"Fairy", 2011, acrylic on panel, 19.5" x 15.5" fr.
Born: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1960
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Den of Secrets, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, September
2009 Sang Real, Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Oleans, LA, 9 April
2009 Fred Stonehouse, Retell, Select Works, Dot Weikamp Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, 28 March, 19 July
2007 Fred Stonehouse: The Ice Pavillions, Ruschman Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2006 Fred Stonehouse: The Sanguine Sea, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, CA
2006 Fred Stonehouse: Signs & Souvenirs, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, CA
Fred Stonehouse: Songs & Dreams, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
2005 Fred Stonehouse: Song of Tijuana, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
Fred Stonehouse: The Blab! Show, Copro/Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Fred Stonehouse: Family Land, Ruschman Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2003 Fred Stonehouse: Dope, Tory Folliard Gallyery, Milwaukee, WI
Dreams of Youth: Recent Paintings, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, W. Hollywood, CA
The Golden Game: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fred Stonehouse: Paintings, Entre Estudio Y Galleria, Puebla, Mexico
Jibberish, (And Other Communications), INOVA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2001 The Odor of Sanctity, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Penance, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Stonehouse, Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Little People For God, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
13 Prayers, Lisa Sette, Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999 Fred Stonehouse: Sasso Casa (An Historical Account), Carl Hammer G allery, Chicago, IL
Wool From an Ass, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Stonehouse: Works on Paper, Project Room, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Fred Stonehouse: Collage Work, Pumphouse Regional Art Center, Lacrosse, WI
1998 Fred Stonehouse: New Work, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Fred Stonehouse: Painting, Drawing, Collage, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Fred Stonehouse: The Monkey’s Wedding, Ruschman Gallery, IN
1997 Fred Stonehouse Furlong Gallery, UW Stout, Menomonie, WI
13 Devils and El Libro de los Suenos Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
L’Altro Mondo, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Orazioni, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Joy Farm, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Tener La De Malas, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 Fred Stonehouse: Paintings, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Fred Stonehouse: New Work Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Fred Stonehouse, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Fred Stonehouse, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Fred Stonehouse, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings. Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Fred Stonehouse, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Fred Stonehouse, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Stonehouse, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1992 Fred Stonehouse, M-13 Gallery, New York
Fred Stonehouse - 10 Year Survey, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL
Fred Stonehouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1991 Fred Stonehouse, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Monoprints from Landmark Editions, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1990 Fred Stonehouse: New Work, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Fred Stonehouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Fred Stonehouse, Pence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Fred Stonehouse, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1988 Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Fred Stonehouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1987 Fred Stonehouse: Recent Paintings, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Fred Stonehouse, Bedrock Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Fred Stonehouse, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1984 Fred Stonehouse: Works on Paper, Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Midwestern Blab! A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL, June/July
2009 West Coast Drawings VIII, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, July 11-Aug 28
2009 Selections from the Helen and Robert Weber Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, June -July
2008 Looky See: A Summer Show, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2008 In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
2008 Twisted, Landfall Press Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Four Faces of Foofaraw, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Blab! , The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2008 Flesh, Metal, Ink, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2008 Twenty/08, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis, MO
2008 Border, Priebe Gallery, UW Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
2008 Building a Visual Arts Legacy, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI
2008 40 Artists: Small Scale Works, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008 25th Anniversaty Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2008 Workbooks, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2007 Don’t Wake Daddy 2, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Question the War, Cory Helford Gallery, Culver City, CA
2007 The BLAB Show, Copro Nason Gallery, Los Angeles & Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis
2007 The Exquisite Snake,Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2007 Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2006 The Blab! Show, Copro/Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Work on Paper, Howard Scott Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Summer in the City, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2006 Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Tooth and Claw, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2005 The Blab! Show, Copro/Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 The Animal Within, Catherine Edelman Gallry, Chicago, IL
2005 Le Papier, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Out of the Suitcase, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
2005 National Biennial Watercolor Invitational, Parkland College, Champaign, IL, and Suburban Fine Arts Centre, Highland Park, IL
2004 Strange Presence, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004 The Reflected/Refracted Self, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 The Artist as Collector, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN
2004 Time Travel, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Wisconsin Landscape: Artistic Interpretations, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
2003 Collage: Letscher Stonehouse, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Living in the Presence of the Buddha, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
The Elements, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Drawings VI, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pasted On, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Fundamentals, Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Smaller, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Italianate, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2000 Self Portraits 2000, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Great Novels Exhibit, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Anniversary Show, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wisconsin Classics, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Singular Visions, Wisconsin Academy, Madison, WI
