Tom Fruin Born in 1974 in California, USA Lives and works in New York, USA Solo exhibitions 2008 Structured Settlements, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY, USA American Landscapes, Real Art Ways, New York, USA 2007 Hastle Whitey, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland 2006 One Man’s Treasure, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA 2005 Cultural Narcotics, Thom Andriola / New Gallery, Houston, TX The Straight Dope, Galerie Heike Curtze, Austria 2004 Starfucker, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Cultural Narcotics: The Straight Dope, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY Group exhibitions 2008 Power & Currency, Factory Fresh Brooklyn, NY, USA Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, USA Volta4, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Basel, Switzerland 2007 Holiday, Buia Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2006 Summer Group Show, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland Over + Over: Passion for Process, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York Almost Art, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Entourage, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York Group Show, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland Standpunkte, Galerie Heike Curtze, Salzburg New Turf, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Over + Over: A Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL; Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover MA, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 2004 Pillish, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO Transcending Addiction: High on Life, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Traveled to the Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Form and Content: Corporal Identity/ Body Language, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst,Franfurt, Germany Traveled to the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Triennial, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel Armory Show 2003, Stefan Stux Gallery Booth, New York, NY 2002 Transcending Addiction: High on Life, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Traveled to the Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY White Columns, New York, NY Armory Show 2002, Stefan Stux Gallery Booth, New York, NY 20th Anniversary Celebration: Stefan Stux Gallery, New Gallery, Houston, TX Bibliography 2006 McQuaid Cate, “Not-so-cozy quilts”, The Boston Globe, July 6, 2006, p. C6 Cook Greg, “Tom Fruin’s Bad Habits”, The Phoenix, July 11, 2006 Miokovic Alex and Heidi Nichisher, “The extremes of extreme”, Rochester City News, April 6, 2006 Hubrecht Jane van Lanschot, “Tom Fruin at Bertrand & Gruner Gallery”, Contemporary Magazine, no. 78, 2006, p. 14 2005 Polston Pamela, “Finding Her Place”, Seven Days, July 13, 2005 Galloway Anne,“Their Own Terrain”, The Times Argus, July 8, 2005 Johnson Richard, “Drug Art Sails by Inspectors”, The New York Post, April 9, 2005 2004 Michael Paglia, “Perscription for Success”, Westword, November 11, 2004 Interviewed by Sandra Sider, “Tom Fruin’s Flags”, Surface Design, Fall 2004, p.30 Mendelsohn, Meredith, “Tom Fruin at Mike Weiss Gallery”, Artnews, May 2004,p. 151 Paine Bradbury Andrew, “Tom Fruin - Starfucker,” Free Williamsburg, February 2004 Savannah, Gae, “Tom Fruin at Mike Weiss Gallery”, Flash Art, March- April,2004, p. 62 Parker Lauren, “Addicted to Fashion”, Accessories, March 2004 2003 “Corporal Identity: Body Language”, 9th Triennial for Form and Content, Frankfurt: Musuem Fur Angewandte Kunst, 2003 McGlazer Ramsey,“Rehashing the Grid, or How to Make an Urban Quilt”, Museo 6, Spring 2003 2002 Garry Gregory, “High Art”, Flaunt, December 2002 Kostabi Mark, “Mark Kostabi on Tom Fruin”, Shout, April/May 2002, p.14 Bach Deborah, “Finding The Stuff of Art in the Gutter”, The New York Times, April 2002 Honigman Ana, “Review”, Time Out NY, April 11-18, 2002 Johnson Richard, “Star Buys Some Real Art”, The New York Post, April 2002, p.6 Robinson Walter, “Weekend Update”, Artnet.com, April 2002 Scott Debra, “Getting In With The Art Crowd”, The New York Post, January 2002, p.50
