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Dianna Frid

Selected Biography

b. Mexico City
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Education

MFA, Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003, Trustees Merit Scholar
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), 1991, Merit Scholar
BA Program, Anthropology, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 1986 (transferred to SAIC)

Solo Exhibitions and Collaborations

2010
Dianna Frid, neues kunstforum, Cologne, Germany (forthcoming)

2009
Dianna Frid, Artists’ Book Program, BravinLee programs, New York
Dianna Frid, Gahlberg Gallery, College of Du Page, Illinois (forthcoming)

2008
Dianna Frid: The Vertical Shadows, devening projects + editions, Chicago

2006
12 Releases, CROXHAPOX, Gent, Belgium
12 X 12 / New Artists New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2005
Time and Distance and Bent, National and International Projects, PS1-MOMA, Long Island City, NY
Crater and Transport, Julia Friedman Gallery, New York

2004
Carriage (collaboration with Mark Gallay), SubCity Projects, Chicago

2003
The Field (texts by Stephen Motika), Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago

1999
Dianna Frid, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

1998
Dianna Frid, CROXHAPOX, Gent, Belgium

1997
Gravity (collaboration with Anton Vidokle), Optica, Montreal

1995
Dianna Frid, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
Response: Art and the Art of Criticism, I-Space, Chicago (scheduled: April 24 - May 30, 2009)

2008
Public Address, Phaiz, Chicago
Paper Love, devening projects + editions, Chicago
Selections: Spring 2008, The Drawing Center, New York

2007
Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Kuf-Mold, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey; Gent, Belgium
Old Gold, Chicago
Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago

2006
Utopia, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA
Basics 2, C.O.R.N.E.L.I.A. & Croxhapox, Kapel Maagdendale 13, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Takeover, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (collaboration with Mark Gallay)
Esso Gallery’s 10th Anniversary, Esso Gallery, New York

2005
Crossings, Chicago Cultural Center and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Inverted Mirrors, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C.
Centrally Located, The Artadia Awardees, Chicago Cultural Center
Drawn Out, Gallery 400, Chicago
Research, NIU Gallery, Chicago

2004
The Stray Show, Polvo Art Studio and Gallery 400, Chicago

2003
Suspension, 1926 Exhibition Space, Chicago
Super Fresh, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago
The Big Picture Show, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago

2002
Temps Fantomal, Optica, Montreal, Quebec
Du Sable Park: Hidden In Plain View, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Prestar=To Borrow, Collages, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
Group Show, G2, Chicago

2001
Les Jeux Son Fait, Esso Gallery, New York
3 Acres on the Lake: Du Sable Park Proposal Project, Gallery 312
The Fact Show, Conceptual Art Today, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

2000
Books by Artists, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City
The Living End, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, curated by Ingrid Schaffner
Utopiaries, Temple Art Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia

2000
Scripta Mannet, Galeria Milano, Milan, Italy and Galeria Martano, Turin, Italy
Artists’ Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1999
Dianna Frid and Elana Herzog, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
Lontano Da Dove? Galeria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy, curated by Esso Gallery
Anatomical Permutations, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

1998
Fashioned, White Box, New York and Philadelphia
Dianna Frid and Larry Krone, P.S. 122, New York

1997
Traces, 57 HOPE, Brooklyn, NY
Existing Things, Paço das Artes, São Paolo, Brazil
More & More, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
Suture, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

1996
Just Wait and See, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Group Show, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
A Maze of Complicity, YYZ Gallery, Toronto
Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1995
The Spectacular State, Foto Base Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1994
Artists' Books, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1994
Re-knot, Re-weave, McGill University School of Architecture, Montreal, Quebec
1992
Tableaux Vivant, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, Mexico

Selected Fellowships and Grants

2008
The Canada Council, Travel Grants to Professionals in the Visual Arts

2004
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Full Award Recipient

2003
Harper-Schmidt Fellowship, The University of Chicago (2003 to 2006)
Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant
MFA Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2001
Trustees Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001 to 2003)

2000
The Canada Council, Grant for Visual Arts
CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

1996-98
The Canada Council, "B" Grant for Visual Arts

1994-95
The Canada Council, Short-Term Grant

Selected Residencies

2009-10
Dianna Frid, neues kunstforum, Cologne, Germany (forthcoming)

1994
The Banff Centre for the Arts, July – August

Selected Bibliography

2008
Jason Foumberg, "Portrait of the Artist: Dianna Frid," New City, April 10, 2008, page 16
Debra Jenks, "Drawing the invisible: Transcribing the space of movies, motion and other worlds," The Villager, Volume 77 / Number 41 - March 19 - 25, 2008, West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, New York, page 23

