| 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 | ||||||||
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Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami |
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Still/Motion, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco |
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Size Matters, Texas Gallery, Houston |
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| Digitally Assisted, Galveston Art Center | ||||||||
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Art Positions, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami |
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| 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 90s", 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 | |||||||
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