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Aaron Lish

alish@cocc.edu

http://artcriticalthinking.blogspot.com

BIO

Born in San Diego, CA 1971

Live and work in Bend, Oregon

EDUCATION

2013    MFA in Visual Art, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 

             Boston, MA

1995    MS in Exercise Science, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI

1993    BS in Sport Science, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2013   The Art Institute of Boston, HD 499 Seminar: A Survival Kit for the 21^st Century, Dialogue-based project, Boston, MA

2013    Pence Gallery @ Central Oregon Community College, Play-time and an Open Office Culture, Participatory gallery space, Bend, OR

2013    Lakeview BLM (Derrick Cave), Play and Idle Creativity (A 72-hour Think-tank on Survival in the 21^st Century), Dialogue-based project, South-Central Oregon

2013    Mobius, AN UN-INTERPRETED EXPERIENCE Version 2.0 (Just another day), Dialogue-based project, Boston, MA

2012    Deschutes National Forest, AN UN-INTERPRETED EXPERIENCE Version 1.2 (How the Unreal Becomes Real), Adventure-based participatory project, Bend, OR

2012    Boyd Cave, AN UN-INTERPRETED EXPERIENCE Version 1.0 (The soul at work), Adventure-based participatory project, Bend, OR area

2012    Crux Fermentation Project, Sitting Around Drinking Beer and Solving All the World’s Problems, Durational participatory project, Bend, OR

2012    Bend Fall Festival, This Is Exchange (Sorry, no cash, check or charge payment), Participatory project, Bend, OR

2012    This Is (Ex)change, Ongoing participatory project via the web (http://thisisexchange.blogspot.com)

2011    tbd community gallery annex, Coming of Age in a Pre-Apocalyptic Post-Modern World (Life is a fishbowl), Participatory project, Bend, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS AND PERFORMANCES

2013    The Art Institute of Boston, MFA Graduate Show, Boston, MA

2012    tbd community gallery, Have | Have Not, Bend, OR

2012    Pence Gallery @ Central Oregon Community College, Art Faculty Show (guest faculty), Bend, OR

2012    tbd community gallery, HAVOC | HARMONY, Bend, OR

2012    tbd community gallery, Consume | Preserve, Bend, OR

2012    PoetHouse Art, Seeds of Capitalism, Bend, OR

2011    tbd community gallery, Transcendence, Bend, OR

2011    tbd community gallery, Respect, Bend, OR

2011    Portland Art Museum, Shine A Light 3, Independent performance, 

             Portland, OR

PANELS AND LECTURES

2013    The Art Institute of Boston, Graduate presentation, “The Aesthetic Experience of     Generative Dialogue,” Boston, MA

2013    Atelier 6000, “Dialogue as Both Art Form and Art Process,” Bend, OR

2013    Pence Gallery @ Central Oregon Community College, “The Re-mix and the Loss of Subjectivity,” Bend, OR

2012    The Art Institute of Boston, Student presentation, “The Strip Tease and The Creation of New Knowledge Through Encounters with Relational Art,” Boston, MA

2012    PoetHouse Art, Guest Artist, “Participation in Art,” Bend, OR

2012    PoetHouse Art, Guest Artist, “Tactics in Political Art,” Bend, OR

AWARDS

2011    City of Bend, Gallery award for community contribution, Bend, OR

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PUBLICATIONS

“Thoughts on this summer’s immersive art environment in New York.”  www.cascadeae.com.  Cascade A&E Weekly, July 24, 2013.  Web.

“The Aesthetic Experience of Generative Dialogue.”  Graduate thesis.  The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, June 2013.  Boston, MA.  Print.

CURATING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2012    Artist assistant for Cesare Pietroiusti, Transitory Possession (a participatory project), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Grand–opening of the new contemporary wing, Boston, MA

2010-   Curator, An Emotional Response to Eight Days in the Wilderness, 

2013    Annual show, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR

1998-   Associate Professor, Outdoor Leadership Program, Central Oregon 

2011    Community College, Bend, OR