Miguel Aragon
New York City & Berlin
Curriculum Vitae
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Artist Statement
As an artist, I do not chase after a predetermined result. Unlike the chemist, who experiments in her lab to arrive at a verifiable fact, what I seek does not follow the same path to discovery. There are no markers placed by others in a linear way, no concrete proof of progress. It is a moving target that keeps me questioning, experimenting and refining, and ultimately, achieving a final product that meets the leap of faith of my expectations. Printmaking especially affords this kind of process and requires this kind of faith – you can only design your intent so much — the rest unfolds on its own. Through my work, I continue trying to capture and freeze a specific moment and the passing of time; the fleeting nature of memory; the very process of remembering; and the transitory nature of our mortality – the paradox of fixing the ephemeral in place.
Roots/Raices Exhibit
Bio
Miguel A. Aragón lives and works in NYC (USA) and Berlin (Germany); he is an Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island. Aragón has exhibited internationally at venues including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Uferhallen, Berlin, and the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Canada, to name a few. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute fellowship and residency, Berkeley, CA; East London Printmakers Keyholder Residency, England; The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia fellowship, Italy; and Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany, among many others. His work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Aragón’s work has been published in A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking (Greenville, NC: Wellington B. Gray Gallery, 2012), ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020) and more. In 2022, he was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award, Oslo; and was awarded the 2022 Southern Graphics Council International Mid-career Printmaker Award.
Thank you to Hilliard Family Foundation Inc. for sponsoring Material Revelation
