FRITZ HORSTMAN
+1 (203) 430-8303
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Two-Person
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 2024 (solo, forthcoming)
Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA, 2024 (solo, forthcoming)
Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY, 2025 (solo, forthcoming)
Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA, 2023 (solo)
Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT, 2023 (solo)
Glacial Movements, Ishibashi Gallery, Concord, Mass, 2022 (solo)
Fritz Horstman, Seton Hill Art Center, Seton Hill University, Greenburg, PA, 2022 (solo)
Folded Cyanotypes and Formworks, Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT, 2021 (solo)
A Blue Dark: Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Fritz Horstman Institute Library, New Haven, CT, 2019
Memory Field Brooklyn Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY, September 2014 – March 2015
The Dispersal and Recollection of Knowledge LCCM, Fort Bragg, CA, Aug 2013
Fritz Horstman NIN9 Gallery, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, January 2012 (solo)
Group exhibitions
IFPDA Print Fair, Planthouse Gallery’s booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, 2024.
CENTURY: Idee Bauhaus, drj art projects, Berlin, Germany, 2019; Dubniczay Palace, Veszprém, Hungary 2023, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany, 2023
By Water Air and Fire, Wisdom House Retreat and Conference Center, Litchfield, CT, 2023
Outside In, Art in the Yard, Larchmont, NY, 2022
Abstract Orbit, URSA Gallery, Bridgeport, CT, 2022
Think About Water, www.thinkaboutwater.com, March – June 2021
Made in Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Oct 2020 – Feb 2021
Monumentality, Mill Street Project, New Haven, CT, Feb 2020
Emergence, Martin Museum, Baylor University, Waco, TX, August-October 2019
Arctic Hysteria, Asker, Norway Sep 2016; Bergen, Norway Apr 2017; St Petersburg, RU Sep 2017
River/Woman, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY March – May 2017
2016 Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA Oct 2016 – March 2017
Jeune Création, Paris, France, November 2012
Curatorial
Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, 2024
Nor’Easter, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 2023 (jurist and curator)
By a Thread, Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY, 2023 (jurist)
Anni Albers: Work With Materials, Syracuse University Art Museum, 2022
Becoming Trees, Concord Art, Concord, Mass, 2022
In Thread and On Paper: Anni Albers in Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 2020
Water Access, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT May 2019
Josef and Anni Albers: Voyage Inside a Blind Experience; Siena, Italy; Cork, Ireland; Zagreb, Croatia 2018-19 (educational curator)
Pole Saw, Svalbard, 2016
Uses Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2016
Imaginary Monuments Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Material Measure The Institute Library, New Haven, CT 2012
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wallpaper*. Feb 15, 2024, “Bauhaus master Anni Albers’ groundbreaking collection on view at the Blanton Museum”. Wallpaper*. Review by Lauren Jones.
The Wall Street Journal. Sept 28, 2022, “Anni Albers: Work with Material”. Review by Lance Esplund.
The Boston Globe. April 8, 2022, “‘Becoming Trees’ and learning from them”. Review by Cate McQuaid.
Becoming Trees. 2022. Concord Art. Exhibition catalogue with essay by Fritz Horstman.
The Bauhaus and Harvard. 2021. Harvard University Press. Essay by Fritz Horstman and Francesca Bewer.
Emergence: Art and the Incarnation of Space. Exhibition Catalogue. 2019. Baylor University. Essay by Richard Davey.
The Original Bauhaus Workbook. 2019. Prestel. New York. Article by Fritz Horstman.
A Blue Dark. 2019. Vif Publishers. Paris. Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Drawings by Fritz Horstman.
Royal Academy of Arts Magazine. Spring 2019. “Materials” Article by Fritz Horstman.
The Boston Globe. Sept 8, 2016. "Putting Together the deCordova Biennial" by Malcom Gay.
Arctic Hysteria, 2015 Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name.
Ground Up: Issue 5. 2015. “Unpoured Formworks: Fritz Horstman” Journal of the Department of Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley.
Transmission. Exhibition Catalogue. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 2015. "Manual Skill, Material Knowledge" Essay by Fritz Horstman.
Temporary Art Review. June 9, 2015. "Imaginary Monuments" Essay by Sheilah Wilson.
The New York Times. Dec 20, 2012. “Filling in the Blank Walls” by Bob Tedeschi..
Jeune Création. Exhibition Catalogue. 2012.
