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1956
Born in Santa Monica, California
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
1982 B.A., Painting and Drawing, California State University, Fullerton, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Fred Tomaselli, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, travelling to the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (2010)
Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London, UK
2006
Fred Tomaselli, James Cohan Gallery
2005
Fred Tomaselli, Carlier - Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2004
Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London, UK (through January 22, 2005)
Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise, organized by Fiona Bradley, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveling to Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (March 9 – June 19, 2005); The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (September 15 – December 5, 2005) (catalogue)
2003
Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York
James Cohan Gallery, New York
2001
White Cube, London
Gravity's Rainbow, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Fred Tomaselli: 10-Year Survey, curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; traveled to SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000
Phrase Book (text by Rick Moody, illustrated by Fred Tomaselli), Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
James Cohan Gallery, New York
1999
Gravity's Rainbow, curated by Eugenie Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art
at Philip Morris, New York (catalogue)
Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1998
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1997
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1996
Fred Tomaselli, The Urge to Be Transported, co-curated by Marilu Knode
and Rene Pritikin, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens,
San Francisco, California; Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California; Rice University, Houston, Texas; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1995
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California (catalogue)
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1994
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Three Painters: Peter Edlund, Leslie Shows and Fred Tomaselli, curated by Renny Pritikin, Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis (January 12 – March 11, 2012)
2011
Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (October 4 – December 17, 2011)
2010
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (October 15, 2010 –January 9, 2011)
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK,
(July 8 – August 28 2010)
The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX
Susan Hefuna, Bharti Kher, Fred Tomaselli, Kunstmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
(May 1 – June 27, 2010)
2009
Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2008
8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY
Demons, Yarns, & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists, Banners of Persuasion, London, UK
The Voting Booth Project, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Prospect.1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
Multiverse, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Just Love Me, Royal/T, Culver City, CA
Ornithology, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut
Art is for the Spirit: Works from The UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (February 2 – April 6)
2007
Molecules that Matter, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; travelling to the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the College of
Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (through May 2009)
If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom (May 26 – September 23, 2007
Environmental Renaissance, Natural World Museum, San Francisco, CA (April 15 –
June 15, 2007)
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (January 11 – February 10, 2007)
2006
The Paper Sculpture Show, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, OH (August 19 – November 5, 2006)
2005
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, organized by Paul Schimmel with Gloria
Sutton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Landscape, curated by Donna De Salvo, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
POPulence, curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (September 15-December 20, 2005), and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (January 21-April 2, 2006) (catalogue)
2004
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
2004 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2003
Happiness: a survival focus guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Japan, curated by David Elliot
2002
Psychodrome.02: Michel Gouery, Franz Ackerman, Fred Tomaselli, curated by
Grazia Quaroni and David Renaud, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (through Feb. 2003) (catalogue)
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
Visions of America: Photographs from the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward: Selected Works by Harry Smith, Philip Taaffe and Fred Tomaselli, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Self-Medicated, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2001
Berlin Biennale, curated by Saskia Bos, Berlin, Germany
The Americans – New Art, curated by Mark Sladen, Barbican Gallery, London, Englan
Art of the 1990's, Museum of Cotemporary Art, San Diego, California (catalogue)
The Passions: from Brueghel to Viola, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2000
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
The Lyon Biennial, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
Fred Tomaselli: Recent Print Acquisitions, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, curated by Marente Bloemheuvel and Jaap Guldemond, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Made in California, curated by Lynn Zelevanksy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Open Ends: MoMA 2000, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1999
The Nature of Order, James Cohan Gallery New York
Animal Artifice, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
The Great Drawing Show: 1985-1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Post-Hypnotic, curated by Barry Blinderman, organized by Illinois State University, University Galleries, Normal, Illinois. Exhibition traveled through 2001 to: The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida
1998
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Pop Abstraction, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Project 63: Karin Davie, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred Tomaselli, curated by Lillian Tone and Ann Umland, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1997
Heart, Mind, Body and Soul, curated by Thelma Golden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Personal Absurdities, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
1996
Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Castello di Rivoli and Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany.
Charles H. Carpenter Jr., The Odyssey of a Collector, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Fragments, Museu d'Arte Contemporanei Barcelona, Spain
1995
Altered and Irrational, curated by Beth Venn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting Outside Painting, curated by Terrie Sultan, The Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Pittura/Immediata, curated by Peter Wieble, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
It's only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, curated by David S. Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1994
Fool's Paradise, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Residence Secondaire, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Carré St-Nicolas, Paris, France
Five New York Artists, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden
Group Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993
Abstraction for the Information Age, curated by Irit Krygier, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, California
Six Young Americans, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Recycling Reconsidered, curated by Suzanne Weaver, Indianapolis Museum of
Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Poverty Pop, Exit Art, New York
The Final Frontier, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1992
Fred Tomaselli, Keith Coventry, Carl Ostendarp, David Dupuis, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
Special Project, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Voyage to the Nth Dimension, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1991
White Bird, curated by Hudson, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
From Sculpture, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, New York
Maps & Madness, curated by Fred Wilson, Longwood Arts Gallery, New York
1990
Out of Sight, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
Garbage Out Front: A New Era in Public Design (a collaboration with Mierle Laderman Ukeles), Urban Center, New York
Works on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York
1988
Art in Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
The First Amendment Show, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York
1987
Movietone Muse, Penn Plaza, New York
1985
Off the Street, Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, California
Modern Times, Irit Krygier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Loco Motion, California State University, Los Angeles, California
1984
Four Installations, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Cotton Exchange Show, sponsored by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, California
1984
The Crap Show, curated by Paul McCarthy, Orwell Memorial ArtSpace, Los
Angeles, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
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2011
Kazakina, Katya, "Dr. Doom’s Party, Ghostly Canvases, Tomaselli’s $500,000 Owl: Chelsea Art", Bloomberg
"The Process in which an artist discusses making a particular work: Fred Tomaselli, Night Music for Raptors", The Believer Magazine
"Poking at Beehives: Three Painters – Works by Peter Edlund, Leslie Shows and Fred
Tomaselli" (exhibition catalogue), Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Art Collection UC Davis, 2011, Essay by Renny Pritikin
Johnson, Ken, “Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art”, Presetel Publishing, 2011.
2010
Morley, Simon, ed. "Interview with Siri Hustvedt", The Sublime: Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery and MIT Press, 2010.
2009
Berry, Ian, Fred Tomaselli, Prestel Publishing 2009
Belcove, Julie, "W Profile: Tomaselli," W Magazine, July 2009
2008
Goldstein, Andrew, "Recession-Affected Artists Reduced to Working With Printer Paper," New York, Dec 10, 2008
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"Magic carpets: the modern art of tapestry," The Independent, November 11, 2008
2007
Douglas, Sarah, "A New High," Art & Auction, January 2007
Korotkin, Joyce, "Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan Gallery," Tema Celeste, January – February 2007
2006
Shushan, Ronnie, "The Slipperiness of Reality," Spirituality & Health Magazine, November/December 2006
Greben, Deidre Stein, "How Bloopers Become Breakthroughs," ArtNews, November 2006
Kastner, Jeffrey, "Art in Review: Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan Gallery," The New York
Times, November 3, 2006
Valdez, Sarah, "Fred Tomaselli," Paper Magazine, November 3, 2006
Thorne, Micheal and Steven Klein. Biological Psychology. New York: Worth Publishers,
2006
Ayers, Robert, "The AI Interview: Fred Tomaselli," ARTINFO, October 25, 2006
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren, "Critics' Picks: Fred Tomaselli," ArtForum, October 14, 2006
Baker, R.C., "Best in Show: Black on Blonde," The Village Voice, October 27, 2006
Richer, Francesa and Matthew Rosenzweig. No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists. New York:
DAP, 2006
Cohen, David, "Paint By Numbers," The New York Sun, October 12, 2006
Spears, Dorothy, "Where Art Imitates Gardening (And Vice Versa), The New York Times,
October 8, 2006
Margolis, Janet, "Is It Real or Is It Ecstasy?" Art and Living Magazine, 2006, Issue 1
"Fred Tomaselli: New Paintings," Dwell Magazine, October 2006
Rosenberg, Karen, "Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan Gallery," New York Magazine,
September 4-11, 2006
Mullarky, Maureen, "Reinvigorating Landscape Painting," The New York Sun, June 29, 2006
Von Siemens, Carl, "The Hyper-Reality of Rubber Pyramids: Fred Tomaselli," sleek, June 23, 2006
2005
Mark, Lisa, ed. Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (exhibition catalogue). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2005. Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Chrissie Iles, Lars Bang Larsen, Midori Matsui, and Paul Schimmel.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, "POPulence," Houston Press, Artbeat, Capsule Reviews, August 18, 2005
Smith, Roberta, "Wide Open Spaces, Within and Between the Frames," The New York Times, Weekend Arts, Fine Arts Leisure, Art Review, September 2, 2005
Pagel, David and Terrie Sultan. POPulence (exhibition catalogue). Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX, 2005.
Gregg Duggan, Ginger and Judith Hoos Fox. Over + Over: Passion for Process (exhibition catalogue). Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 2005. Texts by Ginger Gregg Duggan, Judith Hoos Fox and Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.
Maurizio Cannavacciuolo (exhibition catalogue). Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
Boston, MA, 2005. Introduction by Anne Hawley, texts by Marcia E. Vetrocq, Maurizio Cannavacciuolo and Pieranna Cavalchini.
COLLAGE signs & surfaces (exhibition catalogue). Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY,
2005. Introduction by Pavel Zoubok, texts by Brandon Taylor and Thomas Piché, Jr.
Tromble, Meredith, "Visual Chemistry," breathe, May/June 2005, pp. 68-75
Colman, David, "Fred Tomaselli," Elle Décor, May 2005, pp. 76, 78.
Sweeney, Karen. Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise (brochure). Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 2005.
Silver, Joanne, "Fred Tomaselli at Rose Art Museum," ARTNews, December 2005.
Kimmelman, Michael, "A Mind-Bending Head Trip (All Legal)," The New York Times, Weekend Arts, November 4, 2005.
Giovannotti, Micaela and Joyce B. Korotkin. Neo Baroque! (catalogue). Milan,
Charta Editions, 2005. Roundtable with S.M. Momin, R. Storr and artists A. Rockman and N. Verlato.
Flower Myth. Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons (catalogue). Riehen/Basel: Fondation Beyeler, 2005. Texts by Ernst Beyeler Christoph Vitali, Robert Kopp, Philippe Büttner and Ulf Küster.
Richard, Frances, "Historic Williamsburg," Artforum, March 2005
Dyer, Richard, "London," Contemporary, News, Issue 70, March 2005
Januszczak, Waldemar, "Fred Tomaselli: The drugs do work in the psychedelic studies of paradise found and lost," Times Online, January 9, 2005
Januszczak, Waldemar, "An unnatural high," The Sunday Times, Culture, Art, January 9, 2005
Robertson, Jean and Craig McDaniel. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Criqui, Jean-Pierre, "High Art," ArtForum, January 2005.
Morton, Julia, "Realm of the Senses: A Sensual Adventure", New York Press, December 29 – January 4, 2005
Levin, Kim, "Realm of the Senses", The Village Voice, December 29 – January 4, 2005
2004
Hackworth, Nick, "From the psychedelic to the sinister," Evening Standard, Review, December 13, 2004
Harris, Lucian, "Fred Tomaselli", The Art Newspaper, What's On, December 2004
Cripps, Charlotte, "Altered States of America," The Independent, Arts Preview, November
29, 2004
Douglas, Sarah, "His Art Rocks", ARTNews, September 2004
The Flower as Image (catalogue). Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek,
Denmark, 2004. Edited by Michael Juul Holm, Ernst Jonas Bencard and Poul Erik Tøjner.
