Aaron Krach was born in Ionia, Michigan on February 15, 1972. He grew up in Alhambra, California, and graduated from Alhambra High School. He attended the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, CA, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1994. Aaron Krach moved to New York City in 1995. He now lives on Manhattan's lower east side.

Journalist

Krach has written for Time Out New York, Out magazine, InStyle, , Oui, The independent film & video monthly, Indie Wire, HX, The Villager, a former editor of Empire Magazine, arts editor of Gay City News, and was a former editor of Empire in New York City, and was a senior editor at Cargo, which work was lengthily quoted in San Diego Union Tribune. He was an editor at BravoTV.com, and affiliated sites OUTzoneTV.com and BrilliantButCancelled.com. He is currently a features editor at House Beautiful, a Hearst publication.

Author

Krach's debut novel Half-Life was published to critical acclaim by Alyson Books in 2004. The novel was nominated for a Violet Quill Award and was among the 2004 Lambda Literary Award finalists. Of Half-Life, Reed Business Information wrote "Gay readers will relish the attention lavished on love's growing pains and the smart dialogue between Adam and his high school buddy".His second book, 100 New York Mysteries, was published in 2006.

Nominations

• 2004, nominated for Lambda Literary Award for Half-Life
• 2004, nominated for a Violet Quill Award for Half-Life

Artist

His work has been exhibited in Olympia, Washington, New York City, St. Petersburg, Florida, and Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006, his solo exhibition titled "100 New York Mysteries" was presented at DCKT Contemporary in Chelsea, New York. In 2007, new photographs and sculpture have been exhibited at 3rd Ward in Greenpoint, Jack The Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, Gallery 312 Online in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Massachusetts's College of Liberal Arts. In 2009, "Longer Periods of Happiness," appeared at DCKT in Manhattan.

Curator

In October, 2009, he curated the exhibition, "Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things". Artists featured include: Alex Da Corte, Carl Ferrero, Dana Frankfort, Incidental, Chris Johanson, Cary Leibowitz, Gillian MacLeod, Mark Mahosky, Heath Nash, Kate O'Connor, Jack Pierson, Megan Plunkett, Franklin Preston, Trevor Reese, Alyce Santoro, Sighn, Mickey Smith, Charlie Welch, and Shawn Wolfe.

Of Krach's work in an art show in January 2009, Christopher Muther of Boston Globe wrote "Balancing the seriousness of Burtonwood and Holmes's political tees is the work of New York artist Aaron Krach, whose art plays with the familiar."