AYDEN LEROUX

EDUCATION
2020 M.F.A. in Cross-Genre Writing, UCSD
2012 B.A. New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Magna Cum Laude
2008  ESDIT Escuela de Gastronomia y Tourismo, Arequipa, Peru, Culinary School

BOOKS
2016
Odyssey Works (co-authored with Abraham Burickson), Princeton Architectural Press
2013
Isolation and Amazement, Samsara Press

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2024
Catalogue essay for Double Exposure, Saint Lucy Books
2023
Seven Books About Authorship Hoaxes, Electric Literature
Conduits to a Feeling: On Sophia Giovannitti’s Working Girl, Los Angeles Review of Books
Review of Biography of X by Catherine Lacey, BOMB (spring print issue)
Inventing the Form of Yourself: A Conversation with Maggie Millner, The Rumpus
2022
Interview with Emily Barker, BOMB (summer print issue)
Bodies of Water, Bookforum
2021
“The Lonely Letters,” Full Stop (co-written with Leora Fridman)
The Intimacy of Acknowledgements, Electric Literature
Tip of the Tongue, Entropy
Catalogue essay for No Wend, photography book by Gregory Rollins
In Search of the Miraculous, Kaleidoscoped
2020
Humus: Earthworks and Surrender, SFMOMA’s Open Space
A Book is Not a Baby, LitHub
The Art of Stillness, Guernica, *Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021*
2019
Cyrus Grace Dunham on Turning the Body Into a Home, Electric Literature
The Hunter and the Hunted, Catapult
Savage Skin, Palimpsest
2018
Expanding and Dissolving: A Conversation with Chelsea Hodson, The Adroit Journal
“It's Not of Now, but it's Good Now": Tamar Adler on Reviving Food From a Bygone Era, Los Angeles Review of Books
Petrushka, Alchemy
The Art of Attention, Electric Literature
Is Alex Morrison Austin's Boldest Museum Educator?, Glasstire
2017
Virtual Roundtable on "Future Sex," Public Books
Where Artists Go to Grow, edibleManhattan
Every Bed I've Every Slept In, Cosmonauts Avenue
The ‘Now More Than Ever' Epidemic, Theo Westenberger Estate
Matryoshka: On (Be)coming and (Be)longing, Theo Westenberger Estate
The Artist as Culture Producer, Glasstire
The Art of the Affair: Artists and Six Degrees of Separation, Glasstire
Interview with Nina Katchadourian, Glasstire
Ai Weiwei, Austin, and Instagrammable Art, Glasstire
The Unnameable: Send Me SFMOMA, Glasstire
Bing Wright, Glasstire
Laura Lit at Women and Their Work, Glasstire 
Lucas Simões at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Glasstire
Disappearing Photographs: John Steck Jr. at Blue Star Contemporary, Glasstire
Artists and Six Degrees of Separation, Glasstire
Matryoshka: On (Be)coming and (Be)longing, Theo Westenberger Estate
Carnage of the Body: Erin Neve and Sara Sudhoff at grayDUCK, Glasstire
Prickly Heat: Liz Rodda's Latest, Glasstire
The Power of Refusal: Kevin McNamee-Tweed's Departure from Austin, Glasstire
2016
Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One, New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
To Read the Day After the Election, Works & Conversations
2015
Spiderwebs in Chelsea, Tomás Saraceno, Eyes Towards the Dove, Contemporary Art and Culture
2014
Three Chelsea Picks: Shotz, Bartley and Kurland, Eyes Towards the Dove, Contemporary Art and Culture
Dream of the Red Chamber, New York, Eyes Towards the Dove, Contemporary Art and Culture
Sophie Calle: Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, Eyes Towards the Dove, Contemporary Art and Culture
A Sense of Place, Pier 24, San Francisco, Eyes Towards the Dove, Contemporary Art and Culture
Wind and Smoke: On documentation in contemporary art, Emergent Art Space

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS, & HONORS
2023
Shortlist, DISQUIET Literary Prize in Nonfiction
2022
Bread Loaf Summer Writers Conference, Middlebury, VT
Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland, OR
MICA Adjunct Faculty Grant for Notes on Breathlessness
2021
MASS MoCA residency, North Adams, MA
2019
UCSD Summer Research Fellowship, San Diego, CA
2018
UCSD Summer Research Fellowship, San Diego, CA
UCSD Winter Research Fellowship, San Diego, CA
Shortlist, DISQUIET Literary Prize in Nonfiction
Runner-up, Summer Literary Seminar Contest in Fiction
2017
UCSD Winter Research Fellowship, San Diego, CA
Artist in Residence, Institute for American Art, Portland, ME
Artist in Residence, A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA
2015
Seeking the Source, Alaskan Parks & Recreation Dept., Anchorage, AK
2014
Artist in Residence, ACE Hotel, NY, NY
2013
LMCC/Creative Capital Professional Development
Artist in Residence, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2012
iBñ grant recipient
Artist in Residence, Frog Hollow Farm, Lower Lake, California
Finalist, Bourse Jean Claude Reynal, École des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Every Bed I've Ever Slept In, Institute for American Art, Portland, ME
2016
(Untitled), four beds, IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Pillow Book, Flux Factory, Queens, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Out of Lines, La Jolla Public Library, La Jolla, CA.
2017
Unbound and Reincarnated: Beyond the Boundaries of the Book, Prizer Arts and Letters, Austin, TX
2015
FAIR Show, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
STROBE Network, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2014
Flux Hospital, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
Homecoming, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
You Made It!, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
ΣΩΜΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ/BODY AND POLITICS, EMBROS Theater, Athens, Greece
2013
Havana Muerte, Almost Holden Gallery, LA, CA
2012 
Objects as Subjects, Gallatin Gallery, NY, NY
Against the Frame, Gallatin Gallery, NY, NY
We Survived Our Youth, Gallatin Gallery, NY, NY
2011
Inventario, Fundación Ludwig, Havana, Cuba
2010 
The Gifted Show, Synchronicity Space, NY, NY
2009 
Visible/Invisible, Calumet Gallery, NY, NY
Young Artists Emerging in America, International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

