ARLEN AUSTIN
Born in Vermont, 1981 Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2008 MFA Columbia University School of the Arts, New York
2004 BA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Art-Pedagogy Fun-Time Alternative-Economies Discourse-Adventure, Scaramouche in conjunction with The New Museum of Contemporary Art's IDEAS CITY, New York
2012 Manicures for the Insurrectional Surge, Scaramouche, New York
2011 (Re) Zoning Manicured, A collaboration between Ludlow 38 and Unique Stylists for the exhibition The Making of the New Chinese Working Class, New York
2010 Evental Manicures, a performance of the Nail Workers’ Chorus, 6-8 Months Project Space, New York Womantowoman, 6-8 Months Project Space, New York Song of the United Front with the Nail Workers Chorus Don’t Fetishize our Postfordism, Scaramouche, New York The Hanns Eisler Nail Salon Presentation, Creative Time Open Door Session, Queens Musuem, Queens, NY New York Alumni Exhibition, Neiman Gallery Columbia University, New York The Hanns Eisler Nail Salon, Installation in conjunction with Moving Theatre for Chasama’s former headquarters at 201 East 42nd street, New York The Holistic Healing Center, with Einat Amir, Scaramouche booth, VOLTA, New York
2009 Barefoot in the Head, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Performa 09, New York The Audio Show. Frederich Petzel Gallery. New York The Practice of Joy Before Death; it just would not be a party without you, Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli, New York White Box Benefit Auction, White Box Gallery, New York The Coming Insurrection, Terri and Donna, Miami, FL New Printmakers, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, New Jersey Can’t Rape the Willing, curated by Sarvia Jasso, Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY Nota Bene, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL Materialist Praxis in Contemporary Abstract Photography, An alternative art institution and poultry house, Rhinebeck, NY
2008 Arlen Austin. Furnishings for an Unavowable Community, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Florence, Italy Impossible Word, Arlen Austin, Marcel Dzama, Shiri Mordachai, Raymond Pettibon, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy Arlen Austin and Craig Doty. An Essential Poverty of the Face. Alagon Gallery, Chicago, IL Freeze Frame, Rush Arts, Miami, FL; Talman + Monroe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa The Influence of Fish Tails on the breaking waves, Point B Special Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Kunst Museum of Modern Art ,Vaasa, Finland Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center, New York unNatural, estudiotres, Chicago, IL Brooklyn is Burning, Glasslands Gallery, New York The New Academy, Robert Lehman Art Center, Andover, MA
2007 Cloaca Maxima, Neiman Center Gallery, Columbia University, New York Columbia University First Year Show, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York New Techniques in Printmaking, Danforth Gallery, University of Maine, Augusta, ME Maine Print Project, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME Objects of Desire, Neiman Center Columbia University, New York
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, LECTURES AND PRIZES
2012 Artists Talk: “The Amourous Contestations of the Precarious Workers Will Be the Weapon of Victory,” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2011 Finalist in 2011 Public Art Fund In the Public Realm commission.
2009 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency, Die Storung Collective (Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, Die Storung Collective)
2008 Gatsby Charitable Foundation grant D’Arcy Hayman Scholarship award Agnes Martin Fellowship Columbia University Arts Council Project Grant Artist in Residence, Ox-Bow, School of Art and Artists’ Residency
2006 Norfolk, Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Painting
2005 Summer Residency, International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Montecastello de Vibo, Italy
2004 Columbia University thesis grant Columbia Finalist Mortimer Hayes Brandeis Traveling Fellowship
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