1956 Born in Santa Monica, CA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
1982 B.A., Painting and Drawing, California State University, Fullerton, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Fred Tomaselli, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
2018 Fred Tomaselli, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2017 Paper, White Cube, London, UK
2016 Keep Looking: Fred Tomaselli’s Birds, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Canada
Early Work or How I Became A Painter, James Cohan, New York, NY
2015 Fred Tomaselli : The Early Works or How I Became A Painter, Begovich Gallery,
California State University, Fullerton, CA
2014 Fred Tomaselli: The Times, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
MI; Traveled to Orance County Museum of Art, New port Beach, CA
FOCUS: Fred Tomaselli, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2010 Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Fred Tomaselli, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; travelled to the Tang Museum,
Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London, UK
2006 Fred Tomaselli, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Fred Tomaselli, Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
04-05 Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London, UK
Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise, organized by Fiona Bradley, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh,
Scotland; travelled to Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain; Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Dublin, Ireland ; The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (catalogue)
2003 Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2001 White Cube, London, UK
Gravity's Rainbow, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Fred Tomaselli: 10-Year Survey, curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary
Art, FL; traveled to SITE Santa Fe, NM
2000 Phrase Book (text by Rick Moody, illustrated by Fred Tomaselli), Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Gravity's Rainbow, curated by Eugenie Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris,
New York, NY (catalogue)
Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1998 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
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, CA; Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA; Rice
University, Houston, TX; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1995 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1993 Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 White Columns Gallery, curated by Bill Arning, New York, NY
Randy Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Artist’s Space, curated by Cornelia Butler, Project Room, New York, NY
1987 P.S. 1 Museum, curated by Tom Finkelpearl, Long Island City, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
When We First Arrived..., The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, DC
2019 James Cohan: Twenty Years, James Cohan, New York, NY
Nomadic Murals: Tapestries of the Modern Era, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Borders, James Cohan, New York, NY
2018 Fake News? Some Artistic Responses, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, WinterPark, FL
Constructing Identity in America (1766-2017), Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Grids,
James Cohan, New York, NY
Black Light: Secret traditions in art since the 1950s, Centre de Cultura Contemporània (CCCB),
Barcelona, Spain
In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2017 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City MO
Dream Machines, James Cohan Gallery, New York NY
Contemporary Magic, The Untitled Space, New York NY
The Times, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY
2016 Dream States: Contemporary Photographs and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2015 The Transportation Business, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum,
San Francisco CA
2014 The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Four Decades, Drawings and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
All the News That’s Fit to Print, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2013 3 am: Wonder, Paranoia and the restless night, the Bluecoat, Liverpool UK
Burying the Lede, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
News/Prints, International Print Center, New York, NY
2012 Three Painters: Peter Edlund, Leslie Shows and Fred Tomaselli, curated by Renny Pritikin, Nelson
Gallery, University of California at Davis, CA
2011 Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
10-11 Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK
The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Susan Hefuna, Bharti Kher, Fred Tomaselli, Kunstmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
07-09 Molecules that Matter, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; traveled to: the Chemical Heritage
Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
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
2007 If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
Environmental Renaissance, Natural World Museum, San Francisco, CA
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006 The Paper Sculpture Show, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, OH
The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Over + Over: Passion for Process, curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox, Austin
Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Neuroculture: Visual Art and the Brain, curated by Suzanne Anker and Giovanni
Frazzetto, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
Having New Eyes, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
05-06 POPulence, curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston,
TX; traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH; and the Southeastern
Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (catalogue)
2005 Swarm, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Quantum Grids: Cai Guo-Ciang, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, and Fred Tomaselli, Sert Gallery,
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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
Vertiges, Printemps de septembre à Toulouse, France
Neo-Baroque!, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
POPulence, curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX;
traveled to: the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH; the Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (catalogue)
Over + Over: Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Champaign, IL; traveled to: the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover,
MA (catalogue)
COLLAGE signs & surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Flower Myth. Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
2004 PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Destinations, curated by Cydney Payton, Museum of
Contemporary Art/Denver, CO
Birdspace: A Post Audubon Artists Aviary, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
