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BIOGRAPHY

Brian Fridge

1969 Born, Fort Worth, TX

Education

1994 B.F.A. University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Awards and Grants

2003 International Artist in Residence, ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas

1996 Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbrough Fund

Solo Exhibitions            Group Exhibitions

2008

A Place in the Painting Continuum: Brian Fridge, Jin-Ya Huang and Derrick Saunders, University of North Texas Galleries, Denton, Texas

2006

Brian Fridge: Photographs, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2005

Video Installations: Nic Nicosia, Brian Fridge, Bill Viola, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2003

Brian Fridge, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

Brian Fridge, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2001

Composition in Black, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2000

Vault Sequence: Video Projections by Brian Fridge, Art on Site, Inc., Four Walls, Displays Unlimited, Fort Worth, TX

1999

Toy Models of Space, Conduit Gallery Annex, Dallas, TX

1998

Slag Channeling, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX

1995

Anti-Gravity and Artificial Snow, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX

Frozen, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Brian Fridge, Union Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Group Exhibitions            Solo Exhibitions

2008

ech_o, Centraltrak, University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency, Dallas, Texas

Something New, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2007

P.R.I.N.T. - Looking Back, Pressing Forward, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas

2005

Art Show Here, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Works on Water, Environment Education Science and Technology Building, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Symbiotic, UNT artspace FW, Fort Worth, Texas

The Pantagruel Syndrome, TI - Turin Triennial Threemuseums, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, the GAM Galleria Civiva d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

UTD Southside Artist Residency: The First Two Years, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

2004

5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

New Prints, International Print Center New York, NY

2003

Untitled, Bower Living Gallery, The Bower, San Antonio, TX

Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2002

Slide, University of Dallas, Haggerty Gallery, Irving, TX

Surface: Works on Walls, Tarrant County College, The Art Corridor II, Arlington, TX

Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Graphite/Graphite, NRH Gallery, North Richland Hills, TX

2001

Alternative Currents, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Phoenix Triennial 2001, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Blue Skies, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

2000

2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Catalogue text by Michael Auping, Valerie Cassel, Hugh M. Davies, Jane Farver, Andrea Miller-Keller, and Lawrence R. Rinder.

Out of the Ordinary: New Art from Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Catalogue, text by Lyn Herbert and Paola Morsiani.

Crossing State Lines, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Houston Sculpture, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

Texas in the Biennial, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Artistic Centers in Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth, The Texas Fine Arts Association, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX (traveled to Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX). Catalogue, text by Suzanne Weaver and Charles Wylie.

Positexan…the show with the right attitude, PROJECT, Wichita, KS

1999

Between Image and Object, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

Black and White, Grey Permitted, Amarillo Museum of Art., Amarillo, TX

Wire for Living, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

1998

Blurring the Lines, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

a posteriori, charlieuniformtango, Dallas, TX

Drawings, Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

1997

Video Flash, Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne, Germany

Fort Worth Hot Shots: Nine Artists, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

Convergence of Kinds: Collaboration, North Lake College, Irving, TX

Act Natural, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

Video Night 4, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX

1996

Fort Worth Hot Shots: Nine Artists, Main Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Brian Fridge/Keith Lymon, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX

Gallery Night, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX

1995

Expo ’95, 500 Exposition Gallery, Dallas, TX

Voertman Exhibition, Main Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Video Night 2, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX

Members’ Show, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

1994

Hybrid Forms, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Voertman Exhibition, Union Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Spring Exhibition, Union Gallery, University of North, Texas, Denton, TX

1993

Select Show, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Members’ Show, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX

Public Collections

American Airlines, Dallas, Texas

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Seattle Art Museum, Washington

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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