Isaac Aden
Biography:
Isaac Aden is an artist and curator. Aden’s work is about the human condition, the American experience. Aden’s Post-Medium practice has centered its primary research in the area of New Institutionalism. Aden makes bodies of work often tangentially related and even visually disparate with no desire to ascribe an aesthetic conclusion. In this way the practice becomes absorbent and generative.
Aden has exhibited internationally, including: dOCUMENTA 13, MassMOCA, The Fedricianum, White Box, Kassel Werkstadt, David Richard Gallery, Gallerie Rasch, Ulrike Petschel Gallerie, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, SPRING/BREAK, Art Miami, Contemporary Istanbul, VOLTA Basel, Sotheby’s, The Jerome A. Cohen And Joan Lebold Cohen Center for Art. The Bertha and Karl Luebsdorf Gallery, The International Gallery of Contemporary Art, The Parthenon Museum, The New York Public Library, and The World Trade Center.
Aden is on the board of White Box. Formerly the Senior Curator at the Jerome A Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for Visual Arts. He was named the Chief Curator of four art fairs including the AD ART Show at Sotheby’s and the World Trade Center, New York and the Accessible Art Fair. As part of this he developed and executed the first city wide digital art fair, partnering with corporate sponsors including Systech Systems and NBC Universal. Over 13 million people viewed the fair. He has curated over twenty exhibitions, including Jeffrey Hargrave, Escape Route, at the Bronx Museum. He has been awarded Fellowships from the Kossak Foundation, Creative Capital, The New York Foundation for the Arts and the United States State Department.
He is currently represented by: Gallerie Rasch in Germany, Marat Guelman in Russia and the Balkans, and David Richard Gallery the Americas.
Résumé:
Born: 1979, Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Lives and Works: Harlem, New York
Education
MFA Hunter College, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Isaac Aden: Vespers and Auroras: David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
THEY: Silberman School of Social Work, New York, NY
2019 Floating Paintings: World Trade Center, New York, NY
2018-19 “Isaac Aden, No Regrets, Bars and Irish Chains” The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan
Lebold Cohen Center for Visual Arts at the KuBe, Beacon, NY
2016 “Isaac Aden, Painting in the Expanded Filed: Monochromes for Montenegro
Montenegro, Duckley European Art Community, Juggocenia
“Isaac Aden, I Like America”, Ethan Cohen, New York, NY
2014 “Isaac Aden: How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Bear”, KuBe, Beacon, NY
2012 “Isaac Aden: Kassel Kasse, Galerie Rasch, Kassel Germany
“Isaac Aden: Kartofflen zur Vergebung, Galerie Ulrike Petschell, Kassel, Germany
2011 “Isaac Aden: Going out with a Bang: Works on Steel” The Annex, Fairbanks, AK
"Isaac Aden: Works on Steel", Gallery 151, New York, NY
2010 “Isaac Aden: Stahl Zeichnungen“, Galerie Rasch, Kassel Germany
“American Women in the Dutch Style“, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
“Isaac Aden: Tropic of Cancer“, Gallery 151, New York, NY
“American Women“, New York Central, New York, NY
2009 “Brooklyn Kulture: U-bahn Zeichnungen“, Werkstatt Kassel e. V., Kassel, Germany
“Isaac Aden: Jetz Besser als Nie“, Trafo Haus, Kassel Germany
2008 “Isaac Aden: Drawings”, Middle Collegiate Church, New York, NY
2004 ”The Firm and the Yielding”, The International Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Anchorage, AK
”Washington”, The Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2003 ”Imperial Amity”, The Russian – American Cultural Center, New York, NY
2002 “Volatile Monolith”, The Empire State Building”, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions:
2020 “be**pART”, Atelier Montez, Rome
“Uptown 2000”, Silberman School of Social Work, New York, NY
“Proyectos”, 78 JANE, New York, NY
AD ART SHOW, The Oculus New York, NY
2019 Museum of Moden Art, Hifie, China
“Systems of Injustice”, The Bronx Art Space, New York, NY
“Black Hole Sun” Houston Arts Advisory
SILVER SHED, New York, NY
“Orphans of Painting”, The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for
Visual Arts at the KuBe, Beacon, NY
Ethan Cohen, New York, NY
