Aleah Chapin
Born. 1986, Whidbey Island, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, Night Bloom, Los Angeles, CA
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
2024
Oceanside Museum of Art, More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux, Oceanside, CA
New York Academy of Art, Big Stories, New York, NY
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