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PAMELA FRASER
EDUCATION
1992
MFA, New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1988
BFA, Painting (Honors), School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1983-1985
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1988
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
The Blaffer Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2011
Gahlberg Gallery, MacAnich Center for the Arts, College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, IL
2010
Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
1k Projectspace de Ekster, Amsterdam, NL
2007
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
2005
Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2002
Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2001
Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
asprey jaqcues, London, England
2000
Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY
Shipper+Krome, Berlin, Germany
1998
Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY
1996
Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
(DARLING) You Send Me, Galerie Bigger and Better, Vienna, Austria
Everything Must Go, A Project with Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by Jose Noe Suro, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
All in the Family, The Green Line, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Crime and Ornament (and Crime), ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL, curated by Brandon Alvederia
New Icon, Loyola University Museum of the Arts, Chicago, IL
That Object of Nostalgia, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining, curated by Bad at Sports, Apex Art, New York, NY
Power to the People, Feature, New York, NY
Happens Everyday: Pamela Fraser, David Wilson, Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
REFLECTION: 15 YEARS, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Office Romance: Spring 2010 Fundraiser and Auction, threewalls, Chicago, IL
Of the Moment, 2010 Benefit, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
2009
Artists Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
pop, sizzle, hum, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
because the night, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Orange, CA
(catalogue)
Abnormal Formal I, KUNZ, VIS, GONZALEZ, Chicago, IL; New York, NY
2007
This Winter, Casey Kaplan, NY
Giftland VIII, Printed Matter, NY
Thinking in Color, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Pop Art: 1960′s – 2000′s: From Misumi Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki; traveling to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; and Hachioji Yume Art Museum (catalogue)
Forest Assembly, GAD, Oslo, Norway
2006
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960′s-2000′s: From Lichtenstein and Warhol to the
Current Generation,
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Too Much Love, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, organized by Amy Adler
Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Stuttgart,
Germany (catalogue)
2005-2006
The Party, Casey Kaplan, New York
DaimlerChrysler New Acquisitions, Sammlung DaimlerChysler, Berlin,
Germany
2005
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (catalogue)
The Dazzling Show, Roellin Duerr Gallery, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Goodbye Fourteenth Street, Casey Kaplan, New York
Especial, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2004
Programme XIII, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
2003
Some things we like, Asprey Jacques, London, England
2002
Framing My View, Gallery Maze, Turin, Italy
Summer Cinema, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York
Happy Birthday!, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2001
Hallucinating Love, Asprey Jacques, London, England
Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Wedding Show, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York
2000
Abstract; Jeff Elrod and Pamela Fraser, Schipper + Krome, Berlin, Germany
Come in and find out, vol IV, Podewil Centre, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Jeff Burton, Miles Coolidge, Pamela Fraser, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York
1999-2000
Colour Me Blind, Painting in Times of Comics and Computer Games,
Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Stadtische Ausstellungeshalle am Hawerkamp, Munster, Germany; Dundee
Contemporary Art, Dundee, Scotland (catalogue)
1999
Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green?, Elga Wimmer, New York
The Stroke, Exit Art, New York (selected by David Reed)
1999 Biennial Exhibition, The Ewing Gallery,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
1998
From Here to Eternity, Max Protetch, New York
Son of a Guston, Clementine Gallery, New York
Cold Spring, Cornish Estate, Cold Spring, NY, curated by Regine Basha, Christoph Gerozissis and Anton Vidokle
