Aili Schmeltz

EDUCATION

2014
University of California, Los Angeles Extension – Advanced Web & Interactive Design Certificate

2003
University of Arizona – Master of Fine Arts – Sculpture – Tucson, AZ

1997
Kansas City Art Institute – Bachelor of Fine Arts – Printmaking & Painting – Kansas City, MO

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2021
Evenfall, The Landing Gallery, Project Room, Los Angeles, CA
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Two person exhibition (alongside Anne Lindberg) – The Landing Gallery – Los Angeles, CA

2020
Survival Strategies  - Edward Cella Art + Architecture – Online Solo Exhibition on Artsy & gallery website 
With Edward Cella Art + Architecture – Two person exhibition (alongside Amir Zaki) - Art Los Angeles Contemporary – Los Angeles, CA

2019
A Future Perfect – Edward Cella Art + Architecture – Los Angeles, CA

2018
Object/Window – BKB Art + Design – Palm Springs, CA
Fixed Flux – Two person exhibition (alongside Jason Manley) – Jaus – Los Angeles, CA

2017
You’re A Tourist in My Town – Espronceda Center for Art and Culture – Barcelona, Spain

2015
Time, Time, Form – Two person exhibition (alongside Ian Pines) – Eastside International – Curated by Manual History Machines – Los Angeles, CA

2013
Site specific permanent Installation, Portal – Commonwealth & Council – Los Angeles, CA
Crosscut - Project Room Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton – Santa Ana, CA
Tomorrowland – Prescott College Art Gallery –  Prescott, AZ

2011
Tomorrowland – Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson, AZ

2010
La Fuente de la Vida –  Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College – Whittier, CA

2008
The Magic City – Locust Projects – Miami, FL
Gods Eye – Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts – Omaha, NE
Storm Tracking –Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, OK

2006
Comfort Food – Tilt Gallery and Project Space –  Portland, OR

AWARDS AND RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

2019
Vermont Studio Center – Residency + Grant – Johnson, VT

2017
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia – Residency – Venice, Italy
Espronceda Center for Art and Culture – Residency – Barcelona, Spain

2013
California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts – Los Angeles, CA

2011
Foundation For Contemporary Arts – Grant – New York, NY
Center For Cultural Innovation – Creative Capacity Fund Grant – San Francisco, CA
Babayan Cultural House – Residency – Cappadocia, Turkey

2010
Durfee Foundation – Artist Resource for Completion Grant – Los Angeles, CA

2009
Pollock-Krasner Foundation – Grant – New York, NY
Takt Kunstprojektraum – Residency – Berlin, Germany

2008
Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts – Residency – Omaha, NE

2006
Arizona Commission of the Arts – Professional Development Grant – Pheonix, AZ

2005
Sculpture Space – Residency – Utica, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Garden –Ladies' Room – Curated by Annie Wharton – Los Angeles, CA

2020
Between Worlds – Thomas Lavin Showroom at the Pacific Design Center – Curated by Edward Cella – Los Angeles, CA
Surroundings – AMP Art Gallery, Los Angeles Mission College –  Sylmar, CA

2019
Color. Theory. & B/W – Sarasota Art Museum – Sarasota, FL
Odd Ark LA – A Store Show –  Los Angeles, CA
Shady Acres – Utah Museum of Contemporary Art – Salt Lake City, UT
Joshua Treenial – Boxo Projects –  Joshua Tree, CA
When the Dust Settles – Unpaved Gallery – Yucca Valley, CA
Other Places Art Fair with Barker Hanger – San Pedro, CA

2018
Edward Cella Art + Architecture – Vernacular Environments Part II – Los Angeles, CA
SPACE + LAND – Fellows of Contemporary Art – Curated by Chelsea Dean – Los Angeles, CA
Bodies of a Different Mass – Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles –  Los Angeles
Skulpturengarten – The Reef LA – Curated by Ichiro Irie – Los Angeles, CA
Available to All – Rough Play Projects – Outdoor Site Specific Sculpture – Joshua Tree, CA
Outline – BKB Design – Curated by Brian Bosworth – Palm Springs, CA
An Art Den – Odd Ark LA –  With Barker Hanger – Los Angeles, CA

