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Fred Tomaselli
CV
1956 Born in Santa Monica, California
Lives and works in Brooklyn
Education
1982 BA, Painting and Drawing, California State University, Fullerton, California
Grants and Awards
1998 Joan Mitchell Grant
1993 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, City Hall, New York
Public Art Commissions
1990 Percent for Art Commission, New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Fred Tomaselli, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, New York
2009
Fred Tomaselli, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London
2006
Fred Tomaselli, James Cohan Gallery
2005
Fred Tomaselli, Carlier - Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2004
Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London, UK (through January 22, 2005)
Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise, organized by Fiona Bradley, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveling to Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (March 9 – June 19, 2005); The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (September 15 – December 5, 2005) (catalogue)
2003
Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York
James Cohan Gallery, New York
2001
White Cube, London
Gravity’s Rainbow, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Fred Tomaselli: 10-Year Survey, curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; traveled to SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000
Phrase Book (text by Rick Moody, illustrated by Fred Tomaselli), Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
James Cohan Gallery, New York
1999
Gravity’s Rainbow, curated by Eugenie Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York (catalogue)
Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1998
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1997
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1996
Fred Tomaselli, The Urge to Be Transported, co-curated by Marilu Knode
and Rene Pritikin, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens,
San Francisco, California; Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California; Rice University, Houston, Texas; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1995
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California (catalogue)
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1994
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1993
Josh Baer Gallery, New York
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1992
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991
White Columns Gallery, curated by Bill Arning, New York
Randy Alexander Gallery, New York
1990
Artist’s Space, curated by Cornelia Butler, Project Room, New York
1987
P.S. 1 Museum, curated by Tom Finkelpearl, Long Island City, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
The Beauty of Distance, 17th International Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Between the Worlds, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
2009
The World In The Body, Medicine, Life and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Universal Code, Powerplant, Toronto
2008
Multiverse, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Molecules that Matter, Tang Teaching Museum, New York
You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube, Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London
It's Gouache & Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
Art is For The Spirit: Work from The UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Prospect 1, New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans, LA
Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists, The Dairy, London
2007
If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
Molecules That Matter, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York
If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
The Paper Sculpture Show, Austin Museum of Art, Austin
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2006
The Paper Sculpture Show, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, OH
Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum, New York
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
The Paper Sculpture Show, The Contemporary, Atlanta
2005
Swarm, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (December 3 – March 18 2006)
Quantum Grids: Cai Guo-Ciang, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, and Fred Tomaselli, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (through April 16, 2006)
Vertiges, Printemps de septembre à Tolouse, France(September 23 – October 16, 2005)
Neo-Baroque!, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, organized by Paul Schimmel with Gloria Sutton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Landscape, curated by Donna De Salvo, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
POPulence, curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (September 15-December 20, 2005), and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (January 21-April 2, 2006) (catalogue)
Over + Over: Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign; traveling to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA (catalogue)
COLLAGE signs & surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Flower Myth. Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
2004
PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Destinations, curated by Cydney Payton,
Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, CO (through January 2, 2005)
Birdspace: A Post Audubon Artists Aviary, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
The Flower as Image, curated by Ernst Jonas Bencard and Poul Erik Tøjner,
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity, curated by Bob Nickas and Steve Lafreniere,
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Material Evidence: Artists Revisit Process, Bellevue Art Museum,
Washington
Summer Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, curated by Robert Storr, 5th International Biennial, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Popstraction, Deitch Projects, New York
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
2004 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
For the Birds, curated by Denise Markonish, Artspace, New Haven
Indivisible Cities, curated by Jason Paradis, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
2003
Transfigurations: The Body in 20th Century Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Happiness: a survival focus guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Japan, curated by David Elliot
Arrangement: The Use of Flowers in Art, Rhodes + Mann, London
Post Op, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCAC, San Francisco
The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (book)
High & Inside, Marlborough Chelsea, New York.
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Shine, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2003
The Great Drawing Show, 1550-2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, April 12-May 31, 2003
The Ganzfeld (Unbound), curated by Nadel, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
2002
Psychodrome.02: Michel Gouery, Franz Ackerman, Fred Tomaselli, curated by Grazia Quaroni and David Renaud, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (through Feb. 2003) (catalogue)
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
Visions of America: Photographs from the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward: Selected Works by Harry Smith, Philip
Taaffe and Fred Tomaselli, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Self-Medicated, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
On Perspective, Galleri Faurschou, Kobenhavn, Denmark.
The Carpenter Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
2001
Berlin Biennale, curated by Saskia Bos, Berlin, Germany.
