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BIOGRAPHY

Aaron Parazette

Currently Lives and Works in Houston, Texas

Education and Awards

2005 Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York

1994 Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award

1992 Residency/Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas

1990 Residency/Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas

1990 Master of Fine Art, Painting, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

1987 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art/Painting, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

Solo Exhibitions            Group Exhibitions

2008 New Paintings, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas

2008 New Paintings, McClain Gallery, Houston

2007 New Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York

2006 All On Up, Marlborough Gallery, New York

2006 Wind Swell,Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco

2005 Aaron Parazette, The Suburban, Chicago

2005 Project Space, ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain

2004 Perspectives 141: Aaron Parazette, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

2003 New Paintings, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio

2002 New Paintings, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles

2000 South Swell, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas

1997 Pleasure Provision, Texas Gallery, Houston

1994 New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston

1993 New Paintings, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles

1992 Paintings with Subtitles, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston.

Group Exhibitions            Solo Exhibitions

2008

In the Beginning, University Art Gallery, University California, San Diego

Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Fashion Loves Art, Neiman Marcus, Houston

2007

Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surfing, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

A Way With Words, Galveston Arts Center

Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

2006

Blurring the Line, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York

2005

Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain

Group Show, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York

Artadia at Diverseworks, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas

Wall Paintings, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Restless, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

2004

Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, NY

Perspectives at 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Camp Lucky, Summer of Carnage, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston

2003

New Paintings: Esposito/Parazette/Rosmarin, Texas Gallery, Houston

Painting By Design, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami Still/Motion, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

Size Matters, Texas Gallery, Houston

Digitally Assisted, Galveston Art Center

2002

Jet Set, University of Texas, Dallas

Hard Core, Galveston Art Center

Summer Drawing, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston

Labrynths, Borden Butler Gallery Houston

The Million Dollar Hotel Show, Holiday Inn Select, Houston

2001

Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston

Works on Paper, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio

Fast Forward, Nash Hotel, Miami

Boomerang, Exit Art, New York

Braille, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas

Dazzling, Bernard Toale, Boston

Reductive, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio

Sources: Art and the Unversal, Paradigm Art Space, Atlanta

Post Hypnotic, Massart, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art

Group Show, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

Material Morph: Aaron Parazette & Ken Price, Austin Museum of Art

Color Code, with Francesca Fuchs, Sala Dias, San Antonio

2000

Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, North Carolina

What’s So Funny about Color, Elias Fine Art, Boston

San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco, (Finesilver Gallery)

Post Hypnotic, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

Imported, The Gallery at Green Street, Boston

1999

Material, Process, Memory, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas *

Size Matters, Gale Gates et al. Brooklyn, NY

Post Hypnotic, University of Illinois, Normal *

Post Hypnotic, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Optopussy, Angstom Gallery, Dallas

Fabstraction, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fabstraction, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

Fabstraction, Texas Gallery, Houston

1998

Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Texas

Tendances Actuelles de la Peinture a Texas, Saintes Museum of Art, Saintes, France

1997

Primary Colors, Galerie Barbara Farber/Rob Jurka, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Oktoberfest, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Post Pop, Post Pictures, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago IL.

Buttered Side Up, The Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Canada *

Equal Pay, Revolution Summer Gallery, Houston

Disiptoey, Angstram Gallery, Dallas

1996

Buttered Side Up, Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York

Bliss Project, LACE, Los Angeles, California *

The Gramercy International Art Fair, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles (Morris Healy Gallery, NY)

1995

Wallpaper Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston *

Texas Abstract: New Painting, Art Pace, San Antonio, traveling through 1997, *

Contact: The 114th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute *

Analogs of Modernism, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas *

Irreverent Homage, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania *

1994

Faith and Doubt, State University of New York, Buffalo *

Exquisite Corpse, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Inquiring Minds, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Forging Ahead, University of Texas, Arlington *

New Work, Texas Gallery, Houston

1993

Summer Reading, Texas Gallery, Houston

Deluge, Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago

Traditional Forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Small Works, Works Gallery, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California

Raw, Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1992

Core Fellows '92 , The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1991

Core Fellows '91, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

* denotes exhibition catalogue

Two-Person Exhibitions

2004

Conversagence: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco

2002

Bandy: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa

2001

Material Morph: Aaron Parazette & Ken Price, Austin Museum of Art

Color Code, with Francesca Fuchs, Sala Dias, San Antonio

2000

John Tremblay + Aaron Parazette Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami

1998

On the Beach in Galveston, with Sharon Engelstein Galveston Arts Center, Galveston

Public and Private Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Neuberg Berman Collection, Los Angeles
Alfred Glassell, Houston
Sam Guiberson, Houston
Sissy and Denny Kempner, Houston
Olive Jenny, Houston
Lewis and Margaret Skidmore, Houston
Marshall and Victoria Lightman, Houston
Lester and Diane Marks, Houston
Roy and Susan O’Conner, Missoula, Montana
Kristen Venable, Dallas
Jack and Laura Lee Blanton, Houston
William F. Stern, Houston
Gael Stack, Houston
Karen and Stephen Susman, Houston
Stuart Katz, Laguna Beach, California
Sonny Burt and Bob Butler, Dallas
Bruce and Delores Marsh, Tampa, Florida
Bill Robinson, Tampa, Florida
Val Mitchell, Tampa, Florida
Sarah Ames, San Francisco, California
Laura Corallo-Titus, Napa Valley, California
Donald Moffit, New York, New York
Barry Bowen, Houston
Heidi and David Gerger, Houston
Edna and Drew Robins, Houston
Kim Dingle, Los Angeles
Steven Shane, New York
Allen Bennett, Kerrville, TX
Wendy and Bill Atwell, San Antonio
Alice Clement Carrington, San Antonio
Robert and Shari Thurer, Boston
Daphne and Rob Lees, Concord,MA
Ken Freed, Boston
Tom Robertello, Salsberry, IN
Patrick and Pam Ousey, Austin
Gabriela and Pablo Trench, Miami
Aileen and Been Krohn, Seattle, WA
Christopher Erck, San Antonio
Gregory Lind, San Francisco

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