Aurel Schmidt was born in Kamploos, British Colombia and currently lives and works in New York City. Schmidt was included in Phaidon’s Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (2013) and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Deitch Projects, New York, and Peres Projects, Los Angeles, as well as self organized pop-up exhibitions throughout New York City. Schmidt was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and has contributed to group exhibitions at Romeo, New York; Lomex, New York; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Marianne Boesky, New York; Marlborough Contemporary, New York; Saatchi Gallery, London; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Greece; and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, among others.