READINGS, LECTURES, & CONFERENCES
2023
Boston University, Sculpture MFA
2022
Yale University, Sculpture MFA
Central St. Martin’s University of the Arts London, Narrative Environments MA
2021
Stanford University
Kaleidoscoped magazine launch, virtual
2021
University of Montevallo, Alabama
2019
NOW That’s What I Call Poetry, San Diego, CA
Immersive Design Summit, San Francisco, CA
2018
The Future of Storytelling, New York, NY
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, CA
2017
Malvern Books, Austin, TX
2016
BookCourt, Brooklyn, NY
Art + Hospitality, IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Poor and Literate, Berlin, Germany
2014
Psychogeography, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
ACE Hotel, New York, NY
Tenderpress Poetry Reading, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2013
Salon 122, New York, NY
Williamsburg Community Circus, Brooklyn, NY
After the Show, Segal Center, New York, NY
Fordham University, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Adventure Design Group, San Francisco, CA
Franconia Performance Salon, San Francisco, CA
2012
Lit Crawl, San Francisco, CA

COMMISSIONS
2014
chashama gala, Anita Durst, New York, NY
2010
Private Collection, New York, NY


COLLABORATIONS
2015
Seeking the Source, with Jimmy Riordan and others, Alaskan Parks & Recreation Dept, Anchorage, AK
2014
Oblivion and Daring, Odyssey Works, private commission, NY, NY
2013
When I Left the House it was Still Dark, Odyssey Works, BEAT Festival, NY, NY
2012 
The Narrative Spiral, Odyssey Works, SF, CA
The Map Is Not The Territory, Odyssey Works, NY, NY
Abcdefg Corps, with Ariel Abrahams, Wall Street to Main Street, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
2011 
Press Release, with Christina Thomopoulos, Between the Seas Festival, Wild Project Theatre, NY, NY


SELECT PRESS
2020
Strippers and Sages podcast, “Ayden LeRoux on the Aesthetics and Fragility of the Body”
2019
On Death podcast, “Interview with Ayden LeRoux”
2018
Microsoft Stories, “What’s the role of the audience?” and “How do you apply empathy in storytelling?”
The Guardian, “State of the Arts—Ayden LeRoux”
No Proscenium podcast, “The Immersive Five with Ayden LeRoux”
2017
Brooklyn Rail, “Radical Empathy: A Manifesto for the 21st Century"
Newsweek, “Elaborate Plays for Audience of One: Odyssey Works"
Baltimore City Paper, “Audience of One: Odyssey Works Engineers Transformative Experiences"
2016
Hyperallergic, “Airbnb’s Two-Faced Relationship with Artists and Art Organizations”
BOMB, “The Artificial Life”
Hyperallergic, “Immersive Artistic Journeys for Audiences of One”
Magenta, “This Art Collective Wants to Help You Be a Better Person”
Patch, “Williamsburg’s Cheapest Airbnb Listing Is Actually an Art Gallery, and You’re the Art”
Brooklyn Paper, “Take a dirt nap: Sleep on an earth-covered bed in a new art exhibit”
Bedford + Bowery, “Gallery Sleepover”
NPR’s Studio 360, “A Play Where You’re The Star But There’s No Script”
2015
Flirtmoji, “Ayden’s Chest” interview with Katy McCarthy.
CO LAB: Collaborative Design Survey, BIS Publishers, Amsterdam. Edited by Elizabeth Herrmann and Ryan Shelley.
Emergency Index Volume 3, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY. Edited by Yelena Gluzman.
2014
Vulture, “Who Staged a Months-Long Performance Just for Rick Moody?”
Fast Company, “Designing for Misuse”
Marina Abramovic Institute, Immaterial, “When I Left the House it Was Still Dark" 
Emergent Art Space, “Ayden Grout: Psychogeography and the New Lenses of Landscape at Flux Factory" 
Antro Positivo, “Visitando Odyssey Works" 
Theater, “After the Show: A Play Based on Actual Events”
Emergency Index Volume 2, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY. Edited by Yelena Gluzman.
2013
The Alcalde, “And You May Ask Yourself…How Did I Get Here?"
Cartel Urbano, "En Busca del Espectador Ideal" 
Metro, “Odyssey Works Changes Another Life at BEAT Festival" 
Urban Omnibus, “The City for an Audience of One" 
2012
New York Times, “A Waking Dream Made Just for You" 
ARTINFO, “Odyssey Works Produces Weekend-Long Theater for an Audience of One" 
San Francisco Magazine, “Sunday In SF: Casting Call for the World's Strangest Play"