ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005 Drive Thru The Suburban, Chicago
2004 Aaron Parazette, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
2003 New Paintings, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
2002 New Paintings, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
2000 South Swell, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
1997 Pleasure Provision, Texas Gallery, Houston
1994 New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston
1993 New Paintings, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Paintings with Subtitles, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston
1991 Empty Abstraction, Lloyd Shin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Not Perfect, Davis McClain Gallery, Houston
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2004 Conversagence: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
2002 Bandy: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette, USF CAM, Tampa
2001 Material Morph: Aaron Parazette & Ken Price, Austin Museum of Art
Color Code, with Francesca Fuchs, Sala Dias, San Antonio
2000 John Tremblay + Aaron Parazette, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
1998 On the Beach in Galveston, with Sharon Engelstein Galveston Arts Center, Galveston
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Project Space, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2004 Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, NY
Perspectives at 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Camp Lucky: Summer of Carnage, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
2003 New Paintings: Esposito/Parazette/Rosmarin, Texas Gallery, Houston
Painting By Design, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami

Still/Motion, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

Size Matters, Texas Gallery, Houston
Digitally Assisted, Galveston Art Center

Art Positions, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
2001 Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
Works on Paper, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
Fast Forward, Nash Hotel, Miami
Boomerang, Exit Art, New York
Braille, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
Dazzling, Bernard Toale, Boston
Reductive, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
Aaron Parazette & Ken Price, Austin Museum of Art
Color Code, Sala Diaz, San Antonio
Sources: Art and the Universal, Paradigm Art Space, Atlanta
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art
Group Show, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Post Hypnotic, The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
Post Hypnotic, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL
2000 Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, North Carolina
What's So Funny about Color, Elias Fine Art, Boston
Imported, The Gallery at Green Street, Boston
Maximal Minimal, Feigen Contemporary, NY
Post Hypnotic, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Post Hypnotic, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Post Hypnotic, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
1999 Material, Process, Memory, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
Size Matters, Gale Gates et al. Brooklyn, NY
Optopussy, Angstom Gallery, Dallas
Post Hypnotic, University of Illinois, Normal
Post Hypnotic, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
Post Hypnotic, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Fabstraction, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Fabstraction, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Fabstraction, Texas Gallery, Houston
1998 Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Texas
On the Beach in Galveston, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston
Tendances Actuelles de la Peinture a Texas, Saintes Museum of Art, Saintes, France
1997 Primary Colors, Galerie Barbara Farber/Rob Jurka, Amsterdaam, The Netherlands
Oktoberfest, Texas Gallery, Houston
Post Pop, Post Pictures, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago
Buttered Side Up, The Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
Equal Pay, Revolution Summer Gallery, Houston
Disiptoey, Angstram Gallery, Dallas
The Mediation of Ornament, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston
1996 Buttered Side Up, Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York
Bliss Project, LACE, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
1995 Wallpaper Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
Texas Abstract: New Painting, Art Pace, San Antonio, traveling through 1997, (catalogue)
Contact: The 114th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue)
Summer Serial, Texas Gallery, Houston
The Home Show, University of Texas at San Antonio (catalogue)
Analogs of Modernism, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas (catalogue)
Irreverent Homage, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania (catalogue)
1994 Faith and Doubt, State Universtiy of New York, Buffalo (catalogue)
Exquisite Corpse, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Inquiring Minds, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Forging Ahead, University of Texas, Arlington (catalogue)
New Work, Texas Gallery, Houston
1993 Summer Reading, Texas Gallery, Houston.
Deluge, Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago
Traditional Forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Small Works, Works Gallery, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California
