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John Fraser
Born: 1952 Chicago, IL
Education: 1989 M.F.A. Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
1975 B.A. Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Selected One Person Exhibitions:
2012 The Built Form, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Work In Relief, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2010 Object Lesson, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 Structure & Surface, Form & Suggestion, James Patrick Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
More and Less, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
What Time Can Tell, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
2007 Accumulations, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
About Place, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
In Reserve, I-Space Gallery (brochure), Chicago, IL
2005 Work in Relief, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Current Collage & Assemblage, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College,
Galesburg, IL
2004 Selected Works: 1990-2004, Benedicta Arts Center, St. John’s University
St. Joseph, MN
Neutral Value, Fluxion Gallery, Omaha, NE
2003 Close Values, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Works: 1990-2003, Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA
2001 Structure & Surface, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Collages, 1995-2000, University Club, Chicago, IL
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
2000 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Works: 1990-1998, NIU Art Museum, Jack Olson Gallery, Dekalb, IL
1998 Gallery Juno, New York, NY
Material Issue, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Ecru, tidbit Gallery, Portland, OR
Perkinson Gallery, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
1997 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Bradley University, Peoria, IL
1995 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1994 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Northern Illinois University Gallery (brochure), Chicago, IL
Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage (brochure), Glen Ellyn, IL
University of Minnesota at Morris, Morris, MN
1992 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1990 Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
1989 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
1988 Paper Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1985 University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012 Views X: Paper and More (6 person), Curated by Renate Bender, QuadrART
Dornbirn, Austria
2011 Allure: the Power of Subtle Attraction, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort
Worth, TX
Art=Text=Art : Works by Contemporary Artists, from the Sally & Wynn
Kramarsky Collection. University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA
Group Sculpture Exhibition, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, (Selections from the Kramarsky
Collection), Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
The Matter of Words (3 person), Brigham Young University Museum of Art (with
Adam Bateman, Harrell Fletcher), Provo, UT
Papier, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2010 Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative: Prints, 1976-2008
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Selections From The Permanent Collection, Illinois State University Gallery,
Normal, IL
Human / Nature: Landscapes Real and Imagined, University of Alberta
Museums, Gallery A, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2009 Contemporary Works from the Cleve Carney Collection, Elmhurst
Art Museum,
Elmhurst, IL
The First 100 Years: Collecting Art at BYU, Brigham Young University Museum
of Art, Provo, Utah
New York/New Drawings, 1946-2007 (catalog), Museo de Arte
Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Minimalist Works (5 person), Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Seamless Garment (8 person), Broadbent Gallery, London, England
Recent Acquisitions: Modern & Contemp., McNay Art Museum, San
Antonio, TX
Gallery Artist Exhibition, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
In Plane Sight : Wall Sculpture (5 person), Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 Sculpture in 2D : Prints & Drawings…, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Papier=Kunst 6 (10 Person with catalog), Neuer Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg,
Germany
American Art Since 1945 : In A New Light, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio,
TX
Tranquilities, The Asian Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Papierwelten (5 person), Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
Frontiers of Printmaking, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Summer Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Simple Elegance, The Asian Collection, Tokyo, Japan
In Context- Collage & Abstraction (catalog), Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York,
NY
2006 Sculpture (5 person), Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wood & Paper, The Asian Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Building A Legacy: 1985-2007, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha,
NE
Material Difference : Soft Sculpture and Wall Works (catalog), The Chicago
Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Connected Worlds: Asia & The Americas, The Asian Collection, Tokyo, Japan
The New Collage (catalog), Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Asian Inspiration, Robert Tobin Gallery / Asian Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Bentley Projects/Works on Paper, Phoenix, AZ
Prints from Normal Editions Workshop, West Virginia University, Morgantown,
WV
2004 Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Northern Illinois University Art
Museum, Dekalb, IL
Departures (12 person), Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
By Appointment Only, Farm Art Space, Missoula, MT
Crux (3 person), Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
Grand Reopening, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
2003 Art A Century Apart: 1903 & 2003 (brochure), Mississippi Museum of Art