1996
The Strange Power of Cheap Sentiment (or A Bientôt to Irony),
White Columns, New York (curated by Bill Arning)
1995
Lotus Motel, Lotus Motel, Inglewood, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • “threewalls expands the CSA model to art,” Time Out Chicago, April 20, 2011
  • “threewalls Chicago Art Farm: Can high culture be marketed like agriculture?,” Chicago Reader, April 5, 2011
  • “Artists You Should Know: Pamela Fraser’s Picks,” Chicago Art Magazine, February 8, 2011
  • “Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports,” Art21 blog, February 8, 2011
  • Michelle Grabner, “New Icon,” Artforum, August 2010
  • Lauren Weinberg, “New Icon at LUMA”, Time Out Chicago, June 17-23, 2010
  • “Fair Play,” Time Out Chicago, April 29-May 5, 2010, p. 48
  • Meg Onli, Interview with Jacob Meehan, Art: 21 blog, April 13, 2010
  • Caitlin A. Schriner, “Pamela Fraser at Golden,” Chicago Art Magazine, March 7, 2010
  • Claudine Isé, “Portrait of the Artist: Pamela Fraser,” New City Chicago, February 23, 2010
  • Claudine Isé, “Review: The Object of Nostalgia at The A+D Gallery,” Bad at Sports, February 15, 2010
  • Damien James, “A+D Gallery, The Object of Nostalgia,” New City Chicago, January 28, 2010
  • Jason Foumberg, “New City’s Top Five Everything 2009: Art and Museums (Top Five Painting Shows),” New City Chicago, December 28, 2009
  • Lori Waxman, “Summer beckons, so do group shows,” Chicago Tribune, July 3, 2009
  • Abraham Ritchie, “Review: Pop Sizzle Hum: Tony Wight Gallery,” New City Chicago, June 22, 2009
  • Duncan Mackenzie, Tony Tasset, Lori Waxman, “Episode 200: Reviews,” Bad at Sports, June 28, 2009
  • Steve Kush Ruiz, “Pop Sizzle Hum, Single Channels @ Tony Wight Gallery,” Chicago Art Review, June 16, 2009
  • Karsten Lund, “Pop Sizzle Hum & Single Channel @ Tony Wight Gallery,” Flavorpill, June 29, 2009
  • Canadian Interiors, November/ December 2005, cover
  • Archer, Michael, “The Approach,” Artforum, May 2002
  • Zinsser, John, “Painter’s Journal,” artnet.com, January 2002
  • Grabner, Michelle, “Serendipity,” New Art Examiner, November / December 2001
  • Coomer, Martin, “Pamela Fraser,” Time Out London, April 11-18, 2001
  • Siegel, Katy and Reed, David, “Making Waves: The Legacy of Lee Lozano,”
    Artforum, October 2001
  • Hawkins, Margaret, “Gallery at a Glance: Pamela Fraser,” Chicago Sun-Times, November 2, 2001
  • Yood, James, “Pamela Fraser: Vedanta Gallery,” Teme Celeste, no. 89, 2002, p. 85
  • Wilsher, Mark, “Pamela Fraser at Asprey Jacques,” What’s On In London, April 18-25, 2001
  • Saltz, Jerry, “Finders & Keepers,” The Village Voice, May 26, 1999
  • Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review: Pamela Fraser,” The New York Times, January 30,1998
  • Levin, Kim, “Voice Choices: Pamela Fraser,” The Village Voice, February 10, 1998
  • “Pamela Fraser” Teme Celeste, no. 69-70, 1998
  • Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review: Pamela Fraser,” The New York Times, June 21, 1996
PUBLICATIONS
  • Pamela Fraser: Character Development, The College of DuPage/McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL, 2011
  • Collección Bergé, Bergé and Cía, S.A., Bonn: Kirsten Arndt y VG Bild-Kunst, 2007, p. 58 – 59.
  • Minimalism and After, Wiehager, Renate, (ed.), “Pamela Fraser,” Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler AF, Ostfildren: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, p. 253-254
  • JOY POP! POP ART 1960′s-2000′s: From Lichtenstein and Warhol to the Current Generation; Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, 2006
  • Extreme Abstraction; Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2005
  • Trespassing: Houses X Artists, Hatje Canz, 2003
  • Daily News, published by Aleksandra Mir, Gavin Brown and Cornelia di Grassi, New York, 2002
  • Colour Me Blind, Wurttembergersher Kunstverein, Stuttgart,
    Stadtische Ausstellungeshalle am Hawerkamp, Muster, Germany, 1999
  • Come in and find out, vol. IV, Podewil Centre, Berlin, Germany, 2000
  • Blueprint, 212-BIG-BOLT, Gallery Spark, Curated by Sebastiaan Bremer and Pieter Woudt, 1996
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2010
Dean’s Research Award, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
2007
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2001
College Research Grant, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University
1997
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (catalogue)
1988
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fellowship
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011
“Sheila Pepe,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
2010
“Britton Bertran curates Bob Linder,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
“Nikhil Chopra,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
“Nina Bovasso,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