Raw, Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1992 Texas Art Celebration, Cullen Center, Houston
Core Fellows '92 , The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1991 Core Fellows '91, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Bubbling Over in Talent", by Kenneth Baker, Art News, September 2004, pp. 94-102
"New Sculpture and Painting", by Alison Bing, SFGate.com, 2004
"What's Seen Confuses What's Read", by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, September 4, 2004, p. E10
"Kooks and Surf Gods" by John C. Devine, Arts Houston, June, 2004, pp. 22-23
"Remembering Postmodernism", by D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, May 15, 2001, p. 37
"2001 New Orleans Triennial", by Doug MacCash, Times Picayune, May, 2001, p. E1
"Aaron Parazette, John Tremblay", by Gene Moreno, New Art Examiner, April 2001, p. 58
"Aaron Parazette", by Alexander Dumbadze, Art Papers, Jan/Feb. 2001 p. 48
"Vibrant Paint", Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, December 28, 2000, p. 1E
"Exhibit Reveals Versatility", Jaqueline Humphrey, News & Record, Dec. 7th, 2000, p.161
"Space City Takes Off", Frances Colpitt, Art In America, October, 2000, pp. 67-75
"Eye Spies", Bret MCcabe, The Met, August 16, 2000, p. 26
"Regional Hopes and Recycled Tropes", Raphael Rubinstein, Art In America, July, 2000, pp. 39-40
"Best of the 90’s", Dave Hickey, Artforum, December, 1999, p. 112
"Houston Journal," Carlo McCormick, Artnet.com, Magazine Reviews
"Fabstraction at Patricia Faure Gallery," Mary Kay Lombino, Artweek, July/August, 1999
"A Demolition Derby of Art," Tom Porges, the Octopus, Jan15-22, 1999
"On the Beach at Galveston," Bill Davenport, Art Papers, Nov./Dec. 1998
"Abstract Artists Redraw Boundaries of Painting," Patricia Johnson, Houston Chronicle, Wed., Oct. 7, 1998
"Aaron Parazette at Texas," Frances Colpitt, Art in America, July, 1997
"Light and Darkness," Shaila Dewan, Houston Press, March 20-26, 1997
"True Bliss at Lace," Lisa Auerbach, L.A. Weekly, Jan 2, 1997
"Visual Pleasure," Richard Huntington, the Buffalo News, October 11, 1996
"Wallpaper as Wall Hanging," Delfina Vannucci, Public News, November 29, 1995
"West Branch #36," Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA 1995
"Report From Texas," Frances Colpitt, Art in America, April, 1995
"Review," Dee Mitchell, Art in America, April, 1995
"Texas Artists on View in Provocative Exhibit," Susan Chadwick, The Houston Post, March 5, 1994
"Something Funny Happens to Contemporary Art," Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, Nov. 22, 1994
"Houston's Artists," Elizabeth McBride, Public News, Sept. 2, 1992
"Words and Pictures," Susie Kalil, The Houston Press, Aug. 6, 1992
"Promising Work Adds Strength," The Houston Post, July 22, 1992
"Some Winners," Susan Chadwick The Houston Post, July 21, 1992
"In the Abstract," Susie Kalil, The Houston Press, April 30, 1992
"Soft Core," Susie Kalil, The Houston Press, April 9, 1992
"Art of Change," Susan Chadwick, The Houston Post, March 26, 1991
"Two Artists Work," The Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1990
BOOKS & CATALOGUES
New Orleans Triennial, essay by William A. Fagaly and Susie Rosmarin, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2001
Texas:150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Essays by Alison de Lima Greene, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000
Material/Process/Memory, Essay by Alexander Dumbadze, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, 1999
Post-Hypnotic, essays by Barry Blinderman and Tom Moody, The University of Illinois, Normal, 1999
Abstract Painting Once Removed, essays by Dana Friis-Hansen, David Pagel, Raphael Rubinstein, and
Peter Schjeldahl, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1998
Post-Pop, Post Pictures, essay by Courtenay Smith, The Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, 1997
Buttered Side Up, essay by Karen Emenhiser, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, 1997
True Bliss, essays by Julie Joyce, David A. Greene, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1997
Texas Abstract: New Painting, essay by Frances Colpitt, Pace Roberts Foundation, 1995
Wallpaper Works, essay by Stephanie Smith, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995
Contact: The 114th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, 1995
The Home Show, essay by Frances Colpitt, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1995
Analogs of Modernism, essay by Tom Moody, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 1995
Irreverent Homage, essay by Lynn Cazabon Bucknell University, 1995
Faith in Doubt, essay by Al Harris & Karen Emenhiser, SUNY at Buffalo, Research Center in Art + Culture
Forging Ahead, essay by Al Harris, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, UT Arlington, 1994
Core Fellows 1990-91, Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Core Fellows 1991-92, Museum of Fine Art, Houston
EDUCATION AND AWARDS
1994 Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award
1990 Residency/Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
1992 Residency/Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
1990 Master of Fine Art, Painting, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
1987 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art/Painting, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida