Aaron ROTHMAN

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019 A Hollow Not a Void, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2015 Nothing But Flowers, Stark Gallery, Phoenix, AZ (solo)

2013 Landscapes, Appaloosa Library, Scottsdale Public Art, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)

2012 If There Be Such Space, (two person collaborative exhibition with Michael Lundgren) Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

2010 The Far Field, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (solo) 

2008 Last, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ (solo)

2007 Twice, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ (solo)

2006 Aaron Rothman, Gitterman Gallery, NY, NY (solo)

2004 Haze, Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, TN (solo)

Open (two-person collaborative exhibit with Rebecca Blume Rothman)

Case Works, Art Museum at the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2003 Middle Distance, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (solo)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Lost in Space: Contemporary Photographers and the New Landscape, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

Permanent Collection / Impermanent Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2015 INFOCUS PhotoBid 2015, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2014 INFOCUS PhotoBid 2014, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2013 Mirror><People, Night Gallery, Tempe, AZ

School of Art Faculty Biennial, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

INFOCUS PhotoBid 2013, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2012 If There Be Such Space, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (two person collaborative with Michael Lundgren)

2011 Contemporary Forum Emerging Artist Grant Winners, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Looking at the Land: 21st-Century American Views', RISD Museum of Art + FlakPhoto.com, Providence, RI

Weird Science, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2011 here., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

PhotoAuction2011, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

2010 Lineage, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2009 Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

50 States Project, online invitational exhibit curated by Stuart Pilkington, United Kingdom         

2008 6x6, Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007 Photo LA, represented by Gitterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Carnival, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2006 Paris Photo, represented by Gitterman Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

mFAC 001, Medicine Factory, Memphis, TN 

Dirty Pictures, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ

2005 15th Annual Auction Preview, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

2004 Oculus Photo Folio Exhibition, SPARK Gallery, Syracuse, NY

University of New Mexico Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2003 Oculus Photo Folio Exhibition, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2002 Phoenix Art Exchange Project, La Soupape Ailée, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

AZ—GA, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

The Alternative Landscape, Tower Experimental Media Gallery, AZ State University, Tempe, AZ

STARE: Photographic Survey (juror: Trudy Wilner-Stack, Chief Curator, CCP) Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ

2001 Nature and Technology: Digital Video, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2001 Latent Discoveries, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Traces of Provence, French Institute Alliance Francaise, New York, NY

2000 New Images, Ameen Art Gallery, Thibodaux, LA

1999 Photography, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Photo/Print: Past/Present, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1997 Lacoste School of the Arts Faculty Exhibit, Galerie La Bouffarde,Lacoste, France

Nocturne in Gray (two-person exhibition), The Late Show, Kansas City, MO

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Artist Pension Trust, Los Angeles Trust

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, Photography, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

2014 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2011 Contemporary Forum Emerging Artist Grant, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2008 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2004 Faculty Enrichment Grant, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

2001 Research Assistance Grant, Associated Students of Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1997 Research Assistant Fellowship, Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France

PUBLISHED WRITINGS

2015 Beyond Google Earth (Mishka Henner, Daniel Leivick and Clement Valla photographs)

Watched and Watching (Andrew Hammerand and Mishka Henner photographs)

The Great Unreal and Other Fictions (Onorato + Krebs photographs), Places Journal

2014 Postcards from the Nevada Museum of Art (3 part series), Orion Magazine Blog

Fabrications (Dean Monogenis paintings and Sam Laughlin photographs), Places Journal

Not My Beautiful House (Hyers + Mebane photographs), Places Journal

The End of Brooklyn (David Mandl photographs), Places Journal

Makeshift Metropolis (Noah Addis and Allesandro Imbriaco photographs), Places Journal

Landscape and Memory (Jo Röttger photographs), Places Journal         

Landscape Forensics (Sasha Bezzubov photography) Places Journal

2013 Life of the Party, photographs by André Giesemann, Places Journal

The Last Days of Kaixian (Zhang Xiao photographs), The Caravan, July 2013

Landscape and Illusion: Chris Ballantyne, Lauren Marsolier and Bas Princen, Places Journal    

Resurveying the West: William Henry Jackson and Victoria Sambunaris, Places Journal

Barranca (photographs by Thomas Locke Hobbes), Places Journal

Expect Everything (photographs by Peter Holzhauer), Places Journal

Blind Views (photographs by Arturo Soto), Places Journal

2012 Above Lake Las Vegas (photographs by Michael Light), Places Journal

Detroit, As Is, (photographs by Dave Jordano), Places Journal

Storm Season (photographs by Daniel Kariko), Places Journal

Landscape Photography: New Visions—The Idea of Landscape, Places Journal

Landscape Photography: New Visions—Image, Object, Experience, Places Journal

Landscape Photography: New Visions—Our Invisible Presence, Places Journal

Landscape Photography: New Visions—Natural Artifice, Artificial Nature, Places Journal

