°1967, Newport Beach, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
1993 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1991 BA Humanities, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
Curated Projects
2010
Houseguest: Frances Stark Selects from the Grunwald Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Solo Exhibitions
2013
Frances Stark: My Best Thing, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia
My Best Thing, screening, Cube Cinema, Bristol, United Kingdom
My Best Thing, screening, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Memento Mori, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2012
Osservate, leggete con me, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York City, New York
My Best Thing, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2011
My Best Thing, MoMA PS1, New York City, New York
Other parts considered in relation to their whole, Performa 11, New York City, New York
The whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all the parts, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
My Best Thing, screening, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
My Best Thing, screening, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
My Best Thing, screening, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, California
I’ve Had It and a Half, Performance, April 17, 2011 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Selections 1: “I Went Through My Bin Again (with Open Robe)”: A Very Short Introduction to Frances Stark, Pollock Gallery/Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
2010
This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet?, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
I’ve Had It! And I’ve Also Had It!, Performance, June 30, 2010 at the Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, Colorado
2009
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, Nottingham, England
and possibly but not certainly Mark Leckey and Frances Stark, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
2008
The New Vision, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
A Torment of Follies, Secession, Vienna, Austria
A Torment of Follies, greengrassi, London, England
The Fall of Frances Stark, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2007
The Fall of Frances Stark, Van Abbemuseum, Eindoven, the Netherlands
The Fall of Frances Stark, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2006
Structures That Fit My Opening and Other Parts Considered in Relation To Their Whole, Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Structures That Fit My Opening, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
Frances Stark at Hudson Showroom, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
Textual Works: Bethan Huws and Frances Stark, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
2005
In and on an Unergonomic Mind, CRG, New York City, New York
2004
Bless This Mess, greengrassi, London, England
Destroy Date, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
2003
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2002
A Bomb upon the Ceiling, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, California
Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Self-Portraiture, greengrassi, London, England
2001
CRG, New York City, New York
ICH SUCHE NACH MEINE FRANCES STARKE SEITE, Munich Kunstverein Galerie, Munich, Germany
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1999
No, No, No, No, Now, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
What Part of Now Don’t You Understand, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California
like a rainbow and so unlike a rainbow, CRG, New York, NY
1998
Impossible the grassy maxim’s dream…, greengrassi, London, England
In other places light’s pitched happy tents, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
1997
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1996
Plain Sheets No Pillow, CRG, New York City, New York
Studio 246, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1995
Last year b/w I hate language, ACME, Santa Monica, California
1994
Spring for Fall, LEAK, Los Angeles, California
1993
Slough (it off) b/w Purple Prose, MFA Gallery, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, California
1991
Total Babe, The Guest Room, Los Angeles, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Cat Show, White Columns, New York City, New York
In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Who Runs May Read, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Double Indemnity, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom
The Sandy Relief Benefit for Printed Matter, Rauschenberg Project Space, New York City, New York
A Point of View: Selected Gifts from the Laurence A. Rickels Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sylvia Sleigh, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Revolution From Within, Kauffmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
More Love: Art Politics, and Sharing since the 1990′s, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
59th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
25th International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2012
Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Infinite Jest, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Frieze Sounds, Frieze Projects New York, New York City, New York
Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California
Candor: In Honor of Mike Kelley, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California
Paper, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain, Nice, France
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York City, New York
0 to 100: The New Ages of Life, Palazzo de Enzo, Bologna, Italy and Trienniale, Milan, Italy
West Gallery: Frances Stark, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
2011
Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
Venice Biennale 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
15th Tallinn Print Triennial (diploma), Tallinn, Estonia
All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
MADE UP: Design’s Fictions, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, California
2010
The Artist’s Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Following A Line, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Restless Empathy, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Dexter Sinister, A Model of The Serving Library, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Page, Kimmerich, New York City, New York
for the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
for the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
for the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Culturgest, Lisbon
Wunsch Zettel, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
2009
Talk Show, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
The Space of Words, Museum of Contemporary Art (MUDAM), Luxembourg
Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Picturing the Studio, Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Illinois
for the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri
for the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1999: Ten Year Anniversary Show, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California
Glue, Paper, Scissors: Collage based work by 15 artists from Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles, California
2008
INDEX, Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Emerson vs Nietszche, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, California