McIntosh, Jacqui, "Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise," Online Reviews, Circa Art Magazine, October 2004
Herbert, Martin, "How Much Paint Does It Take to Paint a Painting? A Journey of Discovery,"
Modern Painters, Autumn 2004 (pp. 82-85)
Chapman, Peter, "Fred Tomaselli: The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh," The Independent, September 18-24, 2004
Herbert, Martin, "Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery," Previews, Contemporary Magazine, August 2004
Black, Catriona, "The Acid Art House," Festival Review, Sunday Herald, August 15, 2004
Hedges, Ruth, "Painting and Collage: Fred Tomaselli," The List, August 12-19, 2004
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, "Medicine Man in Paradise," The Times, August 11, 2004
Darwent, Charles, "Whose Art is this? Oh, it's my Own," Independent on Sunday, August 8, 2004
Jeffrey, Moira, "A Trip into Psychedelic Paradise," The Herald, August 5, 2004
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Lethem, Jonathan, "The Collector", ArtReview, July/August 2004, Vol. LIV
Clark, Robert, "Monsters of Paradise, Edinburgh," The Guardian, July 31, 2004
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The Times, July 24, 2004
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ICI, and Sculpture Center, New York. Texts by Mary Ceruty, Matt Freedman, Sina Najafi and Frances Richard.
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Breidenbach, Tom, "Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan Gallery", Art Forum, September 2003, p. 227
"Illustration", Harpers, September 2003, p. 21
Pinchbeck, Daniel, "Tomaselli's Postmodern Gnosticism", Parkett, no. 67, 2003
Scobie, Ilka. "Tripping on the Wall", Artnet, May 2003
"Fred Tomaselli", The New Yorker, Art, Galleries, Chelsea, May 26, 2003
Martin, Chris. "Fred Tomaselli in Conversation with Chris Martin", The Brooklyn Rail, Winter 2003, p. 15-17
2002
Halkin,Talya. "The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward", The New York Sun, September 19, p. 20
Foye, Raymond, The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward: Selected works by Harry Smith, Philip Taaffe, and Fred Tomaselli, Exh. Catalogue, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Cotter, Holland. " The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward", The New York Times,
September, p. 35
Helander, Bruce. "Tomaselli's Prescriptions", Palm Beach and Naples Times, February
Psychodrome. Exh. catalogue, texts by Geazia Quaroni, David Renaud and Michel
Gauthier, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
Grunenberg, Christoph. International Liverpool Biennial, Exh. Catalogue, Tate Liverpool. Liverpool, England
"Illustration", Harpers, February, p. 24
Knight, Christopher. "Self-Medicated is Anything But Sedate," Los Angeles Times, January 25, p. F36
2001
Fred Tomaselli: Ten Year Survey. Exh. catalogue, essay by Amy Cappellazzo, short story by Rick Moody, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida.
Ward, Ed. "At the Biennale, Video Art Rules," The Wall Street Journal, June 4
Schwarzman, Carol. "Fred Tomaselli," New Art Examiner, April, pp. 54-55
Pollack, Barbara. "Fred Tomaselli," review, ARTnews, March, p. 153
Richard, Frances, "Fred Tomaselli", review, Artforum, February
Wakefield, Neville, "He Brings Ideas To Life", Interview, January-April
Cotter, Holland, "Fred Tomaselli," review, The New York Times, January 19
Dailey, Meghan, "Fred Tomaselli," review, Time Out New York, January 18
Giovanotti, Micaela. "Fred Tomaselli," review, Tema Celeste.com, January 9
Mahoney, Robert. "Uptown Rounds," artnet.com Magazine, January 4
"Brings Ideas to Life," Interview, January
2000
Levin, Kim. "Voice Choice," The Village Voice, December 26
Schjeldhal, Peter. "Fred Tomaselli," review, The New Yorker, December 25
Scobie, Ilka. "Kingdom of the Dream," artnet.com Magazine, December 20, Review
Volk, Gregory, Fred Tomaselli. Exh. Catalogue, James Cohan Gallery, New York
1999
Harris, William. "He Dropped Out of Drugs and Put Them in His Art," The New
York Times, December 19, p. C 50
Scott, Andrea C. "Fred Tomaselli, 'Gravity's Rainbow'," Time Out New York, December 9-
16, p. 77
Sheets, Hillary M. "Prescription for Beauty," Art News, November, pp. 180-182
Viveros-Faune, Christian. "Field Guide to Disneyland," New York Press, November 3.