Landscape Photography: New Visions—Everyday Spaces, Natural Places, Places Journal

Shelter (photographs by Henk Wildschut), Places Journal

The Last Days of Kaixian (photographs by Zhang Xiao), Places Journal

We Are in a Western Town: the Photography of Robert Adams, Places Journal

Detroit Re-Photography (photographs by Dave Jordano) Places Journal

2011 Non Zero Sum (photographs by Christian Widmer), Places Journal

Views Across Time (interview with Mark Klett), Places Journal

Lost Rivers (photographs by Alejandro Cartagena), Places Journal

Fragmented Cities (photographs by Alejandro Cartagena), Places Journal

2010 Plain City (photographs by Frank Schirrmeister), Places Journal

2008 Deformer by Ed Templeton (book review) Photo-Eye Magazine

2007 Peter Fraser (book review) Photo-Eye Magazine

Interregna by John Pilson (book review) Photo-Eye Magazine

2006 Stargazing by Boo Moon (book review) Photo-Eye Magazine

North/South by Axel Hütte (book review) Photo-Eye Magazine

2004 Startling Reality, Photo-Eye Magazine

Albumen Skies, Photo-Eye Magazine

PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

2016 Guest Lecturer, University of South Carolina, School of Visual Art and Design

2015 INFOCUS Artist Talk, Phoenix Art Museum

Light and Space Workshop, Visions Program, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Guest Reviewer, Senior Architecture Studio, The Design School, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2013 Artist Talk on Art and Architecture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Artist Talk, Freeport-McMoRan, Tempe, AZ

2012 Visiting Artist Lecture: If There Be Such Space, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

2011 Artist Talk: Emerging Artist Grant, Contemporary Forum, Phoenix ArtMuseum, Phoenix, AZ

Invited Guest Panelist, Light and Space Practicum Final Reviews, The Design School, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Artist Talk, Large Format Photography, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2010 Artist Lecture: The Far Field, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN 

2009 Artist Presentation and Panel Discussion: Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2006 Visiting Artist Lecture, Mississippi School of the Arts, Brookhaven, MS

2005 Artist Lecture, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN 

2003 Artist Lecture, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010-present Photography Editor, Places Journal

2007-2009 Faculty Associate, Photography

2012-2013 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2011-2012 Project Coordinator, X-Square

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University

2011 Design Team Member, Edge Industries, Phoenix, AZ

2006-2009 Master Artist: Gallery 37 Public Art Project

2001-2003 West Valley Fine Arts Council, Litchfield Park, AZ

2009-2011 Project Specialist, Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory

The Design School, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2003-2006 Assistant Professor of Art, Head of Photography Department, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

2004 Video Editor, Third View Rephotographic Survey Project DVD, Museum of New Mexico Press

Author, “Startling Reality” (Summer 2004)

Author, “Albumen Skies” (Spring 2004) Photo-Eye Magazine, Santa Fe, NM

2003 Co-Curator, The New Sublime, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Art Editor, Hayden’s Ferry Review  (issues 31 and 32), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2018 Signal Noise, monograph, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM

2012 If There Be Such Space, exhibition catalog, essay by Josh Wallaert, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Aaron Rothman and the New Landscape (interview), Blindspot Radio, WGXC 90.7, Hudson, NY, November 27, 2012

2011 here., exhibition catalog, essays by Claire Schneider and Erika Doss, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

MetropolisMag.com, “You Are ‘here’”, Joseph Brin, December 5, 2011

2010 The Tennessean, “Deviation from Plan Hits the Mark in Cheekwood Installation”, Will Ayers, Nashville, TN, July 4, 2010

2009 D Magazine: la Repubblica della Donne, “50 Stati in 300 Istanti”, Leonora Sartori, Rome, Italy, December 19, 2009 

Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope, exhibition catalog, essay by Cassandra Coblentz, Scottsdale Museum of

Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

The Arizona Republic, “Review: 3 New SMoCA Exhibits”, Richard Nilsen, Phoenix, AZ, October 30, 2009

The Arizona Republic, “Art Museum Opens Film/Video Exhibit”, Sonja Haller, Phoenix, AZ, August 28, 2009

2008 The Sunday Independent, “Fake Birds Make Nature Seem More Real”, Mary Corrigall, Johannesburg, South Africa, February 24, 2008

2006 ARTnews, “Aaron Rothman: Gitterman”, Valerie Gladstone, November 2006

2005 CameraArts, “PhotoLucida 2005,” John A. Bennette, June/July 2005

2003 Oculus Photo Folio, Oculus Photographic Arts Group, Philadelphia, PA

EDUCATION

2003 Master of Fine Arts: Photography, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1996 Bachelor of Arts (with Honors): Studio Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

1994 Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France (affiliated with Cleveland Institute of Art)