About the work

Originating as an everyday practice in the studio, the drawings’ interwoven elements amount to form enigmatic yet impish tensions and exchanges between characters, unfolding as new realms within the page. In turn, the works have initiated a collaborative response in the writings of others, including its original accompanying text by writer Mason Leaver-Yap. Not restricted to one specific medium Aran’s work is often unfolding like a theatrical storyboard that engage the viewer on a psychological-emotional plane and evoke fragments of narrative and suggestion of formed or half-formed characters permitting each observer to create their own narrative. This sense of narrative is “not necessarily the classic notion of a story with a beginning, middle, and end,” as Aran has said, but rather a more open-ended landscape that proposes multiple routes.

Date and country of birth

1977, IL

Career Highlights

Selected solo exhibitions including:

Museo Madre, Naples, (Upcoming 2025);

Take This Dog For Example, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, (2023);

I’m a Restaurant, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, (2023);

House, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York (2020);

Tenants Like These, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019);

Platforms: Commissions and Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019).