AARON SANDNES
Born
Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
2007 MFA, Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
2003 BA, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine
Solo Exhibitions
2009 STAR CROSSED EVASION, Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles,
California
From a Hill, Blasting!, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, California
2008 Let the Wild Rumpus Start, We Own the Sky But Don't Even Know It, Groeflin
Maag Galerie, NADA Art Fair, Miami, Florida
This Difference Gravity Conjoins, Open Arms, a Mobile Gallery
This War is Over, See Line Gallery, Aaron Sandnes & Liat Yossifor, two-person
exhibition, Santa Monica, California
2007 Strange Attractor, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Eleven: Fifty-nine: Sixty-one, 507 Rose, Venice, California
Assassination by Anamnesis (part 2): Who Needs a DeLorean When There's
Stomach Lining to Tear?, D301 Gallery, Valencia, California
2006 All Hail, Mint Gallery, Valencia, California
2004 Virulence, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2002 Survey 61, Class: C Presents One Stop Only Series, Irvine, California
Group Exhibitions
2010 The Summer Show, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, California
Something in the Air, curated by HK Zamani, Long Beach City College Art Gallery,
Long Beach, California
2009 Marco Rios, Aaron Sandnes, Rosha Yaghmai, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
Go Stupid! Go! Go! Go Stupid! Go! Go! (Not So Art Get Hyphy), with Fabian Chiquet,
LISTE Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2008 2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of
Art, Newport Beach, California (catalogue)
Uberstars, organized by Glenn Kaino, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Criminal, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Don't Torture the Rotten Ducklings, curated by Gean Moreno & Nicholas Frank,
Inova/Kenilworth Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Swan Songs, curated by Christopher Fitzpatrick, Photo Epicenter, San Francisco,
California
For Ever, curated by Eungie Joo & Clara Kim (REDCAT), 915 Mateo Warehouse,
Los Angeles, California
Alumchum, Catalyst Gallery, Irvine, California
The Juice is Loose, 507 Rose, Venice Beach, California
2006 Lost Streams: The First Frontier Was the Water's Edge, Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Mid-Res Show, D300 Gallery, Valencia, California
It was the Blurst of Times, curated by Jason Kunke, Commerce St. Artist Warehouse,
Houston, Texas
2005 Not That You Lied to Me, But That I No Longer Believe You, Has Shaken Me,
Mint Gallery, Valencia, California
The Door Show, CalArts Graduate Studios, Valencia, California
I’ve Done This Before, Slanguage, Wilmington, California
Boundless, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
2004 Yank, Andrea Bowers’ & Sam Durant’s Studio, Los Angeles, California
2003 Platinum Snapfest: Outfest Festival, with Class: C Presents One Stop Only Series,
Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California
Big Red, Studio Art Building, Irvine, California
D, University Art Gallery, Irvine, California
Select, University Art Gallery, Irvine, California
2002 Juste Mon Genie, University Art Gallery, Irvine, California
Bibliography
2007 Lion, Lea. "A Show of Their Own," Los Angeles Downtown News, June 18, Pg. 25.
Moreno, Gean. “Ten By Ten: Next Generation of Emerging Artists for February,"
www.uber.com/art, February.
2006 Rhodes, Dusti. “Getting the Words Wrong, ‘Blurst of Times’ Makes Art From
Miscommunication,” Houston Press, Vol. 18, Pg. 29.
2005 Martinez, Daniel Joseph and David Levi Strauss. “Teaching After the End,” Art Journal,
Vol. 64, No. 3, Pg. 28-45.
2004 Baur, Simon. “Maschinelle Minimal-Art, Die Ratselhaften Kommunikationsmaschinen
Von Aaron Sandnes,BASLER ZEITUNG, KULTURMAGAZIN, December, Seite 16.
“Aaron Sandnes: Virulence,” www.regioartline.org, Seit Dienstag 14. Dezember.
2003 Slamon, Joey. "Student Art Exhibition Displays Talent and Creativity," New University,
April 21, Pg. 17 & 20.
Exhibition Catalogs
2008 Firstenberg, Lauri. 2008 California Biennial. Newport Beach, California: Orange
County Museum of Art: 186, 187 (illustrated).
2007 Fitzpatrick, Chris. Swan Songs, San Francisco, CA: Photo Epicenter.
Olivares, Pablo. "If I Break My Tongue (In That Tunnel Vision),"
Eleven:Fifty-Nine:Sixty-One, Los Angeles, California.
2006 Serrano, Eveyln. The Question, “Lost Streams: The First Frontier was
the Water’s Edge.” Tijuana, Mexico: Estacion Tijuana.
2005 Alvarez, Saul, Daniel Martinez, Aaron Sandnes and Kara Tanaka.
I've Done This Before. Los Angeles: Cakemountain for Slanguage Studio, edition of 200.
2004 Weeden, John W. “Virulence.” Zurich, Switzerland: Groeflin
Maag Galerie.