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SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Through the Hothouse, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Into the Hothouse, Mason Exhibitions, Fairfax, VA
2022 Matter in the Hothouse, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Drawn Through Allium with Patience & Good Fortune, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Twine about around together, Ferguson Gallery, River Forest, IL
2021 A Picture-Cyclopedia, Buddy at Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
With Inger, SPACE PLACE, Nigni Tagil, Russia
With Inger, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nigni Tagil, Russia
2020 rooted-looping-scrambling-rambling-tangling-twining-tendrils, 062, Chicago IL
2019 Hold Sway, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Aimée Beaubien, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, IL
2018 Summer Show, Gallery Uno at Virus Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
2017 Cuttings, Platform Gallery, Evanston, IL
Grow Light Shadows, Gallery UNO, Projektraum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Twist Affix, Riverside Art Center Freeark Gallery, Riverside, IL
2016 Virtual Still Life, University Club of Chicago, IL
Cutting Edges: Beaubien & Liang, The Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WI
In the Space Between Things: Beaubien & Rapp, The Whistler, Chicago, IL
2015 Hothouse, BOX 13 Artspace, Houston, TX
Twist-flip-tremble-trace, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
Winter Thicket, DEMO Projects, Springfield, IL
Form Unbound: Beaubien & Yeapanis, O’Connor Gallery, River Forest, IL
2014 Always Wherever, TWIN KITTENS, Atlanta, GA
Frank Eltner with Paperfile: Aimée Beaubien, oqbo galerie, Berlin, Germany
2013 Beaubien & Erschen: this is big, 3433 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Aimée Beaubien: New Work, The Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, IL
2010 Found and Found, Gallery Uno, Chicago, IL
2007 In the Space Between, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Entanglement: Postures of Delirium, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Aimée Beaubien, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Trans-motion, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Aimée Beaubien: New Work, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Aimée Beaubien, RX Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Past Perfect, Freeark Gallery, Riverside, IL
Selections from Photography and Media Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Shared Storytelling: New Acquisitions from Franklin Furnace Archive, 2018-2022, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2022 SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 Intercollegiate Faculty Exhibition, Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Palos Hills, IL
2020 New Formations, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
PHOTOGRAPHY & ______, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Artist Run Chicago 2.0, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Kismet, Monaco, St. Louis, MO
ART-IN-PLACE, Terrain Exhibitions and CNL Projects, Chicago, IL
2019 AINT-BAD Collaborations, Laney Contemporary Fine Art, Savannah, GA
Terrain Biennial, Terrain Exhibitions, Oak Park, IL
2018 Two Pieces Missing, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland
TRUTH CLAIM, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Birds & Bees, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
In Real Life, Platform Gallery, Evanston, IL
demo DEMO, DEMO Project, Springfield, IL
2017 SUBMISSIVE EXHIBITIONS, The Sub-Mission, Chicago, IL
2016 40th anniversary, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Materiality and the Layered (eye), Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
THE COLLECTION, Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Rosemont, IL
Paper Positions, Bikini Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2015 paper-thin, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 The Nature of a Collective, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
Graft, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
2012 Industry of the Ordinary: Portrait, Chicago Cultural Center, IL (catalogue)
Please Return, Northern Trust Art Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
2011 Twisted Selves, UCRC Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Paperfile on Tour: Galerie obqo, Preview Berlin, Germany
2010 Twice, Art Exhibition Link, Bremen, Germany
Paperfile, Galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany
2009 Summer Show, Art Exhibition Link, Castello di S. Severa, Italy
2008 Ahh...Decadence!, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
2007 Fresh Takes, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 All About Women, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Inaugural Show, BMOMA, Chicago, IL
2004 Body, Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Corporal, O’Connor Gallery, River Forest, IL
The Reflected/Refracted Self, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Pasted On, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 ...but smaller than expected, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Carl Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Agitator: Contemporary Art of Propaganda, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Portfolio 1999, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Body Works, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997 No Small Feat, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Out of the Shadow of Ivan Albright, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Wonders, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fresh Faces, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Openings, Curcio / Spector Gallery, New York, NY
Beaubien, Booth, Carmichael, The Lineage Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Person / Personae, Galerie Spectrum, Zaragoza, Spain
The Cultural Body, Coburn Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
Venus Envy, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Camera Obscura / Obscura Camera, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
No More Nice Girls, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Beaubien and Zappia, Hook Torture Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Profiles '93, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Visible Language, New Works Gallery, Chicago, IL
Alternatives '93, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Woman and Madness, Congress Street Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Body Politic, Survival Graphics, Madison, WI
