aaron higgins
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aaron higgins · south bend, indiana
aaronhiggins@mac.com · aaronhiggins.art

education

2009MFA, Digital Art — Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts (now the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design), Bloomington, IN

2000BFA, Painting — Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts (now the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design), Bloomington, IN

live works · web-based

2026–Open Field — a collaborative space in three dimensions, made by its visitors and unmade by time · openfield.art

2026–Field Study — generative color fields built on subtractive-pigment physics · fieldstudy.aaronhiggins.art

2026–Portrait Studies — live camera-fed portrait instruments · portraitstudies.aaronhiggins.art

2026–Gesture Studies — studies in co-speech gesture, painted live from a camera · gesture-studies.aaronhiggins.art

solo & two-person exhibitions · screenings

2018Tallgrass: An Osage Reverie, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

2018Strings (two-person), UMW Media Wall, Hurley Convergence Center, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

2017Mnemonic Passages, John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN

2012Splitting Time, Tulsa Artists' Coalition Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2011Nāga, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2009Matter of Process, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

group exhibitions · screenings

2020Raclin School of the Arts Faculty Exhibition, IU South Bend · Abstract Mind 2020, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

2019Raclin School of the Arts Faculty Exhibition, IU South Bend

2018Memory Form (1), Cube Art Project IV, Lincoln, NE · HACKED, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH · Strings, Cube Art Project III, Lincoln, NE · Future Artifact, Plexus Projects, Creative Tech Week, Brooklyn, NY · F5, Video Exhibition Project, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, NC · Tallgrass, 'BIG TENT' Multimedia Experience, Lotus Festival, Bloomington, IN

2017National Weather Center Biennale, Norman, OK (juror Joe Goode) · Abstract Mind — Part 1, CICA Museum, South Korea · Digitalia, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (juror Bruce Wands) · The Video Show, RVCC Art Gallery, Branchburg, NJ · In the Deep End, Gallery 114, Portland, OR · New Directions, Henry Zarrow Center, Tulsa, OK

2016Chasing Ghosts and 3rd Annual Abstract Catalyst, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR · Synthetic Zero: Creative Tech Week and Synthetic Zero Event, Bronx Art Space, NY

2015Stimulus/Response/Affect, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI · Media Matters, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO · Art at the Center, Overland Park, KS · Virtual Insanity, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI · Synthetic Zero Event, Bronx Art Space, NY

2014Incite Insight, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, CO · IDEAS_14, iDMAa, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT (Audience Choice award, Karmic_Lapse) · The Tulsa Contingent, Living Arts of Tulsa, OK

2013Glick Eye Institute Public Art Project II, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN · 90sec: Brief Works by Emerging Video Artists, NOVA-Woodbridge, VA · PERCEPTION: Color | Line | Pattern, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, CO · TU Faculty Show, Henry Zarrow Art Center, Tulsa, OK

2012Visions and Viewpoints, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, CO (Grand Prize, prsm)

2011Glick Eye Institute Public Art Project, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN

2010Visual Thinking, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK · Flow Interrupted, LiveBox Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL · In Progress, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA · Holiday Group Show, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

2009HZ journal: net gallery #13, Fylkingen, Stockholm · Streaming Festival, 4th edition, The Hague · IDEAS 09: Arts at the Digital Edge, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN

collaborative projects

with Jawshing Arthur Liou — field recording & camera co-operator on Kora and Sacred Sojourn; sound composer on Annica.

18/19Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, Red Brick Museum of Art, Beijing, China

2017Sacred Spaces, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY

2014State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR · Sacred Sojourn, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

2012Kora (two-person), Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

2011Annica, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2010Rooted in Place, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY · FotoFest, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

2009Improbable Waves, Beaux-Arts des Amériques, Montréal · Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

theatrical scenic projections

2024Romeo and Juliet, Indianapolis Ballet & Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN

2014Glitch_FLASH: Dance in the Digital Age, Lorton Performance Center, The University of Tulsa

2012The Nature of Human, SEAMUS Conference, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

2011La Bohème, Indiana University Opera Theatre, Bloomington, IN

2009The Magic Flute, Indiana University Opera Theatre, Bloomington, IN

2008Cendrillon, Indiana University Opera Theatre, Bloomington, IN

grants · fellowships · awards

2015Faculty Summer Development Research Grant (Tallgrass), The University of Tulsa · TU Faculty Publication, Juried Exhibition & Subvention Grant

2014Audience Choice Award (Karmic_Lapse), iDMAa IDEAS_14, Utah Valley University · Faculty Fellow, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities

2012Best in Show (prsm), Visions and Viewpoints, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, CO

2011TU Faculty Research Grant — Beijing, China & Tibet (Kora)

artist talks · lectures

2019Auburn University at Montgomery, AL · Eastern Connecticut State University, CT

2018University of Wisconsin–Stout · Santa Clara University, CA

2017Tulsa FMAC Panel: Education & Career Paths for Animators, Circle Cinema · University of Missouri–Kansas City · The Video Show, RVCC, NJ

2015Stimulus/Response/Affect Symposium, Oakland University, MI

2014iDMAa IDEAS_2014 Summit, Utah Valley University, UT

2013CHiT | Chat>8!, The Tree House, Tulsa, OK

2011The University of Tulsa · 2010The University of Tulsa · 2009Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University

collections

Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute, Indianapolis, IN · HZ Net Gallery

bibliography · selected

2019Art Habens: Contemporary Art Review, biennial edition, interview, pp. 4–32 · MEA S14, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH

2018CICA Art Now 2018, CICA Press, Korea, pp. 54–65 · IU Bloomington Research, "Big Tent at Lotus…"

2017National Weather Center Biennale catalog · Linda Marston-Reid, Poughkeepsie Journal

2016Chasing Ghosts catalog (cover) · Abstract Catalyst 3 catalog (cover)

2012Karen Shade, "splitting time: controlled chaos," Oklahoma Magazine · IU Bloomington Research, "Kora"

2010"Editor's Pick," Visual Overture Magazine

teaching

19–23Visiting Assistant Professor, Integrated New Media Studies — Indiana University South Bend, Raclin School of the Arts

12–19Assistant Professor, Digital Media — The University of Tulsa, School of Art, Design, and Art History

10–12Visiting Assistant Professor, Digital Media — The University of Tulsa

06–09Associate Instructor / Adjunct Faculty — Indiana University, Hope School of Fine Art

continued education · workshops

2025Experimental Approaches to Color, Zoey Frank — painting, zoeyfrank.com (online)

2023Still Life: New Life, Erin Raedeke — oil painting, Black Pond Studio, Rehoboth, MA (online)

2022Field Notes, Eve Mansdorf & Tim Kennedy — oil painting, Black Pond Studio, Rehoboth, MA (online)

2020Multiple Figure Composition Part 2, Zoey Frank — painting, zoeyfrank.com (online)

2013Live-I Workshop, Troika Ranch — Isadora intensive, Portland, OR

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