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CV

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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
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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
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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





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