The Washinton Post. Jan 19, 2012. “ Fritz Horstman Reaches Wide in Small Art Show at Hillyer”.
Awards, RESIDENCIES, PUBLIC COMMISSIONS, VISITING ARTIST
Connecticut Art Fellowship Award, Connecticut Office of the Arts, 2021
Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, Germany, Artist-in-Residence and Permanent Installation, 2018-19
Solberg Skole, Ås, Norway, Permanently Installed Public Commission, Between the Trees 2018
The Arctic Circle Residency, June 2016
Shiro Oni Studios Residency, Onishi, Japan, August - September 2015
The Peabody Museum, Yale New Haven, CT April 2013 The Quinnipiac River Bottled, Public Sculpture
The City of St. Helens, St. Helens, OR, August 2007, Public Commission, Paper Arches
Michigan Legacy Art Park, Crystal Mountain, MI, May – June 2005, Public Commission, The Singing Tree
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Residency, Cazenovia, NY, June – July 2004 Rhythm Trail
Middlesex School, Concord, MA, April 2004, Public Sculpture, Tree Hymn
Stonehouse Residency, Miramonte, CA, June – July 2003 The Golden Spiral Path
Selected LECTURES,
PERFORMANCEs,
WORKSHOPS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 2023
Scripps College Claremont, CA 2023
Yale University New Haven, CT 2023, 2021, 2019, 2015, 2014
Keene State College Keene, NH 2023
Western Connecticut State University Danbury, CT 2023, 2018
Greenwich Public Library Greenwich, CT 2023
Josef Albers Museum Bottrop, Germany 2023
Denison University Grandville, OH 2021, 2023
Catskill Weaving School Catskill, NY 2022, 2023
CMG Summit Tucson, AZ 2022
Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 2022
The Soil Factory Ithaca, NY 2022
Free University of Bolzano Bolzano, Italy 2021 (remote)
Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center Asheville, NC 2021 (r), Nov 2018
Bath Spa University Bath, UK 2021 (r), Nov 2018
Virginia Commonwealth University Charlottesville, VA 2021 (r)
Bruce Museum Greenwich, CT 2020 (r)
Bauhaus Dessau, Germany 2020 (r), 2019, 2016
Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA 2020 (r), Sept 2018
Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY 2020 (r)
New Britain Museum of American Art New Britain, CT 2020 (r)
Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD 2020 (r), 2016
The Glass House New Canaan, CT 2020 (r)
Cooper Hewitt Museum New York, NY 2020
Bridge Projects Los Angeles, CA 2019
Berlinische Galerie Berlin, Germany 2019
Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX 2019, 2018
Baylor University Waco, TX 2019, 2018
Royal Academy of Art London, UK 2019
Harvard University Cambridge, MA 2019
Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 2019
ISCC/TAGA Conference Keynote Lecture Minneapolis, MN 2019
Crawford College of Art and Design Cork, Ireland 2019
Boston University Boston, MA 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia J2019
Royal College of Art London, UK 2018
Camberwell College of Art London, UK 2018
Warren Wilson College Swannanoa, NC 2018
Western Connecticut State University Danbury, CT 2018
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 2018
Boston College Boston, MA 2018
Drive-by Projects Watertown, MA 2018
The New School New York, NY 2017
deCordova Museum Lincoln, MA 2017
CAA Conference Panelist New York NY 2017
Lebanese American University Beirut, Lebanon 2017
Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 2016
Kenyon College Gambier, OH 2016
The Wassaic Project Wassaic, NY 2016
Bennington College Bennington, VT 2016, 2008
Hancock Shaker Village Hancock, MA 2015
Morgan Lehman Gallery New York, NY 2014
Artspace New Haven, CT 2012
Hartford Art School West Hartford, CT 2011
MIRO Dance Theater Philadelphia, PA 2011
EDUCATION
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Bachelor of Arts 2001
Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD
Master of Fine Arts 2011
ALSO
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Education Director, Bethany, CT, 2019 - present
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Artist Residency and Education Coordinator 2004 - 2019
Yale College, Adjunct Professor, Progressive Art Education, 2016, 2017
Southern Connecticut State University, Adjunct Professor, 3D Design 2015
Albertus Magnus College, Adjunct Professor, Drawing and Curatorial Studies 2013, 2014
Ortega y Gasset Projects, Co-Director, Brooklyn, NY 2014 - 2016
Musician – vocal, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, and piano composition, performance and recording. 1985 - present