Aidan White

I was born in Princeton, NJ, where I spent my first eight years living on a university campus. My grandmother, Joy Saville, was a well-regarded textile artist, and my mother studied art in college, so art has always been a part of my life. As a young child, my father would take me to the Princeton University Art Museum, where he would have me do a sort of scavenger hunt. I would have to look at the paintings to find things on the list – a man on a horse, a woman holding a baby, a mountain in the distance, a man with arrows sticking in him, or a man eating spaghetti. Later, after moving to the Berkshires, I would visit The Clark Art Institute or The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and wander around. Sometimes, I would make sketches of some of the paintings in Moleskine notebooks with my friend Emily who pointed out many interesting aspects of the works we saw. But in those days, my art was confined to drawing cartoons or making all sorts of contraptions in my dad’s woodworking shop.

I had no thought of becoming an artist or doing anything seriously with art when I was in high school. I put off taking the required art course until my senior year, chiefly because I did not want to subject myself to the constraints that I ima...

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA — AUGUST, 2020 – present. Painting major in B.F.A. program.

Berkshire Art Center, Stockbridge, MA – Fall, 2019, Winter, 2020 — Group and private instruction in drawing and painting.

“The Wonder in the Wander: Emerging Berkshire Artists Under 40”, Meeting House Gallery Fall Art Exhibition, New Marlborough, Massachusetts, September 17 - October 3, 2021

Awarded "Special Recognition," “Primary Colors” Juried Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, November 2022

"20-21-22 Juried Exhibition", The James Library & Center for the Arts, Norwell, Massachusetts, November 4 - December 17, 2022

Bronze Award, "5th Annual Portraits 2022 International Juried Painting Competition," Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, November 2022 - January 2023

"42nd Annual Faber Birren National Color Show", Stamford Art Association Townhouse Gallery, Stamford, CT, December 11, 2022 - January 19, 2023

"2023 Winter Juried Exhibition", Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, January 3 - 28, 2023

"Unfinished," an Invitational Exhibition of the Berkshire Art Association, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA, March 24 - April 6, 2023

Berkshire Art Association College Fellowship Juried Show, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA, April 2023

"51st Annual Mark Twain Library Art Show", Redding, CT, December 1-10, 2023