Aaron Krach
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United States
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film critic, journalist
Journalist
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, writer
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and artist
Artist
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currently living in New York City
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Background
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 now lives on ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
's lower east side.
Journalist
Krach has written for Time Out New York, Out magazine, InStyle, OuiOui (magazine)
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, The independent film & video monthly, Indie Wire, HX
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, The Villager
The Villager
The Villager is a weekly newspaper serving Downtown Manhattan. It was founded in 1933 by Walter and Isabel Bryan. In 2001, 2004 and 2005, The Villager won the Stuart Dorman Award, honoring New York State's best weekly newspaper, in the New York Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest.The...
, a former editor of Empire Magazine, arts editor of Gay City News
Gay City News
Gay City News is an award-winning, free weekly newspaper based in New York City that focuses on local and national issues relating to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. It was founded in 1994 as Lesbian Gay New York, later LGNY, and was sold to Community Media LLC in 2002,...
, and was a former editor of Empire in New York City, and was a senior editor at Cargo, which work was lengthily quoted in San Diego Union Tribune. He was an editor at BravoTV.com, and affiliated sites OUTzoneTV.com and BrilliantButCancelled.com. He was the features editor at House Beautiful
House Beautiful
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, a Hearst publication, until August 2010. He is currently an MFA candidate at SUNY Purchase
State University of New York at Purchase
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Author
Krach's debut novel Half-Life was published to critical acclaim by Alyson Books in 2004. The novel was nominated for a Violet Quill Award and was among the 2004 Lambda Literary AwardLambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
finalists. Of Half-Life, Reed Business Information
Reed Business Information
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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.
Nominations
- 2004, nominated for Lambda Literary AwardLambda Literary AwardLambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
for Half-Life - 2004, nominated for a Violet Quill Award for Half-Life
Artist
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 ContemporaryDCKT Contemporary
Founded in 2002, by Dennis Christie and Ken Tyburski, DCKT Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery based in New York's Lower East Side. The gallery represents emerging and established contemporary artists. Its programming ranges from, but is not limited to, painting and sculpture to video art...
in Chelsea, New York. In 2007, new photographs and sculpture have been exhibited at 3rd Ward
3rd Ward Brooklyn
3rd Ward is a member-based design center for creative professionals in the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of Williamsburg. It was designed to fit the needs of multidisciplinary artists, designers & entrepreneurs...
in Greenpoint, 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.
Curator
In October 2009, he curated the exhibition, "Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things". Artists featured include: Alex Da Corte, Carl Ferrero, Dana Frankfort, Incidental, Chris JohansonChris Johanson
Chris Johanson is an American painter and street artist. He is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement.- Biography :Johanson was born in suburban San Jose, California in 1968. He has no formal training in art, learning some technique by painting skateboards and houses...
, Cary Leibowitz
Cary Leibowitz
Cary Leibowitz, also sometimes known as Candy Ass , is an American visual artist. Leibowitz’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Hirshhorn Museum, The Jewish Museum ; the Peter and Eileen Norton Collection and the Robert J...
, Gillian MacLeod, Mark Mahosky, Heath Nash, Kate O'Connor, Jack Pierson
Jack Pierson
Jack Pierson is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books...
, Megan Plunkett, Franklin Preston, Trevor Reese, Alyce Santoro, Sighn, Mickey Smith
Mickey Smith
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, Charlie Welch, and Shawn Wolfe.
January, 2011, he curated the exhibition "Soon-Yi Purchase" at 206 Rivington Gallery, NYC. Artists include: Courtney Childress, Margaret Rizzio, Glen Wonsettler, Jonathon Price, Bradford Smith, Jen Dawson, Alex Branch, and Aaron Krach.