2017
Interstitial – Pasadena Museum of California Art – Curated by John O’Brien – Pasadena, CA

2016
Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) – Los Angeles, CA
Continuum – DA Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA
Fin/between – West Los Angeles College Art Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Continuum – Curated by DA Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA
The Night – BLAM Projects –  Los Angeles, CA
Lazy Susan – Titanik Gallery – Turku, Finland
The Salton Sea: Lost in Paradise – The Marks Art Center – Curated by Deborah Martin – Palm Desert, CA
Fresh stART – Arena One Gallery – Curated by Cris McColl – Santa Monica, CA

2015
Works of Paper II – ACME. – Los Angeles, CA
6H to HB; Contemporary Drawing in Los Angeles – Fellows of Contemporary Art – Curated by Sydney Croskery – Los Angeles, CA
Mirrors and Windows – Ada Hatch Center at Copper Mountain College – Joshua Tree, CA
Outpost Projects – Primo Lane – Joshua Tree, CA

2014
Apocryphal Times – Friedman Benda Gallery –  New York, NY
From The Dust Returns – Ichibeicho Gallery – Curated by Kio Griffith – Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Abstraction – Gallery MC – New York, NY
Esferas –Universidad de Guanajuato –  León, Mexico
Up and Coming – The Hoxton Gallery –  London, UK
DraftPunk – Autonomie Projects – Los Angeles, CA
MAS ATTACK 6 – Torrance Art Museum – Torrance, CA
Feminist Dossiers project participant, with WCCW (Women’s Center for Creative Work) – LA Art Book Fair, MOCA Geffen – Los Angeles, CA
Una Casa Como Yo - Centro Cultural Atarazanas - Veracruz, Mexico
Surviving an Apocalypse, or not. Prepper and Survivalist Ideologies and Utopian/Dystopian Visions - Torrance Art Museum - Prep School – Torrance, CA

2013
SMC Faculty Exhibition – Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College – Santa Monica, CA
Divergent Geometry – José Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount Saint Mary’s College – Los Angeles, CA
Una Casa como Yo: Asuntos Domésticos – Galeria La Miscelanea, Universidad Del Arte – Puebla, Mexico

2012
Projekt Papier – Zatoka Sztuki –  Curator: Gosia Wojas – Sopot, Poland
Ground Control – Pacific Design Center – Curator: 5790projects – Los Angeles, CA
Postcard Project 2012 – High Desert Test Sites – Joshua Tree, CA
Singles and Series – California State University, Northridge Gallery – Northridge, CA
F/Utility – Land of Tomorrow Gallery – Lexington, KY
East Los Angeles College Art Faculty Show – Vincent Price Museum –  Los Angeles, CA
Architectural Deinforcement: Constructing Disaster and Decay – Cerritos College Art Gallery – Los Angeles, CA

2012
Una Casa como Yo: Asuntos Domésticos – Jardin De Las Esculturas – Xalapa, Mexico
Blank Land – Torrance Art Museum – Torrance, CA
Shangrila 2012 – Joshua Tree, CA
The Gangs all Here; Art from LA – Central Utah Art Center –  Ephraim, Utah
Binary Inventions Print Portfolio – University of South Dakota –Grand Forks, ND

2011
LA Mart – Co/Lab - Los Angeles, CA
Land Mark – Occidental College Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
Una Casa Como Yo: Asuntos Domésticos – El Bauhaus Gallery –  Monterrey, Mexico
Build Up –  Washington State University Gallery – Curator: Michelle Forsythe – Pullman, WA
Coming and Going – The Lodge – Bloomington, IN
Anonyme Zeichner Archiv – Asihlquaiss Offspace –  Zurich, Switzerland
Friday Night Lights & Sunday Afternoons – Summercamp Project Project –  Los Angeles, CA