“Kevin Jerome Everson,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
2009
“Michael Stickrod,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
“Guy Richards Smit,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
“Guy Richards Smit at Artists Run Chicago,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
“Carroll Dunham,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL 2008
“Tamara Zahaykevich,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
“Cheryl Donegan,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
“Meg Cranston,” He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATIONS FOR CURATORIAL PROJECTS
  • “NewCity Art: 5 Shows to See: Sheila Pepe (He Said, She Said),” New City Chicago, April 28, 2011
  • Dan Gunn, “Sheila Pepe/ He Said, She Said,” New City Chicago, April 25, 2011
  • Matt Watson, “’Common Sense brings’ interactive work to Oak Park gallery,” The Columbia Chronicle, April 18, 2011
  • Critic’s Picks, “Sheila Pepe/Common Sense Chicago,” Time Out: Chicago, April 8, 2011
  • Kathryn Born, “40 over 40: Artist-Run Spaces,” The Huffington Post, March 17, 2011
  • “Best Apartment Galleries,” Chicago Magazine, August 2010
  • Lauren Viera, “Trees, cuteness, and too, too much (Nina Bovasso at He Said She Said,” Chicago Tribune, April 2, 2010
  • Stephanie Burke, “Top 5 Picks: Nina Bovasso at He Said She Said,” Bad at Sports, March 18, 2010
  • Madeleine Bailey, “Nikhil Chopra at He Said She Said,” Chicago Art Review, February 20, 2010
  • Jason Foumberg, “New City’s Top Five Everything 2009: Art and Museums (Top Five Alt-Space Shows), New City Chicago, December 28, 2009
  • Jason Foumberg, “Review: Carroll Dunham at He Said-She Said,” New City Chicago, November 2, 2009
  • Episode # 224: Carroll Dunham at He Said-She Said,” Bad at Sports, December 13, 2009, 2009
  • Artists Run Chicago Digest, threewalls and Green Lantern Press, 2009
  • Lauren Hansen, “Chicago apartments: private space meets public contemporary art venue,” Medill Reports Chicago, Medill News Service, June 4, 2009
  • Lori Waxman, “Artist-run galleries, laid bare at HPAC,” Chicago Tribune, June 12, 2009
  • Claudine Isé, “Guy Richards Smit at He Said-She Said, New City Chicago, May 13, 2009
  • Claudine Isé, “Michael Stickrod at He Said-She Said,” New City Chicago, April 20, 2009
  • Episode #166: Meg Cranston at He Said-She Said,” Bad at Sports, November 3, 2008
  • Episode #147: Randall Szott and Pamela Fraser,” Bad at Sports, June 22, 2008
LECTURES AND PANELS
2011
How Chicago Are You?, Organized by Paul Preissner, The Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL
Pamela Fraser: Character Development, McAninch Center for the Arts, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
2010
Participant, Artists’ & Curator’s Talk, New Icon Exhibition, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Moderator, New Insight Publi Program: After the MFA, Next Fair, Chicago, IL
Pamela Fraser, Department of Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
Paper Presentation: Try a Little Tenderness, Panel: That Object of Nostalgia, 2010 98th Annual CAA Conference, Chicago, IL
Pamela Fraser, Department of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2009
Pamela Fraser, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Pamela Fraser, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Color Problems and Considerations, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
School of Art and Design / IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2008
Paper Presentation: Beyond the Perceptual: Color, Culture, and Communication, Panel: “Contemporary Color, New Trends in Color Theory”, 2008 MACAA Biennial Conference, Herron College, Indianapolis, IN
2007
Thoughts on Color, The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge, MA
Pamela Fraser, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pamela Fraser, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Painting, Providence, RI
In Support of the Ninth Dimension, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway
2006
Pamela Fraser, Cornell University, Department of Art, Ithaca, NY
2005
Pamela Fraser, Northwestern University, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Evanston, IL
Pamela Fraser, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at chicago, Chicago, IL
Pamela Fraser, Kent State University, Department of Art, Kent, OH
2004
Pamela Fraser, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Painting and Printmaking, Richmond, VA
Pamela Fraser: Keynote Speaker, Quilt Surface Design Symposium, Quilt Surface Design International, Columbus, OH
2003
Pamela Fraser, Ohio University, Department of Art, Athens, OH
2001
Pamela Fraser, The Ohio State University, Department of Art, Columbus, OH
2000
Pamela Fraser, Northwestern University, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Evanston, IL
1999
Pamela Fraser, University of Tennessee, Department of Art, Knoxville, TN