Biography
Photo: Carolyn McCarthy
Photo: Carolyn McCarthy
Aaron Decker is an American Jeweler and enamellist based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, home to Rosie the Riveter and the Willow Run airport where B-24 Liberator Heavy Bombers were manufactured for the second World War. Growing up on military bases across the country, Deckers' close relationship to his grandfather, a clock smith, drove Decker to pursue jewelry.
Decker graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015 after his undergraduate studies and international residencies. Awarded the Mercedes-Benz Emerging Artist award in 2015, Decker went on to receive the Windgate Fellowship, The Marzee Graduate Prize, and has been a 3 time Finalist for the Art Jewelry Forum Young Artist Award. Aaron Decker jewelry is housed in both private and public collections and shows regularly internationally.
Decker is also regarded as a young talent who lectures, teaches, and contributes his critical voice to the field writing for publications such as CURRENT-OBSESSION, and ART JEWELRY FORUM. He was one of two writers selected for Ruudt Peters Retrospective Catalogue, BRON, accompanying the opening of Peter' retrospective at the CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, and sits on the publication advisory committee for Art Jewelry Forum.
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