2010
Flat File – Golden Parachutes Gallery –  Berlin, Germany
MADE in Tucson/BORN in Tucson/LIVE in Tucson –  Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson, AZ
New Topographies – Jen Bekman Gallery – New York, NY
Volume – AT1 Projects – Curator: Andrea Neustein – Los Angeles, CA
Archer Gallery, Clark College – Alight – Vancouver, WA

2009
Invisible Duck Tape – Gallery Satori –  New York, NY
Molasses Happens Rather Quickly – Phantom Gallery –  Long Beach, CA
Anonymous Drawings no.9 Archive – Liste Basel –  Basel, Switzerland
Anonymous Drawings no.9 Archive – Freie Universitat Berlin – Berlin, Germany
Abstractions and Contractions – Lumenhouse Gallery –  Brooklyn, NY
The Sketchbook Project Traveling Exhibition – Washington
DC, Brooklyn, NY, Chicago IL, Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, Atlanta, GA
Western States -The Armoury Gallery –  Milwaukee, WI
Sweet and Low: Optimism in a Pessimistic Age – Gallery Arcane – San Francisco, CA

2008
Anonymous Drawings no.9 – Kreuzberg/Bethanien – Berlin, Germany
X Marks the Spot – Jen Bekman Gallery –  New York, NY
Drawing Los Angeles – Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock – Los Angeles, CA
Torrance Juried Exhibition – Torrance Art Museum –  Juror: Gosia Wojas – Torrance, CA
Los Angeles Biennial Juried Exhibition – Barnsdall Park –  Jurors: Carl Berg, Lisa Melandri & Tyler Stallings
March Featured Artist – Art for Empty Walls – Los Angeles, CA

2007
The Ethnography of No Place – Rosenburg Gallery – Baltimore, MD
The Affair at the Jupiter Hotel – with Tilt Gallery – Portland, OR
Console – Urban Institute for Contemporary Art –  Grand Rapids, MI
Portland Art Center – Console – Portland, OR

2006
Southern California Open – Gallery 825 –  Juror: Ann Philbin – Los Angeles, CA
Inertia – Gallery 500 –  Portland, OR
Systemic –Dinnerware Gallery – Tucson, AZ
Prescott College Faculty Showcase – Sam Hill Warehouse Gallery – Prescott, AZ

2005
Indiana University Gallery – Faculty Exhibition – Bloomington, IN
Fuller Projects, Indiana University – Console – Bloomington, IN

2004
 Urbana – Around the Coyote Gallery –Chicago, IL

2003
Intersections – University of Arizona Art Museum – Tucson, AZ

PRESS

2021
Biller, Steven – This is How Art Heals – Palm Springs Life – April 6

2020
Massé, Marie-Madeleine – L'Art du fil (The Art of Thread) – Éditions Alternatives – October 15

2019 
New American Paintings – Pacific Coast Edition #139 – Curated by Nancy Lim
Zeiba, Drew – Artist Explores Ideology of California’s Built Environment – The Architects Newspaper – May 22
Nys Drambot, Shana – Paradise:: Parallax in the High Desert at the Joshua Treenial – LA Weekly – April 9
Cheng, Scarlet – Coming: Joshua Treenial 2019 – Artillery Magazine – April 11
Blonquist, Maddie – Defining Suburbia: Two Perspectives at UMOCA – 15 Bytes – February 13

2018
DiMichele, David – Skulpturengarten; Infinitely Malleable Sculptural Practices – Artillery Magazine –October 25
Gipe, Lawrence – Aili Schmeltz and Jason Manley at Jaus – Art and Cake – July 22
Ogletree, Kelsey – 9 Art Galleries That Double as Airbnbs – Architectural Digest – Sept 4
Laura Drouet & Olivier Lacrouts – Los Angeles. The “Vernacular Environment” exhibition explores the meandres of space – Domus – July 6
Brady, Sasha – You Can Rent This Art Gallery in Mojave Desert on Airbnb – Lonely Planet – September 29
Biller, Steven – Vive La Résistance; A High Desert exhibition is an artistic response to the border wall – Palm Springs Life Magazine – April 30
Scharkey, Kristin – Make Art, Make Home – Desert Magazine – March

