Contemporary Art Library

Frances Stark

The Library has records for 81 of this artist's projects from as early as 1990, plus 20 group exhibitions including this artist.

2024

Frances StarkOrders to KillGalerie Buchholz, Cologne
June 1 – July 27, 2024

2020

Frances StarkUS Greatest Hits Mixtape: Volume 2greengrassi, London
February 6 – March 14, 2020

2019

Frances StarkGreatest Hits Mix Tape: Volume I.Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris
October 18 – November 30, 2019
Frances Starklonely and abandoned on the market placeGalerie Buchholz, Berlin
June 28 – August 17, 2019

2018

Frances StarkTeen O.P.E.R.A. (Teen Orchestra plays, everyone read along)Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
June 22 – August 10, 2018
Frances StarkGavin Brown, Art Basel
June 14 – 18, 2018

2017

Frances StarkThe Arsenale at the Venice Biennale
May 13 – November 26, 2017

2016

Frances StarkMy Best ThingMoMA PS1, New York
October 12, 2016
Frances StarkUH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 17, 2016 – January 29, 2017
Frances StarkAnd Then There Were NoneParis, LA
2016

2015

Frances StarkUH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
October 11, 2015 – January 24, 2016
Frances StarkIntimismThe Art Institute of Chicago
May 21 – August 30, 2015
Frances StarkSorry for the Waitgreengrassi, London
April 30 – June 20, 2015
Frances StarkMozart for the Modern AgeInterview Magazine
April 30, 2015
Frances StarkClass Dismissed: a Roundtable on Art, School, USC and Cooper UnionArtforum
2015
Frances StarkResponding to Amelia JonesArtforum
December 2015

2014

Frances StarkClever/StupidGalerie Buchholz, Cologne
September 5 – October 11, 2014
Frances StarkLook, read along with me...Hayward Gallery, London
May 21 – July 13, 2014
Frances StarkBobby Jesus’s Alma MaterMarc Foxx, Los Angeles
May 17 – June 28, 2014
Frances StarkLeigh Ledare and Frances Stark in conversationParis Photo, Los Angeles
April 26, 2014
Frances StarkComplex Education: Paying HomageMoMA PS1, New York
January 19, 2014
Frances StarkTrapped in the VIP
2014

2013

Frances StarkEd Atkins/Frances StarkJulia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
September 7, 2013 – February 22, 2014
Frances StarkFrances Stark: My Best ThingIan Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne
March 20 – June 2, 2013
Frances StarkMemento MoriAnglim Gilbert, San Francisco
February 5 – March 9, 2013

2012

Frances StarkOsservate, leggete con meGavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
March 3 – April 21, 2012
Frances StarkMy Best ThingContemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
February 3 – April 15, 2012
Frances StarkDetumescence and/or its Opposite (from a Torment of Follies)Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
January 7 – February 11, 2012

2011

Frances StarkOther Parts Considered in Relation to Their WholePerforma 11, New York
November 4, 2011
Frances StarkThe Whole of All the Parts as Well as the Parts of All the PartsMills College Art Museum, Oakland
September 15 – December 11, 2011
Frances StarkMy Best ThingMarc Foxx, Los Angeles
June 18 – July 30, 2011
Frances StarkSelections 1: “I Went Through My Bin Again (with Open Robe)”: A Very Short Introduction to Frances StarkPollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
February 7 – March 19, 2011
Frances StarkUbuweb: 10 Women Who Use Film
2011

2010

Frances StarkFrances Stark: This Could Become a Gimick [Sic] or an Honest Articulation of the Workings of the MindMIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
October 22, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Frances StarkI’ve Had It! And I’ve Also Had It!Wheeler Opera House, Aspen
June 30, 2010
Frances StarkBut What of Frances Stark, Standing by Itself, a Naked Name, Bare as a Ghost to Whom One Would Like to Lend a Sheet?Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
February 13 – April 3, 2010
Frances StarkFor Nobody Knows Himself If He Is Only Himself and Not Also Another One at the Same TimeFailure
2010
Frances StarkThe Letter Writer, Frances StarkMousse
2010
Frances StarkThe Studio Reader
2010
Frances StarkThe Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Reaching Out to Mark E. SmithContra Mundum I-VII
2010
Frances StarkPerforming Texts: Interview with Frances StarkThe Space of Words
2010

2009

Frances StarkBut What of Frances Stark, Standing by Itself, a Naked Name, Bare as a Ghost to Whom One Would Like to Lend a Sheet?Nottingham Contemporary
November 14, 2009 – January 24, 2010
Mark Leckey, Frances Starkand possibly but not certainly Mark Leckey and Frances StarkGalerie Buchholz, Berlin
March 20 – April 25, 2009

2008

Frances StarkThe New VisionPortikus, Frankfurt
November 22, 2008 – January 11, 2009
Frances StarkA Torment of FolliesSecession, Vienna
April 26 – June 22, 2008
Frances StarkThe Fall of Frances StarkCulturgest – Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Porto
February 23 – May 11, 2008
Frances StarkA Torment of Folliesgreengrassi, London
January 16 – March 1, 2008
Frances StarkFrances Stark on why Dorothy Parker is the 'perfect metaphor' for her workModern Painters
November 2008
Frances StarkNotes Towards the Eroticism of PedagogyHey Hey Glossolalia (After)
2008
Frances StarkDear X,Published by Dexter Sinister in The Whitney Biennial
2008

2007

Frances StarkThe Fall of Frances StarkFRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
September 22, 2007 – January 12, 2008
Frances StarkThe Fall of Frances StarkVan Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
May 12 – September 2, 2007
Frances StarkI Recently Helped Repair the Broken Horn of PanThe Artist's Joke
2007
Frances StarkThe StudioDublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
2007
Frances StarkInterview: Amy Yao and Frances StarkNorth Drive Press
2007
Frances StarkOn the Future of Art School
2007

2006

Frances StarkStructures That Fit My OpeningMarc Foxx, Los Angeles
May 27 – June 24, 2006
Frances StarkArtpace, San Antonio
May 4 – July 16, 2006
Frances StarkNot Church, not School, not HomePine Flat
2006

2005

Frances StarkIn and on an Unergonomic MindCRG Gallery, New York
April 2 – May 14, 2005
Frances StarkAt the Rim of The Fucking ParadigmUncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium
2005
Frances StarkAlways the Same, Always DifferentEd Ruscha: Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha: United States Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale
2005
Frances StarkA Little Untoward History: On Chinatown’s Recent Influx of Art and its PotentialArt in Southern California from the 90s to Now
2005

2004

Frances StarkBless This Messgreengrassi, London
November 17 – December 18, 2004
Frances StarkDestroy DateGalerie Buchholz, Cologne
January 30 – March 6, 2004

2003

Frances StarkAnd Another One at the Same TimeGallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
September 3 – 27, 2003

2002

Frances StarkA Bomb upon the CeilingMarc Foxx, Los Angeles
2002
Frances StarkThe Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work of ArtHammer Museum, Los Angeles
May 7 – August 25, 2002
Frances StarkI cannot, for the life of me, think of what you call that little overlapping area at the intersection of two or more circlesCollected Writing: 1993–2003
2002

2001

Frances StarkPull QuotableCollected Writing: 1993–2003
2001
Frances StarkAll things to all peopleAfterall
2001

2000

Frances StarkGalerie Buchholz, Cologne
April 28 – May 27, 2000
Frances StarkKnowledge EvanescentCollected Writing: 1993–2003
2000
Frances StarkProfessional MeCollected Writing: 1993–2003
2000
Frances StarkA Craft too SmallBas Jan Ader: Implosion
2000

1999

Frances StarkThe Architect and the Housewife
1999

1998

Frances StarkImpossible the Grassy Maxim's Dream....greengrassi, London
April 25 – May 30, 1998

1997

Frances StarkI'm taking this opportunity to feel some holes in addition to filling them: on Raymond PettibonCollected Writing: 1993–2003
1997

1996

Frances StarkW is for WertherStudio 246, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
January 20 – 21, 1996

1993

Frances StarkSlough (it off) b/w Purple ProseMFA Gallery, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena
October 12 – 25, 1993

1990

Frances StarkTotal Babe (bad picture)Armpit Gallery, San Francisco
December 14 – 16, 1990

Group Exhibitions

2024

Looking For InfinityZIAN Gallery, Hangzhou
August 14 – October 12, 2024

2023

DowsingLayr, Vienna
September 12 – October 14, 2023

2021

Still TimeFitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
October 7 – November 13, 2021
The Ecology Of VisibilityAnonymous Gallery, New York
February 2 – March 1, 2021

2018

After CurfewFreedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
January 14 – February 24, 2018

2017

Whitney Biennial 2017Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
March 17 – June 11, 2017

2016

The Twelfth Season of The Artist’s Institute with Sharon LockhartThe Artist's Institute, New York
September 15, 2016 – April 1, 2017
HomeLUMA Foundation, Zurich
June 11 – September 18, 2016
AutobiographyIndex, Stockholm
January 3 – March 6, 2016

2015

No JokeTanya Leighton, Berlin
May 2 – June 27, 2015
Looking Back / 9th White Columns Annual Selected by Cleopatra'sWhite Columns, New York
January 13 – February 21, 2015

2014

Nude ModelThe Green Gallery, Milwaukee
December 29, 2014 – February 7, 2015
Words as Doors: in Language, Art, FilmHALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
March 15 – May 18, 2014
Frances Stark/ Jennifer Bornstein/ Judith BernsteinGavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
March 1 – April 19, 2014

2013

The Cat ShowWhite Columns, New York
June 14 – July 27, 2013
White Petals Surround Your Yellow HeartInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
February 26 – July 28, 2013

2012

Things, Words and ConsequencesMoscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
September 15 – October 14, 2012

2011

Quodlibet III - Alphabets and InstrumentsGalerie Buchholz, Berlin
September 9 – 24, 2011

2009

Quodlibet IIGalerie Buchholz, Cologne
May 15 – August 29, 2009

2003

KORREKTURENGalerie Kamm, Berlin
October 17 – November 29, 2003