PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

-"DOGNY"

-"NEW DISCRETIONS"

-"FUTUREWORLD"

-"GRAFUCK 4"

-"48 BARRIOS"

-"ARTISTAS TRABAJANDO"

-Juxtapoz Magazine

-Supersonic Art

-Fecalface

-Castworld

-SubterranioMag

-Savoteur

-Faesthetic

-Clarin

-The Argentine Indipendent

-My Beautiful Aire

-WUBA

-WKD MAG

-Newsday- 

-Wallpaper

-90+10

-Town and Country

-Pagina 12

-Muyricotodo

-DCGV

-Phantasmaphile

-Brooklyn Streetart

-Mundo Flaneur

-Plinth et.al

-La Nacion

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 b. 1977 / NY, New York

EDUCATION

New school University, NY

Parsons School of Design, NY

Gerrit Reitveld Acadamie, NL

EMPLOYMENT

Past

Felissimo Design House NY / JP

Curator / Project Coordinator

Present

Honeycomb Arts

Founder / Director

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Trystan Bates is a Contemporary Visual artist, Curator, and Founding Director of Honeycomb Arts. .

He has for the past sixteen years been developing Honeycomb and his artistic practice while exhibiting internationally in solo and group shows throughout galleries, museums and cultural institutions in the U.S., Latin America and Europe.

His process is interdisciplinary with a focus on hand torn collage that gives a new life to discarded paper sourced through recycling centers that is then painted and carefully torn by hand with tweezers into the multitude of shapes used for each composition. His process is solitary, tedious, methodical and time consuming. The production of each piece is a meditative experience that forces him to slow down to a fraction of the speed at which modern society operates. 

Trystan typically works either in miniature format, producing collages under a magnifying glass with hundreds of pieces of paper that are sometimes as small as a pin head, or inversely in a very large scale with pieces that are anywhere from 9m2 to mural size. He appreciates and plays with the concept that the size of a finished piece has a direct effect on a viewers experience and can influence ones physical behavior. Thematically, Trystans' work is centered greatly around the abstraction of folklore, myth, migration and global history. The documentation of memory and the importance of vanishing indigenous culture has also played a significant part in his work.

In 2019, Trystan relocated his studio to Weston Vermont. It is in this green wilderness where he currently lives and works. While continuing to produce his signature collages which he has become known for, Trystan is also working on developing a series of future exhibitions produced specifically for children, translating his two dimensional  art into three dimensional kinetic sculpture and organizing a series of environmental residencies for international artists with a target date of 2021. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AS ARTIST

-"FOTOPUB" / Novo Mesto, Slovenia -"FOTORIO" / Citywide, public installation, Rio De Janiero

-"U ARE I AM" / U.S. Traveling group exhibition 

-"TAKING IT TO THE STREETS" / Group exhibition, Puffin Foundation NJ / New York,   NY

-"DOGNY" / Public installation Commissioned by AKC & City Of New York

-"GHOSTS OF A FORGOTTEN CITY" / Solo exhibition Oxiro Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"NEW DISCRETIONS" / Traveling group exhibition U.S.A.

-"PEPPERMINT SMOKE" / Solo exhibition, Aforest Gallery, New York, NY

-"FUTURE WORLD" / Group Exhibition at Zakka Gallery New York, NY

-"MOYTOY" - Group Exhibition at Moytoy Gallery, Latvia

 -"PHOBIAS" - Group Exhibition at Pictoplasma Festival, Berlin

-"GRAFUCK" - Group Exhibition,  Gallery Nucleus, California

-"48 BARRIOS" - Group Exhibition, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires

-"ARTISTAS TRABAJANDO" - Group Exhibition, Casa de Cultura, Buenos Aires

-"PASTEMODERNISM"- Ambush Gallery, Sydney Australia

-"RUSSIANS" - Group Exhibition Rotopol Galery,

Kassel, Germany

-"STROKE 2" Group Exhibition , Munich, Germany

-"VIBRATIONS" - Eggo Art Fair, Buenos Aires

-"LIFE" - Solo Exhibition, Matienschon, Buenos AIres

-"POP UP II" - Group Exhibition, Espacio Cafferana, Buenos Aires

-"CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SUN" - Benefit auction piece Sothebys / Paddle 8 

-"RITUAL" - Group Exhibition, Causey Contemporary Gallery,  Brooklyn NY  

-"METROPOLIS" - Group Exhibition, Fundacion ICBC, Buenos Aires

-"EVOLUTION" - Group Exhibition, Honeycomb Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"FADING FAST" - Group Exhibition & ltd. release with EachOne for Art Asia/Fountain ArtFair 