Emerling, Susan. "Artist's Little Helper," Salon.com, October 29
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Blair, Dike. "Strange Haze: Drugs, Artists, and Art," Purple, No. 4
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Blinderman, Barry and Tom Moody. Post-Hypnotic, Exh. Cat., Indiana State University, Normal, pp. 90-92
Rondeau, James. "Interview with Fred Tomaselli," in Fred Tomaselli, Exh. Cat., Galerie Gebauer, Berlin
Tsai, Eugenie. Gravity's Rainbow, Exh. Cat., Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip
Morris, New York
Bendheim, Fred. "Drugs and the Art of Tomaselli," The Lancet, August 28, p. 781
Mahoney, Robert. "Pattern," Time Out New York, August 19-26, p. 58
Volk, Gregory. "Transportive Visions," Art in America, July
Viladas, Pilar. "Mr. Norton's Cabinets of Wonder," The New York Times
Magazine, February 21, p. 59 (illustrated)
"Science: A Universe Apart?," The New York Times, February 14 (illustrated)
1998
Kino, Carol. "Op 'til you drop," Time Out New York, June 25–July 2, 1998, p. 57
"The Art of Science," Doubletake, Spring 1998, p. 50 (illustrated)
Long, Andrew. "Decorators' Showcase," Art & Antiques, February, p. 29
Pagel, David. "Exploring a Realm of Intoxicating Illusions," Los Angeles Times, February 27, p. F22
McKenna, Kristine. "Mind-Altering Art," Los Angeles Times, February 22, pp. 59-60
1997
Marcoci, Roxana, Diana Murphy and Eve Sinaiko. New Art, New York: Abrams Publishing, 1997
Hoshino, Stacy and Cynthia Roznoy. Animal Tales, Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting, Exh. Cat., Stamford: Whitney Museum of
American Art at Champion, 1997
Cameron, Dan. "Global Warming," Artforum, December
Carasso, Roberta. "Redefinitions: A View from Brooklyn," Art Scene, December
Diehl, Carol. "Fred Tomaselli," ARTnews, September
Dykstra, Jean. "Pot Pourri," Brooklyn Bridge, August, p. 27
Scobie, Ilka. "Fred Tomaselli," The Exhibitionist, April/May
Pedersen, Victoria. "Gallery Go Round", Paper Magazine, April/May
Arning, Bill. "Fred Tomaselli," Time Out New York, May 8-15, p. 49
Dalton, Jennifer. "Fred Tomaselli," Review, May 1, p. 16
Morgan, Robert. "Fred Tomaselli," Review, May 1, p. 16
Levin, Kim. "Voice Choice," The Village Voice, May 13
Smith, Roberta. "Weekend," The New York Times, May 9
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Street Value," The Village Voice, May 6
Findsen, Owen. "CAC Exhibit Designs Lost in Ingredients," Cincinnati Inquirer, Feb. 9
Thong, Peregia. "Art as a Drug", Everybody's News, February 7
1996
Meyers-Kingley, Dara. Luminous Bodies, Exh. Cat., Brooklyn: The Rotunda Gallery, 1996
Curtis, Cathy. "1996, The Year in Review," Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition),
December 24
Curtis, Cathy. "Distinguishing Marks," Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, October 22
Curtis, Cathy. "The Eyes Have It," Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition), Tuesday, July 23
Bonetti, David. "Gallery," San Francisco Examiner Magazine, May 26, p. 4
Baker, Kenneth. "Art that Works on the Brain," San Francisco Chronicle, April 5
Risatti, Howard. "Painting Outside of Painting," Artforum, April, p. 106
1995
Fragments, Exh. Cat., Barcelona: Museo Arte Contemporaneo
Multiple Identity: American Art at the Whitney Museum 1975-1995
Exhibition catalogue, essays by David Ross, Ida Gianelli, and Johanna Drucker.Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Smith, Roberta. "A Neo-Surrealist Show With a Revisionist Agenda," The New York Times,
January 12
Smith, Roberta. "Testing Limits at the Corcoran," The New York Times, January 6, pp. 11 & 13
