CURRICULUM VITAE

Born in Maine, 1981. Lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION

2008 MFA Columbia University School of the Arts, New York
2004 BA Visual Arts with Concentration in Art History, Columbia University, New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 (upcoming)
Growing Together; an evening of performance. Miguel Abreu Gallery. 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. Performance for the exhibition: Don’t Fetishize our Postfordism. Scaramouche. New York
The Hanns Eisler Nail Salon Presentation. Creative time Open Door Session. Queens Musuem. 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 (a collaboration with Einat Amir). VOLTA. New York

2009
Barefoot in the Head. Bruce High Quality Foundation. Performa 09. 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
New Printmakers. Hunterdon Museum. New Jersey
Can’t Rape the Willing. Curated by Sarvia Jasso. Second Floor. Brooklyn
Nota Bene. Dorsch Gallery. Miami
Materialist Praxis in Contemporary Abstract Photography. An alternative art institution and poultry house. Rhinebeck. New York

2008
Arlen Austin. Furnishings for an Unavowable Community. Daniele Ugolini Contemporary. Florence
Impossible Word. Arlen Austin, Marcel Dzama, Shiri Mordachai, Raymond Pettibon. Mole Vanvitelliana. Ancona.
Arlen Austin and Craig Doty. An Essential Poverty of the Face. Alagon Gallery. Chicago
Freeze Frame. Rush Arts. Miami. (This show travels to Talman + Monroe Gallery, Brooklyn. Blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa)
The Influence of Fish Tails on the breaking waves. Point B Special Projects. Brooklyn (this show travels to the Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa, Finland)
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition. Fisher Landau Center, New York
unNatural. estudiotres. Chicago
Brooklyn is Burning. Glasslands Gallery, New York
The New Academy. Robert Lehman Art Center. Andover

2007
Cloaca Maxima. Neiman Center Gallery. Columbia University
Columbia University First Year Show. Wallach Art Gallery. Columbia University
New Techniques in Printmaking. University of Maine Danforth Gallery
Maine Print Project. Maine Center for Contemporary Art. Rockland Maine
Objects of Desire. Neiman Center Columbia University. New York

RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency for Die Storung Collective
Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant for Die Storung Collective
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
Norfolk, Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Painting
Summer Residency, International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Montecastello de Vibo
Columbia University thesis grant
Columbia Finalist Mortimer Hayes Brandeis Traveling Fellowship