Education
2007 M.F.A., Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005 B.F.A.,
Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000 B.A., European History, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Aaron Delehanty, MDW Fair-fall, {fill in the blank} Gallery, Geolofts, Chicago, IL
2010 Visible City/Map Room, {fill in the blank} Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Visible City, Finestra Art Space, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
2007 Vernissage, MFA Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2006 Solo Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Narratives, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Hot Spot, G2, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2016
Spotted Hyena Habitat Diorama, Hall of Asian Mammals, Field Museum, Chicago (Upcoming)
2015 Diormas on Neolithic Life, Cyrus Tang Hall of China
, Field Museum, Chicago
2014 Guillain Barre Disease
2013 FLAT 14, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago, IL
2012 Triangulation, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
MDW Fair, Co-Prosperity Sphere booth, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Object Petit Ahhh… Curated by Dayton Castleman, Co-prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Hinge Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 US, Ben Russell, with the Co-Prosperity School, Chicago, IL
Park-Schreck Gallery, Chicago, IL
MDW Fair, Fill-in-the Blank Gallery and the Co-prosperity School, Geolofts, Chicago, IL
Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Flesh and Bone, Hyde Park Art Center & Co-prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Art Loop Open, Hard Rock Hotel, Chicago, IL
Invisible Cities, Work Studio, Chicago, IL
Migrations, Douglas Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL
Territories,
Version Fest 10 Group Show, curated by Dayton Castleman and Ed
Marszewski, Zhou B.
Center,
Chicago, IL
VideoStore7.375x4x1, curated by Jeriah Hildwine, Chicago, IL
Faculty Show, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL
Version Fest Silent Auction, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
50 Alderman/50 Artists, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL (traveling show)
2009 Bargain Basement, Co-prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Textaporting the Gallery, curated event by Caro d'Offay, Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Lumetype II, Caro d'Offay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selections from New American Paintings, Pacific Edition 2007,
juror Alma Ruiz- curator MOCA, LA, dba256
Gallery,
Pomona, CA
2007 Inchoate, curated by Jeanne Finley, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
24th Annual Artist-Book Show, Print Making Loft, San Francisco, CA
2006 Marking the Spot, curator- Brett Reichman, SFAI Courtyard Gallery, San Francisco, CA
23rd Annual Artist-Book Show, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Book-Art, Artetica Gallery- (traveling show), Rome, Italy
2005 Arion Press Artist Book Show, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
Mission Mural Project, Los Palmas Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Stray Show, The General Store, Chicago, IL
Millennium Park Mural Project, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
2003 Celebration of Color, Benson Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2002 Eight Annual Paint the Town Show, Benson Gallery, Fort Collins CO
Art Events, Performances, Social Experiments, etc.
2017 Loud Cow Alternative Art Space- hosting regular exhibtis in Spencerport NY (ongoing)
2012 Monster Movie Seminar 111,
Hinge Gallery, Chicago, IL I curated the third installment of this
multi-format
performance and video to include a performance
by Stephanie Burke and Jeriah Hildwine, and a video-game art
piece by Bob Belote.
2011 Psychiatric Help IV, Happiness can be scary, right?- curated by Tricia van Eck, 6018 North, Chicago, IL
Psychiatric Help III, Happiness Project- curated by Tricia van Eck, MDW Fair, Geolofts, Chicago, IL
2010 The Co-Prosperity School,Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL (ongoing)
An
Artist Run School co-produced with Ed Marszewski- Weekly meeting of
active citizens of the Chicago Art
World with
the specific goal of informing, educating and advancing Chicago Art
The Monster Movie Seminar, The Op Shop & Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
A
multi-video event in celebration of Monsters. We watched movie clips,
screamed, laughed and yelled-
the 2 hour event was the
product of my Artist Residency at Lill Street.
2009 Psychiatric Help II, Spoke, Chicago, IL
More terrible advice given.
Psychiatric Help!, Version>09:immodest proposals-NFO XPO, Benton House, Chicago, IL
I
built and stationed the Peanut cartoon's character Lucy Van Pelt's
'Psychiatric Help 5 cents' booth.
It provided an
ideal situation for the distribution of some awfully horrible (thereby
awesome)
psychiatric advive.