-"QUORUM" - Group Exhibition, Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires

-"FOLIO SESSIONS" - Group Exhibition, Caja Blanca, Buenos Aires

-"500 Con" - Group Exhibition, Thisisnotagallery, Buenos Aires

-"LOVE" - Group Exhibition, Honeycomb Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"THE STORY OF THIS PLACE " - Ongoing interactive project and public art installation

-"FABERGE EGG HUNT" - Public commission for Faberge, New York NY

-"MYTH" - Group Exhibition curated by Juxtapoz Magazine/Art.com, New York

-"MEMORY" - Solo Exhibition at Meta Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"GREENKEY INITIATIVE 01" - Environmental Artist Residency in Guna Yala 

-“NEW MINIATURES” - Quorum Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"MAIN AND STATION" - ARTIST RESIDENCY AND EXHIBITION (2020) Nova Scotia, Canada

SELECTED PROJECTS AS CURATOR

-"FADING FAST" - Collaboration with Each/One for ArtAsia Fountain Fair

-"FOLIO SESSIONS" - Group Exhibition, Caja Blanca, Buenos Aires

-"500 CON" - Group Exhiibition, Thisisnotagallery, Buenos Aires

-"RITUAL" - Group Exhibition, Cause Contemporary Brooklyn NY

-"STROKE ART FAIR" - Group Exhibition for Stroke Art Fair Munich

-"MART/AIRE" - Solo Exhibition of MART, Honeycomb Showroom, Buenos Aires

-"ROA" - Solo Exhibition of Diego Roa, Honeycomb Showroom, Buenos Aires

-"NAPP"- Solo Exhibition of French Napp, Honeycomb Showroom, Buenos Aires

-"PASTEL" - Solo Exhibition of Francisco Diaz, Honeycomb Showroom, Buenos Aires

- "A SEAT AT THE TABLE"- Conceptual culinary project with Francisco Diaz/PASTEL, Argentina

-"SAEL"- Solo Exhibition of Jose Sael Alfonso, Honeycomb Showroom, Buenos Aires

-"ALAN BERRY RHYS" - Solo Exhibition Alan Berry Rhys, Honeycomb Showroom Buenos Aires

 -"GUALICHO" - Solo exhibition of Pablo Harymbat, Honeycomb Showroom Buenos Aires

-"POETA" - Solo Exhibition of Christian Riffel, Honeycomb Showroom , Buenos Aires

-"CONSTITUCION" - Pol Corona & Rodrigo Rodriguez ,Constitucion,  Buenos Aires

-"IDENTITY" Group Exhibition at Honeycomb Gallery Buenos Aires

-"IN THE BOX" Storefront residency with PURO &

Martin Lapalma

-"IN THE BOX" Storefront Residency with SAEL & PURO

-"EVOLUTION" - Group exhibition, Honeycomb Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"INSPIRIT" - Exhibition and Fabric collection with Jose Sael/SAEL, Borneo, and  Cobrinha, Honeycomb Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"LOVE" Group Exhibition, Honeycomb Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"CAPSULE 01" - Solo exhibition of Lucas Lasnier / Parbo, Fierro Hotel Buenos Aires

-"HONEYCOMB ARTIST RESIDENCY" - Buenos Aires Artist in Residence with Alice Mizrachi

-"TRIPLE CONVERSACION"- Group Exhibition, Honeycomb Gallery, Buenos Aires

-"SAEL + SUPERFRIENDS" - Group Exhibition and Artist Tour, Tokyo

-"PARA VIVIR AQUI" - Solo Show Martin Lapalma at Babel Hotel, Buenos Aires

-"GREENKEY RESIDENCY" - Environmental artist residency in Guna Yala .

-"SACRED JOURNEY" - Culinary Art project with Contemporary artist Alice Mizrachi, Brooklyn NY

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PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

-"DOGNY"

-"NEW DISCRETIONS"

-"FUTUREWORLD"

-"GRAFUCK 4"

-"48 BARRIOS"

-"ARTISTAS TRABAJANDO"

-Juxtapoz Magazine

-Supersonic Art

-Fecalface

-Castworld

-SubterranioMag

-Savoteur

-Faesthetic

-Clarin

-The Argentine Indipendent

-My Beautiful Aire

-WUBA

-WKD MAG

-Newsday- 

-Wallpaper

-90+10

-Town and Country

-Pagina 12

-Muyricotodo

-DCGV

-Phantasmaphile

-Brooklyn Streetart

-Mundo Flaneur

-Plinth et.al

-La Nacion