Solo Exhibitions
2010 Visible City/Map Room, {fill in the blank} Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Visible City, Finestra Art Space, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
2007 Vernissage, MFA Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2006 Solo Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Narratives, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Hot Spot, G2, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2010 Territories, Version Fest 10 Group Show, curated by Dayton Castleman and Ed Marszewski, Zhou B. Center, Chicago, IL
VideoStore7.375x4x1, curated by Jeriah Hildwine, Chicago, IL
Faculty Show, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL
Version Fest Silent Auction, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
50 Alderman/50 Artists, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL (traveling show)
2009 Bargain Basement, Co-prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Textaporting the Gallery, curated event by Caro d'Offay, Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Lumetype II, Caro d'Offay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selections from New American Paintings, Pacific Edition 2007, juror Alma Ruiz- curator MOCA, LA, dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA
2007 Inchoate, curated by Jeanne Finley, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
24th Annual Artist-Book Show, Print Making Loft, San Francisco, CA
2006 Marking the Spot, curator- Brett Reichman, SFAI Courtyard Gallery, San Francisco, CA
23rd Annual Artist-Book Show, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Book-Art, Artetica Gallery- (traveling show), Rome, Italy
2005 Arion Press Artist Book Show, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
Mission Mural Project, Los Palmas Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Stray Show, The General Store, Chicago, IL
Millennium Park Mural Project, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
2003 Celebration of Color, Benson Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2002 Eight Annual Paint the Town Show, Benson Gallery, Fort Collins CO
Events
2010 The Co-Prosperity School,Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
An Artist Run School co-produced with Ed Marszewski- Weekly meeting of active citizens of the Chicago Art
World with the specific goal of informind, educating and advancing Chicago Art
. The Monster Movie Seminar, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
A multi-video event in celebration of Monsters. We watched movie clips, screamed, laughed and yelled- the 2 hour event was the product of my Artist Residency at Lill Street.
2009 Psychiatric Help II, Spoke, Chicago, IL
More terrible advice given.
Psychiatric Help, Version>09:immodest proposals-NFO XPO, Benton House, Chicago, IL
I built and stationed the Peanut cartoon's character Lucy Van Pelt's 'Psychiatric Help 5 cents' booth. It provided an ideal situation for the distribution of some awfully horrible (thereby awesome)
psychiatric advive.
Recognition
Painting and Drawing Artist in Residence, Aug. 2009-Feb. 2010, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL
New American Paintings Open Studios 2007 Winning Pacific Coast Competitor, Juror Alma Ruiz- Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
San Francisco Art Institute Grant 2005-2007
Special Selection, Book-Art, Artetica Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2006
People's Choice Award, Eight Annual Paint the Town Show, Benson Gallery, Fort Collins, CO,2002
Media Coverage
Ariel Raddock Interview with Aaron Delehanty
http://www.fillintheblankgallery.com/interviews/2010/8/4/aaron-delehanty.html
Jeriah Hildwine, Monday Morning Quarterback, Art Talk Chicago, July 9 and 10,2010
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/art-talkchicago.html
Stephanie Burke, Top 5 weekend picks! (7/9-7/11), Bad-at-sports.com, July 8, 2010
http://badatsports.com/2010/top-5-weekend-picks-79-711/
Chicago Reader, Volume 39-#42, pg. 65-66, July 8th, 2010
Tom Lynch, Monster Love, New City, February 2010 http://art.newcity.com/2010/02/08/411-monster-love/
Stephanie Burke, Biggest top 5 you've ever seen, Bad-at-Sports.com, February 10, 2010
http://badatsports.com/2010/the-biggest-top-5-youve-ever-seen/
Proximity Magazine, Issue #5, Studios, pgs. 120-121
http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/09/aaron-delehanty/
Daniel Tucker- Consider the city, Chicago Journal, May 20, 2009,
http://www.chicagojournal.com/News/05-20-2009/Consider_the_city
Monica Westin- Recommended: Aaron Delehanty/Finestra Art Space, Newcity-StreetSmart Chicago, May 14, 2009,
http://art.newcity.com/2009/05/11/review-aaron-delehantyfinestra-art-space/
Lauri Apple- Aaron Delehanty's Visible City, Chicagoist.com, May 2009,
http://chicagoist.com/2009/05/08/aaron_delehanty_at_finestra.php
Abraham Ritchie- Chicago's Alternative, Newcity-Street Smart Chicago, April 30 2009, http://art.newcity.com/2009/04/27/chicago’s-alternative/
Meg Onil- NFO XPO Recap, Bad at Sports.com, May, 2009
http://badatsports.com/2009/nfo-xpo-recap/
Lauri Apple, Recession Biting Artists in the (Canv)Ass, Chicagoist.com, 2009
http://chicagoist.com/2009/01/05/recession_biting_artists_in_the_can.php
Lauri Apple, An Interview with Aaron Delehanty, Gapersblock.com, 2008 gapersblock.com/ac/2008/06/30/an-interview-with-aaron-delaha/
New American Paintings No. 73, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2007
Collections
People's Atlas, Chicago, IL
Finestra Art Space, Chicago, IL
Micah Sickel, Washington, D.C.
Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Education
2007 M.F.A., Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005 B.F.A., Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000 B.A., European History, The Ohio State University, Columbus