Ceci n’est pas une Babylone.
2025:
FEB Guest Artist, Studio 213, SoWa Artist Studios, Boston, MA
2024:
OCT Lifting the Veil, Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, VT.
SEP Installation of work in Back Bay Citizen M hotel, Boston, MA.
MAR 18: Rachael’s Appeal, MIT Technology Review: The quest to legitimize longevity medicine
FEB Milestone: Certified Artist, City of Boston, valid through 2032.
JAN 16: For Gloria, MIT Technology Review: How AI is changing gymnastics judging
2023:
NOV 18 & 19: Harboring Creativity; at the ICA/Watershed; East Boston, MA.
16—Dec. 2023: Small Works Exhibit, QArts Gallery, Quincy, MA
AUG TINY ART 4 ALL Gallery; Northampton, MA.
JUN JUNO; at FUTURE LAB(S) GALLERY, North Adams, MA. w/ Sarah Adam.
MAY M’AIDEZ; at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA; w/ Eric Hess.
2022:
SEP Group Exhibition; at FUTURE LAB(S) GALLERY, North Adams, MA.
JUL Still Friends; at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA; w/ Dinah Ribarsky.
2021:
DEC TWENTY21; solo exhibition at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
OCT SPECTRA; curator. ClipArt Gallery, Clippership Wharf, East Boston, MA.
AUG Friend Zoned; at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA; w/ Sarah Adam.
JUN some assembly required; curation: BLAA, at Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA.
JAN limited serigraphs released.
2020:
NOV solo & group exhibitions as curating lead artist & member;
Babylon & Co. at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA,
Solace: a group show at ClipArt Gallery, Clippership Wharf, East Boston, MA
FEB Burning Manhood, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
JAN membership accepted at Atlantic Works Gallery.
2019: an autoäpotheosis of Ian Babylon.
2018: sisterwerx reaches unanimous consensus to conclude and dissolve.
2016: sisterwerx awarded cover of the 2016 Boston Pride Guide.
2015: sisterwerx invited as a satellite member of Atlantic Works Gallery.
2014: co-founding of sisterwerx, an international art collective.
2010: relocated to Boston, MA.
2008: B.A. of Anthropology & Art History, UMASS Amherst.
1985: born, Springfield, MA.
BIOGRAPHY
Ian Hermès Babylon (he/they) is a multi-media artist who lives and works along the riverside lands of the Indigenous Massachusett peoples. Ian’s background and continued passion for Anthropology and Art History fuse in an array of expression: from hand-cut collage to free monthly full moon dances. Dada, Absurdism, & Satire help him cope with minding the Abyss of Terminal Stage Capitalism. Themes of power, community, alternative pasts and futures, and ecological salvation flow together into the primary currents of his work while navigating the Living River of time and space.
My childhood was spent scouting hemlock forests and vernal pools of the pre-Berkshire hilltowns only just westward of the Connecticut River Valley before coming of age in the crucible that is Chicopee, MA. Due to systemic negligence I sought my fortunes elsewhere, so off to the Boston area I landed some 15 years ago. The friends along the way have made all the difference. :]
I am active in the Reclaiming Tradition and the Nor’East Web community. Unusual houseplants and all music are additional passions. My preferred scholarly readings include: Pyramid Collection, derelict auction catalogues, Time-Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown series, and the works of Patti Smith, Carl Sagan, Robert A. Heinlein, John Waters, Helen Molesworth, Susan Sontag, and Joseph Campbell.
With due notice you are always welcome for Sunday Tea,
simply drop me a line to find a time that works for us both.
Until then Sailor,
-Ian Babylon