Contemporary Art Quarterly

TEEN O.P.E.R.A (TEEN ORCHESTRA PLAYS, EVERYONE READ ALONG)
Gavin Brown, New York
June 22 – August 10, 2018
Gavin Brown, Art Basel
June 14 – 18, 2018
UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 17, 2016 – January 29, 2017
"And Then There Were None"
Paris, LA, 2016
"Responding to Amelia Jones"
Artforum, December 2015
UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
October 11, 2015 – January 24, 2016
Intimism
The Art Institute of Chicago
May 21 – August 30, 2015
Sorry for the Wait
greengrassi, London
April 30 – June 20, 2015
"Mozart for the Modern Age"
Interview Magazine, April 30, 2015
"Class Dismissed: a Roundtable on Art, School, USC and Cooper Union"
Artforum, 2015
Clever/Stupid
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
September 5 – October 11, 2014
Look, read along with me...
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
May 21 – July 13, 2014
Bobby Jesus’s Alma Mater
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
May 17 – July 19, 2014
Leigh Ledare and Frances Stark in conversation
Paris Photo, Los Angeles
April 26, 2014
Frances Stark/ Jennifer Bornstein/ Judith Bernstein
Gavin Brown, New York
March 1 – April 19, 2014
Complex Education: Paying Homage
P.S.1, New York
January 19, 2014
Trapped in the VIP, 2014
Ed Atkins/Frances Stark
Julia Stroschek Collection, Düsseldorf
September 7, 2013 – February 22, 2014
Frances Stark: My Best Thing
Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
March 20 – June 2, 2013
Memento Mori
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
February 5 – March 9, 2013
Osservate, leggete con me
Gavin Brown, New York
March 3 – April 21, 2012
My Best Thing
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
February 3 – April 15, 2012
Detumescence and/or its Opposite (from a Torment of Follies)
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
January 7 – February 11, 2012
Other Parts Considered in Relation to Their Whole
Performa 11, New York
November 4, 2011
The Whole of All the Parts as Well as the Parts of All the Parts
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
September 15 – December 11, 2011
My Best Thing
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
June 18 – July 30, 2011
I’ve Had It and a Half
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
April 17, 2011
Selections 1: “I Went Through My Bin Again (with Open Robe)”: A Very Short Introduction to Frances Stark
Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
February 7 – March 19, 2011
"Ubuweb: 10 Women Who Use Film "
2011
This Could Become a Gimick [Sic] or an Honest Articulation of the Workings of the Mind
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
October 22, 2010 – January 2, 2011
I’ve Had It! And I’ve Also Had It!
Wheeler Opera House, Aspen
June 30, 2010
But 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
The Studio Reader, 2010
"The Letter Writer, Frances Stark"
Mousse, 2010
"The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Reaching Out to Mark E. Smith"
Contra Mundum I-VII, 2010
"For Nobody Knows Himself If He Is Only Himself and Not Also Another One at the Same Time"
Failure, 2010
"Performing Texts: Interview with Frances Stark"
The Space of Words, 2010
But 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
The New Vision
Portikus, Frankfurt
November 22, 2008 – January 11, 2009
"Frances Stark on why Dorothy Parker is the 'perfect metaphor' for her work"
Modern Painters, November 2008
A Torment of Follies
Secession, Vienna
April 26 – June 22, 2008
The Fall of Frances Stark
Culturgest, Lisbon
February 23 – May 11, 2008
A Torment of Follies
greengrassi, London
January 16 – March 1, 2008
"Notes Towards the Eroticism of Pedagogy"
Hey Hey Glossolalia (After), 2008
"Dear X,"
Published by Dexter Sinister in The Whitney Biennial, 2008
The Fall of Frances Stark
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
September 22, 2007 – January 12, 2008
The Fall of Frances Stark
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
May 12 – September 2, 2007
"The Studio"
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2007
On the Future of Art School, 2007
"Interview: Amy Yao and Frances Stark"
North Drive Press, 2007
"I Recently Helped Repair the Broken Horn of Pan"
The Artist's Joke, 2007
Structures That Fit My Opening
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
May 27 – June 24, 2006
Artpace, San Antonio
May 4 – July 16, 2006
"Not Church, not School, not Home"
Pine Flat, 2006
In and on an Unergonomic Mind
CRG Gallery, New York
April 2 – May 14, 2005
"A Little Untoward History: On Chinatown’s Recent Influx of Art and its Potential"
Art in Southern California from the 90s to Now, 2005
"At the Rim of The Fucking Paradigm"
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, 2005
"Always the Same, Always Different"
Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha: United States Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, 2005
Bless This Mess
greengrassi, London
November 17 – December 18, 2004
Destroy Date
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
January 30 – March 6, 2004
And Another One at the Same Time
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
September 3 – 27, 2003
A Bomb upon the Ceiling
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2002
"I cannot, for the life of me, think of what you call that little overlapping area at the intersection of two or more circles "
Collected Writing: 1993–2003, 2002
"All things to all people"
Afterall, 2001
"Pull Quotable"
Collected Writing: 1993–2003, 2001
"A Craft too Small"
Bas Jan Ader: Implosion, 2000
"Professional Me"
Collected Writing: 1993–2003, 2000
"Knowledge Evanescent"
Collected Writing: 1993–2003, 2000
The Architect and the Housewife, 1999
"I'm taking this opportunity to feel some holes in addition to filling them: on Raymond Pettibon"
Collected Writing: 1993–2003, 1997
W is for Werther
Studio 246, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
January 20 – 21, 1996
Frances Stark
1967, Newport Beach, CA
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We'd like to extend a special thank you to Frances Stark for agreeing to participate in this project and for her assistance assembling materials.

Thanks also to Dwayne Moser and Madeleine Haines Paré for their help with the archive.