Born in Santa Monica, CA, 1956.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y.
 
Education
1982 B.A. Painting and Drawing, California State University, Fullerton, California
 
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2006 James Cohan Gallery, New York
2005 carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2005 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2004 White Cube, London
2004 The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 “Fred Tomaselli: 10-Year Survey”, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida
2002 “travelled to SITE”, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 “Gravitiy’s Rainbow”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1997 Galerie Gebauer, Berlin
1991 White Columns Gallery, New York (cat)
1987 “Project”, Museum P.S.1, Institute for the Arts and the Urban Resources, Long Island City
 
Group exhibitions (selected)
2006 “Over + Over: Passion for Process”, Austin Museum of Art, Austin
2005 “Ecstasy: In and About Altered States”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2004 “Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque”, 5th International Biennial, Site Santa Fe
2004 “How would you light heaven”, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2004 “Popstraction”, Deitch Projects, New York
2003 “Post Op”, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCAC, San Francisco
2003 “Painting Pictures”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2003 “Shine”, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2002 “Second Liverpool Biennial”,Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2001 Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Cotemporary Art, San Diego
2001 “Berlin Biennale”, Berlin
2000 “Twisted: Urban and Visionnary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting”, Van Abbe Museum
2000 “Open Ends”-MoMA 2000”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 “Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000 from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons", Kunsthaus Zürich, Schweiz
1998 “Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
1998 “Project 63: Karin Davie, Udom, San Francisco, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred Tomaselli”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1997 “Heart, Mind, Body and Soul”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1995 “Brave New World”, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica,
1995 “Pittura-Immediata”, Neue Galerie am Landmuseum Joanneum und Künstlerhaus Graz.
1995 “Altered and Irrational”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1995 “Pitura/Immediata”, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Künstlerhaus, Graz; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Castello di Rivoli and Museo d’Arte Contemporanca, Torino; Kunstmuseum, Bonn
1993 “Six Young Americans”, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm
1993 “The Final Frontier”, New Museum, New York
1990 “Out of Sight”, P.S.1, Institute for the Arts and the Urban Resources, New York
 
Awards and prizes and Awards
1998 Joan Mitchell Grant
1993 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, City Hall, New York
1990 Percent for Art Commission, New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Park, Queens
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