Born in 1955, Aaron Fink received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art (1977) and an MFA from Yale University School of Art and Architecture (1979). For the past two decades, he has composed powerful two and three-dimensional compositions that depict quotidian objects such as fruit, vegetables and ice cream scoops on both monumental and intimate scales. To achieve this, the artist works with a wide range of materials, which include such diverse media as oil, prints, monotypes, clay, plaster, and fiberglass.

Through his recent artwork, Fink explores the nature of perception, grappling with the gaps that exist between signifiers and the signified, as well as between the intention and the reception of thought. In the end, his paintings and counterproofs are less about mimetic representation than about the acts of painting and of seeing. As curator Ben Mitchell writes, “these images lead us toward the inviolable enigma of the otherness in all things, and by doing so, they animate presence. Aaron Fink’s making—forming images with the pigment, the clay, and the fiberglass—aims to make strangeness even stranger, so that we may learn something new.”

In addition to being a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Grant recipient, Aaron Fink has garnered such prestigious awards as the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome, and the Ford Foundation Special Project Grant from Yale University. His work is represented in numerous museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Fogg Museum at Harvard University.