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.

AJ Collins BFA Fine Arts Work
AJ Collins BFA Fine Arts Work
AJ Collins BFA Fine Arts Work
AJ Collins BFA Fine Arts Work
Portrait of AJ Collins

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
  • 2020
    • How The Light Gets In, Scranch
      Hideout, Wonder Valley, CA.
      Performance in collaboration with Kelly Wall curated by display_xyz
  • 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
  • 2017
    • Far Bizarre, Cerritos College, Norwalk,
      CA.
      Performance for Elephant Art Space
      curated by Steven Bankhead
  • 2016
    • Kunsthalle Völkermarkt, Volkermarkt,
      Austria
      Residency and group show curated by
      Anna Paul.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    • STOCK EXCHANGE, Dreieck Studio,
      Vienna, Austria
      Group show
    • Rows Uh Join, Otis College, Los Angeles,
      CA
      Otis Fine Arts Junior Juried Exhibition
  • 2010
    • JUST THE TIP, Beacon Arts Building,
      Los Angeles, CA
      Group show