Education
2013 BFA Otis College of Art and Design (Fine Arts: Sculpture/New Genres)
Bio and Affiliation
AJ Collins (b. 1988) is an artist, educator and carpenter living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Collins pulls from prefabricated occupational materials, allowing their signs and associations, or as the artist coins it “psycho-sedimental” relationships guide the work to produce sculptures, assemblages, sounds, performances and paintings.
Professional Accomplishments and Exhibitions
- 2024
- Water & Flower, Wilding Cran,
Los Angeles, CA
Group show curated by Michael Slenske - Infrathick, Nan Rae Gallery, Burbank,
CA
Curated with Kelly Wall
- Water & Flower, Wilding Cran,
- 2020
- How The Light Gets In, Scranch
Hideout, Wonder Valley, CA.
Performance in collaboration with Kelly Wall curated by display_xyz
- How The Light Gets In, Scranch
- 2019
- zinnober, Hannover, Germany
Sound performance for display_xyz #3 - other places art fair, Angels Gate Park,
San Pedro
Sound performance for display_xyz #2
- zinnober, Hannover, Germany
- 2017
- Far Bizarre, Cerritos College, Norwalk,
CA.
Performance for Elephant Art Space
curated by Steven Bankhead
- Far Bizarre, Cerritos College, Norwalk,
- 2016
- Kunsthalle Völkermarkt, Volkermarkt,
Austria
Residency and group show curated by
Anna Paul.
- Kunsthalle Völkermarkt, Volkermarkt,
- 2016
- SASSAS Bootleg LP Art Auction, 1301
PE , Los Angeles, CA
Group show/auction - You gotta pick the devil, Before the devil
picks you, Infinity Art Space, Los
Angeles, CA
Collaborative show with Kelly Wall
- SASSAS Bootleg LP Art Auction, 1301
- 2015
- subterranean homesick blues, The
Property gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Currator - Translation for co-conspirators, DAC
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group show in collaboration with clients
of the Exceptional Children’s
Foundation - Budding Heads: A Series of Softcore
Blisters, Founding Fathers, Los Angeles,
CA
collaborative show with Kelly Wall - a hand in everything, Lofty Art Projects,
Los Angeles, CA
Solo exhibition - Alien Tears, El Camino Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Group show - Plastic//Growl///Howl, Trunk Gallery Los
Angeles, CA
Group Show
- subterranean homesick blues, The
- 2014
- The nature of the unnatural, Nan Rae
Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank,
CA
Three person show curated by Patrick
Nickell alongside Elizabeth Bryant and
Christopher Miles. - Site 2: The Hilltop Show, Venice, CA
Group show - JAB, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Three person show - Mounds, Folds & Other Mouthfuls,
Brewery Ats Complex, Los Angeles, CA
Curator
- The nature of the unnatural, Nan Rae
- 2013
- Threshold, A1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
group show at the Brewery, A1 Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA - WWJJ?- Adventurer Hotel, Inglewood,
CA
Curator - Shangrila: Burrito Deluxe, Joshua Tree,
CA
Group show - We are making peoples days as much
as we are ruining them
Senior exhibition at Otis College of Art
and Design
- Threshold, A1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2012
- Headdress Rehearsal, Bolsky Gallery,
Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
Collaborative installation and
performance - Protostellar, Studio Sereno Project
Space, Los Angeles, CA
Group show - Absolute(ly), Otis College, Los Angeles,
CA
Otis Fine Arts Junior Juried Exhibition
- Headdress Rehearsal, Bolsky Gallery,
- 2011
- STOCK EXCHANGE, Dreieck Studio,
Vienna, Austria
Group show - Rows Uh Join, Otis College, Los Angeles,
CA
Otis Fine Arts Junior Juried Exhibition
- STOCK EXCHANGE, Dreieck Studio,
- 2010
- JUST THE TIP, Beacon Arts Building,
Los Angeles, CA
Group show
- JUST THE TIP, Beacon Arts Building,