Fawn Krieger
Fawn Krieger (American: b. 8 May 1975) is an interdisciplinary artist who creates discrete sculptures and immersive multi-media environments individually and sometimes in collaboration with other artists and performers, including Neal Medlyn.[1], Tracy + the Plastics[2], and Anna Oxygen.
Often working with a mix of industrial and domestic materials, video and performance, Krieger’s work deals with actions around touch, memory, rupture, and transference as grounds for recovery and re-imagination. Sourcing histories and systems of communal values within material culture, Krieger’s work functions as speculative object-theatres and artifacts, recording corporeal and tactile impressions of social impact, exchange, and revolution.
Krieger’s work has been commissioned and installed at numerous venues, including The Kitchen[3], Art in General[4], Nice & Fit Gallery, The Moore Space, Von Lintel Gallery, Galerie West[5], Soloway Gallery[6], Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University[7], Portland Institute for Contemporary Art[8], Human Resources Los Angeles[9], Fleisher-Ollman Gallery[10], and Lambretto ArtProject[11]
Krieger was born in Port Jefferson, NY, and currently lives in New York City. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, and a Master of Fine Arts from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts[12]. Krieger's work has been written about in the pages of The New York Times[13], Sculpture Magazine[14], Artforum[15], Art in America[16], as well as The Brooklyn Rail[17], and she is the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award[18], an Art Matters Foundation Grant[19], and a Jerome Foundation grant[20]. Krieger has taught in the art departments of Virginia Commonwealth University[21] and Adelphi University.
Publications
Krieger, Fawn (2009). COMPANY (Vol. XV ed.). New York: Art In General. p. 192. ISBN 1934890154.
Torres, Edwin (2019). The Body in Language. Counterpath Press. p. 360. ISBN 1933996722.
Boris, Staci (2008). The New Authentics. Spertus. ISBN 0935982655.
References
- Dillon, Noah (October 22, 2013). "Art Matters: Two Artists, a Chevy Astro Van and a Statue of Michael Jackson" (T Magazine). The New York Times.
- "Tracy + the Plastics and Fawn Krieger: ROOM". The Kitchen.
- Tan, Lumi. "Matter Out of Place". The Kitchen.
- Hernández Chong Cuy, Sofía (August 8, 2008). "A special kind of COMPANY".
- "Exhibitions: "Autonomy Exchange Archive" at West den Haag". Mousse Magazine. May 2014.
- Ballard, Thea (February 2016). "On Our Radar: Fawn Krieger". Modern Painters.
- Artner, Alan G. (December 6, 2007). "New exhibit gives modern focus to Spertus tradition". Chicago Tribune.
- "Fawn Krieger". Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
- Tuck, Geoff (September 16, 2011). "Notes on Looking: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles" (PDF). Mother's Tankstation Limited.
- Newhall, Edith (March 11, 2012). "Galleries: A wide-ranging celebration of 2d-wave feminism". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
- Tagliafierro, Marco (September 17, 2009). "Critics' Picks: Milan". Artforum.
- "Fawn Krieger". Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Bard College.
- Smith, Roberta (October 2, 2008). "Art in Review". The New York Times.
- Arfiero, Michela (April 25, 2019). "Fawn Krieger" (March - April 2019). Sculpture Magazine.
- Snyder, Stephanie (September 17, 2009). "Critics' Picks: Portland". Artforum.
- Miller, Leigh Anne. "Tracy + The Plastics with Fawn Krieger at The Kitchen" (June/July 2005). Art in America.
- Mosfuco, Michela (February 7, 2018). "To Signify Dreams on the Surface of the Body". The Brooklyn Rail.
- "Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Announces Recipients of 2019 Biennial Grants". ArtfixDaily. May 12, 2020.
- "Fawn Krieger". Art Matters.
- "Fawn Krieger". Jerome Foundation.
- Carrigan, Margaret (August 29, 2017). "The 15 Top Art Schools in the United States". Artsy.