Piss On Passivity, At the Gallery, Chicago, IL
Off Our Backs, Gallery X, Phoenix, AZ
PUBLICATION AS AUTHOR & ARTISTS’ BOOKS
2021 Beaubien, Aimée, “Weights and Marks”. Journal of Artists’ Books JAB 47/48, edited by Freeman, Brad.
Beaubien, Aimée, Unfurl Unfold: the touch of a leaf, the page of a book felt, 2021 Editions Program, Spudnik Press Cooperative Publishing, screenprint by Angee
Lennard.
2019 Beaubien, Aimée, Contact, The Donut Shop, printed by Jennifer Keats.
2018 Beaubien, Aimée. “Gusts in the Hothouse.” Botanical Speculations: Plants in Contemporary Art, edited by Aloi, Giovanni. Pages 49-62 Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Beaubien, Aimée, With Inger, The Donut Shop, printed by Jennifer Keats.
2017 Beaubien, Aimée, Cuttings, The Donut Shop, printed by Jennifer Keats.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 McClain, David. “Superpresent in Conversation with Aimée Beaubien”. Superpresent. Summer. Print.
“Mason exhibitions presents immersive installation”. Fairfax County Times. Sept. 8. Print
2022 Meiners, Maggie. “Photography + Form: Aimée Beaubien”. Lenscratch. May 11. Web.
“Matter in the Hothouse: Aimée Beaubien's Vibrant, Immersive Installation.” Juxtapoz. June 1. Web.
Quick, Genevieve. “Enter Aimée Beaubien’s delightfully messy, exuberant ‘Matter in the Hothouse’.” 48hills, July 6. Web.
“Newport Art Museum's artist residency returns with nationally recognized artist.” The Newport Daily News. June 10. Web.
2021 Smithson, Aline. “Focus on Installation: Aimée Beaubien.” Lenscratch. April 5. Web.
Zhang, Keyi. “Conversation with Aimée Beaubien.” Key Elements Interview. Web.
2020 England, Oddette, ed. “Now We See: Picturing Barthes’ Unseen Photograph.” Schilt Publishing. Print.
“Between Photography and Sculpture.”, PDN Photo of the Day, Photo District News, Jan. 15. Web.
“Creative Quarantine: Artist Aimeé Beaubien.” Esthetic Lens Magazine. Oct. 7. Web.
Fouts, Ally. “artist Talks: Ally Fouts & Aimée Beaubien.” Esthetic Lens Magazine. Oct. 21. Web.
Ciurej, Barbara and Lochman, Lindsay. “On Collaboration: Photography & ______.”, Lenscratch. Dec. 6. Web.
2019 Flora, Rachael. “Eight years ain't bad ‘Collaborations’ is a joint effort between Laney Contemporary, Aint-Bad Magazine.” Connect Savannah. July 2, Web.
Voon, Claire, “A Chicago Biennial Is Taking Art Beyond Museum Walls and Into People’s Yards”, ARTnews, October 18. Web.
Nafziger, Christina, “Aimée Beaubien: Pushing The Boundaries Of Photography Into The Third-Dimension”, Create! Magazine. Jan. 21. Print.
2018 Parker, Kayl. “In the Garden: An Interview with Aimée Beaubien.” Pelican Bomb. Mar. 16
Story, Kayla. “Aimée Beaubien.” Ain’t Bad, Dec. 5, 2018, Web.
Hoffer, Audrey. "In Some Residential Neighborhoods, Art Is Bigger than Ever." The Washington Post, July 12, 2018. Print.
Sanders, Taylor, Young, ed. "Zemie Barr Curator's Choice: Aimée Beaubien." Ain't Bad, 2018. Print.