Pretty Ugly, curated by Alison Gingeras, Gavin Brown Enterprise and Maccarone Gallery, New York City, New York
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York
Yes No Other Options, curated by Jan Verwoert, Sheffield 08, Sheffield, England
Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann Gallery, Milan, Italy
Grabbing at Straws, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2007
Blind Date Istanbul, Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London, England
Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York City, New York
for REE, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Romantic Conceptualism, Nurenberg Kunstverein & BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
I can’t live without, The Showroom, London, England
Working on Talking, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
If I can’t Dance… Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice, De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Studio, curated by Jens Hoffman and Christina Kennedy, The Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin, Ireland
Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City, New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln, Metro Pictures, New York City, New York
Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, The Jumex collection, curated by Michel Blancsube, Mexico
6.6.06, curated by Jan Tumlir, Gayle and Ed Roski Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005
Looking at words: the Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, New York
Monuments for the USA, White Columns, New York City, New York
Gallery Artists, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
Faculty Exhibiton, University of Southern California School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
2004
Works on Paper, Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
Martin Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
The World Becomes a Private World: Selections from the collection of Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
2003
The Space of Writing, MKG Art Management, Houston, Texas
Filmscreening by Florian Pumosl, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
for nobody knows himself if he is only himself and not another at the same time, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
Korrekturem, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
The Great Drawing Show: 1550–2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Drop Out!, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, California
Creeping Revolution 2, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
2002
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music, Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, England
Zusammenhange herstellen, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show, curated by Jens Hoffman, The Project, Los Angeles, California
Group Show, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
N° 68 Jim, Jonathan, Kenny, Frances and Sol, curated by Maxine Kopsa, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Personal Plans, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Rock My World, CCAC, San Francisco, California
Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California
2001
Drawings, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Frances Stark meets Morgan Fisher, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Denmark
The Slide Area, curated by Terry R. Myers, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece
Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
White Album, curated by Jan Tumlir, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2000
Circles, ZKM, Karlsruhue, Germany
OO, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Made In California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Of the moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Moderrn Art, San Francisco, California
Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
Opere Su Carta, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
L.A., Monika Spruth & Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
1999
Philomene Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
Hot Spots, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
Hot Spots, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania
1998
In the Beginning, Murray Guy, New York City, New York
Word Perfect, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Obscure Camera, 2nd Space Gallery, curated by Mary Ceruti, San Francisco, California
Paper Thin, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
L.A. on Paper, Three Day Weekend at Gallerie Krizinger, Vienna, Austria
Der Arbeit des Zeichnens, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
New Work: Drawings Today, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California
Tracing Marks, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Paper, J. Christ Gallery, Boise, Idaho
Drawings: An Annual Bicoastal Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington
Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens and Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California
Ten Los Angeles Artists, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996
The Power of Suggestion: Narrative & Notation in Contemporary Drawings, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Just Past: The Contemporary and Permanent Collection 1975–1996, Museum of Contemporary Art at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
Stream of Consciousness, 8 Los Angeles Artists, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Affairs, Institute for Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Controfiguro, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Krisanamis/Stark, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, California
First Person, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, California
1995
Dark Memories, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica California
Filmcuts, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
New Testament, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica California
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians, New York City, New York
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York City, New York
1994
Inaugural Exhibition, ACME, Santa Monica, California
The Freed Weed, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Red Rover, Red Rover, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California
The Grammarians, Chapman College, Orange, California
1993
Invitational ’93, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
Zuzuglich, Merz Akademie und Room Tomoyo Kawai, Stuttgart, Germany
Monographic Publications
2012
Stark, Frances. My Best Thing. Köln: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012.
2010
Stark, Frances. This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind. Cambridge: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2010.
2009
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: Nottingham Contemporary, 2009.
2008
Stark, Frances, Annette Südbeck, and Martin Prinzhorn. A Torment of Follies. Wien: Secession; Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008.
2007
Stark, Frances and Stuart Bailey. Frances Stark, Collected Works. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007.
2003
Stark, Frances. Collected Writing: 1993–2003. London: Opus 3/Book Works, 2003.
1999
Stark, Frances. The Architect & the Housewife. London: Book Works, 1999.
Writing
2011
Stark, Frances. “Excerpt.” PARIS, LA, Fall 2011, Issue 7. 25–35.
2010
Stark, Frances. “Chorus Line.” Metropolis M, February–March 2010. Cover.