2017
Stevens, Anise – Pasadena Museum of California Art: Interstitial – Artillery Magazine – July 26
Burks, Megan – Desert Love, The Original Tiny Homes, and Joan Didion’s West – Range Podcast: Stories of the New American West – July 11
Frank, Peter – Pasadena Museum of California Art: Interstitial, Craft and Folk Art Museum: Material as Metaphor – Fabrik Magazine – June 19
Heitzman, Lorraine – Interstitial at the Pasadena Museum of California Art; The Meaning In-Between – Art and Cake – April 28
Treilhard, Marieke – The Art of In-Between – Modern Magazine – March 16

2016
Silver, Emily – Interview with Aili Schmeltz – Curate Joshua Tree – October 19

2014
Griffith, Kio – Eight LA Artists to Know – Fabrik Magazine – June 20

2013
Dawson, Jeseca – Aili Schmeltz, Baldwin Hills – Otis College of Art and Design, Freeway Studies: Studio Visits with L.A. Artists – October 30

2013
Spotlight on Summer 2013 Painting Faculty: Aili Schmeltz – May 3 – Anderson Ranch Arts Center Blog –Aspen, CO
Belio Magazine – Aili Schmeltz, Recycled Utopias – April 19 – Madrid, Spain
20 x 200– A Jen Bekman Project – Crystaline Bunker print edition – January 10 – New York, NY

2012
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Conceptual Works of Aili Schmeltz – December 29
Laylin, Tafline – Save the Cave Dwellers of Cappadocia – Green Prophet; Environmental News of the Middle East – May 22
Tome, Kara – Hybrid Artists Aili Schmeltz and Danielle McCullough – GYST Radio Interview –March 8
20 x 200 – A Jen Bekman Project – Urban Storm limited print edition – January 10 – New York, NY
Saxon, Sarah – Q&A With Artist Aili Schmeltz – msbehaved.com – June 7
Big Artist Now – featured artist & commissioned design – Las Vegas, NV
Cerritos College – Architectural Deinforcement exhibition catalogue – Los Angeles, CA

2011
Regan, Margaret – The ‘Good Life’ – Tucson Weekly – May 5
Douer, Irana –Ruby: Otherworldliness – Gestalten Publishers – April 15

2010
Drennen, Craig – ‘Paint Misbehavin’ – Build Up – exhibition catalogue essay – Washington State University Gallery
Volume – exhibition catalogue – Los Angeles, CA
Hernández Casas, David – ‘Overlapping Narratives’ – La Fuente de la Vida – catalogue – Los Angeles, CA / Monterrey, Mexico
NY Arts Magazine – ‘Best of the West Coast’- Nov/Dec. issue – New York, NY
TAKE (artist) ‘Our Mountain’ (album title) – Album and CD cover – AstroPup Records – April
2008 Johnson, Matt – ‘Art Gets in Shape’ – The Daily O’Collegian of Oklahoma State University – September 22

2008
McLeod, Deborah – ‘Road to Nowhere’ – Baltimore City Paper –April 16
Parentela, Claudio – ‘Interview with Aili Schmeltz’ – Elvis in Hawaii Blogspot – April 17
Ruby Mag – Feature – January 15 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
20 x 200– A Jen Bekman Project – ‘Embedded’ limited edition – April 1 – New York, NY
Sinclair, Aimee – Interview with Aili Schmeltz, Magic City – Miami Art Review – February 9

2007
Ethnography of No Place – catalogue – Rosenburg Gallery – Baltimore, MD
20 x 200– A Jen Bekman Project – ‘Radar’ limited edition – November 13 – New York, NY

COMMISSION PROJECTS

2021
Atlanta Beltline – Public Art Commission – Atlanta, GA

2019
Oracle – Sculptural Installation Project – Redwood City, CA

2017
Facebook – Sculptural Installation Project, World Economic Forum – Davos, Switzerland

2015
Google – Sculptural Installation Project, Google Analytic Conference – San Francisco, CA

2015
Merck – Sculptural Installation Project – San Francisco, CA

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