2006
James Yood, "Chicago: Dianna Frid, Museum of Contemporary Art," Art Forum, April 2006

2005
Alan Artner, "10 Artists Make Crossings," Chicago Tribune, August 11, 2005
Curt Conklin, Art Letter (04/08/05): http://www.artletter.com/html/artletter_04_08_05.html, April 8, 2005
Anthony Elms, "Research," Time Out Chicago, issue 9: April 28-May 5 2005
Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros, Espejos/Mirrors (exhibition cat.), Washington, DC, Mexican, Cultural Institute, 2005
"Drawn Out," flavorpill, June 28-July 4, 2005, http://chi.flavorpill.net/mailer/issue41/index.html#drawn Jenn Q. Goddu, "Frid has own ideas on time, distance," Chicago Tribune, August 19, 2005
Mary Jane Jacob, "Dianna Frid," Crossings: 10 Artists from Chicago and Kaohsiung (catalogue), Taiwan: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2005
Gregory Knight, "Cultural Crossings," Crossings: 10 Artists from Chicago and Kaohsiung (exhibition catalogue), Taiwan: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2005
Dominic Molon, "Centrally Located: the 2004 Artadia Chicago Award Recipients," Artadia Chicago, (catalogue), New York: Artadia, 2005
Carlos Monsivais, "Espejos Condicionados," Nexos, No. 336, Mexico City, December 2005
(http://www.nexos.com.mx/articulos.php?id_article=715&id_rubrique=237) Roberta Smith, "Other Voices, Other Rooms," The New York Times, New York, November 11, 2005

2004
Carol Becker, "Intimate, Immediate, Spontaneous, Obvious: Educating the Unknowing Mind," Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art, edited by Mary Jane Jacob, et al. Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2004

2003
Tamara Faulkner, "Critic’s Choice: Super Fresh," Chicago Reader, July 4, 2003
Tamara Faulkner, The Field: Dianna Frid with Stephen Motika (exhibition brochure), Gallery 400, December
Laurie Palmer, 3 Acres on the Lake: Du Sable Park Proposal Project, Chicago: Whitewalls

2002
Julie York Coppens, "Forbidden Fruits," South Bend Tribune, Feb. 3, 2002
Henry Lehman, "Montreal: Open and Eclectic," Art News, May 2002
Jody Patterson, "Temps Fantomal: Optica, Montreal, April 19-May25," Parachute: para-para-, Montreal, Winter

2000
Roberta Fallon, "Worlds of Possibility," Philadelphia Weekly, Feb. 23, 2000
Pablo Helguera, "Dianna Frid/Esso Gallery," Art Nexus, May-July 2000
Edward J. Sozanski, "Dream Gardens," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 25, 2000

1999
Dianne Pearce, "Diez artistas canadienses y el cuerpo humano," Alebrije, Mexico City, 1999
Sabine Russ, "Dianna Frid and Elana Herzog: The intricate potential of the known" (web text), Mercer Union, Toronto

1998
Jennifer Dalton, "Fashioned," New York Review, Sept. 15, 1998
Raquel Tibol, "Artes Plásticas en el XXVI Cervantino," Proceso, Oct. 25, 1998

1997
Mónica Amor and Anton Vidokle, Existing Things (catalogue), Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Celso Fioravante, "Artistas revêem conceito de Marcel Duchamp," Folha de S. Paulo, April 23
Julia Szabo, "More, More & More, A Baker's Dozen at the Islip Art Museum," New York Newsday, February 28
Anne Wilson Lloyd, "Just Wait and See," Sculpture Magazine, May 1997

1996
Laura U. Marks, “Brave Things (artist book),” YYZ Gallery, Toronto
Marcia Tucker, A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"Portraits Transgeographiques," MIX: the magazine of artist-run culture, Vol. 21, number 3, Winter
"Artists at U Mass Gallery blur the bounds of craft and art," The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Oct. 3, 1996

Recent Public Lectures and Visiting Critic

2008
Lecture and Visiting Critic, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Lecture and Visiting Critic, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture Department

2007
Lecture and Visiting Critic, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
Lecture, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lecture and Visiting Critic, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2006
Lecture, De Paul University, Chicago
Graduate Critiques, Department of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Chicago

2005
Lecture "Artists Connect" series, Pierce Auditorium, The Art Institute of Chicago

Teaching

Present Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

2006-07 Visiting Artist, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Chicago

2003-06 Collegiate Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago

Professional Activities

2008-10
Professional Development Fellowship Visual Arts Juror, College Arts Association, New York

Recent Publications

2008
"Dianna Frid: Drawing Papers: Selections Spring 2008", Drawing Papers # 75. The Drawing Center, New York, NY, February 2008

2007
Dianna Frid and Joseph Grigely, "B&B: an email exchange," in The Air is Blue: Insights on Art and Architecture, Luis Barragán Revisited, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, et. al.

2004
Dianna Frid, "Elana Herzog: Four Projects for Spaces, 1996 to the Present," Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, vol. 2, No. 1, 2004. Edited by Penina Barnett, et. al., Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004