AD ART SHOW, The Oculus, New York, NY
2018 The Empty Circle, New York, NY
Istanbul Contemporary, Instanbul
Ethan Cohen, New York, NY
“GOODBYE COLUMBUS”, SPRING/BREAK, New York, NY
“AD ART SHOW”, Sotheby’s New York, NY
2017 VOLTA BASEL, Ethan Cohen, Basel Switzerland
Art Miami, Ethan Cohen, Miami, FL
“As of Now”, Ethan Cohen, New York, NY
“Post Millennial Tension”, Current Curators, New York, NY
“Orphans of Painting”, Ethan Cohen, New York, NY
“The Water Mirror”, SPRING/BREAK, New York, NY
“Art Remix”, Ethan Cohen, New York, NY
2016 “The Assessable Art Fair”, New York, NY
“Different Americans”, Budva, Montenegro
“Different Americans”, Montenegro
“Different Americans”, Kotor, Montenegro
“ART Miami”, Ethan Cohen, Miami, FL
“Polymorphus”, Cluster, New York, NY
“Make America Great Again”, White Box, New York, NY
2015 Hunter College, New York, NY
“Face to Face”, Ethan Cohen, New York, NY
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
SEDIMENT, Richmond, VA
The Cave, Detroit, MI
Skylab, Columbus, OH
Three Walls, Chicago, IL
the Luminary, St. Louis, MO
The White Page, Minneapolis, MN
Leisure gallery, Denver, CO
Recess, New York, NY
“How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare”, Italy
“In the Cloud” Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2014 “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare”, Bulgaria
“Emerge 11”, Aljira Center for Art, Newark, NJ
“BBBBBreeze” Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY
“How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare”, Pristine Gallery, Monterey, Mexico
“SCOPE: MIAMI, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2013 “Sharper Image”, Ethan Cohen Fine Art + ArtSTRAND, Provincetown
“Turn On”, The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for Art,
Beacon, NY
“Sharper Image”, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY
“Home Coming”, The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for Art,
Beacon, NY
2012 SCOPE: MIAMI, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Miami, FL
“Yule Shoot Your Eye Out”, The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center
for Art, Beacon, NY
“Amerikkka the Beautiful”, White Box, New York, NY
“Finding Our New Fort”, The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for
Art, Beacon, NY
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
“Body Snatchers”, White Box, New York, NY
Werksatt Kassel e.V., Kassel Germany
White Box, New York, NY
“In the future the artist will say: that object is a work of art”, Third Ward, New York,
New York, NY
2011 “WALLmART”, White Box New York, NY
“How to Philosophize with a Hammer”, White Box, New York, NY
The Karl and Bertha Leubsdorf Gallery, New York, NY
“Youth Internal”, White Box, New York, NY
2010 MassMOCA, North Adams, MA
"Old York Road', White Box, New York, NY
White Box: Out of the Box, SCOPE: Miami, Miami, FL
"Stirrings Still", White Box, New York, NY
"The D.I.V.O. Institute presents: Friericianum“, Kunsthalle
Friericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Yellow“, MYPAC, Miami, FL
“Swiming Cities“, Walker Stage, New York, NY
“Its a Group Thing“, MYPAC, Miami, FL
Nurture Art, New York, NY
Hunter College, New York, NY
2009 MYPAC, Miami, FL
Hunter College, New York, NY
The Dark Room Presents, New York, NY
Gallery 151, New York, NY
White Box, New York, NY
Lyons - Wier Gallery, New York, NY
“Trashion II”, Gallery 151, New York, NY
“Objectify” The Delancey, New York, NY
“Scene and Capture”, Gallery 151, New York, NY
Pershing Hall Governor’s Island National Park, New York, NY
“Trashion“, Gallery 151, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
2008 White Box, New York, NY
East Village Radio Music Festival, The South Street Seaport, New York, NY
2006 Hunter College, New York, NY
“Analytical and Synthetic Drawing”, City College, New York, NY
2005 Hunter College, New York, NY
“Technicolor 9”, Asterik Art Space, New York, NY
“Katrina Relief, Habitats for Humanities”, Rice, New York, NY
2004 Trask Gallery, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
CBGB’s Gallery, New York, NY
Polaris Arts LTD., New York, NY
“Decompression”, 3rd Ward, New York, NY
2003 Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
ATM Gallery, New York, NY
Trask Gallery, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
SONYA, New York, NY
Lollapalooza, Jones Beach Arena, Long Island, NY
P.S.12, New York, NY
Zanjani Projects, New York, NY
2002 Gale Gates et al, New York, NY
Artists Space, New York, NY
“threebythree” Anotheroom, New York, NY
J.P. Morgan Chase Headquarters, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
2001 “Fifteen”, The Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
Gale Gates et al, New York, NY
Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
2000 The Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
The Empire State Building, New York, NY
Ward – Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Ward – Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
1998 D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival, New York, NY
Ward – Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
“Diptych, Triptych”, The Merchants, Nashville, TN
1997 Darks Art, North Hollywood, CA
The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN
328 Performance Hall, Nashville, TN
The Gallery of the Tennessee Artist, Nashville, TN
Parkway Towers Federal Building, Nashville, Tn
1996 “Artopia”, Marathon Village, Nashville
“Artrageous”, Sunset Studio, Nashville
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
Public Art and Private Commissions
2019 Anhui, China
2015 Related Developers, New York
2012 The Free Masons of New York
2011 The F and T Group, New York
Hadeya Capital, New York
2007 Bancroft Library Los Angeles Unified School District, Hollywood, CA
K. Hovnanian Developers, Coachella
Dr R.J. Carreon Jr. and John Nobles Park, Indio
2005 The Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
1989 Central Bell and AT&T, Nashville, TN
Awards and Grants
2020 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
2016 US State Department Grant
2014 Kossak Painting Fellowship
2013 Creative Capital PDP Grant, Emerge 11
2011 The Evelyn Kossak Painting Fellowship
2009 Max Kade Foundation, Grant
Kunst Hoch Schule Kassel
2007 Los Angeles Unified Scholl District, Bancroft School for the Performing Arts, Commission for Public Art
City of Coachella, Commission for Public Art
City of Indio, Commission for Public Art
2005 The Tennessee State Council on the Arts, Arts in the Airport Program
2004 Alaska State Council on the Arts, Grant
New York University, Jurors Award
2003 The New York State Council on the Arts, Project Development
2002 New York University, Jurors Award
Guest Lectures and Panel Discussions
2020 The Oculus, New York
Group M, New York
2019 The Bronx Art Space, New York
Tau Hu Tan, China
The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for Art, Beacon, NY
The Oculus, New York
Group M, New York
2018 Arp, SMPS, New York, The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center
for Art, Beacon
John Jay College, New York
Sotheby’s New York
Y&R, New York
2017 The New School, New York
The Hamptons Art Center
2016 Dukley Art Center
Ethan Cohen, New York
White Box, New York
The National Arts Club, New York
Artnet, New York
2015 The Bronx Museum
Hunter College
2014 Ethan Cohen, New York
Hunter College, New York
2012 Galerie Rasch, Kassel Germany
2011 The Annex, Fairbanks
The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, New york
Gallery 151, New York
2010 White Box, New York
Galerie Rasch, Kassel Germany
Gallery 151, New York
The New York Public Library, New York
2009 Trafo Haus, Kassel Germany
Gallery 151, New York
Werkstatt Kassel e.V., Kassel Germany
Hunter College, New York
Pershing Hall Governor’s Island National Park, New York
Hume-Fogg, Nashville
2008 Middle Colligate Church, New York
Bancroft, Los Angeles
2007 Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles
Dr. R. J. Carreon Jr. and John Nobles Park, Indio
2006 City Collage, New York
2005 Hunter Collage, New York
2004 The International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage
Virginia Common Wealth University
2001 The New School, New York
New York University, New York
2000 Parsons School of Design, New York
Residencies
2019 Tau Hu Tan, China
2016 Duckley European Arts Community, Montenergro
2012 KuBe, Beacon
2011 Gallery 151, New York
2010 Kunsthalle Friericianum, Kassel, Germany
2009 Kunst Hoch Schule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
The International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage