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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