1972
Born in San Antonio, Texas
2002
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
2005
MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
2010
Fellow, The American Academy in Berlin
2018
Residency, STPI in Singapore
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Aaron Curry, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2022
Aaron Curry: DOOMSDAY PAINTINGS, The Ranch, Montauk, New York
Aaron Curry: Metal Plastic Paint, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2021
Aaron Curry, Michael Werner Gallery, East Hampton
2020
Dark Matter, Gamma Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico
2019
HEADROOM, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
2018
Aaron Curry: Fragments from a Collective Unity, STPI Gallery, Singapore
Tune Yer Head, The Bass Museum, Miami
2017
Aaron Curry: Grove, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln
2016
Headspace, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2015
UGLY MESS, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
STARFUKER, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2014
Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Bad Brain, CAPC, Bordeaux
2013
NEWDZ AND NEW GODS, Almine Rech, Paris
Melt to Earth, Lincoln Center, New York
2012
Wrong Spelled Wrong, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
White Out, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
Buzz Kill, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2011
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
2010
Mmnktlplkt, Michael Werner Gallery at 20 Hoxton Square, London
Aaron Curry: Two Sheets Thick, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Bad Dimension, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2009
TWOFACETWO: Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin
Bad Dimension, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
Two Face, with Thomas Houseago, Ballroom Marfa
The Colour Out of Space, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2008
Hammer Project, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Another Language, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
2007
New Works, Michael Werner Gallery, London
2006
Bank Robber, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Halfway to Sanity, The Pit, Los Angeles
Accrochage, Michael Werner Gallery, Athens
2023
Think Pinker, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles
2022
Aaron Curry, Shahryar Nashat, and Ruby Neri, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Texan: Part I, Various Small Fires, Dallas, Texas
2021
The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
Camp Hero, The Ranch, Montauk
2020
Au rendez-vous des amis. Classical Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung Goetz, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Talking About the Cosmos, Even. And Love, I Guess., Almine Rech, New York
A Possible Horizon, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
2019
Healing Gardens, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Rockefeller Center, New York
Calculating Infinity, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco
From Day to Day, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Rubell Museum, Miami
2018
Jing’an International Sculpture Project, Shanghai
LX Arts, New York
MORE / LESS, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Vile Bodies, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
West by Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
2017
Force and Form, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami
Hill People, Performance Ski, Aspen
Press your space face close to mine, curated by Aaron Curry, The Pit, Los Angeles
2016
Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami
On the Origin of Art, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania
2015
You’ve Got to Know the Rules … to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection, Contemporary Art Space, Miami
Surrealism: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
POM’ PO PON PO PON PON POM PON, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp
8 Announcements, HVW8, Los Angeles
COOL – As a State of Mind, Marseille MOdulor, Marseille
2014
The Los Angeles Project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Variations: Conversations In and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Platform, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels. Curated by Nicolas Tremblay
CHERUB, 2nd Cannons project space, Los Angeles
2013
Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Summer 2013: Collected Works, Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
Set Pieces, Cardi Black Box, Milan (curated by Andrew Berardini and Lauren Mackler)
19 rue de Saintonge, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
A Bridge Too Far, Mottahedan Projects, Dubai
Alone Together, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2012
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
FIGURES, Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2011
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Cornfabulation, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Cleijne + Gallagher, Curry, Höller, Huyghe, Kusama, Warhol, Wright, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
WYSIWYG: What You(ngs) See Is What You Get, Rosenblum Collection, Paris
We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Flowers for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; CAPC Bordeaux
Tableaux, Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble
2010
Alexander Calder: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham
Statuesque, City Hall Park, New York; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Berlin-Los Angeles, A Tale of Two (Other) Cities, Massimo De Carlo, Milan
California Maximalism, Nyehaus, New York
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Quodilbet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
KölnSkulptur 5, Cologne
2008
Black Swan: A Sculpture Show, organized by Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago, Michael Werner Project Space, London
Open Plan Living, curated by Andrew Renton, Art TLV, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Aaron Curry, Richard Hawkins, Peter Saul, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Series Drawings, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin
2007
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Post Rose: Artists In and Out of the Hazard Park Complex, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
Sculptor's Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
L.A. Desire, curated by Wilhelm Schürmann, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Aspect, Forms and Figures, curated by João Ribas, Bellwether, New York
Material Photographs, organized by Anthony Pearson, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois
2006
Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
L.A. Trash and Treasure, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
Untitled (for H.C. Westermann), The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
25 Bold Moves, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, House of Campari, Venice Beach
Cloudbreak, organized by David Kordansky, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Southern Exposure, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles
Autonomy, Foxy Production, New York
2004
Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, California
2002
The Anniversary Show, 1R Gallery, Chicago
OTHER PROJECTS
2014
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2013
Dior Homme storefront installation, Los Angeles
2011
Love Buzz, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
de la Cruz Collection, Miami
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Montreal Museum of Fine Art Chicago, Chicago
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Aaron Curry lives and works in Los Angeles