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Aiden Niepold (b. 1997), is an Irish American, visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Raised both in a Zen practice through his father who studied as a monk at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji and a Socratic education through his mother a mathemrician and academic, Aiden's work centers around the intersection of spirit, identity, ceremony and purpose through the daily attempt to connect the dots between our human nowness and a collective oneness. Due to birth complications, Aiden was born without oxygen for several minutes and consequently is blind in one eye, which required intensive patching of his seeing eye through early childhood. In the space of blindness early in life, paired with a spiritual practice surrounding impermanence and Socratic model of analysis- Aiden later in life discovered painting as a physical practice for exploring the non-physical

Aiden pursued his early art education at Hjerleid Handverskolen, an atelier-style arts school in Dovre, Norway, focused on traditional carpentry and metalwork. During his time in Norway, he engaged in the Hjerleid fellowship in Florence, Italy, with a focus on Renaissance period painting and art history. Upon his return to the United States, Aiden was accepted as a student fellow at DC's Folger Library, where he studied Shakespearean era text and Northern Renaissance art and poetry. Acting on the guidance of one of his art mentors at the time,  AD 100's - Darryl Carter, Aiden pursued and completed degrees in both Interior Architecture and Business at the University of Maryland, concentrating on the commodification of fine art. Beyond his direct art experiences, Aiden has been part of the senior leadership teams at RH, Roche Bobois, and presently serves as the director of the Richard Taittinger Gallery.

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For all inquires: info@aidenniepold.com​

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