Stark, Frances. “Dear X, (excerpt).” The New City Reader: Common Circular 5 (New York City), December 19, 2010.
Stark, Frances. “For nobody knows himself, if he is only himself and not also another one at the same time. On Allen Ruppersberg.” In Failure, ed. Lisa Le Feuvre. London: Whitechapel Gallery; Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. 173–177. [PDF]
Stark, Frances. “The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Reaching Out to Mark E. Smith.” In Contra Mundum I–VII. Santa Monica: Oslo Editions, 2010. 192–210.
2009
Stark, Frances. “A Craft Too Small.” F.R. David, Winter 2009. 77.
Stark, Frances. “Always the Same, Always Different.” In 2HB, Volume 5. Glasgow: Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 2009. 8–11. [PDF]
Stark, Frances. “Conceptual Painting.” In Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks, 2006–2008. London: frieze, 2009. 130–143.
Stark, Frances. “Frances Stark.” Parkett, #86, 2009. 188–200.
2008
Stark, Frances. “Frances Stark on why Dorothy Parker is the ‘perfect metaphor’ for her work.” Modern Painters, November 2008. 18.
Stark, Frances. “I must explain, specify, rationalize, classify, etc.” In Art 39 Basel 4–8/6/08. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008. 214–215.
Stark, Frances. “O Arquitecto & Dona de Casa [excerpt].” In The Fall of Frances Stark. Lisbon: Culturgest Lisbon, 2008.
Stark, Frances. “Notes Towards the Eroticism of Pedagogy.” In Hey Hey Glossolalia (After). New York: Creative Time, 2008.
2007
Stark, Frances. “Recently I helped repair the broken horn of pan.” In The Artist’s Joke. London: Whitechapel; Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 179–181. [PDF]
Stark, Frances, ed. Primer: On the Future of Art School. New York City: Dexter Sinister, 2007.
Stark, Frances and Amy Yao. “Interview.” In North Drive Press, #4, 2007. 1–5.
2006
Stark, Frances. “A Little Untoward History: On Chinatown’s Recent Influx of Art….” In Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from the 90s to Now. Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2005.
Stark, Frances. “At the Rim of The F*#@ing Paradigm.” In Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2005. 144–148.
Stark, Frances. “Dear Maxine.” In Just In Time: Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 2006.
Stark, Frances. “just how erect is our greenery.” In Creepers and Climbers. Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2006. 41–47.
Stark, Frances. “Letter to Gean Moreno.” In Art Lies, Issue 51, 2006.
Stark, Frances. “Not School, not Church, not Home.” In Pine Flat. Milano: Charta, 2006. 134–136.
Stark, Frances. “On Biography (Féminin) Or …” Dot Dot Dot, Issue 11, 2006. Cover.
2005
Stark, Frances. “Always the Same, Always Different.” In Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha: United States Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005. 8–13.
Stark, Frances. “Concord Mass.” In Monuments for the USA. San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2005. 134–135.
Stark, Frances. “Ivory.” Cabinet, Issue 18, 2005. 12–14.
Stark, Frances. “Los Angeles.” Artforum, XLIV, No. 4, December 2005. 224–226.
Stark, Frances. “Untitled Poem.” In Alphabet. Köln: Galerie Daniel Buchholz.
2004
Stark, Frances. “At the Rim of the fucking Paradigm.” In The Sky is Thin as Paper Here, Vol. 0, Eds. Peter Abs, Christopher Müller and Daniel Buchholz. Köln: Galerie Daniel Buchholz, 2004.
2003
Stark, Frances. “The Importance of Planning.” X-Tra, Volume 3, #4, 2003. 28–30.
Stark, Frances. “Untitled.” In Juncture. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2003. 186.
2002
Stark, Frances. “For nobody knows himself, if he is only himself and not also another one at the same time.” Afterall, Issue 6, 2002. 64–69.
2001
Stark, Frances. “A beholder of fragments and ruiner of plans…” In Persönliche Pläne. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 2001. 6–7.
Stark, Frances. “All things to all people.” Afterall, Issue 04, 2001. 112–120.
Stark, Frances. “Scared to Death.” In Painting at the Edge of the World. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2001. 206–210.
Stark, Frances. “Type: 10SNE1.” artext, No. 75, November 2001–January 2002. 26–27.
Stark, Frances. “Type: Greek Revival” artext, No. 72, February–April 2001. 34–5.
