Aaron Krach

Aaron Krach was born in Ionia, Michigan on February 15, 1972. He grew up in Alhambra, California, and graduated from Alhambra High School. He attended the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1994. Aaron Krach moved to New York City in 1995. He received his MFA from Purchase College in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/8-degrees-mfa-exhibition-2012/|title=8 Degrees: Purchase College MFA Exhibition 2012 – Announcements – Art & Education|website=www.artandeducation.net|language=en|access-date=2018-11-11}} He lives and works in Manhattan.{{cite news|url=http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=7974 |title=Interview with Michigan born Aaron Krach |last=Riordan |first=Kevin |date=May 27, 2004 |publisher=Between The Lines |access-date=2009-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727150832/http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=7974 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/aaron_krach.htm|title=Interview with Aaron Krach|last=Shapiro|first=Alex|publisher=Absolute Write|access-date=2009-10-28}}

His work has been exhibited in Olympia, Washington, New York City, St. Petersburg, Florida, and Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006, his solo exhibition titled "100 New York Mysteries" was presented at DCKT Contemporary in Chelsea, New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/exhibition/view/546 |title=Aaron Krach, 100 New York Mysteries |publisher=DCKT Contemporary |access-date=2009-10-26 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716151935/http://dcktcontemporary.com/exhibition/view/546 |archive-date=July 16, 2009 }} In 2007, new photographs and sculpture were exhibited at 3rd Ward, Jack The Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, Gallery 312 Online in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Massachusetts's College of Liberal Arts. In 2009, "Longer Periods of Happiness," appeared at DCKT in Manhattan.{{cite web|url=http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/exhibition/view/1621 |title=Aaron Krach, Longer Periods of Happiness 2009 |publisher=DCKT Contemporary |access-date=2009-10-26 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716151915/http://dcktcontemporary.com/exhibition/view/1621 |archive-date=July 16, 2009 }} His Paul Gauguin-inspired installation, "Where are you going? Why are you leaving? Will you come back?" debuted at The Reading Room,{{Cite web|url=http://thereadingroom-dallas.blogspot.com/2015/07/will-you-come-back-aaron-krach-june-13.html|title=The Reading Room|last=thereadingroom|access-date=2017-02-13}} Dallas, in 2015; and was included in a group show, Referenced, at Danese/Corey gallery, NYC, in 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.danesecorey.com/exhibitions/ref-er-enced|title=Ref•er•enced – Exhibitions – Danese/Corey|website=www.danesecorey.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-13}}

Christopher Muther of the Boston Globe wrote of Krach's work as "[playing] with the familiar."{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2009/01/29/for_these_artists_t_shirts_are_their_canvas/|title=For these artists, T-shirts are their canvas|last=Muther|first=Christopher|date=January 29, 2009|publisher=Boston Globe|access-date=2009-10-28}}

Numerous art books {{Cite web|url = https://www.printedmatter.org/search?text=aaron%2520krach&|title = Printed Matter|website = www.printedmatter.org|access-date = 2016-03-07}} have been exhibited in galleries{{Cite web|url = http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/show-6|title = Show #6|website = Field Projects|access-date = 2016-03-07}} and at art book fairs{{Cite web|url = http://artfcity.com/2014/09/26/highlights-from-the-new-york-art-book-fair/|title = Highlights from the New York Art Book Fair|last1 = Johnson|first1 = Paddy|last2 = Kirsch|first2 = Corinna|website = Art F City| date=September 26, 2014 |access-date = 2016-03-07}}{{Cite web|url = http://laartbookfair.net/exhibitors/|title = Exhibitors {{!}} PRINTED MATTER'S LA ART BOOK FAIR|website = laartbookfair.net|access-date = 2016-03-07}} including New York,{{Cite web|url = http://nyartbookfair.com/exhibitors/|title = Exhibitors {{!}} NY Art Book Fair Presented By Printed Matter|website = nyartbookfair.com|access-date = 2016-03-07}} Los Angeles, and Basel, Switzerland.{{Cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=658009554235871&id=388882367815259|title = The exhibitors for the I Never Read, Art... - I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel {{!}} Facebook|website = www.facebook.com|access-date = 2016-03-07}} Recent titles include: The Author of This Book Committed Suicide (NYPL), 2012{{Cite web|url = http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/bookmachine/author-book-committed-suicide-aaron-krach|title = The Author of This Book Committed Suicide by Aaron Krach {{!}} McNally Jackson Books|website = www.mcnallyjackson.com|access-date = 2016-03-07|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160308063744/http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/bookmachine/author-book-committed-suicide-aaron-krach|archive-date = March 8, 2016|url-status = dead|df = mdy-all}}; 4,582 Stars, 2013,{{Cite web|url = https://www.printedmatter.org/40134|title = Printed Matter|website = www.printedmatter.org|access-date = 2016-03-07}} Dark Pools (Almost Everything), 2016{{Cite web|url = https://www.printedmatter.org/42694|title = Printed Matter|website = www.printedmatter.org|access-date = 2016-03-07}}, Richard Pryor: Live on The Sunset Strip {{Cite web|title=Aaron Krach - Richard Pryor: Live on The Sunset Strip|url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/52460|access-date=2021-03-31|website=Printed Matter|language=en}}, and Sottsass Showers, 2021. {{Cite web|title=Aaron Krach - Sottsass Showers|url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/57765|access-date=2021-03-31|website=Printed Matter|language=en}} Many of his book are in the library at The Whitney Museum of American Art {{Cite web|title=Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library catalog › Results of search for 'Aaron Krach'|url=https://library.whitney.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=&q=Aaron+Krach|access-date=2021-03-31|website=library.whitney.org|language=en}} and the library at The Museum of Modern Art, NY. {{Cite book|last1=Krach|first1=Aaron|url=https://arcade.nyarc.org/record=b1394525~S8|title=Almost everything: Dark pools|last2=Glaeser|first2=Ludwig|date=2015|publisher=A. Krach|others=Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)|location=New York|oclc=954348434}}

