EDUCATION
2005 Master of Fine Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2003 Master of Arts (Theological Studies), Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL
2001 Bachelor of the Arts, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
EXHIBITIONS: Solo
2020 Brought to Nothing is Something, The New Gallery, Little Rock, AR
That Which Does Not Maintain Form Out of Its Own Strength, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2019 Knowing in Part, Thompson Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC
2018 Of Rocks and Ruins, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 What to Make of Silence, Hyman Fine Arts Center, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC
2016 Paintings, Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Honors, Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, Hot Springs, AR
Something There, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2015 What Stands Behind, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
2012 Broken Star, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Mining the Edges, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
2009 Persimmon and Sackcloth, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 Songs of Ascent, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
EXHIBITIONS: Selected Group
2021 Mire, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
Staple Goods at Tulane, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2019 Mentors, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Dust, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
Datum Drawing, Design Build Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2018 Figure & Ground: Painters Painting Painters, Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
2017 Buffer: Prospect.4 Satellite Exhibition, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
Tulane Contemporary.4, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Shuffle: An Exhibition by Painters Painting Painters, The Front, New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Contemporary, juried by Shantrelle P. Lewis, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Two Blocks From Elysian Fields, The Clemente, New York, NY
Painters Painting Painters, Kirschman Art Space, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA
Art Alumni Exhibition, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
Give Me Some Space! 6th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Marshall University School of Art & Design, juried by Alison Helm, Huntington, WV
4th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition, Louisiana Tech University School of Design, juried by Rachel Cook, Ruston, LA
2016 “A Building With a View”: Experiments in Anarchitecture, juried by Andrea Andersson, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Panoply: New Work by Newcomb Art Department Faculty, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
A Tabernacle in the Wilderness, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2015 REVERB: Past, Present, Future, Contemporary Arts Center, juried by Isolde Brielmaier, New Orleans, LA
Fair Trade, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
Convergence: JMC@Prospect.3, curated by Deborah Willis, Joan Mitchell Center Rampart Studios, New Orleans, LA
Reparation, curated by Diego Cortez, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2014 Tulane Contemporary.3, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Check Out, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans New Year New York, CULTUREfix Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Friday the 13th, curated by Sophie Lvoff, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Goods, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
Glimpse: Full Faculty Exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2012 Louisiana Contemporary, juried by Rene Paul Barilleaux, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Everything All at Once, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
NOLA NOW, Part One: Swagger for a Lost Magnificence, juried by Amy Mackie, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Fresh Produce, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
Fifty at 50, Wilkes Art Gallery, North Wilkesboro, NC
2011 Southern Open, juried by Amy Mackie, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Tulane Contemporary.2, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2010 Sources of Inspiration: Tulane Faculty, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Artist Monthly Show, Andrews Art Museum, Andrews, NC
2008 Satellite Exhibition, Prospect.1, Tchoupitoulas Studios, New Orleans, LA
A Tribute to Cole Pratt, His Gallery’s First Fifteen Years: 1993-2008, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Pencil and Paper, Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Positive/Negative 23, juried by Antoine Guerrero, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2007 Southern Open Biennial, juried by Jerry Callum, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2006 Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2005 Emerging Artists, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA
The Hybrid, Palma Gallery, New Orleans, LA
