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AARON VAN DYKE|Artist Bio

St. Paul, MN

Education:
1999, Master of Arts (Art History), University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1991, Master of Fine Arts (Studio Art), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
1988, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Studio Art), Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN

Solo Exhibitions:
2008                 
“C-Side – Deluxe Edition,” Western Exhibitions
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
“C-Side,” Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

2006                 
Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

2005                 
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2004                 
“New Photos,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

1998                 
“Everyday Pathology,” Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1997                 
“Photographs,” Portikus (214 S. Gilman), Madison, WI

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007                  
“Printed Space,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
“Summer Invitational,” Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

2006                 
“MCAD/McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition,” Minneapolis College of Art and Design
“Diverse Connections,” Katherine E Nash, Minneapolis, MN
“Ever More,” Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN

2004                 
“Surface Tension,” Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR
“This Thing We Do,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
“Faculty Exhibition,” Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
“Spacemakers,” Lothringer Dreizen, Munich, Germany; Max Fish, New York, NY

2003                 
“Hysterical Pastoral,” Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
“Subtle, Not so Subtle,” 1R, Chicago, IL

2002                 
“Accidental Sublime,” Bower Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2001                 
“Nothing and Everything,” The Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN
“Supermarket 2000,” Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV; University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI; Miami University, Oxford, OH

2000                 
“Pinhole,” ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Cold Conceptualism, Suitable, Chicago, IL

1999                 
“River Works: Signals,” Yahara Place Park, Madison, WI

1997                 
“New Wisconsin Photography II,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Bibliography:
2007                 
MNartists.org Briggs, Patricia. “That Occasional Thing”

2006                 
MNartists.org Aldarondo, Cecilia. “Irreconcilable Differences.”
“MCAD/McKnight Artists 2005–2006.” Tumlir, Jan, “Aaron Van Dyke” (catalog essay)

2005                 
Art Papers. Grabner, Michelle. “Aaron Van Dyke” (review). Nov/Dec 2005
Time Out Chicago. Ferrara, Annette. “Aaron Van Dyke” (review). Sept. 18, 2005

2004                 
The Portland Mercury. Dirks, Ryan. “Surface Tension”.

2002                 
Artnet Magazine, Velez, Pedro. “Art Fair Future,” Dec. 23 2002

2000                 
Frieze, Grabner, Michelle. “Cold Conceptualism” (review), no. 53, June-August

1999                 
Secrets About Goo. Speh, Scott., (photos published in catalog).

1997                 
“New Wisconsin Photography I.I” Bamberger, Tom. (catalog)
 artzine, Strohm, Colin. “Aaron Van Dyke Photographs and …” (review), no. 2

1995                 
Hemmis, Patricia. “Essay for Everyday Pathology” (pamphlet)

1991                 
Ramsey, Ellen. Essay for “Greek Sculpture Fragments” (pamphlet)

Awards:
2007                                    
MCAD Faculty Support Grant

2005/2006                  
MCAD/McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists

2005                                    
Minnesota State Arts Board Project Grant

Collections:
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN

Selected Writing:
2007                 
“Michelle Grabner,” in Wiehager, Renate, Minimalism and After: Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to the Present. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2007.

2004                 
“Michelle Grabner,” Minimalism and After III (exhibition catalog), DaimlerChrysler                   Contemporary, Berlin
“Jesper Just: A Fine Romance,” Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 3, May/June 2004.
“Rico Gatson: Recent Video,” Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 2, March/April 2004.
“The Pyramids: 150 Years of Photographic Fascination,” Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 1, January/February 2004

2003                 
“Jo del Pesco,” The Photographic Gesture (exhibition catalog), Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN

2002                 
“Multiplicity,” New Art Examiner, vol. 29, no. 5, May/June 2002, pg. 97-8.
“Shutter,” “Market Report” (Online journal).

1999                  “
Growing Up a Child: the Role of the Child as Allegorical Reader in the Work of Walter Benjamin,” March 20, 1999, paper presented at the University of Wisconsin – Madison German Department Graduate Student Symposium.
“Curtis Whaley,” Artzine, no. 7, 1999 (Madison, WI).

1998                 
“‘Realism’, Surrealism, and ‘Holiday Greetings, 1998’,” Artzine, no. 5, 1999 (Madison, WI).

Curating and RElated Experience:
2003 – present: Occasional, Saint Paul, MN (Feb.). Curator / Codirector. www.occasionalart.com

2007
Jason McLean & Isabelle Pauwels (May – June 2007)
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapollis, MN (March – July 2007) Special Assistant
Snowfall (John Neff, Feb. – April 2007)
Site/Life Mapping (co-curator), Jan – Feb 2007Mineapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2006
Praxis/Practice (co-curator), Nov – Dec 2006Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Amy Park—Grace Park (Oct. – Nov. 2006)

2005
Joe Smith (Feb. – April 2005)

2004
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MNIntervention in “The End of the End of the Line,” July – Aug. 2004
So far … (Nov. – Dec. 2004)
Sightlines (part 1) (Dorit Cypis, Sept. – Nov. 2004)

2003
Overlooked and Looked Over (Jonathan Mason and Mark Wagner, Sept. – Nov. 2003)
“The Farewell Tour” (Scott Speh, May – July 2003)
“Michelle Grabner painting / Barbara Heath weaving” (Feb. – April 2003)