The Flower as Image, curated by Ernst Jonas Bencard and Poul Erik Tøjner, Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity, curated by Bob Nickas and Steve Lafreniere, P.S. 1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Material Evidence: Artists Revisit Process, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Summer Show,
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, curated by Robert Storr, 5th International Biennial,
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Popstraction, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
For the Birds, curated by Denise Markonish, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Indivisible Cities, curated by Jason Paradis, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Transfigurations: The Body in 20th Century Art, Cranbrook Art Museum,
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Happiness: a survival focus guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Japan, curated by David Elliot
Arrangement: The Use of Flowers in Art, Rhodes + Mann, London, UK
Post Op, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCAC, San Francisco, CA
The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (book)
High & Inside, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Shine, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Great Drawing Show, 1550-2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Ganzfeld (Unbound), curated by Nadel, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
02-03 Psychodrome.02: Michel Gouery, Franz Ackerman, Fred Tomaselli, curated by Grazia Quaroni
and David Renaud, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
2002 Liverpool Biennial, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Visions of America: Photographs from the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY
The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward: Selected Works by Harry Smith, Philip Taaffe and Fred Tomaselli,
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Self-Medicated, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
On Perspective, Galleri Faurschou, Kobenhavn, Denmark
The Carpenter Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
01-02 Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, curated by Lene Burkard Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik,
Odense, Denmark; traveled to: Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
2001 Berlin Biennale, curated by Saskia Bos, Berlin, Germany
The Americans – New Art, curated by Mark Sladen, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Art of the 1990's, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (catalogue)
The Passions: from Brueghel to Viola, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
ARS 01, curated by Patrik Nyberg, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
99-01 Post-Hypnotic, curated by Barry Blinderman, organized by Illinois State University, University
Galleries, Normal, IL; traveled to: The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX;
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; The Atlanta College of Art Gallery,
Atlanta, GA; The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC;
The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Philharmonic Center for the Arts,
Naples, FL
2000 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
The Lyon Biennial, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
The Visionary Landscape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Art, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
Fred Tomaselli: Recent Print Acquisitions, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
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, Los Angeles, CA
Open Ends: MoMA 2000, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000 from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zurich,
Switzerland, curated by Bice Curiger
1999 The Nature of Order, James Cohan Gallery New York, NY
Animal Artifice, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
The Ecstatic, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
Wildflowers, Katona Museum of Art, Katona, New York, NY
The Great Drawing Show: 1985-1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pattern, James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York, NY
Ultra Buzz, Gallery of Art-Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
1998 International Home and Garden, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Pusan Contemporary
Art Museum, Pusan, Korea
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Pop Abstraction, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Project 63: Karin Davie, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred Tomaselli, curated by Lillian Tone and
Ann Umland, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Perspectives on Infinity, TransAmerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Heart, Mind, Body and Soul, curated by Thelma Golden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Icon/Iconoclast, curated by Raymond Foye, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea,
New York, NY
Personal Absurdities, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Paper Trail, curated by Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk, Perogie 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Animal Tales, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Redefinitions: A View from Brooklyn, curated by Charlotta Kotik, California
State University, Fullerton, CA
A Passion for Picture; Selections from the Charles H. Carpenter Jr. Collection,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Just What Do You Think You’re Doing Dave, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Out There: Images of the Cosmos, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MS
Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Collectors XII, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art,
La Jolla, CA
1996 Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth, curated by James Rondeau, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
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, PA
Fragments, Museu d'Arte Contemporanei Barcelona, Spain
Brazil/USA Exchange, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art,
Santa Monica, CA
TRANS/INTER/POST: Hybrid Spaces, University of California, Irvine. Other Subjects,
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Luminous Bodies, curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Patterns of Excess, Art Gallery, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
America Dreamin’, curated by Heidi Zuckerman, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, NY
1995 Altered and Irrational, curated by Beth Venn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Painting Outside Painting, curated by Terrie Sultan, The Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
On Beauty, curated by Dan Cameron, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Brave New World, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Abstraction Faite, Gilbert Brownstone and Galerie Mateo, Paris, France
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa
Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (still life, portrait, landscape), Bravin Post Lee,
New York, NY
Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
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, AZ
