CV
b. Hartford, CT. 1985
Based in Los Angeles, CA
Upcoming
Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, Govett-Brewster | Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, New Zealand, December 7th, 2024 - April 27th, 2025
Cut From The Same Cloth: Textile & Technology, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, January 18th 2025 - April 6th, 2025
Select Exhibitions
2024
in flagrante delicto, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
My Hollywood, gallery mariposa LA, Los Angeles, CA
Bayou, For You. Johnnie B & Friends, New Orleans, LA
Considering January, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ALL KILLER NO FILLER, One Trick Pony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Strings of Desire, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Queer Threads, The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
Pride Week at the Bosch Palace: Art, Generative AI and Common Values, The Bosch Palace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Living Room, San Francisco, 1986, apexart, Fulton County Emma Darnell Aviation Community Cultural Center, Atlanta, GA
MOM, VESTA, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Film Studies, The LODGE, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Little Things, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020
Canicular Days, The LODGE, Los Angeles, CA
EXISTIMOS, Proyectos Galería and DAB ART, Mexico City, Mexico
PRIDE, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
Anteroom, The LODGE, Los Angeles, CA
2019
British Textile Biennial, Towneley Hall Museum, Burnley, UK
Tactile: Textiles & Radical Crafting, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
SEXY X-MAS, The LODGE, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Class Pictures, The Zuckerman Musum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Claiming Needles - Positions of Contemporary Embroidery Art, peer to space
Interplay: Craft, Art & Design, South Bay Contemporary SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Point of Entry, Branch Gallery, Inglewood, CA
Relish, Joseph Gross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
New Threads: Perspectives in Contemporary Fiber Art, The Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Stitch Fetish, The Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
e:FRESH, The Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Queer Threads, Arcana Books, Culver City, CA
2016
This Beautiful Tangle, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
Stitched Queer Baltimore, Middendorf Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Mills Gallery, The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Hieronymus Bosch in the 21st Century, White Space, Atlanta, GA
Stitch Fetish, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Common Thread, The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
(De)Tangled: A Living Salon, Pelican Bomb, New Orleans, LA
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, The Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Ritual 9, Blue Mark Studios, Atlanta, GA
2014
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
Walthall Fellowship Exhibition, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA
Two Houses, The Chastain Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2013
Serving Face, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Poisons & Antidotes, Fallen Arrows, Atlanta, GA
2012
JOCKAHOMO 1.5, Deity Arts, New Orleans, LA
Mondo Homo Art Show: Queers on the New Frontier, The Arts Exchange, Atlanta, GA
Talent Loves Company, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011
Looking Back: Trudging Forward, The B-Complex, Atlanta, GA
Exquisite, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Mondo Homo Art Show: Mondo 5, Sous Whisky Marin, Atlanta, GA
Might & Magic, Octane, Atlanta, GA
2010
Artists-in-Residence Invitational Exhibit, Hub-Bub, Spartanburg, SC
Mondo Homo Art Show: City Stories, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Replanting the Garden, The Big Car Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2009
Mondo Homo Art Show: Mondo Politico, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Education
BFA - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2007
Residencies
Villa Bergerie, Huesca, Spain, June - July 2024
McColl Center, Charlotte, NC, August - November 2016
Grants, Awards, & Fellowships
Wesley Mancini Artist-In-Residence Grant, The Wesley Mancini Foundation, Charlotte, NC, 2016
Emerging Artist Award, The City of Atlanta, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA, 2014
Walthall Artist Fellowship, WonderRoot, Atlanta, GA, 2014
Awesome Grant, The Awesome Foundation, Boston, MA, 2013
Idea Grant, Idea Capital, Atlanta, GA, 2012
The Bruce Bolduc Memorial Award, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2007
Select Bibliography
Archer, Nicole. “Queer Threads,” The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 26, Issue 2 - 3, 2023
Weiss, Francine & Horn, Megan. Social Fabric: Textiles & Contemporary Issues, Newport Art Museum, Hollis Publishing, Inc, 2023
Carr, Benjamin. ‘“Living Room, San Francisco,” honors humble origin of AIDS Memorial Quilt,’ ARTSATL, 2023
Krach, Aaron. Passages in Modern Art, 2022
Sabo, Ben. PNPPL ZINE 05, Spring, 2020
Hanack, Kasia. “Zwischen zwei Welten,” Patchwork Professional, January, 2020
Casals, Gonzalo and Parness, Noam. Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Hirmer Publishers, 2019
Alexander, Andrew. “commando,” WUSSY MAG, Spring, 2019
Feaster, Felicia. “Art review: The human figure is full of meaning in twinned Zuckerman shows,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 5th, 2018
“RELISH VOL. 2,” GROSS Magazine, 2018
“Queer Art and Crafts We Need in Our Lives,” them. April 2nd, 2018
Wigintton, Brit. “Fiber Artist Aubrey Longley-Cook & the Queer Gaze,” Ampersand LA, February 23th, 2018
Nakano, Craig. “The Saturday gallery: Grandma’s knitting infused with fabulousness in ‘Queer Threads’,” The Los Angeles Times, July 1st, 2017
Looseleaf, Victoria. “Queer Fiber Artists Push the Bounds of Gender Norms,” KCET, June 12th, 2017
“Blikvangers,” Textiel Plus, Summer, 2017
“WUSSY vol. 2 - The Fight Issue,” WUSSY MAG, 2017
Chaich, John & Oldham, Todd. “Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community.” Ammo Books, 2017
Cullum, Jerry. ‘“This Beautiful Tangle” at Agnes Scott’s Dalton Gallery,”’ BURNAWAY, November 21st, 2016
Brantley, Rebecca. “In the Garden of Bosch and Cullum at Whitespace,” BURNAWAY, August 29th, 2016
“WUSSY vol. 1 - The Body Issue,” WUSSY MAG, 2016
Ross, Laurence. “Tactile Fixation: An Interview with Aubrey Longley-Cook,” Pelican Bomb, June 8th, 2015
Bryant, Dale. “Needlework featured in exhibit at San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles,” The Mercury News, March 11th, 2015
Vaccaro, Jeanne. “Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community,” Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 7, Number 3, 2014
Darrow, Susannah. “Performing Representation: Documenting Drag,” artcore journal, March 1st, 2014
Cotter, Holland. “Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community,” The New York Times, February 20th
“Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community,” OUT, January 14th, 2014
Eler, Alicia. “Stitching Not Bitching,” Hyperallergic, January 16th, 2014
Rich, Leisa. “Aubrey Longley-Cook: From Stitch to Stage,” BURNAWAY, January 2nd, 2014
“Issue 3: SoHo (Southern Homosexuals),” Slag Mag, Spring, 2014
Hansell, Sally. “35 Portraits of RuPaul: The Drag Queen as Muse,” HuffPost, December 14th, 2013
Cash, Stephanie. “30 Under 30: Embroidery meets drag queen culture in the work of Aubrey Longley-Cook,” ARTSATL, August 4th, 2013
Alexander, Andrew. “RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop,” Art Papers, June/July, 2013
Ginestra, Maggie. “Atlanta’s Art-Drag: 4 artists reflect on their inspirations, audiences, personae and plans,” Temporary Art Review, January 31st, 2013
“Ones to Watch,” The Atlantan, January, 2013
“The Southern Issue (cover),” Atlanta Magazine, November, 2012
Prain, Leanne. “Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery,” Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011
Holman, Curt. “Memorial Gay with MondoHomo,” Creative Loafing, May 24th, 2011
Williams, Wyatt. “Aubrey Longley-Cook gives 'manbroidery' a name in Atlanta,” Creative Loafing, May 25th, 2010
Chaykin, Joan. “Lovely Bones,” Stitches Magazine, March/April, 2010
Hicks, Cinque. “Mondo Politico organizers find new ways to celebrate visual art,” Creative Loafing, May 18th, 2009