Education:
1982 California State University at Fullerton, B.A., Painting and Drawing
Solo Exhibitions:
2004 Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London, UK
Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2003 Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY
James Cohan Gallery, NY
2001 White Cube, London
2000 James Cohan Gallery, NY
1999 Gravity’s Rainbow, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1998 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1996 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (travels to
Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach, California; Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX, & Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH)
1995 Jack Tilton Gallery, NY
1994 Galerie Anne de Villpoix, Paris, France
1993 Jack Tilton Gallery, NY
Josh Baer Gallery, NY
1992 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991 White Columns, NY
Randy Alexander Gallery, NY
1990 Artist’s Space, Project Room, NY
Art Awareness Center for the Arts, Lexington, NY
1987 Project, P.S. 1 Museum, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
1983 Oranges/Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles
1982 Oranges/Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions:
2004 Popstraction, Deitch Projects, NY
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
2004 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art
Material Evidence: Artists Revisit Process, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington
2003 Transfigurations: The Body in 20th Century Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan
Happiness: a survival focus guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2002 Liverpool Biennial, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
Post Op, CCAC, San Francisco
Shine, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
The Americans- New Art, Barbican Gallery, London
The Passions: From Brueghel to Viola, James Cohan Gallery, NY
2000 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
The Lyon Biennial, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting,
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Made in California, Los Angelos County Museum of Art, California
Open Ends: MoMA 2000, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
1999 The Nature of Order, The James Cohan Gallery, NY
Wildflowers, Katona Museum of Art, Katona, NY
1998 International Home and Garden, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Pusan Contemporary Art Museum, Pusan, Korea
Project 63: Karin Davie, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred
Tomaselli, curated by Lillian Tone and Ann Umland, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1997 Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul, Whitney Museum of Art, NY
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
A Passion for Pictures; Selections from the Charles H. Carpenter Jr.
Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Contemporary Collectors XII, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Out There: Images of the Cosmos, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, NY
1996 Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Charles H. Carpenter Jr., The Odyssey of a Collector, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece, (travels to Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain & Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn,
Germany) (catalog)
Brazil/USA Exchange, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Patterns of Excess, Art Gallery, Beaver college, Glenside, PA
America Dreamin’, Linda Kirkland Gallery, NY (curated by Heidi Zuckerman)
Luminous Bodies, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley) (catalog)
Trans Inter Post: Hybrid Spaces, Art Gallery, University of California at
Irvine, Irvine, CA (curated by Pamela Bailey)
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, NY
Other Subjects, Jack Tilton Gallery, NY (curated by David Scher)
1995 A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa
Monica Museum of Art, CA
Painting Outside Painting: The 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (curated by Terrie Sultan)
Altered and Irrational, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (curated by Beth Venn)
Public Art Commissions:
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, NY (1990-1996)