Jackson, MS
2002 Ingrained (4 person), Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Natural Forms (5 person), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Selected Gallery Artists: Summer, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
16th Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Inaugural Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
2001 Underfoot (traveling, catalog), Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000 Without Parameters, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Out of Line, Drawings by Illinois Artists, (catalog) Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL
Selections from Out of Line, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
Do Not Touch, An Exploration of Delicate Obsessions, Consolidated Works
Contemporary Art Center, Seattle, WA
Selected Gallery Artists: Summer, SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Synthesis: Collage and Mixed Media, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest
College, Lake Forest, IL
Form Following Function, Bradley University Heuser Gallery, Peoria, IL
1999 Work in Progress: Drawing by Direction, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Abstraction (4 person), Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson,
MS
Benziger Imagery Series, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Small Works, Gallery Juno, New York, NY
1998 American Drawing Biennial 6, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
In Shape (6 person with catalog), Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids,
IA
Collage (5 person), Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fraser, Molero, Ohira, Segal, Gallery Juno, New York, NY
Abstract: Chicago 1998 (catalog), Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Cedar
Rapids, IA
14th Evanston & Vicinity Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston,
IL
4 Sculptors, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Insight (5 person), tidbit Gallery, Portland, OR
A Thought Intercepted: Drawings, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Figuratively Speaking: Recent Acquisitions, Bradley University, Hartman
Gallery, Peoria, IL
Addendum: Some Other Chicago Artists, Northern Illinois University Gallery
Chicago, IL
Choice Cuts, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1996 Approaching The Figure, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Abstract: Chicago 1996, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
NIU Collected (catalog), Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Wonder, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
13th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1995 16 Chicago Artists (traveling), Szinhaz Galeria, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
USA Within Limits, Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bi-State Exhibition, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
1994 Tangible Verification: Collage (4 person), University of Akron, Akron, OH
Abstract: Chicago 1994 (catalog), Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Selections from the Permanent Collection, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN
1993 The Garment as Metaphor (brochure), Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland
Park, IL
1992 51st Exhibition (catalog), Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
8th New American Talent Exhibition (catalog), Laguna Gloria Art Museum
Austin, TX
NIU Alumni Exhibition, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL
Secret Voyages (3 person), Joan Robey Gallery, Denver, CO
1991 37th Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Sculptors on Paper (traveling), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Works on Paper Invitational (4 person), Greater Lafayette Museum of Art
Lafayette, IN
Contemporary Works From The Permanent Collection, Rockford Art Museum
Rockford, IL
23rd Bradley National (catalog), Bradley University, Peoria, IL
1990 The Chicago Show, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Object / Obsession, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
1989 New Acquisitions: Drawings, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Private Collections (4 person), New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, IN
1988 Collage at N.A.M.E., N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago , IL
Endangered Species, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Pulliam Hall Sculpture Exhibition, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1987 Fetish Art: Obsessive Expressions (catalog), Rockford Art Museum, Rockford,
IL
1986 6th Rutgers National, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
1985 81st Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition: Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Basically Boxes, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Drawing & Small Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
37th Illinois Invitational Exhibition (catalog), Illinois State Museum
Springfield, IL
5/5, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Bibliography:
2011 Waltemath, Joan, "Art=Text=Art curated by Elizabeth Schlatter," The Brooklyn
Rail, Reviews, ArtSeen Next Section, October
Issue. @ www.brooklynrail.com
Schlatter, N. Elizabeth, "(Art + Text) x Change = Art: Or, How To
Read An
Artwork With Your iPhone", On-line Catalog Essay for "Art =
Text = Art", 2011,
University of Richmond Museums.
www.artequalstext.com Zabrodski, Sarah, "On John Fraser", On-line Catalog Essay for "Art =
Text = Art", 2011, University of Richmond Museums.
www.artequalstext.com
Fraser : Work in Mixed Media, 1991-2010. Monograph Essay @ 2010 ISBN
978-14507-0098-6
Keiter, Ellen. "Drawing Conclusions," Online Catalog Essay; Abstraction on
Paper: Drawn/Taped/Burned, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. Online
Catalog Website: www.aboutdrawing.org/drawntapedburned
del Rivero, Elena. "On John Fraser," Online Catalog Essay; Abstraction on
Paper: Drawn/Taped/Burned, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
2010 Viera, Lauren, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago Tribune, February
26th, 2010, On The Town (S-5, Page 8).
