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

2009
The Practice of Joy Before Death; it just would not be a party without you. Scaramouche/ Fruit and Flower Deli, New York
White Box Benefit Auction. White Box Gallery. New York
New Printmakers. Hunterdon Museum. Hunterdon New Jersey
Can’t Rape the Willing. Curated by Sarvia Jasso. Second Floor. Brooklyn
Nota Bene: Dorsch Gallery Miami.

2008
Arlen Austin. Furnishings for an Unavowable Community. Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Firenze
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 Gallery
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, Italy
Columbia University thesis grant
Columbia Finalist Mortimer Hayes Brandeis Traveling Fellowship