The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Carl Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Storytellers, The Art Institute at Southern California at Laguna Beach, CA
The End Is Near: Portfolio 99’, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Twenty Six Americans, Campo & Campo, Antwerp
Collectors Choice, Galerie van der Straeten, Amsterdam
Drawings, M13 Gallery, NY
Cats and Dogs, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago
Milwaukee Love, Union Art Gallery, UW Milwaukee, WI
New Religion, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Formerly Known As Something Else, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1998 Small Works: The Sequel, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
What’s Hot at Shark, Foster Gallery at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Surreal Wisconsin, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Drawings IV, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fever, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Art as Collaboration, Crossman Gallery, UW Whitewater
1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
A Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Wonders, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Enigmatic Landscape, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI
Devotional Rescue, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Salvation Damnation, Crossman Gallery, UW Whitewater
4 x 4:Painters Choose Painters Herron Gallery, Indiana University
1996 BIRDS!, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Great Balls of Art, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Hearts, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
TenYear Anniversary Exhibit, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
In the Light of Goya University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, and University Art
Gallery, Cal State Hayward
1995 Heroic Influences Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Pulp Fictions, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
Daydreams, Capitol Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY
Dreams and Visions, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Self As Subject, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Frame of Reference, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1994 Historic References, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Suspended Landscapes, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Small Works, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
New To the Gallery, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
One Hand Clapping, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Summer Exhibition, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,
1993 Visceral Landscapes, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Winter Introductions, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape As Object, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
A Loose Form of Narrative, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
Summer Exhibition, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Animal In Art, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Multum In Parvo, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Face Not Only A Parent Could Love, Triplex Gallery, Manhattan Community College, NY
1992 Small Works, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1991 Source Material, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Ghosts: Spells of the Past in Contemporary Art, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Works on Paper, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Six Pence, Pence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Word As Image, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Oklahoma City Art
Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1990 Monster Paintings, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1989 Victoria Pence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Telling N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
From Impulse to Obsession Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1988 100 Years of Wisconsin Art Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
After the Drought: Bountiful Harvest Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
The Power of Drawing Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1987 Wisconsin Triennial Madison Art Center, Madison, WI,
1986 Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette
Romanticism and Cynicism in Contemporary Art University, Milwaukee, WI
Made In America: The Great Lakes States Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Made In America: The Great Lakes States Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Gallery Artists Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1984 Annual Small Works Competition Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY
New Talent Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1983 Gallery Artists Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1982 Eight in Eighty- Two, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2009 North, Bill, Blab’s Midwestern Rootedness, (catalog essay), A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2008 Ollman, Leah, A Sprawling, Satisfying Show, (review) LA Times, Aug. 22
Tynes, Teri, With a Wall, (catalog essay) Allen Priebe Art Gallery, UW Oshkosh
2007 Beall, Dickson, The Good, The Bad, & The Freaky, West End Word, Oct. 10
Rump, von Gerhard Charles, Die seltsamen Welten des Fred Stonehouse, (review), Die Welt, June 23
2006 North, Bill, Artist-in-Resonance, (catalogue essay), INOVA , University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee
Bonetti, David, Philip Slein Gallery Focuses on Nearby Artists, (review), St.Louis
Post Dispatch , June 22
Camper, Fred, The Blue Collar Surrealist, (review), Chicago Reader
2005 Baker, R.C., Fred Stonehouse at Howard Scott (review),The Village Voice, November 16-22
Mankowski, Sarah, Art Muscle, (Interview), Riverwest Currents, May
Wild, Matt, The Devil and Me,(review), Vital Source ,August
Schumacher, Mary Louise, Suitcase Fund, review, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
Aug, 28
2004 Schumacher, Mary Louise, Floating Above Gallery Night Fluff,(review),Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
2003 Auer, James, Irony of self-absorption, social analysis, makes ‘Dope’ addictive, (review), Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Aug. 27
2002 Hawkins, Margaret, Creativity Unfurled, (review) Chicago Sun Times, Sept. 27
2001 Pagel, David, Painter Fashions a Thoughtful Commentary, (review) LA Times, June 29
Berry, S.L., Milwaukee painter Enjoys Mimicking Life, Indianapolis Star, Oct. 5
Faigin, Gary, (radio review), KUOW, Seattle
1999 Guequierre, Nathan, Tiny Gestures, Milwaukee Sheperd Express, Nov. 10
Connors, Thomas, Fred, Jesus and the Devil, Milwaukee Magazine, Sept.
Cebulski, Frank, The Great Novels Exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center, Artweek, Sept.
Auer, James,(review), The Surreal Mr. Stonehouse, Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, April 20
Pascale, Mark, (catalog essay), The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago
1999 Bell, Greg, (catalog essay), New Religion,Tacoma Art Museum
Rodriguez, Jeanette with Fortier, Ted, (catalog essay), New Religion, Tacoma Art Museum
Hawkins, Margaret, (review), Chicago Sun Times, Sept. 17
Heartney, Eleanor, (review), Art in America, March
Waswo, Richard, Sideshow Saints, In Step Magazine, March 10
Parlin, Jerry, Childhood Impulse Still Inspires Artist’s Work, Lacrosse Tribune, Feb. 8
