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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010    “Photographs” and Paintings, Olson Gallery, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN

2008    C-side—Deluxe Edition!, Western Exhibitions, Chicago IL

2007    C-side, Kiehle Gallery, Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN

2006    Aaron Van Dyke: New Paintings, Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

2005    Aaron Van Dyke, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2004    Aaron Van Dyke: New Photos, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

1998    Everyday Pathology (curator: Nicholas Frank), Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1997    Photographs, Portikus, Madison, WI

1995    Everyday Pathology, Gallery Rebolloso, Minneapolis, MN

1991    Greek Sculpture Fragments (curator: Cate Rimmer), Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010    A Theory of Values, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (curators: Kris Douglas and Scott Stulen)

2009    Monster Drawing Rally, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
            The Great Poor Farm Experiment, The Poor Farm, Little Wolf, WI

2008    Monster Drawing Rally, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
            Western by Northwest, The Project Lodge, Madison, WI
            The Poster Market International (curator: Noah Brehmer), Blank Space, New York, NY and The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
            Several Landscapes (curators: Scott Speh and John Neff), Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2007    Printed Space (curator: Scott Speh), Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
            Summer Invitational (curator:Thom Barry),Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

2006    MCAD/McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
            Ever More (curator:Theresa Downing), Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN

2004    Surface Tension (curator: Laurel Gitlen), Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR
            SPACEMAKERS (curator: Courtney Smith) Lothringer Dreizen, Munich, Germany, Max Fish, New York, NY and
                The Suburban, Chicago, IL (curators: Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam)
            This Thing We Do (curator: Scott Speh), Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2003    Hysterical Pastoral (curator: John Neff), Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
            Subtle, Not so Subtle (curator: Kirsten Stoltmann), 1R, Chicago, IL

2002    Decorative Beautiful not Decorative Meaningless: a Home Show (curator: Joseph del Pesco), November, Minneapolis, MN
            Accidental Sublime (curator: Scott Speh), Bower Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2001    Nothing and Everything (curators: Joseph del Pesco, Jen Murphy and Jay Hiekes) The Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN
            Supermarket 2000 (curators: Adriane Herman and Brian Reeves), Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
2000    University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI and Miami University, Oxford, OH
            Cold Conceptualism (curator: John Neff), Suitable, Chicago, IL

1997    New Wisconsin Photography II (curator: Tom Bamberger) Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

1994    Group Show, Gallery Rebolloso, Minneapolis, MN

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cahill, Zachary, “Manawa “The Great Poor Farm Experiment III””, Artforum.com, September 2011,
    http://artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks28789
Ryan, Bartholomew, “Working Blind,” essay for “Photographs” and Paintings, 2010.
Aldarondo, Cecilia, “Irreconcilable Differences: The McKnight Fellows Coexist at MCAD,” MNartists.org,
August 2006.
    http://www.mnartists.org/article.do;jsessionid=773CA7DEEAFDE9C852A19D1BF1C7 4F2E?rid=112449
Tumlir, Jan, “Aaron Van Dyke” (catalog essay), MCAD/McKnight Artists 2005–2006, 2006 p. 14–15.
Grabner, Michelle, “Chicago” (review), Art Papers, November/
December 2005, p. 56.
Ferrara, Annette, “Aaron Van Dyke,” Time Out Chicago, No. 47 (September 1
8. 2005), pg. 57.
Row, DK, “Shows of Note,” The Oregonian,
December 3, 2004.
Dirks, Ryan, “Surface Tension,” The Portland Mercury,
December 2, 2004.
Velez, Pedro, “Art Fair Future,” Artnet Magazine, December 23, 2002,   
    http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/velez/velez12-23-02.asp
Grabner, Michelle, “Cold Conceptualism” (review), Frieze, no. 53, June–August 2000, p. 125.
Bamberger, Tom, New Wisconsin Photography II (catalog), 1997.
Strohm, Colin, “Aaron Van Dyke Photographs and Sean Buse Projective Palimpsest” (review), Artzine, no. 2, 1997.

SELECTED WRITING

“Kelsey Olson’s Photographic Trials,” (exhibition essay) 2011.
Mel Bochner: Language 1966–2006, by Johanna Burton (book review), Rain Taxi, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 32–33.
“Michelle Grabner,” in Wiehager, Renate, Minimalism and After: Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to
    the Present. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2007.
“Michelle Grabner,” Minimalism and After III (exhibition catalog)
, Berlin: DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, 2004.
“Jesper Just: A Fine Romance,” Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 3, May/June 2004.
“Rico Gatson: Recent Video,” Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 2, March/April 2004.
“The Pyramids: 150 Years of Photographic Fascination,” Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 1, January/February 2004, pg. 19.
“Jo del Pesco,” The Photographic Gesture (exhibition catalog), Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, 2003.
“Multiplicity,” New Art Examiner, vol. 29, no. 5, May/June 2002, pg. 97-8.
“Shutter,” Market Report (Online journal).
“Growing Up a Child: the Role of the Child as Allegorical Reader in the Work of Walter Benjamin,” March 20, 1999,
    paper presented at the University of Wisconsin–Madison German Department Graduate Student Symposium.
“Curtis Whaley,” Artzine, no. 7, 1999 (Madison, WI).
“‘Realism’, Surrealism, and ‘Holiday Greetings, 1998’,” Artzine, no. 5, 1999 (Madison, WI).

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Master of Arts (Art History)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Master of Fine Arts (Studio Art)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN Bachelor of Fine Arts (Studio Art)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2007 MCAD Faculty Support Grant
2005/2006 MCAD/McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists
2005 Minnesota State Arts Board Project Grant

CURATING, EDUCATION AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (October 2009
present)
Education Coordinator

Summer School at the Poor Farm (August 2009, 2010, 2011) The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
Program founder/coordinator

The Great Poor Farm Experiment III (2011), The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
Video Program Curator

Occasional, Saint Paul, MN (February 2003–2010)
Curator/Codirector
. www.occasionalart.com

Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapollis, MN (March
June 2007)
Special Assistant
(part time, temporary)

Site/Life Mapping, (January–February 2007) Mineapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Co-curator

Praxis/Practice, (November–December 2006) Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Co-curator

Intervention in The End of the End of the Line, (July–August 2004) The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

RECENT TEACHING POSITIONS

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (January 2004
present)
Adjunct Faculty
, Fine Arts (current), Graduate & Liberal Arts departments (Fall 2006)
Visiting Artist
(full time), Fine Arts department (August 2007–August 2009)
Study Abroad program, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland (Spring 2009)

College of Visual Arts, Saint Paul, MN (January 2000
–May 2007)
Adjunct Instructor
, Liberal Arts department

COLLECTIONS

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
Toby Dayton, Minneapolis, MN
Jay Swanson, Minneapolis, MN
Sally and Maurice Blanks, Minneapolis, MN
Arthur W. Kaemmer, St. Paul, MN
Toby Kamps, Houston,TX

LECTURES AND PANELS

Art and Design (Mis)Education, part II (panel participant), 16 October 2011, Art of This, Minneapolis, MN

Art and Design (Mis)Education: An Experiment (panel participant), 18 September 2011, Art of This, Minneapolis, MN

Panel discussion on alternative spaces (moderator), 18 November 2010, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN Participants included Michelle Grabner (The Suburban and The Poor Farm), Anthony Huberman (The Artist’s Institute), Thomas Boutoux and Benjamin Thorel (both castillo/corrales).

“Photographs” and Paintings (lecture), 4 February 2010, Olson Gallery, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN

C-side (lecture), 14 November 2007, Kiehle Gallery, Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN

Site/Life Mapping panel discussion (moderator), 24 January 2007,
MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

MCAD/McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition (panel participant), 12 July 2006, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Moderated by JanTumlir.

Ever More (panel participant), 17 May 2006, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN. Moderator: Theresa Downing.