About
Aaron Fowler (b. 1988, St. Louis, Missouri) currently works in Los Angeles, California, and St. Louis, Missouri. Fowler received his BFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in 2011, and MFA from Yale University, in 2014. His work has been exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Washington (2020); Hammer Museum’s Made In LA, Los Angeles(2018); New Museum, New York (2018); Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Georgia (2017); Saatchi Gallery, London (2017); Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio (2016); M+B Gallery (2018); Ghebaly Gallery(2018); Salon 94 Gallery (2018); David Totah Gallery (2018); Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2015); Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina (2015); Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York (2013); and Sophia Wanamaker Gallery, San José, Costa Rica (2012).
He is a recipient of the Seattle Art Museum Gwendolyn Knight | Jacob Lawrence(2019); PrizeRema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2015) and was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014).
2014 MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011 BFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
2009 Florissant Valley Community College, St. Louis, MO
Education
2022
Songs of Fire (curated by Torie Zalben and JPW3) | The Kranzberg Art Foundation | St Louis, MO
2021
Show Me the Signs | Blum & Poe | Los Angeles, CA
2018
What It Means to Dream Avant-Garde | Hammond Harkins | Columbus, OH
Say It Loud, Randy Shull and Heidi Fischer, Asheville, NC
Black Mirror | Saatchi Gallery | London, England
Listen | Burning Man | Black Rock City, NV
Made in L.A. (curated by Erin Christovale and Anne Ellegood) | UCLA Hammer Museum | Los Angeles, CA
Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection | Taubman Museum of Art | Roanoke, VA
2017
Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream | Saatchi Gallery | London, England
Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence | SCAD Museum of Art | Savannah, GA
2016
High Anxiety: New Acquisitions | Rubell Family Collection | Miami, FL
LIFE DURING WARTIME | Diane Rosenstein Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
DO YOU SEE ME? | Diggs Gallery | Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
THE PAFA SHOW (Curated by Katherine Bradford) | Morris-Warren Gallery | New York, NY
2021
N2EXISTENCE GENESIS | The Luminary | St Louis, MO
2019
N2 Existence (curated by Sandra Jackson-Dumont) | Seattle Art Museum | Seattle, WA
Prologue to N2 Existence | M+B Gallery | Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
2018
Exceedingly and Abundantly Blessed, Part 2 | Francois Ghebaly Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Exceedingly and Abundantly Blessed, Part 1 | M+B Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Donkey Nights | Salon 94 | New York, NY
Donkey Days | David Totah Gallery | New York, NY
Aaron Fowler: Bigger than Me (curated by Margot Norton) | New Museum | New York, NY
2016
Tough Love, Beeler Gallery | Columbus College of Art & Design | Columbus, OH
Blessings On Blessings | Diane Rosenstein Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
2015
A Constellation (Curated by Amanda Hunt) | Studio Museum in Harlem | New York, NY
The New New | Diane Rosenstein Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
So Much To She (with Chris Watts) | Flanders Gallery | Raleigh, NC
2014
Skowhegan PERFORMS | Socrates Sculpture Park | Long Island, NY
Yale MFA Thesis Show | Yale University | New Haven, CT
2013
Aaron Fowler X Michael Shultis | Thierry Goldberg Gallery | New York, NY
Summer Mix | Thierry Goldberg Gallery | New York, NY
2012
Promising Artist of the 21st Century Exhibition | Sophia Wanamaker Gallery | San Jose, Costa Rica
It’s a Small, Small World | Family Business Gallery | New York, NY
Annual Student Exhibition | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA
2011
Annual Student Exhibition | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA
2009
Varsity Art XII, Art St. Louis, MO
2021
N2EXISTENCE GENESIS | The Luminary | St Louis, MO
2018
C.E., with Lex Brown | The New Museum | New York, NY
Performances
2022
N2EXISTENCE | Barcu Arts and Culture | Bogota, Colombia
N2EXISTENCE Festival | The Kranzberg Art Foundation | St Louis, MO
N2EXISTENCE: The Release Room | The Kranzberg Art Foundation | St Louis, MO
N2EXISTENCE: Give Thanks Listening Party | Harun’s | Inglewood, CA
2021
N2EXISTENCE: Open House | Residency Art Gallery | Inglewood, CA
N2EXISTENCE GENESIS | The Luminary | St Louis, MO
N2EXISTENCE | Cherokee St | St Louis, MO