Krach's debut novel Half-Life was published to critical acclaim{{cite web|title=Unconventional coming-of-age|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1393415/Unconventional-coming-of-age-Fiction.html|access-date=2009-10-26|publisher=Lambda Book Report}} by Alyson Books in 2004.{{cite book|last=Krach|first=Aaron|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70RjwKj-dIUC&q=Aaron+Krach,+Half-Life|title=Half-life: a novel|publisher=Alyson Books|year=2004|isbn=1-55583-854-5|oclc=53971973|access-date=October 26, 2009}} The novel was nominated for a Violet Quill Award and was among the 2004 Lambda Literary Award finalists.{{cite web|title=Books Reviewed In Books To Watch Out For: The Lesbian Edition #13 & #14|url=http://www.btwof.com/enews_extras/Images14LES/14LES_BookList.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121130931/http://www.btwof.com/enews_extras/Images14LES/14LES_BookList.html|archive-date=November 21, 2008|access-date=2009-10-26|website=Books To Watch Out For}}{{cite web|title=2004 Lambda Literary Awards Recipients and Finalists|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_2004_2006.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913094349/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_2004_2006.html|archive-date=September 13, 2009|access-date=2009-10-26|publisher=Lambda Literary Foundation}} Of Half-Life, Reed Business Information wrote "Gay readers will relish the attention lavished on love's growing pains and the smart dialogue between Adam and his high school buddy." His second book, 100 New York Mysteries, was published in 2006.{{cite book|last=Krach|first=Aaron|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VtSqEB0CxZcC&q=Aaron+Krach|title=100 New York Mysteries|publisher=Lulu Press|year=2006|isbn=1-4116-9581-X|oclc=123490629}}

;Nominations. 2004 – Lambda Literary Award for Half-Life and Violet Quill Award for Half-Life

Krach has written for Time Out New York, Out magazine, InStyle, Oui, The independent film & video monthly, Indie Wire, HX, The Villager, a former editor of Empire Magazine,{{cite book|last=Abbe|first=Elfriede Martha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJvdG9C_QkwC&q=%22Aaron+Krach%22&pg=PA392|title=The Writer's Handbook 2004|publisher=Watson-Guptill|year=2003|isbn=0-87116-200-8|edition=68, illustrated|pages=392|oclc=52966163}} arts editor of Gay City News, and was a former editor of Empire in New York City, and was a senior editor at Cargo,{{cite book|last=Krach|first=Aaron|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOFUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Aaron+Krach%22|title=The independent film & video monthly|publisher=Foundation for Independent Video and Film|year=2000|volume=23|access-date=October 28, 2009}}{{cite web|title=Half Life by Aaron Krach|url=http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9781555838546-0|access-date=2009-10-28|publisher=Powells Books}} which work was lengthily quoted in San Diego Union Tribune.{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Suzanne S.|title=The time appears right for five o'clock shadows|work=The New York Times|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040328/news_1c28stubble.html|access-date=2009-10-28}} He was an editor at BravoTV.com, and affiliated sites OUTzoneTV.com and BrilliantButCancelled.com. He was the features editor at House Beautiful, a Hearst publication, until August 2010. He received his MFA from SUNY Purchase in 2012.{{cite web|title=Artists|url=http://www.purchasemfa.com/Artists.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321084049/http://www.purchasemfa.com/Artists.html|archive-date=March 21, 2012|website=SUNY Purchase MFA}}

In October 2009, Krach curated the exhibition, "Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things".{{cite web|url=http://oneartworld.com/206+Rivington+Street/Artists+Who+Use+Text+to+Say+Nice+Things.html#|title=Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things|publisher=One Art World|access-date=2009-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726232150/http://oneartworld.com/206+Rivington+Street/Artists+Who+Use+Text+to+Say+Nice+Things.html|archive-date=July 26, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} Artists featured in exhibition included; Alex Da Corte, Carl Ferrero, Dana Frankfort, Incidental, Chris Johanson, Cary Leibowitz, Gillian MacLeod, Mark Mahosky, Heath Nash, Kate O'Connor, Jack Pierson, Megan Plunkett, Franklin Preston, Trevor Reese, Alyce Santoro, Sighn, Mickey Smith, Charlie Welch and Shawn Wolfe.{{cite web|url=http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/news.php|title=Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things|publisher=Fleisher-Ollman Gallery.|access-date=2009-10-27}}

In January 2011, Krach curated the exhibition "Soon-Yi Purchase" at 206 Rivington Gallery, New York City. Artists included; Courtney Childress,{{cite web|url=http://childresscourtney.squarespace.com/sculpture/new-work-20102011/|title=Sculpture > New Work 2010/2011|website=Courtney Childress|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813130927/http://childresscourtney.squarespace.com/sculpture/new-work-20102011/|archive-date=August 13, 2011}} Margaret Rizzio, Glenn Wonsettler, Jonathon Price, Bradford Smith, Jen Dawson, Alex Branch and himself.

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