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Tom Fruin

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