Samuel J. Van Aken
SAM VAN AKEN
Department of Art Syracuse University
Comstock Art Facility, 1055 Comstock Ave,
Syracuse NY 13244-5050
svanaken@syr.edu
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Installations
2018 The Open Orchard
McColl Art Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
2017 Streubostwiese
Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
2016 Tree of 40 Fruit: The Michigan Trees
Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum at Michigan State
2013 A Hole in the Sky
Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, Utica New York
2013 Hybridity
21C Museum, Bentonville Arkansas
2012 Tree of 40 Fruit
Land of Tomorrow Gallery, Louisville Kentucky
2011 New Edens, The 2011 Armory Show
Exhibited with Ronald Feldman Fine Art
2011 New Edens, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
2010 I am here today..., Hallwalls Gallery
Buffalo, New York
2008 Audition, Rochester Contemporary
Rochester, New York
2008 Eden, College of the Atlantic
Mt. Desert Island, Maine
2008 High Lonesome, Tacheles Kunsthaus
Berlin, Germany
2007 Killer Tomatoes, University of North Carolina Sculpture Garden
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2007 New Transmitters for the Same Old Stupidities, Whitney Artworks
Portland, Maine
2005 Currents2, Colby College Museum of Art
Waterville, Maine
2005 Becoming, The University of Maine Art Galleries
University of Maine, Orono Maine
2004 Hybrids, The Hampden Gallery
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts
2003 The Multiple Deaths of Willem Dafoe, The Project Room
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 In Between, Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockport, Maine
2003 Filler, Mobius Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts
2001 New Currents in Contemporary Art
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill North Carolina
2000 For Your Eyes Only, Lump Gallery
Raleigh, North Carolina
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020` Courants Vert, EDF Foundation
Paris, France
2020 Earth Optimism Summit, Smithsonian Institute for American Art
Washington, DC
2020 Partnering with Nature, World Economic Forum
Davos, Switzerland
2019 Today and Tomorrow, Garden Museum, Somerset UK
Orgnaized by Kossman.Dejong
2019 Nature, Collaborations in Design
Cube Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Nature, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
