CV

Born in Minneapolis, MN

Lives in Chicago, IL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Across Centuries and the Earth, Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI

2023 Not yet titled, Commongrounds, Traverse City, MI (forthcoming)

2020 From Sky to Sky, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2019 Friendship with the Unknown, Gallery 1871, Chicago, IL

2018 Festival, One River School of Art + Design, Evanston, IL

2016 Ocean Inside the Drop, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL

2015 Here and Now, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL

RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Not yet titled, 2-person show w/ Lucy Wood Baird, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL

2022 Deep Freeze, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2021 Group Show, SHRINE Gallery, New York

              Continuous Span, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Myriad, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2020 Art-in-Place, Terrain Exhibitions + CNL Projects

Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

2019 Variations in Wax, Robert Morris University, Chicago

Spatial Stillness, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2018 Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

depth of [color] field, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2017 Ahavani Mullen + Lindsy Halleckson, 2-person show, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Diffused Surface, Gallery 201, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

2016 Summer Salon, CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Winter Salon, Gallery 1871, Chicago

2015 ArtFutura, Northwestern University, Juror, James Rondeau, Director, Art Institute of Chicago

Another Way of Keeping a Diary, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA

2014 The Diptych Project, Engine Gallery, Biddeford, ME

2013 National Encaustic Exhibition, Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

6x6x2013, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

2012 Repurposed, University of Maryland, Rockville, MD

Tactile Encounters, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022 Newcity, Susan Aurinko, In the cards

2021 Newcity, Lori Waxman, 60wrd/min COVID Edition: Ahavani Mullen

Lifted Lab, Katie Pilgrim, Interview: Ahavani Mullen

2020 Create Magazine, Christina Nafziger, Ahavani Mullen: Transforming your Medium

Newcity, Kerry Cardoza, Artists Turn Their Homes Into Galleries, with Art-in-Place

New Art Examiner, COVID-19 vs. The Art Field

2015 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 28, Juror: Carl Belz, Rose Art Museum, Director Emeritus, Brandeis University

2014 YoungSpace, Kate Mothes, Ahavani Mullen

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Tusen Takk Foundation

The Macedonia Institute, NY

Museum of Encaustic Art

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY

EDUCATION

Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, B.A., 1996

University College London, University of London, England, 1994