Melissa Dubbin, Born 1976, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Aaron S. Davidson, Born 1971, Madison, Wisconsin
Live and work in Brooklyn, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2013
Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York, NY
2012
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010
Sound Design for Future Films, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Nobody Shoots a Broken Horn, Blackbox Screening Series, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
Sound Design for Future Films, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2007-08
Sample Sale, 1x1 Series, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
2007
Songs for Psychos, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
Group Exhibitions, Screenings and Performances
2013
Sound Spill, Zabludowicz Collection, New York, NY
10x10 American Photobooks, Tokyo Institute of Photography, Japan
2012
The Unspecific Index, 601Artspace, New York, New York
Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York
(I)ndependent People: Collaborations and Artist Initiatives, Reykjavik Arts Festival 2012, Iceland
2011
Library Science, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut
Wireless, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
Books on Books, Swiss Institute, New York, New York
30: A Brooklyn Salon, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2010
No Customs, Sama Tower, Abu Dhabi
Interment Ceremony of Ada Eugenia von Böös-Farrar, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Codex, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
In-Book / Out-Book / If-Book, 5th Biennial of Artists Books 2010 Foligno/Spoleto Italy
Ressurrectine (in collaboration with Eve Sussman), Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
IN BOOK archivi/azioni nel libro d’artista contemporaneo, XIV edizione de La Scrittura e l’Immagine, Foligno, Italy
Apologies and Further Concessions, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
33rd Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden
2009
Scattered Logic, The Texas Firehouse, Long Island City, New York
A Perfect Human, Dorsch Gallery, Miami
2008
3rd Bucharest Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania
Zapping Unit, a project by Marie Auvity and Keren Detton, La Ferme du Buisson, France
You Love Me Truly, Performance at the New Museum, New York, composed and performed by George Positive, Samuel Dishy, Maxwell McDonald, Aaron Reed, and Kevin Smith, from Radio Action III, organized by free103point9
Subpoena, Talman + Monroe Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Lines of Sight #4 : Radio Action III, Radio Web MACBA, with free103point9, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2007
The Nordic Art Video Festival / Trunk 07, Östersund, Sweden
The Variegated Landscape, Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Electric Lab, Exit Art, New York, New York
50,000 Beds, a project by Chris Doyle, Artspace, New Haven, CT; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
E-Flux Video Rental (EVR), Centre culturel suisse de Paris, France
Spectral Evidence, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2006
The Golden Hour, Gigantic Art Space, New York, New York
Denial is a River, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
Drawing Stage, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
Radio Festival, free103point9, Wave Farm, Acra, New York
Scenic Overlook, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Observatori, with free103point9, Museo de las Ciencia Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain
E-Flux Video Rental (EVR), Extra City, Antwerp
One Year Celebration; participating artists in a work by Pierre Huyghe, Celebration Park, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Modern, London
ScopeOnAir, with free103point9, @ Scope New York
SQUID, AK28 / Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Sweden (www.squid-net.com)
2005
SQUID, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (www.squid-net.com)
The Poseidon Adventure, Sadlers Wells, London, UK
Against Nature, the Xpo/Jan Larsen Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
Transmission II : Airborne, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Crossed Circuits, Hogar Collection, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
E-Flux Video Rental (EVR), Manifesta, Amsterdam; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin;The Moore Space, Miami; Insa Art Space, Seoul; Portikus, Frankfurt
On the Subject of WAR, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
On the Subject of WAR, Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.
2004
Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju, South Korea
Tune (In))), New Sound New York Festival, The Kitchen, New York
E-Flux Video Rental (EVR), e-flux, New York
Scape 2, Flux Factory, Long Island City, Queens, New York
Corporal Identity - Body Language and the Moving Image, The Museum of Art & Design and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
2003
Tune (In))), New York Center for Media Arts, Long Island City, Queens, New York
2002
New York-Québec Interlace Festival, Québec City, Québec / New York, NY
Flay, Splay, Play, Espace Ricard, Paris, France
2001
Rhizome Remix, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Transmedia, performance with Shawn Onsgard, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
MIR2, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Popular Mechanics, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2000
Outer Limits International Film & Video Festival, performance, New York, New York
Aaron S. Davidson & Chris Jonas performance, Pink Pony, New York, New York
Jam Session II, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1999
Aaron Davidson & Shawn Onsgard, performance, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
Impromptu Festival, Theaterworks, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, performance, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Education
Melissa Dubbin
1998 BA, Honors, Moving Image Arts, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993-94 Fine Arts, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Aaron S. Davidson
1999 BA Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1989-91 Photography and Political Science, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Awards & Residencies
2013
Session Residency, Recess, New York, New York
2009
Individual Artists Grant, New York State Council of the Arts, New York
2008
Anderson Ranch Artist Residency/NEA Grant -Extending Creativity in Digital Media, Snomass, Colorado
2006
In Practice Project Series, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
2006
New York University Visiting Artists
2005-06
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program: 120 Broadway
2003
Individual Artists Grant, New York State Council of the Arts, New York
2002
Experimental Television Center (ETC) Residency, Owego, New York
2001
NYC Independent Sound Art Fellowship, Media Alliance & Jerome Foundation
2000-03
Smack Mellon Work Exchange Artists-in-Residence, Brooklyn, New York
Teaching & Lectures
2000-present
Aaron S. Davidson, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 4D, Foundation Arts, Pratt Institute, New York
2008
Lecture & Workshop, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Visiting Artists Lecture, Institute for Electronic Arts Program, Alfred University, New York
Public Collections
Nýló, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Taplin Collection, The Sagamore Hotel, Miami, Florida