EDUCATION AND AWARDS
2005 Award, Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York
1994 Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award
1990 Residency/Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
1992 Residency/Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
1990 Master of Fine Art, Painting, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
1987 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art/Painting, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Site Objects, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
Snap: Sharon Engelstein, Aaron Parazette, Decorative Center Houston
2009 Air Drop, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Surf Trip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
New Paintings, McClain Gallery, Houston
2005 Drive Thru, The Suburban, Chicago
2004 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
1991 Empty Abstraction, Lloyd Shin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Not Perfect, Davis McClain Gallery, Houston
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Armory Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Site Flavor, with Sharon Engelstein, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Coordinates, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
2008 More Than Words, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Fundamental Abstraction II, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Fracisco
In the Beginning, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Option H, McClain Gallery, Houston
2006 Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York NY
Blurring the Line, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
2005 Project Space, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Artadia at Diverseworks, Diverseworks, Houston
Wall Paintings, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
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
Art Positions, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
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
Aaron Parazette & Ken Price, Austin Museum of Art
Color Code, Sala Diaz, San Antonio
Sources: Art and the Universal, Paradigm Art Space, Atlanta
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art
Group Show, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Post Hypnotic, The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
Post Hypnotic, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL
2000 Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, North Carolina
What's So Funny about Color, Elias Fine Art, Boston
Imported, The Gallery at Green Street, Boston
Maximal Minimal, Feigen Contemporary, NY
Post Hypnotic, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Post Hypnotic, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Post Hypnotic, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
1999 Material, Process, Memory, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
Size Matters, Gale Gates et al. Brooklyn, NY
Optopussy, Angstom Gallery, Dallas
Post Hypnotic, University of Illinois, Normal
Post Hypnotic, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
Post Hypnotic, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
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
On the Beach in Galveston, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston
Tendances Actuelles de la Peinture a Texas, Saintes Museum of Art, Saintes, France
1997 Primary Colors, Galerie Barbara Farber/Rob Jurka, Amsterdaam, The Netherlands
Oktoberfest, Texas Gallery, Houston
Post Pop, Post Pictures, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago
Buttered Side Up, The Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
Equal Pay, Revolution Summer Gallery, Houston
Disiptoey, Angstram Gallery, Dallas
The Mediation of Ornament, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston
1996 Buttered Side Up, Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York
Bliss Project, LACE, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
1995 Wallpaper Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
Texas Abstract: New Painting, Art Pace, San Antonio, traveling through 1997, (catalogue)
Contact: The 114th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue)
Summer Serial, Texas Gallery, Houston
The Home Show, University of Texas at San Antonio (catalogue)
Analogs of Modernism, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas (catalogue)
Irreverent Homage, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania (catalogue)
1994 Faith and Doubt, State Universtiy of New York, Buffalo (catalogue)
Exquisite Corpse, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Inquiring Minds, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Forging Ahead, University of Texas, Arlington (catalogue)
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 Texas Art Celebration, Cullen Center, Houston
Core Fellows '92 , The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1991 Core Fellows '91, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“At 25 Still a Magnet for Talent”, by Douglas Britt, Houston Chronicle, Dec. 21, 2008, p. 10-13
“Portraits in Contemporary Art”, PaperCity, December, 2008, p 48-49
“Fundamental Abstraction II”, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 2008, p E10
“Kiln and Palette…”, by Catherine D. Anspon, PaperCity, Sept. 2008, p. 68-69
“Strokes of Genius”, by Amber Bell, Houston Magazine, Sept. 2008, p. 180-181
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Featured artist, Public Mag, Fall/Winter 2006, cover art and p.92-99
“Incoming Swell”, by Ethan Stewart, The Independent, October 25, 2007
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"A Demolition Derby of Art," Tom Porges, the Octopus, Jan15-22, 1999
"On the Beach at Galveston," Bill Davenport, Art Papers, Nov./Dec. 1998
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BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
Federal Reserve Bank, Houston Branch, Collection of Art, 2009
New Paintings, essay by Frances Colpitt, Marlborough Gallery, 2007
All on Up, essay by Mark Flood, , Marlborough Gallery, 2006
Restless, Essay by Valerie Olsen, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2005
Wall Paintings, Essay by Frances Colpitt, The University of Texas at SanAntonio, 2005
Neo Painting, essay by MiJin Kim, Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 2002
Material Morph: Parazette + Price, essay by Dana Friis Hansen, Austin Museum of Art, 2001
New Orleans Triennial, essay by William A. Fagaly and Susie Rosmarin, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2001
Texas:150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Essays by Alison de Lima Greene, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000
Material/Process/Memory, Essay by Alexander Dumbadze, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, 1999
Post-Hypnotic, essays by Barry Blinderman and Tom Moody, The University of Illinois, Normal, 1999
Abstract Painting Once Removed, essays by Dana Friis-Hansen, David Pagel, Raphael Rubinstein, and
Peter Schjeldahl, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1998
Post-Pop, Post Pictures, essay by Courtenay Smith, The Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, 1997
Buttered Side Up, essay by Karen Emenhiser, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, 1997
True Bliss, essays by Julie Joyce, David A. Greene, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1997
Texas Abstract: New Painting, essay by Frances Colpitt, Pace Roberts Foundation, 1995
Wallpaper Works, essay by Stephanie Smith, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995
Contact: The 114th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, 1995
The Home Show, essay by Frances Colpitt, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1995
Analogs of Modernism, essay by Tom Moody, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 1995
Irreverent Homage, essay by Lynn Cazabon Bucknell University, 1995
Faith in Doubt, essay by Al Harris & Karen Emenhiser, SUNY at Buffalo, Research Center in Art + Culture
Forging Ahead, essay by Al Harris, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, UT Arlington, 1994
Core Fellows 1990-91, Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Core Fellows 1991-92, Museum of Fine Art, Houston |
