Frances Stark

Name: Frances Stark
Place of Birth: Newport Beach, USA
Year of Birth: 1967
Frances Stark is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. 

Education
She received a BA from San Francisco State University in 1991 and an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 1993. 

Teaching
She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing in the Roski School of Fine Art at the University of Southern California.

Publications
She is the author of the short book The Architect & The Housewife (Bookworks, 1999) which explores, among other things, Daniel Buren’s influential essay The Function of the Studio alongside Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
Her other books include Collected Writing: 1993- 2003 (Bookworks, 1993) and Frances Stark: Collected Works (Walter Koenig, 1997). 

Exhibitions
She has had survey exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, UK, CCA, Glasgow, Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands, - FRAC Bourgone in Dijon, and Culturgest in Lisbon. 
She has also had solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna, Portikus in Frankfurt, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Kunstverein, Munich.  Since 1996 she has mounted 14 solo exhibitions with her galleries CRG in New York, Marc Foxx in Los Angeles, greengrassi in London and Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne.  

 

Ausschnitt Vortrag «The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Getting to Know Mark E. Smith», Sommerakademie 2010