BIO
Driven by her love of materials and process, New Orleans artist Aimée Farnet Siegel creates non-objective two- and three-dimensional works that investigate the energy generated by complementary and contradictory forces. Her raw yet sophisticated aesthetic oscillates between structured and organic, monochromatic and multi-colored, clarity and confusion, safety and freedom.
She is represented by Ferrara Showman Gallery in New Orleans and Spalding Nix Gallery in Atlanta. Her work is included in prominent collections such as the Morgan Stanley Collection, the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, and the Donna snd Ben Rosen collection. Aimee has also completed large-scale commissions including a 48-piece installation for the Four Seasons Hotel, New Orleans.
Curriculum
Vita
Solo Exhibitions
2023
’Pendulum’
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
New Orleans, LA
‘Art on Paper’
Art Fair
New York, NY
2022
Turning Point, Main Gallery, “Gift Re-gifted”,
Spalding Nix Fine Art
Atlanta GA
2019 ‘Principle of Uncertainty’
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
‘UnHinge’
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2018
’The Space Between’
Barrister’s Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2016
’Momentum and My Muse’
Barrister’s Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2013
’No Hiding’
Barrister’s Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2012
’Living on Stilts’
Gallery 3001, Joey K’s Restaurant
New Orleans, LA
Group Exhibitions
2025 ‘This City Holds Us – Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina’
Ferrara Showman Gallery
July 23 – September 13, 2025
New Orleans, LA
2024 ‘Salon Zürcher: 100 Women of Spirit ’
Zürcher Gallery
New York, NY (September 2–8, 2024)
‘Eight Takes’
The New Orleans Academy of Art
New Orleans, LA
San Francisco Art Fair
San Francisco, CA
2023 ‘In Light Of’
Dane Ledet Gallery, Nicholls State University
Thibodeaux, LA
‘Gentling’
Sybil Gallery
New Orleans, LA
‘Faculty Exhibition’
New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts
New Orleans, LA
‘Ensemble’
Spalding Nix Fine Art
Atlanta, GA
2022
’Faculty Exhibition’
New Orleans Academy of Fine Art
New Orleans, LA
2019
’Hot Line’
Spalding Nix Fine Art
Atlanta, GA
2018
’Thirty New Orleans Artists’
The Second Story Gallery, New Orleans Healing Center
New Orleans, LA
‘Into the Blue: Artist Invitational’
Blue Spiral Gallery
Asheville, NC
2017
’Fivefecta’
Degas Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2016
’La Femme’
The New Orleans Art Center
New Orleans, LA
2014
’Imago Mundi: New Orleans Repatriation, Prospect.3 Adjunct’
New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA
‘Recent Works’
The Georges Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2013
’Louisiana Contemporary’
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, LA
2009
’Art in a Box’
RHINO Contemporary Crafts
New Orleans, LA
2006
’The Gift Box, Georges Art Gallery’
Metairie Park Country Day School
New Orleans, LA
Artist Residences, Grants, and Awards
2023
Vermont Studio Center
Johnson, VT
2018
Harpo Foundation, Inc.
Grant recipient
2018, 2017, 2016
Directed Independent Study
Aimone Studio
Thomaston, MA
Collections
Morgan Stanley Collection New York, NY
Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans
48 works commissioned for the Executive Suites
Keith Fox and Tom Keyes Collection
New York, NY
Donna and Ben Rosen Collection
New York, NY
Walda and Sydney Besthoff Collection
New Orleans, LA
Andrea Andersson and John Cable Collection
New Orleans, LA
Dathel and Tommy Coleman Collection
New Orleans, LA
Pia and Malcolm Ehrhardt Collection
New Orleans, LA; New York, NY
Sheila Bosworth and Thomas B. Lemann Collection
New Orleans, LA
Michael Wilkinson Collection
New Orleans, LA
Curatorial
2019
’Group Exhibition’
Barrister’s Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2019
’Student Show’
The New Orleans Academy of Fine Art
New Orleans, LA
2005
’T-Shirt Show – Reactions to a Natural Disaster’
Georges Art Gallery, Metairie Park Country Day School
New Orleans, LA
2004
’Toys R Art – Artists whose work is inspired by toys’
Georges Art Gallery, Metairie Park Country Day School
New Orleans, LA
Teaching
2018 – 2022
Instructor
New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts
Education
2008 – 2022
Ongoing education, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts
1984
BFA from Louisiana State University