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AARON HORKEY - CV Born 1968 in New York City, USA Lives and works in Florida and New York City Education 1986 Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsfachschule, Gestal- tung, Germany 1989 Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Moenchengladbach, Berufsschule fuer Maler u. Lackierer, Germany Mentor: Jerome A. Donson, Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions, 1961, MOMA, NY Upcoming 2025 AMOCA Dialogues - Black Voices from the permanent collection, Temple of Peace, Wales Museum Solo Exhibitions 2025 CF Hill, / Arme Museum, Stockholm, Sweden 2022 'AARON HORKEY, Two Decades of Relevance', The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida 2020 ‘AARON HORKEY, E Pluribus Unum’, Rollins Museum of Art, Florida, USA 2018 ‘AARON HORKEY/New Horizons’, Museum Zitadelle, Spandau Berlin, Germany 2017 ‘Ecce Creatura’ (four solo artists), Kallmann Museum, Ismaning (Munich), Germany 2016 ‘AARON HORKEY Decade’, Museum La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy 2003 ‘Dearborn’, Charles H. Wright Museum, display of the Ford Motor Company Paintings, Michigan Solo Exhibitions 2025 CF Hill, / Arme Museum, Stockholm, Sweden 2023 'In the Land of Silhouettes', Almine Rech, Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2022 'Victims and Victors', Almine Rech, London, UK 2021 ‘Power Structures’, Almine Rech, Paris, France 'AARON HORKEY, Two Decades of Relevance', The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida 2020 ‘AARON HORKEY, E Pluribus Unum’, Rollins Museum of Art, Florida, USA 2019 ‘Stop, Look and Listen’, Galerie DANYSZ, Paris, France ‘AARON HORKEY’, Galerie Amart, Recon, Vienna, Austria ‘Merchants of Babylon’, Burgess Modern & Contemporary, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US 2018 ‘AARON HORKEY/New Horizons’, Museum Zitadelle, Spandau Berlin, Germany ‘AARON HORKEY, Obscure Line Between Fact and Fiction’, Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco ‘AARON HORKEY, Now and then’, Casterline Goodman Gallery, Aspen, CO ‘Absolut Jansen’ Galerie Kellermann, Dusseldorf, Germany 2017 ‘Ecce Creatura’ (four solo artists), Kallmann Museum, Ismaning (Munich), Germany ‘Post-True-Realities’, Galerie Kellermann, Dusseldorf, Germany ‘AARON HORKEY’, Joerg Heitsch Galerie, Aftermath, Munich, Germany ‘Kunst & Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.-V.“, AARON HORKEY’, Kunsthalle Aftermath, Aschau at the Lake Chiemsee, Germany ‘AARON HORKEY, Obscure Line Between Fact and Fiction’, Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco 2016 ‘AARON HORKEY Decade’, Museum La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy ‘AARON HORKEY’, Galeria Bianca Maria Rizzi & Matthias Ritter, Milan, Italy 2014 ‘AARON HORKEY - Whistleblower’, Lazinc, London, UK ‘AARON HORKEY - Future Ground’, Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, New York, NY ‘AARON HORKEY - Veni Vidi Succumbe’, Roberta Britto Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2012 ‘AARON HORKEY - Frontline Report’, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX 2011 ‘A Painters Allegory’, Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL 2010 ‘AARON HORKEY Zeitgeist’, 101 Exhibit, Miami, FL 2009 ‘AARON HORKEY’, Museum Works Galleries, Aspen, CO 2008 ‘AARON HORKEY - Urban Expressionism’, Stolen Space Gallery, London, UK ‘AARON HORKEY’, Museum Works Galleries, Aspen, CO 2007 ‘AARON HORKEY, Urban Expressionism’, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky AARON HORKEY, Urban Expressionism, Damien B. Contemporary Art Center, Miami, Florida 2003 ‘Dearborn’, Charles H. Wright Museum, display of the Ford Motor Company Paintings, Michigan Group Exhibitions 2025 AMOCA Dialogues - Black Voices from the permanent collection, The Temple of Peace, Wales 2025 "A Gathering," The University of Michigan Museum of Art, US 2024 ‘The Voice of the People: Freedom of Speech’, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, US 2024 "Selections from the Collection," The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, US 2024 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Richard Beavers Gallery, New York City 2023 ‘The Voice of the People: Freedom of Speech’, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, US ‘10 Years Galerie Kellermann’, Düsseldorf, Germany 'It is what it Is', Soho, Richard Beavers