Cooper Hewitt Museum New York, NY
2019 The Tibertine Tree (Collaboration with GRA&GREEN)
SXSW Tech Conference-Market Place
2017 Intangible Exhibition
Visual Art Museum Beijing, China
2017 Agrikultura
Malmo, Sweden
2017 Der Balm als Kunstwerk, Walderhaus
Hamburg, Germany
2016 Dendromorphies, Topographie de l‘Art
Paris France
2015 Anonymity, no longer and option, The Boiler at Pierogi
Brooklyn, New York
2015 Boite-en-Valise, Swiss Consulate at the Venice Biennale
Venice Italy
2015 Wave and Particle, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
New York, New York
2014 Creative Capital Celebrates 15 years, 21C Museum
Louisville, Kentucky
Work exhibited: The Blind Spots
2013 Food
San Jose Museum of Art
2013 Pulse Art Fair
Exhibited with Creative Capital
2013 Rediscoveries 4: Comedy, Seriously
Colby College Museum of Art
2012 Pulse Art Fair, New York
Exhibited with Creative Capital
2011 Taking Shape, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
New York, New York
2011 En Garde, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
New York, New York
2010 Seven-Miami with Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Miami, Florida
2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art
Portland, Maine
2009 Four in Maine, Farnsworth Museum of Art
Rockland, Maine
2008 The Everson Biennial, Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY
2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art
Portland, Maine
2007 The Other Biennial, Whitney Artworks Congress St.
Portland, Maine
2006 Challenges in Contemporary Art, The Lowe Gallery at Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
2006 Dallas Video Art Festival, Dallas Museum of Fine Art
Dallas, Texas
2006 Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art, Institute for Contemporary
Art Portland, Maine
2006 LandEscapes
Mount Desert Island, Maine
2005 The Water Show, Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockport, Maine
2004 The Home Show
University of New England, Portland Maine
2004 DNA: Art & Science, The Double Helix
University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum
2004 University of North Carolina Graduate School Bicentennial Alumni Exhibition
John and June Alcott Gallery Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2003 Figureheads
Artempressa Gallery, Cordoba Argentina
2003 Frag
Evos Art Institute, Lowell MA
2002 University of Maine Art Department Faculty Exhibition
University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono Maine
2002 Queer Visualities: Reframing Sexuality in the Post Warhol World
Staller Art Center, Stonybrook New York
2002. The Center for Maine Contemporary Art 2002 Biennial
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport Maine
2002. Plugged In
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport Maine
Collections
World Economic Forum, Geneva Switzerland
Stanford University
Trust for Governor’s Island
Cube Museum, Kerkrade Netherlands
Palace Grounds of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
Collection of His Excellency Abdul Jaleel Abdul Rahman Alblouki
Roanoke College
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Thompson Point; Portland Maine
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse New York
Karl Stirner Arts Trail, Easton Pennsylvania
The Lunder Collection
Colby College Museum of Art, Watervilee ME
West Collection, Philadelphia PA
21C Museum and Hotel, Bentonville Arkansas
People for the American Way
City of San Jose
21C Museum and Hotel, Louisville KY
New York Restoration Project, NY, NY
Syracuse University
Rockwell Museum, Corning New York
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville ME
*List of private collections available upon request
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2020 Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum
2019 Artist in Residence at Florida State University-Facility for Arts Research
2019 Artist in Residence at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2018 Artist in Residence at the McColl Center, Charlotte North Carolina
2017 Detwiller Visiting Artist at Lafayette College
2017 Karl Stirner Artsist in Residence, Easton Pennsylvania
2016 Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
2014 Artist in Residence at the Chautauqua Institute
2013 Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute
2013 Artist in Residence-Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2011 Finalist NYFA Individual Artist Fellowship in Sculpture
2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters and Sculptors
2010 Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center Artist In Residence
supported by the National Endowment of the Arts
2009 Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields
2008 Artist in Residence-Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin Germany
2007 Maine Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship
2007 Juror’s Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement
Portland Museum of Art 2007 Biennial
2006 AICA (Association of International Critics of Art), Exhibition Award
for Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art Exhibition
2006 Honorarium Dallas Video Art Festival, Dallas Texas
2006 Commission: University of North Carolina Sculpture Garden
2006 Visting Artist l'Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts de Cergy-Pontoise
2006 University of Maine Research and Development Grant
2004 Maine Arts Commission Good Idea Grant
2002 University of Maine Office of the Vice President of Research Grant
1995 Skoki Palace Residency, Skoki Poland
1995 United States Information Agency Travel Grant
1995 Andy Warhol Foundation Stipend
1994 Samantha Smith Memorial Fellowship
1994 Slippery Rock University Design Award and Travel Grant
Education
2001 M.F.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1996 Masters Level Coursework, State Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland
1995 B.A. Fine Art, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania
1995 B.A. Communication, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania
Books written by the Artist
The Open Orchard
Published by Timber Press
Forthcoming
Publications/Broadcasts
Exhibition Catalog “Courants Verts”
Published by Editions Le Bord de l’Eau
ISBN: 978-2-35687-6966
May 2020 “Episode 13: Sam Van Aken and His Tree of 40 Fruit”
Witchhassle Podcast
June 22nd, 2020 “A Franken Forest of Fruit Trees is Growing on Governors Island”
Gastro Obscura, Marina Wang
January 30th, 2020 “This Tree Can Produce 40 Different Types of Fruit”
Yahoo Singapore News
January 29th, 2020 “This Tree Can Produce 40 Different Types of Fruit”
Reuters
January 29th, 2020 “At Davos, Innovative Products Point to Sustainable Future”
Arab News
Exhibition Catalog “Streubostwiese”
Published by Lafayette College
ISBN: 978-0-9982772-4-0
Exhibition Catalog “Nature: Collaborations in Design”
Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN: 978-1-942303-23-7
August 3rd, 2019 “N.Y. Exhibition Engages With Our Environment in Innovative, Groundbreaking Ways”
Washington Post
Erin Blakemore
May 15th, 2019 “The Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial is a “Call to Action” Against Climate
Change”
Dezeen
Eleanor Gibson
May 15th, 2019 “The Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial is a Call to Action For Climate
Change”
Wallpaper
Elissaveta Marinova
May 14th, 2019 “Designers Draw Attention to The Environment Crisis In New Exhibition”
Tech-The-Lead
Betty Joita
May 14th, 2019 “A Tree Bearing 40 Rare Kinds of Fruit? Behold the Future of Nature at
The Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial”
Forbes
Jonathan Keats
May 11th, 2019 “How the World’s Leading Designers Are Thinking About the Climate
Crisis”
CNN
Aileen Kwun
April 29th, 2019 “A Tree the Grows 40 Different Varieties of Fruit”
Chardynne Joy H. Concio
Science Times
March 12th, 2019 “Can Art Help Save the Planet”
Alina Tugend
New York Times
Spring Issue 2017 “Streuobstwiese”
Public Art Dialogue
Published by College Art Association
Fall 2016 Issue Soms groeien ideeën aan de bomen
Sam van Aken kweektboom met 40 vruchten
The Flanders Art Magazine
Review by Virginie Platteau
September 4th, 2016 “Orchard at Thompson’s Point will be a work of Art”
Portland Press Herald
Sept. 4th, 2016 “This amazing tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit”
Inhabitat
July 30th, 2016 “This tree grows 40 different types of fruits”
ZME Science
May 16th, 2016 “This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit”
Nature World News
April 8th, 2016 “Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruits planted in southern Indiana”
The Washington Times
March 20th, 2016 “Syracuse artist known for Tree of 40 Fruits makes magic and
miracles using science”
Marnie Eisenstadt
MAgazine
Exhibition Catalog “Sam Van Aken, Tree of 40 Fruit: Michigan Trees”
Published by Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum at Michigan State
August 8th, 2015 “Beautiful hybrid tree grows 40 different types of fruit”
The Weather Network
August 3rd, 2015 “Tree of 40 Fruit”
Kannada Prahba
July 29th, 2015 “Árbol produce 40 tipos de frutos por sí mismo”
Telemundo
July 28th, 2015 “One Tree Grows 40 Types of Fruit”
CNN
July 27th, 2015 “Magic Tree Yields 40 Different Types of Fruit: New York Visual
Artist Sam Van Aken Achieves Rare Feat”; Sudan Vision
July 27th, 2015 “The Tree That Can Bear 40 Different Types of Fruit is Entering Harvest”
The Economic Times
July 27th, 2015 'Tree Of 40 Fruits' Ready To Enter Harvest Season At Several US
Locations”; International Business Times
July 24th, 2015 “This “Mind Blowing” Tree Breeds 40 Different Fruits”
The Financial Times
July 20th , 2015 “This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit”
National Geographic
October 2014 “Vigyazat Csuszik!”
Artmagazin 71, Szirka Renata
August 14th, 2014 “L’arbre qui produit 40 variétés de fruits”
LeMonde
August 14th, 2014 “Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruits”
World News
August 14th, 2014 “Tree of 40 Fruit”
Time Magazine, Anita Hamilton
August 14th, 2014 “A Professor Created A Tree That Can Produce 40 Types of Fruit”
Business Insider, Christina Sterbenz
August 7th, 2014 “Tree of 40 Fruit”
CBS News Feature, Interview with Jeff Glor
August 3rd, 2014 “The Gift of Graft: New York Artist’s Tree To Grow 40 Kinds of Fruit”
NPR Weekend Edition, Interview with Arun Rath
August 2nd, 2014 “This amazing magical tree produces 40 different types of fruit”
Gizmodo, Jesus Diaz
August 1st, 2014 “Artist creates “magical” tree that bears ’40 different fruits’’
Business Standard
July 30th, 2014 “Tree grows 40 types of fruit”
Boing Boing
July 25th, 2014 “Hybrid Tree Bears 40 Different Fruits”
Guardian UK, Mariah Beckman
July 25th, 2014 “The tree that bears 40 DIFFERENT fruit: Magical-looking produces
varieties of peaches, plums, apricots and cherries”
Daily Mail UK, Ellie Zolfagharifard
July 24th, 2014 “This One Tree Grows 40 Different Types of Fruit”
Huffington Post, Katherine Brooks
July 24th, 2014 “Pretty Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit”
Good Morning America, Stefanie Tudor
July 22nd, 2014 “This Tree Is Growing 40 Different Kinds of Fruit At Once”
I09, Ria Misra
April 3rd, 2014 “Proyecto Artistico Crea Arboles Escultoricos de 40 Frutas”
Discovery TU,
March 21st, 2014 “The Tree of 40 Fruit Is Exactly as Awesome as IT Sounds”
Epicurious, Lauren Salkeld
March 19th, 2014 “Takeaways from TEDxManhattan’s Food Conference”
DailyCandy, Emily Fiffer
March 3rd, 2014 “The Single Most Beautiful Innovation at TEDxManhattan”
Food and Wine, Noah Kauffman
February 12th 2012 “New Art Stars”, Vogue India, Suhair Kahn
Exhibition Catalogue; “New Eden” Published by Gettysburg College
May/June 2011 “The Un Edenic State of Copyright”, Art Asia Pacific
Essay by Chin Chin Yap
March 4th, 2011 “Neon is the Sign of the Times”, The Wall Street Journal (online edition)
Review by Alexandra Cheney
March 4th, 2011 “Armory Show”, Italian Vogue, Jordan Hruska
March 3rd, 2011 "Free-for-All Spirit Breezes Into a Vast Art Fair", The New York Times
Review by Roberta Smith
March 3rd, 2011 "Armory Show 2011: A Guide to the Must-See Art,
The Wall Street Journal
March 3rd, 2011 "Dealers at Armory Look for Independent Identities", Art in America
Review by Stephanie Cash
March 3rd, 2011 "Nine Best (and Five Worst) Booths of Armory Show",
March 3rd, 2011 “Manhattan’s ADAA Art Show and Armory Show set to Dazzle
international collectors”, The Art Economist, Brook S. Mason
March 3rd, 2011 "Going Contemporary at the Armory", Hyperallergic,
Review by Hrag Vartanian
March 3rd, 2011 “The fruits of Van Aken’s labour”, The Art Newspaper, Anny Shaw
January 19th, 2011 “’En Garde II: omg’ at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, The Village Voice,
Review by Robert Shuster
December 8th, 2010 “Seven” review by Charlie Schultz, Art Slant
December 6th, 2010 “Seven Miami: The Highlight of Art Basel”, Miami New Times
December 1st, 2010 “Miami’s Seven Art Fair Goes Indie”
Exhibition Catalogue “i am here today….” Published by Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
May 17th, 2010 “Hoax as Art, Center for Inquiry, review by Joe Nickell
April 23rd, 2010 “Artful Hoax”, Buffalo News
Exhibition Catalogue 2010 Armory Show
Text “Sound and Perception” by Matthew Nudds and Cassey O’Callahan,
published by Oxford University Press U.K.
ISBN 978-0-19-928296-8
May 11th, 2009 “Maine event”, Boston Globe, Review by Sebastian Smee
April 14th, 2009 “Portland Museum of Art’s Biennial Atypical artistry” Sun Journal,
Lewiston Maine
Exhibition Catalogue “2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial”
Exhibition Catalogue “Four from Maine” Published by the Farnsworth Museum of Art
Exhibition Catalogue High Lonesome, Sam Van Aken published by the Tacheles Art Center,
December 2008 Eden, Art in New England, Feature Review by Carl Little
2008 Eden, Interview with Jade Dellinger, published by College of the Atlantic
November 5th 2008 Audition by Sam van Aken Rochester City News
Review by Rebecca Rafferty
October 3rd, 2008 The Wall, Interview with Brenda Trembley,
WXXI, NPR radio affiliate Rochester, New York
January 19th 2008 The Portland Biennial from the Incredible Maine Series
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
Januray 12th 2008 Reichstag Cowboy, Berlin Kurier
January 11th 2008 Wildwest ver dom Reichstag, Berliner Zeitung Newspaper
January 11th 2008 Wildwest ver dom Reichstag,
January 10th 2008 High Lonesome-Reuters News Agency
Text “SOUNDS” by Cassey O’Callahan,
published by Oxford University Press U.K.