Stark, Frances. “Type: Hard to Be at Home.” artext, No. 73, May–July 2001. 33–34.
Stark, Frances. “Type: Pull-Quotable.” artext, No. 74, September–October 2001.
2000
Stark, Frances. “A Craft too Small.” In Bas Jan Ader: Implosion. Köln: König, 2000. 8–10.
Stark, Frances. “The Architect and the Housewife.” In Jorge Pardo, ed. Barbara Steiner and Jörn Schafaff. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2000. 106–117.
Stark, Frances. “Bildstrecke.” Texte Zur Kunst, #38, June 2000.
Stark, Frances. “Dear Reader, Damien Echols.” Mall Punk Magazine, Issue 1, Fall 2000. 22–24.
Stark, Frances. “On ‘In His Own Write,’ by John Lennon and ‘Grapefruit,’ by Yoko Ono.” Bookforum, Volume 7, Issue 4, Winter 2000. 37.
Stark, Frances. “Type: Into the Millenium (The Criminals).” artext, No. 69, May–July 2000. 42–3.
Stark, Frances. “Type: Knowledge Evanescent.” artext, No. 68, February–April 2000. 42–3.
Stark, Frances. “Type: No Values.” artext, No. 71, November 2000–January 2001. 20–21.
Stark, Frances. “Type: The Secret Life.” artext, No. 70, August–October 2000. 22–3.
1999
Stark, Frances. “Excerpts from the Architect and the Housewife.” X-Tra, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 1999. 5–6.
Stark, Frances. “Frances Stark’s Top Ten.” Artforum, XXXVIII, No. 3, November 1999. 60.
Stark, Frances. “On Laura Owens.” In Nach-Bild. Basel: Schwabe, 1999. 86–91.
Stark, Frances. “Type: Professional Me.” artext, No. 67, November 1999–January 2000. 42–3.
1998
Stark, Frances. “The Architect & the Housewife.” Complementary. Taiwan: Dimension Endowment of Art, 1998.
Stark, Frances. “PENETRALIA.” In Users: Olafur Eliasson. São Paulo: [s.n.], 1998. 52–53.
Stark, Frances. “Untitled (Behind a Waterfall)” and “The Structure of This Bliss.” In Great God Pan, No. 11, 1998. Cover, 51–52.
1997
Stark, Frances. Frances Stark: Three Works 1995–1997. Wien: Verlag Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1997.
Stark, Frances. “On Kevin Hanley.” In Sentiment & Vagrancy. New York City: I-20 Gallery, 1997. 2–5.
Stark, Frances. “Raymond Pettibon and Frances Stark – A Conversation.” In Michael Craig-Martin und Raymond Pettibon Wandzeichnungen. Düsseldorf: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1997. 21–32.
Stark, Frances. “Upon My Arrival.” In Asteroid Impaired. New York, NY: Distributed Art Publishers, 1997.
1995
Stark, Frances. “Bliss.” In More & Less. Pasadena: Art Center College of Design Graduate Studies Department, 1995. 88–95.
1994
Stark, Frances. “Untitled Short.” Framework, Volume 6, Spring 1994. 24–25.
Stark, Frances. “Your Highness (and mine).” In More & Less. Pasadena: Art Center College of Design Graduate Studies Department, 1994. 89–94.
1993
Stark, Frances. “Untitled.” In Free Range, Issue 1 (in conjunction with Jean Lowe exhibition “Real Nature”). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (lace), 1993.
Stark, Frances and Patti Podesta. “Nymph Text.” Felix, Volume 1, #3, 1993.
Stark, Frances. “The Kid.” Now Time, No. 3, Spring–Summer 1993. 52–55.
1992
Stark, Frances. [catalogue text] The Underthings, Pasadena: Bliss Gallery, 1992.
Books & Catalogues
2013
Schneider, Claire. More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s. Pasadena: Typecraft Wood and Jones, 2013.
“Frances Stark.” In Paper, ed. Gilbert Perlein. Italy: Litografia Bacchetta, 2013. 132-133.
2012
Higgs, Matthew. “20 Questions.” In Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow. London: Tate Publishing, 2012. 65. [PDF]
Da Zero a Centro: Le Nuove Età Della Vita, Milan Triennale 2012, Fondazione Marino Golinelli, Selegrafica 80, 2012.