2009 Baroff, Jill, New York, New Drawings 1946-2007, Catalog Essay on John
Fraser, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain.
Nueva York. El papel de las ultimas vanguardias.
Romualdo, Ana San, Las Vanguardias Sobre Papel de la Coleccion Kramarsky.
en el Esteban Vicente, El Adelantado De Segovia Newspaper, February 29,
2009.
Alvarado, Carlos, Por Primera Vez Desde Nueva York, Nortecastilla
Newspaper, Segovia, February 28, 2009
2008 Claus, Elisabeth, What Time Can Tell, Papier=Kunst 6, Catalog Essay, Neuer
Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
Artner, Alan, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago Tribune, September
12, 2008, On The Town (S-7, Page 13).
Wirth, Steven, Profile of the Artist: John Fraser, New City Newspaper,
September 11, 2008 (Page 13, Art Section).
Isaacson, Philip, John Fraser at James Patrick Gallery, Portland Press Herald,
Maine Sunday Telegram, August 31.
Buchen, Margaret, catalog essay, Harper College 40th Anniversary
Invitational Exhibition. Palatine, IL.
2007 Artner, Alan, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago Tribune, July 27,
2007, On The Town (S-7, Page 13).
Yood, James, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, Artforum Magazine, November
2007 (page 372).
Lopez, Ruth, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, TimeOutChicago, Art & Design,
August 2-8 (page 68).
Finch, Richard & Rives, Veda, Marks from the Matrix, Normal Editions
Workshop at ISU. ISBN 978-0-9795884-0-2.
Artner, Alan, John Fraser at I-Space…Chicago Tribune, February 16, 2007
(Section 7, Page 13).
Ullrich, Polly, John Fraser: In Reserve at I-Space, Chicago, brochure essay,
January 27-February 24, 2007.
Mullarkey, Maureen, Abstract Jewels of Modernism, In Context: Collage &
Abstraction at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, The New York Sun, June 7, 2007 (Arts &
Letters).
Heise, Rudiger, Papier-Variationen, at Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
Germany. Applause! Magazine.
2006 Mullarkey, Maureen, Gallery Going [The New Collage at Pavel Zoubok
Gallery], The New York Sun, June 29, 2006.
Ullrich, Polly, Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, exhibition
catalog, exhibition wall-text.
2005 Nugent, Bob, Imagery, Art for Wine, (forward by Donald Kuspit).
Artner, Alan, Fraser’s Rigor is Captivating, Chicago Tribune, February 18,
2005, (Friday Section).
2003 Artner, Alan, …While John Fraser Shines, Chicago Tribune, August 8, 2003,
(Friday, Section 7, Page 15).
Doe, Donald B. Measure for Measure, John Fraser at Mills Gallery, Central
College, Pella IA, Brochure Essay.
Camper, Fred, Critics Choice, The Chicago Reader, July 25, 2003, (Section 2,
Page 28).
Walker, Hamza, Visual Literacy: John Fraser’s Collages 1994-2002, Catalog
Essay, 2003, ISBN 0-9727266-0-8.
2001 Artner, Alan, Fraser returns to intense process, Chicago Tribune, December 7,
2001, (Friday, Section 7).
2000 Artner, Alan, Its Taken 15 years, but Exhibit is Top Drawers, Out of Line,
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Tribune, May 2, 2000, (Tempo 2, Section 5).
1998 Brunetti, John, Uncommon Equilibrium, Brochure Essay, John Fraser at the
Elmhurst Art Museum, February, 1998.
Doe, Donald B., In Shape, catalog essay, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art,
December 1998.
1997 Gragg, Randy, Body And Droll; Insight at tidbit Gallery, The Oregonian
(Portland), July 25, 1997, (Visual Arts, page 64).
