Aaron Delehanty 

instagram: @delehanty.loud.cow.studio

aarondelehanty@gmail.com 

Education 

• M.F.A., Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2007 

• B.F.A., Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2005 

• B.A., History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2000 

Dioramas

• Natural History Museum of Los Angelas, los Angelas, CA

  -Ring Tail Lemurs in Madagascar, scale: life size , 2024

• Mark Dion & Alexis Rockman Journey to Nature’s Underworld 

  -American Landscape, life size, 2022

• Groton State Forest, Groton ,VT (work in progress)

  -Peacham Bog Diorama, scale: life size , 2021-22

• -M.I.T.-Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA
  -Fusion Power Plant Diorama, scale: O, 2020 

• -Cumming Nature Center, Naples, NY

  -Wild Life Island Landform, scale: life size , 2019 

• -Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY
  -Great Blue Heron Habitat Diorama, scale: life size, 2018

  -Elk & Muskox Landforms, scale: life size, 2016

  -Mole & Mushroom Diorama, scale: life size (since destroyed),
  -Under the Ice Diorama, scale: life size (since destroyed)

• -The Abrahamic Center for Cultural Education, Chicago, IL 

  -Noah’s Ark Diorama, scale: HO, 2017

  -Egyptian Throne Room Diorama, scale: HO, 2017

• -Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
  -Spotted Hyena Habitat Diorama, Scale: life size, 2016

  -Hemudu Diorama , scale: O, Tang Hall of China, 2014
  -Longshan Diorama , scale: O, Tang Hall of China, 2014

  -Yangshoa Diorama , scale: O, Tang Hall of China, 2014

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Solo Show Upcoming, Colleen Buzzard Studio-Anderson Arts building, Rochester, NY

2023 The Natural Center, Frontispace Gallery, University of Rochester, NY

2021 “Declassified” (with Lan Tuazon), H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI

2013 MDW Fair, with the {fill in the blank} Gallery, Geolofts, Chicago, IL

2010 Visible City: Map Room , {fill in the blank} Gallery, Chicago, IL

2009 Visible City , Finestra Art Space, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL

2007 Vernissage , MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA

2006 Aaron Delehanty, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Contemporary Narratives , Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005 Hot Spot , G2, Chicago

Group Exhibitions

2024 PST ART-Art of Dioramas, Natural History Museum of Los Angelas. CA

2023 Faculty Art Show, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, NY

2022 Regional Highlights, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, Brockport College

2019 Landscapes and The Unbuilt , Rochester Contemporary Art Center, curated by Blue Cease, Rochester, NY

2013 Roots , Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL

FLAT Show , with Hui-min Tsen, Floor-Length and Tux, Chicago, IL

2012 Triangulation , Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

MDW Fair , Co-Prosperity Sphere booth, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

Object Petit Ahhh, Curated by Dayton Castleman, Co-prosperity Sphere , Chicago , IL

Group Exhibition , curated by Holly Sabin, Hinge Gallery, Chicago, IL

2011 US , with the Co-Prosperity School, Benn Russell is an Art Space, Chicago, IL

Group Show, Park-Shreck Gallery, Chicago, IL

MDW Fair , {fill in the blank} Gallery and Co-Prosperity School, Geolofts, Chicago, IL

Group Show , Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010 Flesh and Bone , Hyde Park Art Center & Co-prosperity Sphere , Chicago , IL

Art Loop Open , Hard Rock Hotel, Chicago, IL

Invisible Cities , Work Studio, Chicago, IL

Migrations , Douglas Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL

Territories , Version Fest 10 Group Show, curated by Dayton Castleman and Ed

Marszewski, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL

VideoStore7.375x4x1 , curated by Jeriah Hildwine, Chicago, IL

Faculty Show , Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL

Version Fest Silent Auction , Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

50 Alderman/50 Artists , Johalla Projects & Chicago Photography Center,

Chicago, IL

2009 Bargain Basement , Co-prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

Textaporting the Gallery , curator Caro d'Offay, Murphy Hill Gallery,

Chicago, IL

2008 Lumetype II , Caro d'Offay Gallery, Chicago, IL

Selections from New American Paintings , Pacific Edition 2007 , juror

Alma Ruiz curator MOCA, LA, dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA

2007 Inchoate , curator Jeanne Finley, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

24th Annual Artist-Book Show , Printmaking Loft, San Francisco, CA

2006 Marking the Spot , curator- Brett Reichman, SFAI Courtyard Gallery,

San Francisco, CA

23rd Annual Artist-Book Show , Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Book-Art , Artetica Gallery- (traveling show), Rome, Italy

2005 Arion Press Artist Book Show , Arion Press, San Francisco, CA

Mission Mural Project , Los Palmas Restaurant, San Francisco, CA

2004 The Stray Show , The General Store, Chicago, IL

Millennium Park Mural Project , Millennium Park, Chicago, IL

2003 Celebration of Color , Benson Gallery, Fort Collins, CO

Art Professor Experience

• University of Rochester, Curator and Instructor of Art, Rochester NY, 2023-present
  -Courses taught- Gallery Practicum

• Rochester Institute of Technology, Adjunct Faculty, Rochester NY, 2020-23
  -Courses taught- Zoological & Botanical Illustration-500 level Anatomical Illustration Painting Dimensional Illustration II

• College at Brockport, Adjunct Faculty, Brockport NY, 2020

                -Courses taught- Advanced Painting 

• Moraine Valley Community College, Adjunct Faculty, Palos Hills IL, 2012-13

                -Courses taught- Materials and Techniques of Painting

Art Studio Professional Experience 

• -Loud Cow Studio, Spencerport NY, 2016-present

              -Owner and manager of a commission based art studio

• -Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester NY, 2016- 2020

              -Replication Shop Supervisor in the Exhibitions Department

              -Manage intern program

• -Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, 2009-2016

               -Studio Artist in the Replication Shop

               -Created all kinds of work for the many exhibits

Relevant Media Coverage

• Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld, Hardcover, September, 2023

  -Amazon

• -Behind the Scenes at the Museum, DK publishing

  -Hyena Home, June 2020

• -Antennae: The Journal of Art and Nature, peer reviewed article

  -Six Philosophies for a Habitat Diorama Artist by Aaron Delehanty, Nov. 2019

• -TED.com, Hailey Reissman

  -Gallery: The Art and Science of Museum Dioramas, July 2017

• -TEDx Flower City, 2016 speaker

  -Dioramas: Part Art, Part Science, 9 minutes 53 seconds

• -The Brain Scoop with Emily Graslie

  -Painting the Diorama, 7 minutes 13 seconds, Jan. 2016

• -Post Magazine- article about my work.

Artist Talks

• University of Minnesota-Daluth, Student Juror, April 2024

• Tang Museum, Skidmore College, May 2024

• University of Rochester, artist presentation April 2023

• Oswego College, October 2022

• -Carthage College, December 2021 in conjunction with HF JOHNSON gallery, Declassified with Lan Tauzon

• -Brockport College- artist presentation, November 2021

• -SUNY Oswego - artist presentation, …10/2020

• -Rochester Contemporary- in conjunction  with “Landscapes and The Unbuilt”, February 2019

• -RMSC- re-making the 1838, Science on the Edge Lecture Series