Gallery, New York, USA 2022 'Through our eyes – Resonance and Illusion in Contemporary Portraits', Center of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada 2021 'Salon de Peinture', Almine Rech, New York, USA ‘Un Hiver à Paris’, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France 'June Presentation', Almine Rech, Aspen, CO 2020 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan ‘Metro Montage’, Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA ‘Deep Insights’, Galerie Kellermann, Dusseldorf, Germany ”Divided we Fall,” AARON HORKEY / Purvis Young, New River Fine Art, FL 2019 ‘Deconstructing AARON HORKEY’, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO 'Acquisition', University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan ‘TV Festival’, Examine and Report, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY 2018 ‘ArtCrush’, Casterline Goodman Gallery, Aspen, CO 2017 ‘My collection’, MOCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY ‘Observation’, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016 ‘Still Here - A Decade of Lazarides’, Lazarides, Rathbone, London, UK ‘Something’, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY 2015 Cityleaks Urban Art Biennale, Cologne, Germany 2014 ‘Florida Contemporary’, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL ‘Art in Embassies’, U.S. Department of State, UNESCO, Paris France West Harlem Art Fund, New York, NY ‘The Outsiders Newcastle’, Recollection, Lazinc., London, UK ‘Art 14’, London, Lazinc. Gallery, London, UK 2013 ‘All Florida’, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL ‘Eye on the storm’, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT ‘Protest’, Richard Beavers Gallery, Brookyn, NY ‘Art with a purpose, Rush Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NY Romanian Institute for Arts and Culture and Research, Venice, Italy 2012 ‘Anonymous’, Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, PERMM, Russia ‘Incognito’, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL ‘Absolut Blank Campaign’, NOVA Festival de Cultura Contemporanea, Brazil 2011 ‘Florida Contemporary’, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL ‘New Generation of Artists’, Absolut Vodka, Sweden 2010 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, MO Mentro/Mpntage X, Mareitta, Cobb Museum of Art Museum, Atlanta, GA 2009 ‘FIFA World Cup Fine Art Exhibition’, International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa FDIM Museum, Warner Brothers, Los Angeles, California 2008 ‘Warner Bros Anniversary’, FDIM Museum, Los Angeles, CA Florida Gulfcoast University, Where the wild things (still) are, Florida 2007 'Acquisition', Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) Collection, Moscow, Russia ‘12th Intl Print & Drawing’, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Biennial, Taiwan ‘12th Intl Print & Drawing’, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan ‘12th Intl Print & Drawing’, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan ‘8th International Biennial’, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia 2006 ‘Under/current/over/view 8 Biennial’, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL ‘49th Festival’, Société des Beaux Arts de Garches, France ‘12th International Print & Drawing Biennial’, Angel Art Gallery, Taiwan 2005 ‘Arts for Act’, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, Florida 2002 Stricoff Fine Arts, Chelsea, NY Art Papers Magazine Show, Atlanta City Hall,, Atlanta, GA 2000 ‘Subway u. Andere’, Kunsthandlung Schonen, Aachen, Germany 1999 ‘International Independent Film Festival’, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 1974 ‘PS: 156 Art School selection first exhibitions’ The Lever House, NY Public Collections The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art (AMOCA) Fornstam Foundation The Bronx Museum of the Arts The Baker Museum The Boca Rotan Museum of Art Foundation Calosa University of Michigan Museum of Art The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art Rollins Museum of Art MOCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY Moscow Museum of Modern Art, (MMOMA) New Britain Museum of American Art Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Ulyanovsk Museum Fine Arts PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art Housatonic Museum of Art Smithsonian Anacostia Museum