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, curated by Lene Burkard Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark. Traveled to:
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland (January-March 2002)
10 Years Gebauer, Gallerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Luck of the Drawn: Works on Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
ARS 01, curated by Patrik Nyberg, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
The Americans – New Art, curated by Mark Sladen, Barbican Gallery, London, England
Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Cotemporary Art, San Diego, California (catalogue)
The Passions: from Brueghel to Viola, James Cohan Gallery, New York
College Proofs: The River House Edition Collection at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Art at the Edge of the Law, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2000
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
The Lyon Biennial, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
The Visionary Landscape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Art, Exit Art/The First World, New York
Fred Tomaselli: Recent Print Acquisitions, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, curated by Marente Bloemheuvel and Jaap Guldemond, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Made in California, curated by Lynn Zelevanksy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Open Ends: MoMA 2000, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000 from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, curated by Bice Curiger
Selections From the Philip Morris Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
1999
The Nature of Order, James Cohan Gallery New York
Animal Artifice, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
The Ecstatic, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York
Wildflowers, Katona Museum of Art, Katona, New York
The Great Drawing Show: 1985-1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Pleasure Dome, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York
Pattern, James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York
Ultra Buzz, Gallery of Art-Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
Post-Hypnotic, curated by Barry Blinderman, organized by Illinois State University, University Galleries, Normal, Illinois. Exhibition traveled through 2001 to: The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; SECCA,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina; The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida
1998
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Pop Abstraction, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Project 63: Karin Davie, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred Tomaselli, curated by Lillian Tone and Ann Umland, The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork
Perspectives on Infinity, TransAmerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, California
Utopia, Roebling Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
International Home and Garden, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Pusan Contemporary Art Museum, Pusan, Korea
1997
Heart, Mind, Body and Soul, curated by Thelma Golden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Icon/Iconoclast, curated by Raymond Foye, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New York
Personal Absurdities, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Paper Trail, curated by Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk, Perogie 2000, Brooklyn, New York
Animal Tales, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Redefinitions: A View from Brooklyn, curated by Charlotta Kotik, California State University, Fullerton, California
A Passion for Picture; Selections from the Charles H. Carpenter Jr. Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Just What Do You Think You’re Doing Dave, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Out There: Images of the Cosmos, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
Contemporary Collectors XII, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla,
California
1996
Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth, curated by James Rondeau, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece; Museu d’Art
Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Castello di Rivoli and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Charles H. Carpenter Jr., The Odyssey of a Collector, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Fragments, Museu d’Arte Contemporanei Barcelona, Spain
Brazil/USA Exchange, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
1996
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
TRANS/INTER/POST: Hybrid Spaces, University of California, Irvine
Other Subjects, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Luminous Bodies, curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Patterns of Excess, Art Gallery, Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania
America Dreamin, curated by Heidi Zuckerman, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
1995
Altered and Irrational, curated by Beth Venn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting Outside Painting, curated by Terrie Sultan, The Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
On Beauty, curated by Dan Cameron, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Brave New World, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Abstraction Faite, Gilbert Brownstone and Galerie Mateo, Paris, France
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
(still life, portrait, landscape), Bravin Post Lee, New York
Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Pittura/Immediata, curated by Peter Wieble, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
Narrative, Graham Modern, New York
It’s only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, curated by David S. Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1994
Fool’s Paradise, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Promising Suspects, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Jet Lag, Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Arabesque, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
Benefit Exhibition and Sale for Independent Curators, curated by Dan Cameron, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Residence Secondaire, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Carré St-Nicolas, Paris, France
Five New York Artists, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden
Modus Operandi, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York
About Time, T’Zart & Co., New York
Selections, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York
Group Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993
Abstraction for the Information Age, curated by Irit Krygier, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, California
Mimosa, Food House, Santa Monica, California
Six Young Americans, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Tele-Aesthetics, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, curated by Tom Patchett, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Fever, Exit Art, New York
Recycling Reconsidered, curated by Suzanne Weaver, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
A Collector’s Choice, Joan Washburn Gallery, New York
Poverty Pop, Exit Art, New York
The Final Frontier, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Interzone, John Post Lee Gallery, New York
True Love, Dooley La Cappellaine Gallery, New York
1992
Fred Tomaselli, Keith Coventry, Carl Ostendarp, David Dupuis, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
Special Project, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Voyage to the Nth Dimension, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Ecstasy, Dooley La Cappellaine Gallery, New York
1991
Brooklyn, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
White Bird, curated by Hudson, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
From Sculpture, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, New York
Certainty Uncertainty, Deutsche Bank, Lobby Gallery, New York
Maps & Madness, curated by Fred Wilson, Longwood Arts Gallery, New York
1990
Out of Sight, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
Garbage Out Front: A New Era in Public Design (a collaboration with
Mierle Laderman Ukeles), Urban Center, New York
Reconnaissance, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
Works on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York
Art Awareness, Arts Center, Lexington, New York
Ten Q, Ihara Ludens Gallery, New York
An Army of Lovers, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York
1988
Art in Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
The Center Show, Lesbian and Gay Community Center, New York
The First Amendment Show, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York
1987
Movietone Muse, Penn Plaza, New York
1985
Off the Street, Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, California
Modern Times, Irit Krygier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
LACE Salutes Pershing Square, Pershing Square Park, Los Angeles, California
Loco Motion, California State University, Los Angeles, California
1984
Four Installations, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Cotton Exchange Show, sponsored by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, California
The Crap Show, curated by Paul McCarthy, Orwell Memorial ArtSpace, Los Angeles, California
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