Ayin Es is a mixed media artist who identifies as a nonbinary, genderqueer person. They are known for their unusual paintings, personal collages, and storytelling Artist's books. Widely collected, their imaginative artworks reside in museums such as the Getty, Brooklyn Museum, and National Museum of Women in the Arts. A two-time recipient of ARC Grants from the Durfee Foundation, they've also won a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship and grants from the National Arts and Disability Center/California Arts Council, Asylum-Arts, as well as the Bruce Geller Memorial Award from the American Jewish University, and the Wynn Newhouse Award.
Their work has been reviewed in Artillery, LA Times, ArtScene, LA WEEKLY, ArtLTD, Art&Cake, and WhiteHot Magazine. Ayin lives and works in Joshua Tree, California with their partner Hannah.
Their work has been reviewed in Artillery, LA Times, ArtScene, LA WEEKLY, ArtLTD, Art&Cake, and WhiteHot Magazine. Ayin lives and works in Joshua Tree, California with their partner Hannah.
| AWARDS & HONORS | |
| 2019 | Bruce Geller Memorial Award: WORD Grant, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2017 | Technical Assistance Grant, National Arts and Disability Center/California Arts Council |
| 2016 | Artist's Grant, Asylum Arts, Brooklyn, NY |
| Rieman Studio Residency, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Yucca Valley, CA | |
| 2015 | Wynn Newhouse Fountation Award, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Technical Assistance Grant, National Arts and Disability Center / California Arts Council |
| 2011 | Founation Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc., New York, NY |
| Technical Assistance Grant, National Arts and Disability Center / California Arts Council | |
| 2010 | Pollock-Krasner Fellowship Award, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Maestra's Atelier Residency, Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, CA |
| 2007 | Artists' REsource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2006 | Studio Residency, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA |
| 2005 | Artist Grant, Yellow Fox Foundation, Palos Verdes, CA |
| Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundaton, Santa Monica, CA/td> | |
| 2004 | Studio Residency, Angels Gate Cultural CEnter, San Pedro, CA |
| Techical Assistance Grant, National Arts and Disability Center / California Arts Council | |
| Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT | |
| 2003 | Foundation Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc., New York, NY |
| Honorarium, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Short Hills, NJ | |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2021 | All's Well in the High Desert, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (virtual) |
| 2019 | Memoir, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2017 | The Exodus Project, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA |
| 2015 | Rock and Refuge, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| Exodus, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Venice, CA (Catalog) | |
| 2012 | Biollogical, Learning Resource Center, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | Carol Es, Gordon JCC, Nashville, TN |
| 2010 | It's Mostly About Me and Much Less About You, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA |
| Goodbye Mrs. Beasly, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN | |
| 2009 | Float Without Moving, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Carol Es, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX | |
| Inner Outline, UCLA Hillel, Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2008 | She Dreamed She Remembered, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Above the Bias Forces, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN | |
| 2007 | Monogenetic Dreams from the Rag Trade, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
| All Done But None, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| A Girl Apart, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA | |
| 2006 | My Identity Lab, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005 | Carol Es 1-SELF, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog) |
| Hybrids and Mongrels, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 2004 | Distance Divided by 3, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2003 | Cutting Patterns, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2017 | Chapters: Book Arts in Southern Califonia, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| Personal Matters, El Camino Collage Art Gallery, Torrance, CA | |
| 2016 | Splendor and Disaster in the California Outback, Curated by Peter Frank, Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA |
| Small House, Pop-up Exhibition, Craig Krull Gallery, Palm Springs, CA | |
| 2015 | 7,567 Mi-->, Achim Hasid Complex, Jerusalem Biennale 2015, Jerusalem, Israel |
| Way Kool, Koelsch Haus Gallery, Houston, TX | |
| 2014 Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition, Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University Lubin House, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Aqua Art Miami Fair, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Venice, CA in Miami Beach, FL |
| Room & Board, Art & Home - an art show beneffiting LA Family Housing, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Blinding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Venice, CA in Palm Springs, CA | |
| 2013 | CONTEXT Miami Fair, with Shulmit Nazarian Gallery, Venice CA, in Miami, FL |
| Intersecting Paths: art & Healing, Hebrew Union College at USC, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Colorful Antics, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2012 | No Joke, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA |
| DETONATE: Chaos and Consumerism, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| 2011 | Los Anglees-Istanbul Connection, 18th Street Arts Center Project Room, Santa Monica, CA |
| time flies when you're having fun, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL | |
| Jewish Ritual: Rethinking, Renewed, Finegood Gallery, JCC at Milken, West Hills, CA | |
| 2010 | To Live and Draw in LA, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA |
| On Paper, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity, St. Vincent college Gallery, Latrobe, PA (Catalog) | |
| 2009 | The Art of Language, Zimmer Childrens Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog) |
| Winter Walls, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN | |
| 2009 | Listen to Your Heart, MOHS Exhibiti, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Bookish, Seattle University Center for the Arts, Seattle, WA | |
| 2007 | Dark Objects Light Matter, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX |
| Material Girls, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (Catalog) | |
| HEALING: A Cultural Exploration, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2006 | Perspectives, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Multicultural Self-taught Artists, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog) | |
| Configuration, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ | |
| 2005 | Then Again, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA |
| How to Look at Art, Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA | |
| 2004 | Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
| Outsiders, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Identification, Highways Gallery and Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Me, Myself, and I, Pierce College Fine Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA | |
| 2003 | Between the Lines, LA Women Artists, Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Now and Now Again, The wedge at the Womens Building, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Brush, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, CA | |
| Extraordinary Art, Exceptional Artists, The Art Center, Mechanicsburg, PA (Award) | |
| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| AltaMed Foundation, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Cowles Memorial Library, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA | |
| J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL | |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC | |
| Nazarian Family Collection, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Otis College of Art & Design Library, Artists’ Books Collection, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Short Hills, NJ | |
| UC Irvine Library Special Collections, Irvince, CA | |
| UCLA Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA | |
| UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections, La Jolla, CA | |
| UC San Francisco, Precision Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA | |
| University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Seattle, WA | |
| Yale University, Beineche Library, New Haven, CT | |