Kensett, Andrew. Some Recent Findings. Detroit, MI: Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, 2018. Print.
2017 “Interview: Aimée Beaubien.” Floorr, Issue 9. Web.
“Interview: Aimee Beaubien at Platform.” The Lisa D Show, Web.
2016 “Aimée Beaubien’s Woven Imagery.” Inside\Within. Dec. 2016, Web.
Alamo-Costello, Chester. “Aimée Beaubien – Collecting Within & Recent Works.” The COMP Magazine. March 15, 2016. Web.
Minerath, Kat. “Paper Nature at The Pitch Project.” Sheppard Express. Mar. 8, 2016. Web.
2015 "Review: Aimée Beaubien/Johalla Projects." Newcity Art. New City, 09 May. 2014. Web.
“Aimée Beaubien: What is creative fodder?” F.ARTS Magazine, Vol. 3: Spring 2015, Ed. Eunho Joe. Print.
Spring, Elin. "TWIST-FLIP-TRAMBLE-TRACE." What Will You Remember? 12 May 2015. Web
Iwilso2. "Review—Aimée Beaubien’s Twist-Flip-Tremble-Trace." Chicago Contemporary Art Seminar. May 10, 2015. Web.
2014 “Aimée Beaubien." Saint Lucy. Ed. Mark Alice Durant. Sept. 2014. Web.
Spring, Elin. "Discovering Stella!" What Will You Remember? 28 Oct. 2014. Web.
Spring, Elin. "The Nature of A Collective" What Will You Remember? 28 Oct. 2014. Web.
Matabuena, Julien. "Aimee Beaubien Creates Colorful, Whimsical Collages Out of Cut-Out Photos." Lomography Magazine. Lomography, 10 Jan. 2014. Web.
2013 Carroll, Patty. "Aimee Beaubien's Exotic, Swirling Images Combine Photography and Collage." Feature Shoot. 26 Dec. 2013. Web.
Smithson, Aline. "Aimée Beaubien: Only Part and Found and Found."Lenscratch. 20 Oct. 2013. Web.
2012 Kelly, Cole Don, and Jessica Dean Camp. "Aimee Beaubien." DON/DEAN. N.p., 18 Nov. 2012. Web.
Furtado, Jackie, and Cody Rae Knue. "Aimée Beaubien." tabletop zine 001 (2012). Print.
"Beaubien, Bolen, Carlos, Fogelson." Timeout Chicago 29 Nov. 2012. Print.
2011 "The State of Creation: Hot Authors." Canteen 7 (2011). Print.
2007 Weinstein, Michael. "Aimée Beaubien." New City [Chicago] 13 Sept. 2007. Print.
2004 Artner, Alan. "Aimée Beaubien." Chicago Tribune 16 Apr. 2004. Print.
Weinstein, Michael. "Entanglement: Postures of Delirium." New City [Chicago] 08 Apr. 2004. Print.
Forbes, Calvin, ed. Everywhere Godfrey. Vol. 1. Ann Arbor: Press Lorentz, 2004. Print.
McCloud, Ayanna Jolivet. "Aimée Beaubien." Polvo Magazine Fall 2004. Print.
2003 Murphy, Maureen. "An SAIC Retrospective." F News [Chicago] Apr. 2003. Print.
2002 Snodgrass, Susan. "Chicago: Aimée Beaubien." Art In America Mar. 2002. Print.
Schleifer, Kristen Brooke. "Aimée Beaubien: Transmotion." Art On Paper Mar.-Apr. 2002. Print.
"Galleries-Chelsea: Aimée Beaubien." New Yorker 1 July 2002. Print.
2001 Weinstein, Michael. "Aimée Beaubien." New City [Chicago] 08 Nov. 2001. Print.
"Out and About." Chicago Sun-Times 12 Oct. 2001. Print.
1999 Camper, Fred. "Spring Fever." Chicago Reader 12 Feb. 1999. Print.
Wiens, Ann. "Margin." New City [Chicago] 18 Feb. 1999. Print.
