Aurel Schmidt

Aurel Schmidt is a New York artist known both for the technically adept execution and autobiographical frankness of her drawings. Precious and personal, the work is exacting, highly detailed and teeming with overt intimacy. Pieced together using individual parts of the physical and emotional detritus of our world, Schmidt painstakingly constructs an intricate tableau that serves as a memento mori to our own vulnerability and mortality.

Aurel Schmidt (1982) was born in Kamloops, British Columbia and lives and works in New York. Schmidt has work currently on view at the MACBA Barcelona and in 'Selections from the KAWS Collection' at the Drawing Center, New York. Schmidt's work is in the Whitney Museum's permanent collection and included in Phaidon Vitamin D2. Solo exhibitions include Gathering, London; The Hole, New York; P.P.O.W, New York; Deitch Projects, New York; and has contributed to group exhibitions at the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, MACRO Museum, Rome; Saatchi Gallery, London & Deste Foundation, Greece.