Ahavani Mullen

Ahavani Mullen is a visual artist whose paintings, sculptures and installations are engaged with consciousness and materiality. Her current work uses the energetic imprint of specific sounds to absorb and view vibration.

 

She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Tusen Takk Foundation, the Macedonia Institute, Vermont Studio Center and Hypatia Trust. Other honors include awards from James Rondeau, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, and grants from 3Arts, Chicago DCASE, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. 

 

Her work has been written about by Lori Waxman in Newcity, Kate Mothes in YoungSpace, Katie Pilgrim in Lifted Lab, Christina Nafziger in Create Magazine, Philip Hartigan in Praeterita, and Studio Visit Magazine.

 

Selected solo shows include those at the Dennos Museum, CIRCA Gallery, Olivet Nazarene University, One River School of Art + Design, South Suburban College and Gallery 1871. Group exhibitions include those at Northwestern University, SHRINE Gallery NYC, Rockford Art Museum, Hyde Park Art Center, Freeport Art Museum, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Illinois Institute of Technology, and University of Maryland.