John Fraser works within the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. This work, primarily in combinations of paper, wood, and various other materials, found and manipulated, are carefully considered, restrained, and labored in process.

He received a BA from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a MFA from          Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. His work is currently represented by Galleries in Chicago, IL, Munich, Germany, La Jolla, CA, Nashville, TN, and Fort Worth, TX.

Fraser’s first one-person exhibition was in 1979, and to date, his work has been featured in one-person exhibitions throughout the United States, and in Munich, Germany, and in group exhibitions throughout the United States, and in Germany, Spain, England, Japan, Brazil, Switzerland, Canada, and Hungary. His work is held in Public and Private Collections throughout the United States, in Public Collections in Spain and Canada, and in Private Collections in Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Scotland.

His work has been awarded Fellowships and Grants from Arts Midwest /
National Endowment for the Arts, and The Illinois Arts Council, and he has been an Artist in Residence at YADDO in Saratoga Springs, NY, at Illinois State University, twice at The Robert M. MacNamara Foundation in Maine, and at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.  In addition, he has been a Visiting Artist and Lecturer at Colleges and Universities in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, California, Utah, West Virginia, Michigan, Arkansas, Nebraska, and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, in Canada.