Aleah Chapin

Born. 1986, Whidbey Island, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Flowers Projects, The Space Between Us, New York, NY

2021

Flowers Gallery, Walking Backwards, Hong Kong, China

2019

Flowers Gallery, What Happens at the Edge, New York, NY

2017

Flowers Gallery, Within Wilds, London, UK

2016

Flowers Gallery, Body/Being, New York, NY

2014

Flowers Gallery, Maiden, Mother, Child and Crone, London, UK

2013

Flowers Gallery, Aunties Project, New York, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

The Bo Bartlett Center, Big Stories, Columbus, GA

SPRING/BREAK, Wild Card, New York, NY

2022

Grand Valley State University, As Is: Beauty and the Body in Contemporary Art, Allendale, MI

2021

Flowers Gallery, Small Is Beautiful, London

Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Online Exhibition

Sotheby’s Auction House, Artists for Artists - Benefit Auction, New York

2020

Flowers Gallery, Isolation; Solitary, Suspended, Online

Flowers Gallery, 50 x 50, London, UK 

High Line Nine, ME: An Exhibition of Contemporary Self Portraiture, New York, NY

2019

Flowers Gallery, Art Miami, Miami, FL

Flowers Gallery, Small Is Beautiful, London, UK

Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Painting Today, Barcelona, Spain

Cascadia Art Museum, Portraits and Self Portraits by NW Artists 1910-18, Edmonds, WA

2018

Helen Day Art Center, Reclamation /ˌrekləˈmāSH(ə)n/, Stowe, VT

Zhou B Art Center, Visions of Venus/Venus’s Visions, Chicago, IL

2017

Belvedere Museum, Aging Pride, Vienna, Austria

Flowers Gallery, Small Is Beautiful, London, UK

Arcadia Contemporary, Poets/Artists, Los Angeles, CA

Customs House Museum & Cultural Center, Women Painting Women: In Earnest, Clarksville, TN

Texas A&M University, Women Painting Women: In Earnest, College Station, TX

2016

Flowers Gallery, Small Is Beautiful, London, UK

Sotheby's Auction House, Take Home A Nude - Benefit Auction, NYC

The Royal College of General Practitioners, Health and the Body: The Ingram Collection, London, UK

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, New York, NY 

Cascadia Art Museum, Looking Back, Moving Forward, Edmonds, WA

2015

The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, Woking, UK 

Flowers Gallery, Art Miami, Miami, FL

Flowers Gallery, Small Is Beautiful, New York, NY

Sotheby's Auction House, Take Home A Nude - Benefit Auction, New York, NY

Flowers Gallery, Art Miami, New York, NY 

Sirona Fine Art, Artists Gaze: Seeing Women In The 21st Century, Hallandale, FL

2014

Flowers Gallery, Small Is Beautiful, New York, NY

Sotheby's Auction House, Take Home A Nude - Benefit Auction, NY

Hersh Fine Art, Loved and Observed, Glenn Cove, NY

Flowers Gallery, NYAA Summer Exhibition, New York, NY

Flowers Gallery, Downtown Art Fair, New York, NY

Polk State College, 1 Billion Rising, Lakeland, FL

2013

Flowers Gallery, Small Is Beautiful, London, UK

Sotheby's Auction House, Take Home A Nude - Benefit Auction, New York, NY

New York Academy of Art, Fellows Exhibition, New York, NY

Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYAA Summer Exhibition, New York, NY

The Mall Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London, UK

Flowers Gallery, Pulse Art Fair, New York, NY

2012

Leipziger Messe, LIA Traces: 5 years, Leipzig, Germany

Sotheby's Auction House, Take Home A Nude - Benefit Auction, New York, NY

Forum Gallery, Perception of Self, New York, NY

National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award, London, UK

Flowers Gallery, NYAA Summer Exhibition, New York, NY

Flowers Gallery, Nudes, New York, NY

Hersh Fine Art, Fiction/Non-Fiction, Glen Cove, NY

Flowers Gallery, Heads, New York, NY

2011

Sotheby's Auction House, Take Home A Nude, Benefit Auction, New York, NY

Vignettes Gallery, Show & Tell, New York, NY

Leipzig International Art Program, Summer Exhibition, Leipzig, Germany

Flowers Gallery, NYAA Summer Exhibition, New York, NY

Jackson Hall Gallery, The Ridiculist Revival, New York, NY

Sloan Gallery, Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, New York, NY

Hunter College, CAA Exhibition, New York, NY

Brackenwood Gallery, A New Generation, Langley, WA


EDUCATION

2012

New York Academy of Art, MFA, New York, NY

2009

Cornish College of the Arts, BFA, Seattle, WA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Dubi Shiff Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel

Museum Azman, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Ingram Collection of Modern and Contemporary British Art, London, England

The Bennett Art Collection of Women Realists, San Antonio, TX, United States

Sammlung Klöcker/The Klöcker Collection, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany

Presidents Collection, New York Academy of Art, New York, United States

 

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2019

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 

2016

The Willard L. Metcalf Promising Young Artist Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

2014

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 

2013

MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, NH

2012

Postgraduate Fellowship at the New York Academy of Art, New York

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

BP Portrait Award, First Place, National Portrait Gallery, London

Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Nomination

2011

Leipzig International Artist Residency Program, Leipzig, Germany

New York Academy of Art Service Scholarship

2010

New York Academy of Art Merit Scholarship

Leslie T. Posey Foundation Scholarship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS

Schiffer Publishing, More Disruption: Representational Art In Flux, John Seed, 2023

ArtMaze Magazine, Issue #28, Paola Oxoa, 2022

Radio Juxtapoz, The Best and Most Disturbing Painter of Flesh Alive Today, 2022

New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Issue, No. 157, 2021

The Blue Review,  20 Most Important Female Artists of 2020, Liz Adams, 2020

Brenda, On Age: Art by Aleah Chapin, Bianca Forte,  2020

BBC World News, Portrait of an Artist, Documentary , Lonely Leap Films, 2019

Schiffer Publishing, 50 Contemporary Women Artists, Heather Zises, John Gosslee, 2018

Vice, Honest Nudes Highlight The Beauty in Every Body, Gabrielle Bruney, 2016

White Hot Magazine,  Figure As Flow,  Daniel Maidman,  2016

Skira/Rizzoli Publishing, The Figure, Margaret McCann, 2014 

Mad Artists Publishing, The Complete Artist: How to Succeed in the Creative Industry ,  Jason Seiler2014

The Sunday Times of London,  Happy, Sally Brampton, January 2014

The Seattle Times,  Aleah Chapin: The Whidbey born artist is one to watch, Robert Ayers, 2013

Elle Magazine,  Aleah Chapin's Gripping Interpretations of the Nude Female Form, Elyse Moody, 2013

Juxtapoz, Aleah Chapin - Aunties Project, Varenka Ruiz, 2013

Huffington Post,  Daughter Of The Wild Women, Daniel Maidman, 2013

The Guardian, Portrait Prize Shortlist,  Mark Brown, 2012

VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER/CRITIC

New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

International Center for the Study of Painting, Orvieto, Italy

Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna, CA

Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA