Summary
Aaron Hegert is an artist working in photography and related media. His recent projects explore how photographs influence our understanding of human/nature relationships, and question the ways images naturalize nature. His work puts special emphasis on the networks of image circulation, technological infrastructures, and political discourses that determine how images function in visual culture.
His work is often collaborative, and he is a founding member of the experimental artist collective Everything Is Collective. His work has been exhibited and published widely, with recent exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Mannheim, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and the Aperture Foundation, among others. His publications are held in The Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Franklin Furnace Archive in Brooklyn and the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City.
Research interests
- Photography and networked culture
- Landscape and survey photography
- Mapping, counter mapping and experimental geography
- Federal landscapes and the Bureau of Land Management
- Collaborative and art practice
Education
- MFA, Indiana University, 2014
- BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 2007