1994 Fool's Paradise, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Promising Suspects, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Jet Lag, Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Arabesque, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
Benefit Exhibition and Sale for Independent Curators, curated by Dan Cameron, Sonnabend Gallery,
New York, NY
Residence Secondaire, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Carré St-Nicolas, Paris, France
Five New York Artists, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden
Modus Operandi, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY
About Time, T’Zart & Co., New York, NY
Selections, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
Group Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Abstraction for the Information Age, curated by Irit Krygier, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Mimosa, Food House, Santa Monica, CA
Six Young Americans, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Tele-Aesthetics, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, curated by Tom Patchett, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fever, Exit Art, New York, NY
Recycling Reconsidered, curated by Suzanne Weaver, Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
A Collector’s Choice, Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
Poverty Pop, Exit Art, New York, NY
The Final Frontier, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Interzone, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
True Love, Dooley La Cappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Fred Tomaselli, Keith Coventry, Carl Ostendarp, David Dupuis, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Special Project, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Voyage to the Nth Dimension, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Ecstasy, Dooley La Cappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Brooklyn, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
White Bird, curated by Hudson, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
From Sculpture, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
Certainty Uncertainty, Deutsche Bank, Lobby Gallery, New York, NY
Maps & Madness, curated by Fred Wilson, Longwood Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Out of Sight, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, NY
Garbage Out Front: A New Era in Public Design (a collaboration with Mierle Laderman Ukeles),
Urban Center, New York, NY
Reconnaissance, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
Art Awareness, Arts Center, Lexington, New York, NY
Ten Q, Ihara Ludens Gallery, New York, NY
An Army of Lovers, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Art in Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
The Center Show, Lesbian and Gay Community Center, New York, NY
The First Amendment Show, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Movietone Muse, Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1985 Off the Street, Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Times, Irit Krygier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LACE Salutes Pershing Square, Pershing Square Park, Los Angeles, CA
Loco Motion, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Four Installations, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Cotton Exchange Show, sponsored by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
(LACE), Los Angeles, CA
The Crap Show, curated by Paul McCarthy, Orwell Memorial ArtSpace,
Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
1990 Percent for Art Commission, New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Park,
Queens, New York
AWARDS
2011 The Asher B. Durand Award for Distinction as a Brooklyn Artist, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Aspen Award for Art, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
1998 Joan Mitchell Grant, New York, NY
1993 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, City Hall, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Sintra Museum of Modern Art – The Berardo Collection, Sintra, Portugal
The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, NY
Viriginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Wake Forest University Student Union Collection, Winston-Salem, NC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2014 Weschler, Lawrence. Fred Tomaselli: The Times. Munich; New York: Prestel, 2014
2011 Johnson, Ken, “Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed
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2010 Morley, Simon, ed. "Interview with Siri Hustvedt", The Sublime: Documents of Contemporary
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2009 Berry, Ian, Fred Tomaselli, Prestel Publishing 2009
Belcove, Julie, "W Profile: Tomaselli," W Magazine, July 2009
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Valdez, Sarah, "Fred Tomaselli," Paper Magazine, November 3, 2006
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Ayers, Robert, "The AI Interview: Fred Tomaselli," ARTINFO, October 25, 2006
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren, "Critics' Picks: Fred Tomaselli," ArtForum, October 14, 2006
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
"Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise", The Art Newspaper, No. 149, July-
August 2004
Lethem, Jonathan, "The Collector", ArtReview, July/August 2004, Vol. LIV
Clark, Robert, "Monsters of Paradise, Edinburgh," The Guardian, July 31, 2004
Jeffrey, Moira, "The Natural Thing to Do," The Herald, July 30, 2004
Durrant, Nancy, "This Week:The Best of the Arts Chosen by the Times Team of Critics,"
The Times, July 24, 2004
Plagens, Peter, "The Body Electric," Newsweek, June 7/14, 2004
Material Evidence: Artists Revisit Process, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington (August) 2003
Ceruti, Mary et al., The Paper Sculpture Book (catalogue). Cabinet Magazine, ICI, and Sculpture
Center, New York. Texts by Mary Ceruty, Matt Freedman, Sina Najafi and Frances Richard.
Kino, Carol, "Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan Gallery", Art in America, November 2003, pp. 104-05
Happiness: a survival focus guide for art and life (catalogue). Mori Art Museum, Japan. Edited by David Elliot.
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
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
Johnson, Ken. "The Ecstatic," The New York Times, September 10, p. E36
Blair, Dike. "Strange Haze: Drugs, Artists, and Art," Purple, No. 4
Volk, Gregory and Sabine Russ. International House and Garden, Exh.
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,
February 9
Thong, Peregia. "Art as a Drug", Everybody's News, February 7
1996 Meyers-Kingley, Dara. Luminous Bodies, Exh. Cat., Brooklyn: The Rotunda Gallery
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. 245-246
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
Kandel, Susan. "Fred Tomaselli at Christopher Grimes," Art Issues, September-October, p. 44
Pagel, David. "Voyage Criss-Crosses Science and Art," The Los Angeles Times, August
Barrie, Lita. "Fred Tomaselli," Artspace, July-August, pp. 66-67
Welles, Eleanor. "Fred Tomaselli," ArtScene, May
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