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. "Paiting Beyond Traditional Limits," The Washington Times, December 24
Volk, Gregory. "Fred Tomaselli at Jack Tilton," ARTnews, November, pp. 245-46
Periz, Ingrid. "Fred Tomaselli," Art + Text, No. 52, September, p.90
Greene, David and Alisa Tager. Fred Tomaselli, Exh. Cat., Santa Monica: Christopher Grimes Gallery and Smart Art Press
Faust, Gretchen. "Fred Tomaselli," Forum International, No. 19, October-November
Rubin, David S. It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, Exh. Cat., Phoenix Museum of Art
Levin, Kim. "Fred Tomaselli," The Village Voice, June 1995
Karmel, Pepe. "Fred Tomaselli," The New York Times, June 9
DiMichele, David. "Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair at Chateau Marmont," Artweek, February 1995, p. 29
1994
Tager, Alisa. "Fred Tomaselli at Jack Tilton," Art in America, February, p. 101
Rappenecker, Gert. Jet Lag, (exhibition essay), Frankfurt: Galerie Martina Detterer
1993
Marks, Laura. "The Final Frontier," Artforum, December
Faust, Gretchen. "Fred Tomaselli, Jack Tilton Gallery," Forum International, No. 19, October-November, p. 146
Gookin, Kirby. "Fred Tomaselli," Artforum, October
Weaver, Suzanne. Recycling Reconsidered, Exh. Cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art
Smith, Roberta. "The Final Frontier," The New York Times, July 30, p. C26
Levin, Kim. "Fred Tomaselli," The Village Voice, May 25,1993
Smith, Roberta. "Fred Tomaselli at Jack Tilton Gallery," The New York Times, May 21
"Special Project," Bomb Magazine, March
Curtis, Cathy. "Open to Interpretations," The Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, January 14, pp. 8-9
1992
Welles, Elenore. "Fred Tomaselli," Flash Art, October, p. 17
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Pagel, David. "Pharmaceutically Funny," The Los Angeles Times, May 28
Faust, Gretchen. "Fred Tomaselli," Arts Magazine, February, p. 86
1991
Levin, Kim. "Brooklyn," The Village Voice, December 2
Faust, Gretchen. Fred Tomaselli and the Will to Technology: External Revolution, Internal Revelation, Exh. Cat., New York: White Columns
Levin, Kim. "Fred Tomaselli and Michael Timpson," The Village Voice, July 12
Levin, Kim. "Fred Tomaselli," The Village Voice, June 18
1990
Borum, Jennifer P. "Fred Tomaselli," Artforum, April
Avgikos, Jan. "Here Where We Are Not," exhibition essay, New York: Creative Time
Butler, Cornelia. "Searching for Beauty, Finding Damage," in Artist's
Space Project Room, Exh. Cat., New York: Artist's Space
1989
Friis-Hansen, Dana. "What, Then is Time? Looking Inside Clockwork" in Clockworks!, Exh. Cat., Cambridge, M.I.T. Press
Kline, Katy. "Artists in the Exhibition," in Clockworks!, Exh. Cat., Cambridge, M.I.T. Press
"Art in the Anchorage," The New Yorker, July 10
"The Center Show," The New Yorker, July 3
1988
Rubin, David S. Motorized Sculpture, Exh. Cat., Reading: Albright College
1984
Gardner, Colin. "Four Examples of Illusion," Artweek, October 27
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
1990
Percent for Art Commission, New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1998 Joan Mitchell Grant
1993 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, City Hall, New York
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Wake Forest University Student Union Collection, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Sintra Museum of Modern Art – The Berardo Collection, Sintra, Portugal
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massa