SELECTED LECTURES/VISITING CRITIC/WORKSHOPS
2023 Artist Talk, Paula Riff Award Recipient, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Artist Talk, Visual Voices, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Panel Discussion, Riverside Art Center Freeark Gallery, Riverside, IL
2022 Panel Discussion, Photographic World-Building: Aimée Beaubien, Allison Grant, Guanyu Xu, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Open Book: Aimée Beaubien, Monira Foundation, Jersey City, NJ
Artist Talk, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Gallery Talk, Ferguson Gallery, River Forest, IL
2021 Artist Talk, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Panel organizer and moderator, Art, Work, Grants, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
2020 Panel Discussion, Roger Brown Study Collection, CAA Event, Chicago, IL
Panel Discussion, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, MoCP Behind the Lens: Aimée Beaubien, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2019 Gallery Talk, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, IL
2018 Workshop, Portfolio Development: Photography Professionals, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017 Artist Talk, Botanical Speculations Symposium, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Gallery Talk, Riverside Art Center Freeark Gallery, Riverside, IL
Guest artist, MFA Visualization Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Panel organizer and moderator, Professionalizing the Artist, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, MFA Art and Visual Culture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
2016 Gallery Talk, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Gallery Talk, The Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WI
Artist Talk, Shapiro Symposium, Roger Brown Study Collection, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
Artist Talk, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2015 Gallery Talk, O’Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
Gallery Talk, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
Gallery Talk, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Artist Talk and Critic, Artist Now! UWM Department of Art Lectures, Milwaukee, WI
2012 Artist Talk and Critic, Photography Department, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2011 Panel Discussion, So You Want To Be A Fine Art Photographer?, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
2009 Artist Talk, Photography Department, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2007
Artist Talk, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
Gallery Talk, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Artist Talk, Art History Department, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
2005 Artist Talk, Art History Department, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Continuing Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2004 Artist Talk and Critic, Art Department, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Artist Talk, Art Department, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Gallery Talk, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
2003 Artist Talk and Critic, Undergraduate Studio Art Critiques, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2002 Artist Talk, Art Department, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2000 Artist Talk in the Studio, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Workshop, Two-day Photography Seminar, Department of Education, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1997 Panel Discussion, Body Works, Society for Photographic Education Conference, Baltimore, MD
Artist Talk, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1996 Artist Talk, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Artist Talk, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Artist Talk, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Artist Talk, First Year Program, SAIC, Chicago, IL
1995 Artist Talk, Photography Department, University of Chicago, IL
Panel Discussion, Censorship in the Arts, Morton Downey Junior Show, Broadcast, Chicago, IL
1993 Artist Talk, Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Panel Discussion, Profiles ’93 Artists, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Chicago Semester in the Arts, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 2023 Student Perspectives, Juror, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
2018 we like small things v.2, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
2013 Transitions: SAIC Photography & Printmedia, Schingoethe Museum & Art Gallery, Aurora University, IL
2012 Please Return: works by YoungArts alumni, Northern Trust Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Nicole White: New Works, Gallery Uno, Chicago, IL
2004 Summer Show, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2003 Nightlife Chicago, Curated by Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Summer Show, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Light, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2002 Summer Show, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Student Exhibition, Awards Juror, Dominican University Gallery, River Forest, IL
2001 Summer Show, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2000 Summer Show, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Urbanonimity, Co-curated with Wendy Ennes, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Chicago Artists, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1999 Summer Show, Curated by the Advisory Committee, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2023 Residency, Latitude, Chicago, IL
IAS Project Grant, Illinois Art Council Agency, Chicago, IL
2022 Residency, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Paula Riff Award, Carmel, CA
Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2021 Illinois Art Council Agency, Chicago, IL
2020 SF Camerawork Exhibition Award, San Francisco, CA
Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2019 Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI
2018 Residency, SIM, Association of Icelandic Visual Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2017 Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2016 Shapiro Research Fellowship
2015 Residency, Next Art Now, Starcom Mediavest Group /Leo Burnett, Chicago, IL
Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI
Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2011 Residency, AIR Krems, Krems, Austria
1996 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago, IL
1995 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago, IL
1994 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago, IL
COLLECTIONS
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Rare Books and Special Collections, Founders Memorial Library, DeKalb, IL
Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
1993 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1989 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL