AARON ZULPO
My interests lie in narrative painting while creating complicated imagery by segmenting space with natural and artificial barriers. The goal is to always entertain in a relatable fashion while satisfying my need for a complex image space. I lean to towards popular subjects in films and novels create entertaining narratives. When It’s all put together I hope to have achieved something which is spatial complicated while being intrinsically elegant and engaging through the use of colors and patterns. The narrative ends up being the cherry on top.
Aaron Zulpo, born in 1985, is based out of Brooklyn New York. Zulpo’s first solo exhibition was with 308at156 Project Art Space in 2012. From there he has gone on to work on private commissions and curate shows in New York and Hong Kong. In 2016 Aaron showed at VOLTA NY and in Pulse Miami Beach where he was honored with the Perez Art Museum Pick. Currently Aaron Zulpo is getting ready to do a number of group exhibitions this year and for a solo exhibition at Visions West Contemporary in Denver.
Born in 1985 in Illinois
Lives and works in Brooklyn
Education
2008 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Solo Exhibitions
2016 VOLTANY, Project: ARTspace, New York
2012 Project: ARTspace, New York
Group Exhibitions
2016 Unstretched, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York
2016 PULSE Miami Beach, Project: ARTspace, Miami
Fall 2016 Thanksgiving, Muse Art LTD, Hong Kong
2016 FADA: House of Madness, 23rd Annual Watermill Center Arts Benefit & Auction, Watermill
2016 The City, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg
2016 Migration- No More Great Wall, The Woo Space, Beijing
2015 Everything Five Hundred, CG2 Gallery, Nashville
2015 Beach Bum Art Show, BB Contemporary, New York
2014 Surburbanites and Urbanites, Hooloon Gallery, Philadelphia
2010 Upstream People Gallery, New York
2009 Sketch it Out, APW Gallery, New York
2008 Square by Square, Art Gotham, New York
Awards + Residencies
2016 Perez Art Museum Pick, Pulse Miami Beach 2016
2016 Ace Hotel Artist in Residence, New York
2008 Art Kudos Juried Competition, Honorable Mention
2004 Strathmore Contest, Second Place
Bibliography
Hyperallergic “Dreamscapes for the 21st Century at the Volta Art Fair” by Daniel Larkin, 4 March 2016
http://hyperallergic.com/280703/dreamscapes-for-the-21st-century-at-the-volta-art-fair/
The Art Blog “Suburbanities and Urbanites at Hooloon Art” by Irena Frumkin,
1 August 2014
http://www.theartblog.org/2014/08/suburbanites-and-urbanites-at-hooloon-art/