AYDEN LEROUX
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS, & HONORS
2025-2026
Artist in Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
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
Artist in Residence, MASS MoCA Assets for Artists, 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
2024
There Are Mountains Underneath Us, Odyssey Works, Vesoul, France (Co-director)
2022
The Road to TAZ, Odyssey Works, Lisbon, Portugal (Co-director)
2019
The First Chapter, Odyssey Works, Rochester, NY (Co-director)
2018
The Woven Life, Odyssey Works, Baja, Mexico (Co-director)
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
2025
Irish Independent, “A life-changing theatre experience that takes place only once…to an audience of one”
2024
Another Way podcast, “A Waking Dream for an Audience of One”
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"