User:Joseph.S.Ahearn/Aurel Schmidt

= Aurel Schmidt = Born 1982 in Kamloops, British Columbia and moved to New York in 2005. By 2009 she was living in the East Village and was still living there in 2011.

Career
Schmidt participated in her first group show in 2006 at Spencer Brownstone Gallery (New York, NY). By the following year she was showing with Jeffrey Deitch and in 2010 her work, Master of the Universe: FlexMaster 3000, was included in the Whitney Biennial, 2010. She worked briefly out of a Jeffrey Deitch studio in Long Island City. Her work has been collected by Dakis Joannou, Santo Domingo, and Sean Avery. Tim Barber published a book of intimate photos of her and her partner, Donald Cummings (of the band The Virgins).

Solo Exhibitions

 * 2015 - Blast Furnace of Civilization at Half Gallery (New York, NY)
 * 2013 - Fruits, a bodega at 200 Stanton St
 * 2011 - Peres Projects (Los Angeles, CA)
 * 2008 - Maneater at Jeffrey Deitch (New York, NY)
 * 2007 - Burnouts at Jeffrey Deitch (New York, NY)

2014

 * M + B (Los Angeles, CA)

2013

 * Saatchi Gallery (London)

2011

 * Saatchi Gallery (London)
 * Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY
 * Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow

2010

 * Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, Italy
 * Summer Bummer at The Fireplace Project (East Hampton, NY)
 * Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina
 * New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art

2009

 * Andrea Rosen (New York, NY)
 * Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin)

Publications

 * Man Eater by Kathy Grayson

Press
Notable press includes Art Observed, New York Mag, "30 Under 30 In Art and Design" Forbes (2011), Vogue, New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Art Info, Interview Magazine and Purple Magazine