Fritz Welch (American)

Timeline

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

Exhibitions

2008
Fritz Welch, Cueto Project, New York (solo)
2007
Feng Shui Karaoke and All Day Breakfast, Westgermany Gallery, Berlin DE
2007
Zeitgiest, Cueto Project - New York City
2006
The Filth Within, Derek Eller Gallery - New York City
2006
Acute Zonal Occult Outer, The Drawing Center - New York City
2006
Death is a Dirtier Dog Than My Country, Galerie Valerie Cueto - Paris, France (solo)
2005
When the Time Traveler Kills Their Grandmother, Alma Enterprises - London UK
2005
Make It Now , The Sculpture Center - New York City
2005
Log Cabin, Artists Space - New York City
2004
Moving Mountains by Kicking Rocks, Luggage Store Gallery – San Fransisco, CA
2004
Project 1, Alma Enterprises – London, UK
2004
Entropic Meltdown (happy sadness), Stedelijk Bureau - Amsterdam, NL
2004
The Unwanted Doing the Unnecessary for the Unknowing, Donkey Gallery, Albuquerque N.M. (solo)
2004
A shadow in search of a body, Momenta Art - Brooklyn NY (solo)
2004
Colony, Hudson Clearing - New York City
2004
Castle Spike w/ Rachel Lowther, Participant Inc. - New York City
2003
Entrance Stage Death, The House of Art, Ceske Budejovice - CZ Rep
2003
Trannie: Rhetorics of Identity in Transition, White Box Annex - New York City
2003
Video Rodeo, CANADA Gallery - New York City
2003
LO-FI, CatalystArts - Belfast NI
2003
Adventure, Gallery 1313 - Toronto, Canada
2002
The Empire Strikes Back, ATM Gallery - New York City
2002
The eternal promise of nothing, RomeArts - Brooklyn NY (solo)
2001
Fungal Hex (in collaboration with Aaron Cantor, Stephen O'Malley, Rylan Morrison), Jeleni Gallery - Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
2001
Shut-Up Time, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn, NY
2001
Cooking Charts For High Speed Meditation, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn, NY
2001
Chelsea Rising, Contemporary Art Center - New Orleans, LA
2001
humansacrifice presents: Momenta Art - Brooklyn ,NY
2000
Goodbye Paranoia, Walden Gallery - New York City (solo)
2000
Agit -Prop Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse - Vienna, Austria
2000
4 Amplified Goatgirls Vs. the Explorers, Good/Bad Art Collective - Brooklyn, NY
2000
Curtis Mitchell and Fritz Welch, A/C Project - New York ,NY
2000
Parking, a Mayday Production@ Highbridge Park- New York City
2000
Titles for Drawings, A/C Project Room -New York City
1998
New Digs, A/C Project Room- New York City
1998
Under Construction, Gen-Art - New York City
1998
Drawings from the Mab Library, A/C Project Room - New York City
1998
1, 2, 3, Nothing Happened, Chamber Fine Arts - New York, NY
1997
Coffin Cheaters Driven, Transmission - Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
1996
Buying Time for Future Membership, A/C Project Room - New York City (solo)
1996
Psy-Fi, Real Art Ways- Hartford,CT
1996
Gotcha!, Momenta Art - Brooklyn, NY
1994
Glamour Stretcher Time, Thicket - New York City
1994
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
1993
Mundane, Daniel Newburg Gallery - New York , NY
1993
A/C Project Room @ 303 Gallery- New York, NY

Literature

2005
Smith, Roberta, “The Many Shades of Now, Explored in 3 Dimensions”, NY Times, May 27
2004
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
2002
Cotter, Holland, Art In Review, New York Times, April 28
2001
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
1999
Johnson, Ken, Fritz Welch /Curtis Mitchell, March 16
1998
Bradley, Will, Fritz Welch, Untitled no. 15, autumn
1996
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
Pospiszyl, Tomas, “American Horror”, Umelec, news/U4 01 /35