CV
Born Minneapolis, MN. Based in California.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Across Centuries and the Earth, Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI
2023 Vessel of Soundless Sound, Commongrounds, Traverse City, MI
2020 From Sky to Sky, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Friendship with the Unknown, Gallery 1871, Chicago, IL
2018 Festival, One River School of Art + Design, Evanston, IL
2016 Ocean Inside the Drop, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL
2015 Here and Now, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL
2013 Silence Speaks, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS / AWARDS
2023 Michigan Arts & Culture Council grant
First Prize, Fifth Midwest Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center residency
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Art Spiel, Maggie Pavão, Ahavani Mullen: Across Centuries and the Earth
2022 Newcity, Susan Aurinko, In the cards
2022 Artist Journal, Tusen Takk
2021 Newcity, Lori Waxman, 60wrd/min COVID Edition: Ahavani Mullen
Lifted Lab, Katie Pilgrim, Discussing Vast Realities with Ahavani Mullen
2020 Create Magazine, Christina Nafziger, Ahavani Mullen: Transforming your Medium
Newcity, Kerry Cardoza, Artists Turn Their Homes Into Galleries, with Art-in-Place
New Art Examiner, COVID-19 vs. The Art Field
2019 Praeterita, Phillip Hartigan, Paintings and Sculpture by Ahavani Mullen
2018 Still Point Arts Quarterly, Still Point X
2017 Encaustic Arts magazine, Spring 2017
2015 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 28, Juror: Carl Belz, Rose Art Museum, Director Emeritus, Brandeis University
2014 YoungSpace, Kate Mothes, Ahavani Mullen
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Deep Freeze, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Group Show, SHRINE Gallery, New York
Continuous Span, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Myriad, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Art-in-Place, Terrain Exhibitions + CNL Projects
Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2019 Variations in Wax, Robert Morris University, Chicago
Spatial Stillness, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
depth of [color] field, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Ahavani Mullen + Lindsy Halleckson, 2-person show, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Diffused Surface, Gallery 201, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
2016 Summer Salon, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Winter Salon, Gallery 1871, Chicago
2015 ArtFutura, Northwestern University, Juror, James Rondeau, Director, Art Institute of Chicago
Another Way of Keeping a Diary, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2014 The Diptych Project, Engine Gallery, Biddeford, ME
2013 National Encaustic Exhibition, Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
6x6x2013, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2012 Repurposed, University of Maryland, Rockville, MD
Tactile Encounters, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Dennos Museum
Tusen Takk Foundation
The Macedonia Institute
Museum of Encaustic Art
Caesars Palace
Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Other private and corporate collections
EDUCATION
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, B.A. (cum laude), 1996
University College London, University of London, England, 1994