume 13, Number 12. 2/17/2003