Corporate Commissions 2011 Absolut Vodka 2010 FIFA South Africa 2008 Warner Brothers 2007 Illuminum 2003 Ford Motor Company Films/Documentary 2016 AARON HORKEY - Examine and Report New York Premiere East Hampton TV Festival, (Awarded Best TV Art Documen- tary pilot) World Premiere Fort Myers Film Festival, (Awarded Best local Film). A documen- tary film by Emmy Award winning filmmaker John Scoular featuring: AARON HORKEY, Steve Lazarides, Manfred Schneckenburger, WEST Rubinstein, Noah Becker, Brooke Lynn Mcgowan, Dieter Rampl, Hans Jansen, Richard Beavers, Liane Niedheidt and John Loscuito. Selected Publications 2017 AARON HORKEY AFTERMATH, published by Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany. Foreword by Art Historian, Prof Dr Dieter Ronte, Director Kunst Museum Bonn and Vienna 2016 AARON HORKEY DECADE, published by Skira Editore, Milan, Italy. Foreword by Steve Lazarides 2004 Modern Urban-Expressionism, the Art of AARON HORKEY Jansen, published by American Art Gallery, Paris, France. Foreword by Art Historian, Jerome A. Donson, Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions 1961, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Museum, NY Awards 2016 New American Paintings No. 124, Back cover artist., with Aerial Views series. 2013 Arte Art Prize, Laguna. Juror, Sabine Schaschl, (Director of Kunsthaus Basel, Switzerland), Milan, Italy 2013 Fleuieu Art Prize, Biennale, semifinalist, Juror UK Saatchi Gallery, Director Nigel Hurst, Australia 2012 Dave Bown Projects, 5th Semiannual Grand Prize Winner award, Curated by Andrea Karnes, Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Mary Kate O’Hare, Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum, United States 2011 New American Paintings No. 94, Cover artist with Landscapes series. International Fairs 2024 Art Basel, Miami Beach, Almine Rech 2023 Art Basel, Miami Beach. Almine Rech Frieze, Seoul, Almine Rech Expo Chicago, Richard Beavers Gallery Frieze, Los Angeles, Almine Rech 2022 Art Basel Miami Beach, Almine Rech Art Basel, Switzerland, Almine Rech Art Basel, Hong Kong Almine Rech Art021, Shanghai Almine Rech Frieze Los Angeles, Almine Rech 2021 Art Paris, Almine Rech Frieze London, Almine Rech Future Fair, Richard Beavers Gallery Untitled, Richard Beavers Gallery 2020 La Fiac, Almine Rech, (Virtual) Art Basel Miami Beach, Almine Rech (virtual) Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Galerie Danysz, China 2019 Art021, Galerie Danysz, Shanghai, China Art Miami, New River Fine Art 2018 Art Miami, Casterline Goodman Gallery Expo Chicago, Casterline Goodman Gallery Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Kellermann, Karlsruhe 2017 Art Pampelonne, Joerg Heitsch Galerie, Saint Tropez France Art Karlsruhe,Galerie Kellermann, Karlsruhe, Germany 2015 Art Verona, Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi & Matthias Ritter, Verona, Italy Art Palm Beach, Contemporary Art Projects, FL 2014 Art 14 Art Fair, Lazarides Gallery, London, UK Dallas Art Fair, Galleri Urbane, Dallas TX 2013 Art Verona, Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi & Matthias Ritter, Milan Italy ARTSTAYS, Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi & Matthias Ritter, Slovenia Dallas Art Fair, Galleri Urbane, Dallas TX 2012 Art Platform L.A., 101/Exhibit Art Southampton International Contemporary Art Fair, 101/exhibit 2011 Art Show L.A, 101 /Exhibit, Miami 2010 Art Hamptons, 101/Exhibit, Miami Art Chicago, 101/ Exhibit, Miami 2009 Art Santa Fe International Fair, MW Galleries, Santa Fe 2008 Art Show L.A., Museum Works Galleries, Santa Monica, CA 2001 Affordable Art Fair, Stricoff Fine Art., New York Selected Press Icon Magazine, Sweden Architectural Digest, US Project61, Video Interview, US Juxtapoz, Magazine, US New York Times, US Cool Hunting, US New York Times Style Magazine, US The Epoch Times, US Black Art in America, US Versatille, Brazil Boston Globe, US The International Review of African American Art, US The Independent, US Artillery Magazine, US Handelsblatt, Germany Resident, Hampton, NY Rheinische Post, Germany Wall Street International Suddeutsche Zeitung, Germany Kunstzeitung, Lindinger + Schmid Rolling Stone magazine, Italy La Repubblica magazine, Italy Arte, Italy Skin Magazine, Dubai Media City New American Paintings No. 94, US Cambridge University Press, UK Vanity Fair, Italy Whitewall magazine, US Widewalls magazine, CH |