1996 Meyer, Jerry D., NIU Collected, catalog essay, NIU Alumni in Chicago Area
Collections, June/July 1996.
Swartz, Mark, Approaching The Figure, Roy Boyd Gallery. The Chicago
Reader, June 21, 1996, (section 1, page 28).
1995 Schleifer, Kristen Brooke, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, Dialogue
Magazine, January/February 1995.
Camper, Fred, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, The Chicago Reader,
September 22,1995, (section 1, page 30).
1994 Muster, Michael, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery. The New Art Examiner,
November 1994.
Connors, Thomas, John Fraser at NIU Art Gallery, Sculpture Magazine,
January/February 1994.
1993 Yood, James, The Art of John Fraser, brochure essay, NIU Art Museum Gallery
in Chicago, October 1993.
1992 Morrin, Peter, 51st Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, catalog essay, Sioux City,
Iowa, 1992.
1991 Artner, Alan, John Fraser at Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago Tribune, January 11,
1991, (section 7, page 53).
Krugel, Mitchell, Chicago Goes Abstract in January, The International Fine Art
Collector, Volume I, 3, January 1991.
1990 Artner, Alan, Conflicting Agendas Hobble The Chicago Show, Chicago Tribune,
May 6, 1990 (Art Section 13, page 14).
Findsen, Owen, Collages Demand Viewers Take Time..., John Fraser at Miller
Gallery, The Cincinnati Enquirer, May 13, 1990.
O'Hara, Catherine, John Fraser at Miller Gallery. Dialogue Magazine,
July/August 1990, (page 23).
Selected Awards, Grants and Honors:
2011 Illinois Arts Council IAS Artist Project Grant
2010 YADDO, Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2007 Robert M. MacNamara Foundation Residency, Westport Island, ME
2006 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency, Omaha, NB
2005 Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant
2004 Normal Editions Workshop / Illinois Arts Council Print Project Grant
2003 Robert M. MacNamara Foundation Residency, Westport Island, ME
2002 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2000 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Finalist Award
1997 Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant
1994 Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant
1992 Arts Midwest / National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship
1990 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Finalist Award
Selected Commissions and Projects:
2011 Benziger Family Winery / Imagery Winery Artist Label Series Collection
2009 Artwork used for the book “Penury”, the 5th collection of poetry by Myung Mi
Kim (Prof. SUNY Buffalo). Published by Omnidawn / Independent Publishers
Group.
2003 Benziger Family Winery / Imagery Winery Artist Label Series Collection
2001 Artworks used for the CD, “Flirting With Twilight”, by Grammy Award Winning
Artist, Kurt Elling. Blue Note Jazz.
1995 Benziger Family Winery / Imagery Winery Artist Label Series Collection
Selected Collections:
Edward Albee, New York, NY
University of Alberta Art Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
The Brunnier Museum of Iowa State University, Ames, IA
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Grinnell College / Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
International Collage Center, Milton, PA
Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Collection, New York, NY
Gary Lee, New York, NY
The Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vincente, Segovia, Spain
The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa, Fe, NM
Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL
Park Hyatt Collection, Chicago, IL
Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Las Vegas, NV and Westport Island, ME
Cleve Carney, Glen Ellyn, IL
Ben and Tricia Cox, Chicago, IL
Martin Friedman and Peggy Casey-Friedman, Chicago, IL
Tom and Loree Goffigon, Los Angeles, CA
Sharon and Arie Hoogendoorn, Steamboat Springs, CO
Don and Jane Hunt, Chicago, IL
Eva and Harald Kröner, Pforzheim, Germany
Reinsdorf Collection, Chicago, IL
Brigitte and Martin Riesebrodt, Berlin, Germany
Lynda and Bob Nugent, Santa Rosa, CA
Trish and Tim Preheim, Chicago, IL
John Ronan and Clare Lyster, Chicago, IL
Dominic L. Di Mare, San Francisco, CA
Stanley Tigerman, Chicago, IL
The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
The Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
The Asian Collection, Tokyo, Japan
The University of Minnesota at Morris, Morris, MN
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Winston & Strawn, New York, NY, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL and Charlotte, NC |
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