Heartney, Eleanor, (review), Art In America, March
1998 Hour, James, The Wisconsin Surrealist Gang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Aug. 27
Ebony, David, (review), Ebony’s Top Ten, Art Net Magazine, May
Cucio, Robert, (review), Culture Weekly/ Cover Magazine, May
Johnson, Ken, (review) Art Guide Review, New York Times, April 24
1997 Kandel, Susan, Artful Illusions and Serial Masquerades Spring To Life,
LATimes, April 4
Rhea, Tom, 4 x 4 at the Herron Gallery, Nuvo Newsweekly, March 6
Wiens, Ann, Review, New Art Examiner, Dec/Jan
Hawkins, Margaret, Review, Chicago Sun Times, Sept. 20
Bucholz, Barbara, Review, Chicago Tribune, Sept. 20
1995 Ebony, David, "Fred Stonehouse At M-13", Review, Art In America, Dec.
Guequirre, Nathan, An Eye for Figures, Review, Sheperd Express, Nov.
Vanesian, Kathleen, A Conversation with Fred Stonehouse, Intervi, Lisa Sette Gallery Newsletter, Sept.
Knowles, Susan W., Fred Stonehouse, Review, Art Papers, Oct.
1994 Holg, Garrett, Fred Stonehouse, Review, Art News, Sept.
Hawkins, Margaret, Stonehouse Mixes A Visual Potpourri, Review, Chicago Sun-Times, May 6
McCracken, David, Stonehouse Blends High & Low Sources Into Peculiar Stew, Chicago Tribune, May 6
1993 Kandell, Susan, Moondancing, LA Times, Oct. 14
Iannaccone, Carmine, Fred Stonehouse, Review, Art Issues Magazine, Nov.
Auer, James, Stonehouse Raises Questions; Answers Are Up To Viewer, Milwaukee Journal, Nov.
Artner, Alan, Folk, Funk, Antique Look Fuse in Survey, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 8
1992 Auer, James, Painter is Gifted Translator, Milwaukee Journal, Nov. 8
Heartney, Eleanor, The Fantastic Realism of Fred Stonehouse, Catalogue Essay, Madison Art Center
1992 Lewis, Frank, Tender Portraits of Survival, Milwaukee Magazine, Oct.
Pash, Ina, Fantasy, Painful Realism Mingle, Wisconsin State Journal, Sept. 27
Paine, Janice, A Rich and Vivid Retrospective, Milwaukee Sentinel, Nov. 8
Lynch, Kevin, Bean Head Art Disturbs, The Capital Times, Sept. 10
McCracken, David, Stonehouse's Weird Salad Proves Tasty, review, Chicago Tribune, May 8
Kapelke, Steven, Fred Stonehouse, review, New Art Examiner, Jan.
1991 Auer, James, Stonehouse Works Evoke Symbolism, Pain, Sacrifice, Milwaukee Journal, Nov. 15
Paine, Janice, Stonehouse Expands His World, Milwaukee Sentinel, Oct. 28
Hawkins, Margaret, Studio is the Art in an Exhibition That Offers A Unique View, Chicago Sun Times,
Aug. 2
1990 Bowman, Russell, Word As Image, catalogue essay, Milwaukee Art Museum
Lewis, Frank, Inside the World of Fred Stonehouse, interview, Milwaukee Sentinel, March 30
Cook, Cathy, Fred Stonehouse, review, LA Times, Jan. 26
1988 Sobel, Dean, Diablos, catalogue essay, Center for Contemporary Art
Lewis, Frank, Characters Jell in Stonehouse Art, Milwaukee Sentinel, July 1
Auer, James, Fred Stonehouse, Milwaukee Journal, July 10
1987 Bowman, Russell, Three Out Front, catalogue essay, Milwaukee Art Museum
Bamberger, Tom, Three Out Front, review, Art Muscle Magazine, July
Auer, James, Three Out Front, review, Milwaukee Sentinel, July 24,
1986 Lindemann, Julie and Shimon, John, Fred Stonehouse: Skeptical Romantic, profile, and On Viewing the Paintings of Fred Stonehouse, review, Art Muscle Magazine, Sept.
Caroll, Noel, Romanticism and Cynicism: Life In The Dead Zone, catalogue essay, Haggerty Museum of
Art, Milwaukee
Heartney, Eleanor, On Midwestern Art, catalogue essay, for Made In America: The Great Lakes States,
Alternative Museum, NYC
Wojno Kiefer, Geraldine, Feelings and Cerebrality: A New Regionalism, A New
Power, catalogue essay for Made In America: The Great Lakes States,
Alternative Museum, NYC
Palmer, Laurie, Lisa Pines/Fred Stonehouse, New Art Examiner, March
1985 Auer, James, Stonehouse Shows He's A Painter With A Future, Milwaukee Journal, Dec. 22
Lewis, Frank, Into Some Dazzling Myths, Milwaukee Sentinel, Dec. 6
AWARDS:
2006 Joan Mitchell Award
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Saturday 11:00 - 5:30
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Opening reception Saturday, January 14
Artist remarks at 5:30pm
Reception to follow through 8pm
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