ISBN 978-0-19-921592-8
May 10th 2007 “Free Beer: Sam Van Aken at Whitney Artworks”, Portland Phoenix
2007 March/April Issue “Sam Van Aken” Artscope Magazine, pg. 34, Exhibition Preview
Exhibition Catalogue “2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial”
April 15th 2007 “Van Aken Claims Juror’s Award”, Portland Press Herald
April 11th 2007 “Odd Year, Great Work: 2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
Portland Phoenix
April 8th 2007 “What Maine art is all about”, Portland Press Herald
Fall Issue 2006 Art Journal, “The Role of the University Art Gallery”, pg. 30
2006 Oct./Nov. Issue Art in New England Magazine-Regional Review, pg. 23
Fall Edition 2006 Maine Arts Commission Magazine, LandEscapes Review, pg. 17
July 21st-27th 2006 “Like Wow” From Baja to Bar Harbor : Transnational Contemporary Art
The Portland Phoenix
Exhibition Catalogue Currents2: Sam Van Aken published by the Colby College Museum of Art
ISBN 0-9728484-6-0 2006
May/June Issue 2006 “Altered States” UMaine Today Magazine, Feature Article pg. 10
February 4th 2006 “Close Encounters with a Buick” feature article
Maine Morning Sentinel, front page
January 22nd 2006 “One Man’s Close Encounter” front page feature article, Portland Press Herald
March 11th 2005 “Close Encounters” follow up feature Bangor Daily News
May 16th 2004 “Home” Maine Sunday Telegram
February 12th 2004 “Fruitarian” Daily Advocate
February 10th 2004 “When apples, oranges are one” Daily Hampshire Gazette
February 4th 2004 “Hybrids” The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
September 30th 2003 “Close Encounters” feature Bangor Daily News
September 11th 2003 Portland Press Herald
February 8th 2003 “To Go Tonight” The Boston Globe
September 13th 2000 “Fall Preview” The Spectator
August 30th 2000 "Best Bets" The Independent
February 1999 “100th Monkey” KATU City Search
January 8th 1999 "An Oasis of Taste” Randy Gragg, The Oregonian
May 22nd 1998 “Workers Playtime” DK Row, The Oregonian
May 5th 1998 “Sculptures by Sam Van Aken” Kate Bonasinga, Willamette Week
September 3rd 1997 “Mellow Ambition” Randy Gragg, The Oregonian
Summer 1997 “This Mortal Coil” Aorta
May 1997 “Work in Progress” Untitled
Professional Experience
2006-Present Associate Professor of Art Syracuse University, New York
2020 Smithsonian Institute for American Art, Earth Optimism Summit, presenter
2020 World Economic Forum Presenter
2019 Artist Lecture Western Carolina University
2019 Artist Lecture Florida State University-Facility for Arts Research
2019 TED Talk-TED Trailblazers Salon
2019 Artist Lecture-Cornell University
2018 Artist Lecture-Bard College
2017 Artist Lecture-University of Maine
2017 The Intersection, Panel Discussion, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
2017 Peking University, Beijing China
2016 Artist Lecture, Deutsch Amerikanisch Insitute, Heidelberg Germany
2016 Artist Lecture Ideacity, Toronto Canada
2016 Artist Lecture, Lafayette College
2015 Kurt Vonnegut Festival, Indianapolis
2015 TEDxManhattan
2015 Keynote speaker Indiana University Northwest
2014 DARPA The Art of Science Conference
2014 Featured Presenter Idea Festival 2014, Kentucky Center, Louisville Kentucky
2014 Presenter at the Cultures of Memory Symposium, York St. John University
2014 TEDxManhattan
2013 Artist Lecture, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute
2013 Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2013 Artist Lecture, 21C Museum and Hotel
2013 Artist Lecture, School Museum of Fine Art, Boston
2012 Artist Lecture, Chautauqua Institute
2010 Artist Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design
2010 Artist Lecture, University of Binghamton
2010 Artist Lecture, Dickinson College
2009 Artist Lecture, Portland Museum of Art
2009 Artist Lecture, Farnsworth Art Museum
2008 Artist Lecture, Maine College of Art
2008 Artist Talk, Rochester Contemporary
2008 Panel Presentation, ID-Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Southeastern College Art
Conference, New Orleans, La.
2008 Artist Lecture, Munson Williams, Proctor Art Institute at Pratt
2007 Portland Museum of Art, 2007 Biennial Artist Lecture Series
2006 Artist Lecture University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2006 Visiting Artist l'Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts de Cergy-Pontoise
2001-2006 Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Maine
2004-2006 Maine Arts Commission Percent for Art Juror
2006 Artist Lecture, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University
2006 Artist Lecture, Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art
2006 Artist Lecture, at Brown University
2005 Artist Lecture, Colby College Museum of Art
2004 Juror Plugged in Fest II
2004 Artist Lecture, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2003 Artist Lecture The Center for Contemporary Art Rockport, ME
2003 Artist Talk at Mobius, Boston MA
2003 Artist Lecture Brandeis University
2002 Artist Lecture, University of the South
2002 Panel Discussion Plugged In Fest, Center for Maine Contemporary Art
2001 Visiting Lecturer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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