Aaron Blake Bos-Wahl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in Wisconsin and Iowa. He received a BFA in painting from the University of Iowa, and he earned his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010. He has taught art at Washington University in St. Louis and Mt. Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Currently, he lives and works in Oakland, CA, where he teaches elementary art. His work has been shown nationally and internationally and was recently featured in From Chaos to Order: Making Our Way in the New World of Covid-19 at The Delaware Contemporary.

Lives and works in Oakland, CA

b. 1982, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Selected One and Two-Person Exhibitions:

2016 Most Days Not Much Happens (with Lawrence Keaty) at Comfort Station, Chicago, Illinois

2015 Works on Paper and Multimedia, The Virginia M. & Edward Juergensen Gallery, Mohawk Valley Community College,

Utica, New York

2012 With the Grain, Organic Valley Headquarters, La Farge, Wisconsin Open Studios, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2011 Natural History, University City Public Library, University City, Missouri

2009 Venerate/Connect, Lewis Center, Washington University in St. Louis

2007 Intimate Perceptions (with Ami Lahoff), Waldemar A. Schmidt Art Gallery, Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa

2008 On the Edge of Something, TheGallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021. When Words Fail, online exhibition, Visionary Art Collective,

https://www.visionaryartcollective.com/exhibitions/when-words-fail

What Comes After, online exhibition, 601 Artspace, New York, New York

https://601artspace.org/Loss-Empowerment

2020 From Chaos to Order: Making Our Way in the New World of Covid-19, The Delaware Contemporary,

Wilmington, Delaware

Artists in the time of Coronavirus, an ongoing virtual exhibition, Part 40, Artblog,

www.theartblog.org/2020/06/artists-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-an-ongoing-virtual-exhibition-part-40/

2015 Cinema Killed the Video Star, PUBLIC Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

2014 Percent for Art exhibition, Mesabi Range Community & Technical College, Virginia, Minnesota

2012 How to Read a Book: an artists’ books reading room, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Something Happened, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri

2011 Preservation of the Bluegrass, invitational exhibition, Louisville WaterTowerArt Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Among Friends, St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, Missouri

Flora & Fauna, 930 Art Center, Louisville, Kentucky

Funambule, Pig Slop Studios, St. Louis, Missouri

Fort Slop, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri

2010 MFA Exhibition, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

MFA Thesis Show, Vernon Space, St. Louis, Missouri

2009 Public Art & Ecology: A Watershed Projectfor The Confluence, Steinberg Gallery, Washington University in St. Louis

Team Art, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

2008 Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Minnesota

Hearst Competitive Exhibit, Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Iowa

2007 Parabola, Steinberg Gallery, Washington University in St. Louis

Education:

2010 Washington University in St. Louis, MFA

2007 University of Iowa, BFA in Painting and Drawing

Awards and Residencies:

2012 Artist Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, selected by Washington University in St. Louis

2011 Artist Residency, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri

2008 Eleanor Depree and Titus Van Haitsma Scholarship

Teaching Experience:

2015 Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York, workshop

2012 – 2013 Mt. Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Adjunct Professor

2008 – 2010 Washington University in St. Louis, Teaching Assistant

Lectures:

2015 Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York

Publication:

2013 “Photography Exhibition Captures Changing Face of Prague in 1968.” Cedar Rapids Gazette/Hoopla, February 18, 2013,

http://hooplanow.com/2013/02/18/review- photography-exhibition-captures-changing-face-prague-1968

2013 “Art Focused on Loss of Habitat, Species Migration, and Extinction,” Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History,

ABC-CLIO

Press:

Louisville Visual Arts Association. DAILY ARCHIVE: Aaron Bos-Wahl (blog). Artebella Daily. January 20, 2015. http://www.artebelladaily.org/artists/aaron-bos-wahl/

Greymatter Gallery. Aaron Bos-Wahl – Queens, New York (blog). 365 Artists 365 Days. October 18, 2014. http://365artists365days.com/2014/10/18/aaron-bos-wahl-queens-new-york/

“Interview with Aaron Bos-Wahl,” Gabrielle Daniels, Friday Focus, WDRT Driftless Community Radio, Viroqua, WI: WDRT, September 9, 2012.

Laura Barone, “Something Happened and Pools @ The Luminary,” Arched Art Now, http://archedartnow.com/2012/03/13/something-happened-and-pools-the- luminary, March 13, 2012

Jessica Baran, “Something Happened at the Luminary Center for the Arts,” Riverfront Times, March 15, 2012

Collaboration:

2010 Coordinated student efforts at Washington University for Mel Chin, Ron Fondaw and Noah Kirby as part of Operation Paydirt

2009 Collaborated with Jackie Brookner and other graduate students of Washington University on Public Art & Ecology: A Watershed

Project for The Confluence

Volunteer Activities:

2011 – 2012 Co-Founder of Thinking Art STL, a collective forum for young artists