Fritz Welch

Born in 1967 in Atlanta, GA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education: Art Institute of Chicago


SOLO SHOWS

2008 Fritz Welch, Cueto Project, New York
2006 Death is a Dirtier Dog Than My Country, Galerie Valerie Cueto - Paris, France
2004 The Unwanted Doing the Unnecessary for the Unknowing, Donkey Gallery, Albuquerque N.M.
A shadow in search of a body, Momenta Art - Brooklyn NY
2002 The eternal promise of nothing, RomeArts - Brooklyn NY
2001 Fungal Hex (in collaboration with Aaron Cantor, Stephen O'Malley, Rylan Morrison), Jeleni Gallery - Prague, Czech Republic
2000 Goodbye Paranoia, Walden Gallery - New York City
1997 Coffin Cheaters Driven, Transmission - Glasgow, Scotland
1996 Buying Time for Future Membership, A/C Project Room - New York City


GROUP SHOWS

2007 Feng Shui Karaoke and All Day Breakfast, Westgermany Gallery, Berlin DE
Zeitgiest, Cueto Project - New York City
2006 The Filth Within, Derek Eller Gallery - New York City
Acute Zonal Occult Outer, The Drawing Center - New York City
2005 When the Time Traveler Kills Their Grandmother, Alma Enterprises - London UK
Make It Now , The Sculpture Center - New York City
Log Cabin, Artists Space - New York City
2004 Moving Mountains by Kicking Rocks, Luggage Store Gallery – San Fransisco, CA
Project 1, Alma Enterprises – London, UK
Entropic Meltdown (happy sadness), Stedelijk Bureau - Amsterdam, NL
Colony, Hudson Clearing - New York City
Castle Spike w/ Rachel Lowther, Participant Inc. - New York City
2003 Entrance Stage Death, The House of Art, Ceske Budejovice - CZ Rep
Trannie: Rhetorics of Identity in Transition, White Box Annex - New York City
Video Rodeo, CANADA Gallery - New York City
LO-FI, CatalystArts - Belfast NI
Adventure, Gallery 1313 - Toronto, Canada
2002 The Empire Strikes Back, ATM Gallery - New York City
2001 Shut-Up Time, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn, NY
Cooking Charts For High Speed Meditation, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn, NY
Chelsea Rising, Contemporary Art Center - New Orleans, La
humansacrifice presents: Momenta Art - Brooklyn ,NY
2000 Agit -Prop Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse - Vienna, Austria
4 Amplified Goatgirls Vs. the Explorers, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn, NY
Curtis Mitchell and Fritz Welch, A/C Project - New York ,NY
Parking, a Mayday Production@ Highbridge Park- New York City
Titles for Drawings, A/C Project Room -New York City
1998 New Digs, A/C Project Room- New York City
Under Construction, Gen-Art - New York City
Drawings from the Mab Library, A/C Project Room - New York City
1, 2, 3, Nothing Happened, Chamber Fine Arts - New York, NY
1996 Psy-Fi, Real Art Ways- Hartford,CT
Gotcha!, Momenta Art - Brooklyn, NY
1994 Glamour Stretcher Time, Thicket - New York City
Similac: Made in the USA - a 2000 year history, Thicket Gallery - New York City
1993 A Life of Secrets, A/C Project Room - New York City
Mundane, Daniel Newburg Gallery - New York , NY
A/C Project Room @ 303 Gallery- New York, NY


PUBLIC ARTWORKS

2006 Blind Drawing Meditation, THE BIG DRAW; The Drawing Center
WinterGarden, World Finacial Center


CURATORIAL

2006 Acute Zonal Occult Outer, The Drawing Center - New York City
2005 When the Time Traveler Kills Their Grandmother, Alma Enterprises - London UK
2002 Kick the Habit -Join the Generation Gap!, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn NY
2001 Cooking Charts for High Speed Meditation, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn NY
2000 humansacrfice presents: Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
4 Amplified GoatGirls Vs. The Explorers, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn, NY
1997 Video Citronix, El Paso Occupato - Turin, Italy
1994 Glamour Stretcher Time, Thicket Gallery - New York, NY


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Smith, Roberta
“The Many Shades of Now, Explored in 3 Dimensions”, NY Times, May 27, 2005
Bollen, Christopher
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem", Artforum.com, August 4, 2004
van Rijn, Ilse
“Big Bang in Amsterdam”, De Groene Amsterdammer, june 26 2004
White, Roger
“Sarah Beddington / Fritz Welch”, The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2004
Smith, Roberta
Art In Review, New York Times, April 9, 2004
Shteamer, Hank
“highly recommended: Fritz Welch”
Signal to Noise Magazine, issue 32, winter 2004
Cotter, Holland.
Art In Review, New York Times, April 28, 2002
Pospiszyl, Tomas.
“American Horror”, Umelec, news/U4 01 /35
Welch, Fritz.
Cooking Charts for High Speed Meditation: installations, occupations and live demonstrations, a one day curatorial project for the Good/Bad Art Collective in Brooklyn on Saturday April 14, 2001., Movement Research Journal # 23
Johnson, Ken.
Fritz Welch /Curtis Mitchell,
The New York Times, March 16, 1999
Bradley, Will.
Fritz Welch
Untitled no. 15 , autumn 1998
Smith ,Roberta.
Critics Choices of Some Manhattan Art Shows,
Art in Review, The New York Times, October 4,1996.
Levin, Kim.
Especially Recommended Voice Choices,
TheVillageVoice, October 15, 1996.
Humphrey, David.
New York Fax, Art Issues, November/December, 1996.
Thill, Robert.
“Years of Stains”, Bananafish #11, Fall, 1996





FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

- American Music Center's Live Music for Dance
-Meet the Composer Grant, 2004
-The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, 2002
(a public-private partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts,
the US Department of State, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and The Rockefeller
Foundation, with additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
and administered by Arts International)
-Lower East Side Printshop Special Editions Fellowship 2001