BIOGRAFIE
1991 - 1997 | Hochschule der Künste (University of the Arts) Berlin, Fachbereich 6: Kunst und Kunsterziehung (Fine Arts and Art Education); continue Meisterschüler – degree (M.F.A. equivalent) in Fine Arts with specialization in Painting and Drawing: 1997 Absolventenprüfung (B.F.A. equivalent) in Fine Arts with specialization in Painting and Drawing: 1996 |
1994 | School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Exchange program 8/94 to 12/94: Photography and Art History courses and Independent Study in painting |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2018 | 1984 – Stop Making Sense, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA |
2017 | Lake Effect, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, MI Ocotillo, Stella Elkins Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Sigh-Fi, University of Arkansas Little Rock Art Galleries, Little Rock, AR |
2016 | Hartmut Austen - Here r more, Good Weather Gallery, North Little Rock, AR |
2015 | Cross Currents – Hartmut Austen & Mary Kim, Architecture and Landscape Library, University of Minnesota-Twin Cites, MN In the Heat of the Night, The Bedfellows Club, Chicago, IL Haptic Image – Katelyn Farstad, GraceMarie Keaton, Justin Quinn, Hartmut Austen, Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN Tin Can Transmissions – Ten Years in the Making, California State University Northridge, CA (with Telegraph Art Collective) |
2014 | Hartmut Austen – Figur, Times Club at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City Hartmut Austen – Approximate Territory, The Butchers Daughter Gallery, Detroit, MI 17 Künstler, 17 Bilder, 17 Tage, Kunsthandel Hoffschild, Lübeck, Germany |
2013 | Grant Wood Fellowship Exhibition (with Jeremy Lundquist), University Gallery, Art Building West, The University of Iowa, IA Faculty Show, Nash Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, University of Minnesota –Twin Cities, MN Gallery Artists, McNutt Gallery, Iowa City, IA Faculty Biennial, Faculty of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Figge Museum, Davenport, IA |
2012 | Hartmut Austen - Adam Shirley, Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, Clinton Township, MI Pulse Contemporary Art Fair New York City, The Butchers Daughter Gallery Lost and Found: Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures (curated by Brian Barr), Passenger Project Space, Detroit, MI Telegraph Art Collective: Conversations & Collaborations, Clara Hatton Gallery at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
2011 | Paintermalheur, Sasaki Associates Gallery, Boston, MA Continuing Lines: Telegraph in Esslingen, Entenmann residence, Esslingen, Germany DTW to LAX, The Butchers Daughter Gallery, Ferndale, MI (Selected works were also shown at Pulse Art Fair, Los Angeles) Opening Lines:Telegraph in Berlin, Milchhof Pavilion, Berlin Recent Paintings, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI Detroit Muscle, Patti and Rusty Rueff Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Alumni der Jugend Musik- und Kunstschule, Anwaltskanzlei Streitbörger und Speckmann, Bielefeld, Germany Art X Detroit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit Telegraph, Free Museum of Dallas |
2010 | Detroit Works, Media Nox Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia Ten Years of Contemporary Art at Oakland University, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI Arts and Hearts, The Pajama Factory, Williamsport, PA |
2009 | Pictures – Hartmut Austen, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI Michigan Masters, Kresge Art Museum, East-Lansing, MI |
2008 | Just Filling Spaces, Mott Community College Art Gallery, Flint, MI Made in Detroit - Changing Cities, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, Changing Cities, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria EMU as Muse, University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI Moving Walls, Three Walls, Chicago |
2007 | Silence (curated by Jan van der Marck), Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI Telegraph, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI |
2006 | Hartmut Austen & Jörg Coblenz, Giola Gallery, Chicago Art Chicago, project space, Chicago Group Show (curated by Jan van der Marck), Michigan Institute for the Arts (MIA), Pontiac, MI |
2005 | Berlin: Detroit - Geka Heinke and Hartmut Austen, P.F. Galleries, Clawson, MI In, Around and Through: Observations in the Built Environment, The Bank, Kansas City, MO Nova Young Art Fair, Chicago Drawings, District Arts Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
2004 | Wit, Wisdom and Invention: Reflecting on Benjamin Franklin, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ Toronto Alternative Art Fair International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Stray Show, Chicago Group Show, Gallery Mary Harrison, Pontiac, MI Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center |
2003 | Works from the Studio, P.F. Galleries, Clawson, MI Wit, Wisdom and Invention: Reflecting on Benjamin Franklin, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ Toronto Alternative Art Fair International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Stray Show, Chicago Group Show, Gallery Mary Harrison, Pontiac, MI Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center |
2002 | Billboard, artist billboard, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI 20 Years Paint Creek Center of the Arts, invitational, Rochester, MI All Area 2002, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI Work in Progress, seven artists from Germany, St. Louis and Detroit, studio event, Pontiac, MI |
2001 | Actual size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit Documenta USA, Museum Of New Art, Detroit New Generation Detroit, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University,Rochester , MI Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center |
2000 | Paintings, former Network Gallery, Pontiac, MI Our Town, The Community House, Birmingham, MI Celebrating Michigan Artists, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI The German Show: works on paper by Hartmut Austen, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI Documenta USA, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI |
1999 | Documenta USA, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Pontiac, MI |
1998 | Void, Unfinished Gallery, New York City In the soup, Berlin, Germany |
1997 | Studio Show, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany Meisterschüler, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany |
1995 | Zwei Tage Joachim-Friedrich-Straße, studio show, Berlin, Germany |
1994 | Malerei, School of the Art Institute Gallery, Chicago |
1992 | Zwischenergebnis, Kunstflur, Bielefeld, Germany |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2015 | Faculty Imagine Fund Grant, University of Minnesota |
2014 | Finalist for Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Program |
2013 | Nominated for Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant |
2012 | Grant Wood Fellowship in Painting and Drawing, The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History (studio residency and teaching fellowship in the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor) |
2009 | Kresge Artist Fellowship, awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit, a program of the Kresge Foundation |
2005 | First Prize, Our Town, The Community House, Birmingham, MI. Juror: Gregory Wittkopp, Director of Cranbrook Art Museum |
2003 | Juror’s Award, Small Works, Washington Square East Galleries (NYU), NY. Juror: Tatyana Okshteyn, Black &White Gallery, NY |
2000 | First Prize, Our Town, The Community House, Birmingham, MI. Juror: Kenneth Gross, Director of The University of Michigan Art Museum at Dearborn, MI |