Selected Recognition
2016 TEDx:Flower City speaker,titled talk- Dioramas: Part Art, Part Science
2014 Launch Residency panel member, panel member on alternative educations for artists, Chicago Artist Coalition
2010 Chicago Art Dealers Association Choice Award, Packer Schoph Gallery, Art Loop Open, Chicago, IL
Painting and Drawing Artist in Residence, Aug. 2009-Feb. 2010, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL
New American Paintings Open Studios 2007 Winning Pacific Coast Competitor, Juror Alma Ruiz- Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Recent Media Coverage
Post Magazine- UPCOMING
Hailey Reissman, "Gallery: The art and science of museum dioramas", TED.com, July 2017
Rebecca Rafferty - "2 Loud Cows turns an acre and a barn into a DIY space", City Newspaper, November 2017
WXXI PBS- Arts in Focus, "RMSC Diorama", September 2017
Susan Trien, "Rochester in 1838: RMSC diorama restored", Democrat and Chronicle, June 2017
TEDx Innovations, "The (not so) lost art of museum dioramas", Hailey Reissman
TEDx Flower City 2016 speaker, "Dioramas: Part Art, Part Science", 9 minutes 53 seconds
The Brain Scoop, "Painting the Diorama", interview, 7 minutes 13 seconds
Greg Mercer, “Scaling Down”, documentary, 11 minutes 52 seconds
Steve Johnson, Unfrozen in time: New life, and crowdfunding, for dioramas at Field Museum, Chicago Tribune, 6 19, 2015
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-field-museum-dioramas-20150408-column.html#page=1
Whet Moser, The Field Museum Campaigns to Save the (Taxidermied) Hyenas, Chicago Magazine, June 2015
http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/April-2015/The-Field-Museum-Campaigns-to-Save-the-Taxidermied-Hyenas/
Jeriah Hildwine, Abstract Painting: the turd that won’t flush? Bad-at-Sports, February 4, 2013
http://badatsports.com/2013/abstract-painting-the-turd-that-wont-flush/
Micah Sickel, Aaron Delehanty- the devil is in the details, The Art Collecting Corner, June, 2012
http://artcollectingcorner.blogspot.com/2012/06/aaron-delehanty-devil-is-in-details.html
Lauren Weinberg, Time Out Chicago profiles Alderman Exhibitions, Hinge Gallery and the Mission, Time Out Chicago, January 25, 2012
http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/art-design/15094849/time-out-chicago-profiles-
alderman-exhibitions-hinge-gallery-and-th
Mia DiMeo, Unhinged, ArtSlant, January, 2012
http://www.artslant.com/chi/articles/show/29410?print=1
Nicolette Caldwell, Dealing With New Demands // The Happiness Project // Part II, an interview with Tricia Van Eck, Sixty Inches From Center, November, 14, 2011
http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=11367
Phone Book 3, threewalls press, Autumn 2011
Logan Square Literary Review, Featured Artist,September 21 Issue VIII
http://loganliteraryonline.blogspot.com/
Ania Szremski, Getting Schooled, Fnews Magazine, August 31, 2011
http://fnewsmagazine.com/2011/08/getting-schooled/
decomP Magazine, featured artist, April, 2011
http://www.decompmagazine.com/flashdray.htm
Knee Jerk Magazine, Volume One, January, 2011
http://www.kneejerkmag.com/
Paul Klein, Art Letter, September, 24, 2010
http://www.artletter.com/2010/09/92410.html
Ariel Raddock Interview with Aaron Delehanty, July, 2010
http://www.fillintheblankgallery.com/interviews/2010/8/4/aaron-delehanty.html
Jeriah Hildwine, Monday Morning Quarterback, Art Talk Chicago, July 9 and 10, 2010
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/art-talkchicago.html
Stephanie Burke, Top 5 weekend picks! (7/9-7/11), Bad-at-sports.com, July 8, 2010
http://badatsports.com/2010/top-5-weekend-picks-79-711/
Chicago Reader, Volume 39-#42, pg. 65-66, July 8th, 2010
Tom Lynch, Monster Love,
New City, February
2010
http://art.newcity.com/?s=%22monster+love%22
Stephanie Burke, Biggest top 5 you've ever seen, Bad-at-Sports.com, February 10, 2010
http://badatsports.com/2010/the-biggest-top-5-youve-ever-seen/
Proximity Magazine, Issue #5, Studios, pgs. 120-121
http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/09/aaron-delehanty/
Daniel Tucker- Consider the city, Chicago Journal, May 20, 2009,
http://www.chicagojournal.com/News/05-20-2009/Consider_the_city
Monica Westin- Recommended: Aaron Delehanty/Finestra Art Space, Newcity-StreetSmart Chicago, May 14, 2009,
http://art.newcity.com/2009/05/11/review-aaron-delehantyfinestra-art-space/
Lauri Apple- Aaron Delehanty's Visible City, Chicagoist.com, May 2009,
http://chicagoist.com/2009/05/08/aaron_delehanty_at_finestra.php
Abraham Ritchie- Chicago's Alternative,
Newcity-Street Smart Chicago, April 30 2009,
http://art.newcity.com/2009/04/27/chicago’s-alternative/
Meg Onil- NFO XPO Recap, Bad at Sports.com, May, 2009
http://badatsports.com/2009/nfo-xpo-recap/
Lauri Apple, Recession Biting Artists in the (Canv)Ass,
Chicagoist.com,
2009
http://chicagoist.com/2009/01/05/recession_biting_artists_in_the_can.php
Lauri Apple, An Interview with Aaron Delehanty,
Gapersblock.com,
2008
http://gapersblock.com/ac/2008/06/30/an-interview-with-aaron-delaha/
New American Paintings No. 73, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2007
Teaching Experience
Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, October, 2015
Visiting Artist, Ryan Peter Miller’s Drawing 1
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November, 2015
Visiting Artist, Peggy McNamara’s Scientific Illustration class
Co-prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL, 2010-2013
School Discussion Leader
Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL, 2010-2011
Adjunct Faculty
-Drawing with Color-
-Materials and Techniques of Painting-
{fill-in-the-blank} Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009-11
Painting Instructor
Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2009-10
Teaching Artist in Resident
Caro d'Offay Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2008-09
Painting Instructor
The Galaxie, Chicago, IL, 2007
Oil Painting Instructor
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Graduate Assistant
Relevant Work Experience in Studio Arts
Walking Stick Studio, Chicago, IL, 20014-present
Fabrication Studio
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, 2009-present
Replications Shop