College Art Association Regional MFA Exhibition, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2004 Collected, Catherine J. Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
CATALOGUES
Reparation, Essays by Luciano Bennetton, Diego Cortez, and Miranda Lash, Imago Mundi, Fabrica, 2014 (English and Italian)
Convergence: New Orleans Local Artist Studio Program at the Joan Mitchell Center 2013-2014, Essays by Deborah Willis, Miranda Lash, and Denise Frazier, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY, 2014
Southern Open 2011: A Juried Exhibition, Statement by Amy Mackie, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA 2011
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Marjorie Rawle, “Salon Style: Painters Painting Painters at NOCCA,” http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2017/salon-style-painters-painting-painters-at-nocca, April 14, 2017
Emily Ferranto, “What I Found There,” Village Disco, http://villagedisco.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-i- found-there.html, Feb. 17, 2016
Cameron Shaw, “Ten Years After Katrina, New Orleans Museums Reckon With Recovery,” The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2015
Tori Bush, “Three Katrinas,” Daily Serving, http://dailyserving.com/2015/08/three-katrinas, Aug. 15, 2015
Octavia Fortune, “In Residence: ‘Convergence’ at the Joan Mitchell Center Studios, Pelican Bomb,
http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2015/convergence-a-group-show-at-the-joan-mitchell-center-studios, Jan. 22, 2015
John d’Addario, “In the Orbit of Prospect.3, There’s Plenty More to See,” The New Orleans Advocate,
http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/entertainment/arts/10898956-171/in-the-orbit-of-prospect3, Dec. 3, 2014
Emily Wilkerson, “Last Call: Aaron Collier at Cole Pratt Gallery,” Pelican Bomb,
http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2012/last-call-aaron-collier-at-cole-pratt-gallery, Nov. 23, 2012
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Broken Star and Density: D. Eric Bookhardt on New Works by Aaron Collier and Anita Cooke,” The Gambit Weekly, Nov. 13, 2012
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Contemporary Art at the Ogden Museum,” The Gambit Weekly,
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2012/09/11/review-contemporary-art-at-the-ogden-museum, Sept. 11, 2012
Reggie Michael Rodrigue, “Making Groceries: ‘Fresh Produce’ at Staple Goods,” Louisianaesthetic,
https://louisianaesthetic.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/makin-groceries-fresh-produce-at-staple-goods/, Dec. 16, 2011
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Mining the Edges: Drawings by Aaron Collier,” The Gambit Weekly, Aug. 30, 2011
Reggie Michael Rodrigue, “From Louisiana With Love: The 2011 Southern Open,” Hyperallergic,
http://hyperallergic.com/29525/from-louisiana-with-love-the-2011-southern-open-part-2/, July 14, 2011
Reggie Michael Rodrigue, “Mack Attack! The 2011 Southern Open,” Hyperallergic,
http://hyperallergic.com/29181/mack-attack-the-2011-southern-open/, July 12, 2011
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Stranger in a Strange Landscape,” The Gambit Weekly, Aug. 21, 2007.
BOOK/MAGAZINE FEATURES AND ARTICLES
Featured Artist, “Events,” Little Rock Soiree, Issue No. 3, May 2020
Featured Artist, New American Paintings, Issue 136, Open Studios Press, June/July 2018
Cover Artist, New Orleans Review, Volume 37.1, Loyola University New Orleans, 2011
Featured Artist, New American Paintings, 15th Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, December 2009
Featured Artist, New American Paintings, Issue 82, Open Studios Press, June/July 2009
Wanda O’Shello, ed. “A Tribute to Cole Pratt: His Gallery’s First Fifteen Years, 1993-2008,” Arts
Quarterly, Volume XXX Issue 3, New Orleans Museum of Art, July/August/September 2008
ONLINE FEATURES AND ARTICLES
“Exhibition Pick of the Week,” Pelican Bomb, http://pelicanbomb.com/events/2015/8/8/exhibition-pick-week-of-august-24-aaron-collier, August 24, 2015
Featured Artist, “Educators,” Composite Arts, Issue No. 17,
https://issuu.com/compositearts/docs/composite_no17educators, Fall 2014
Rachel Gorman, “Divine Inspiration: St. Roch’s Residency for Artists,” Pelican Bomb,
http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2013/divine-inspiration-st.-rochs-residency-for-artists, March 12, 2013
COLLECTIONS
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LA
Iberia Bank, New Orleans, LA and Jonesboro, AK
Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Loomis, Sayles & Company, Boston, MA
L.E.K. Consulting, Los Angeles, CA
Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
HONORS AND AWARDS
Visual Artist Residency, Open Ateliers Zuidoost, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017
Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Visual Artist Residency, New Orleans Local Artists Studio Program, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans,
LA, 2013-2014
Visual Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2012
Featured Artist, 2012 Collector’s Club Print, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 2011-2012
Ragdale Visual Artist Residency, The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, 2011