2011
Ellegood, Anne, Douglas Fogle, Charles Long, and Corrina Peipon. All of this and nothing. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, University of California, 2011. [PDF]
For Love Not Money, The 15th Tallinn Print Triennal, Ed. by Simon Rees. Tallin, 2011. 401–404.
Godfrey, Mark. “Longing for the Wind: Boetti’s Last Works and Legacies.” In Alighiero e Boetti. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 318–319.
Herbert, Martin. “Frances Stark.” In ILLUMInations. Venice: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, 2011. 272–273.
“Frances Stark.” In Contemporary Art In North America, ed. Phoebe Adler and Duncan McCorquodale. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2011. 118–121.
2010
Gallois, Christophe and Frances Stark. “Performing Texts [interview].” In The Space of Words. Luxembourg: Mudam éditions, 2010. 142–157. [PDF]
Jacobson, Heidi, Christian Rattemeyer, and Matthew Thompson. Restless Empathy. Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, 2010.
Verwoert, Jan. Tell me what you want, what you really, really want. Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute and Sternberg Press, 2010.
2009
Bayrle, Helke. Portikus Under Construction. Germany: Sternberg Press, 2009. 35. [inclusion on DVD and catalogue]
Huberman, Anthony, and Will Holder. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there. Saint Louis: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2009.
Rattemeyer, Christian. Compass in hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
Ruyters, Domeniek. “P.S.—Notes on a work by Frances Stark.” In All Around the Periphery. Rotterdam: Onomatopee, 2009. 65–70. [PDF]
Ruyters, Domeniek. “PS—Notities bij een werk van Frances Stark.” In Rondom. Rotterdam: Onomatopee, 2009. 65–70.
David Hockney: 1960–1968: A Marriage of Styles. Nottingham: Nottingham Contemporary, 2009.
“Frances Stark.” In Hammer Projects, 1999–2009. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2009. 148–151. [PDF]
2008
Eshoo, Amy, and Derrick R. Cartwright. 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991–2006. New York: Fifth Floor Foundation, 2008.
Huldisch, Henriette, and Shamim Momin. Whitney Biennial 2008. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Verwoert, Jan and Dexter Sinister. Exhaustion & Exhuberance. Sheffield: Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, 2008.
Svenungsson, Jan. “How others write.” In An Artist’s Textbook. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. 31–33.
2007
Esche, Charles and Katarina Stenbeck. There’s gonna be some trouble: the five year Rooseum book: 2001–2006. Malmö: Rooseum, 2007.
Fuchs, Albrecht. Portraits. Köln: Snoeck, 2007.
Heiser, Jörg. “Frances Stark.” In Romantic Conceptualism. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2007. 118–121.
Hoffman, Jens and Kennedy, Christina. The Studio. Dublin: Dublin City Callery The Hugh Lane, 2007.
Leclere, Mary. For Some Perverts the Sentence is a Body: On the Work of Frances Stark. Houston: Glassell School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007.
2006
Ackermann, Rita and Matthew Higgs. Dereconstruction. New York: Gladstone Gallery, 2006.
Gronlund, Melissa. “Frances Stark.” In Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2006–7. London: Frieze, 2006.
2005
Krauss, Chris, Jan Tumlir, Jane McFadden. LA Artland. London: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2005.
2003
Arnatt, Matthew. “Frances Stark.” In Zusammenhange herstellen (Contextualize). Hamburg: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2003. 71–75.
2002
Comer, Stuart, “Frances Stark.” In Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music. Milton Keynes: Milton Keynes Gallery, 2002. 58–59.
Rugoff, Ralph. “Untimely Mediations.” In Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock ‘n’ Roll. San Francisco: CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2002.
2001
Burkard, Lene, and Karsten Ohrt. Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque. Odense: Brandts Klædefabrik, 2001.
Relyea, Lane. “L.A.-Based and Superstructure.” In Public Offerings. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001. 248–265.
2000
Cruz, Amanda. “Frances Stark.” In Fresh Cream – Contemporary Art in Culture. London: Phaidon, 2000. 574–579.
1997
Ferguson, Russell. “The Sound of Ripping Canvas.” In Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960–1997. Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, 1997.
1996
Butler, Cornelia H. The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1996.
Press
2013
Ito, Gregory. “Frances Stark at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly Online, www.sfaqonline.com, March 7, 2013.
Chun, Kimberly. “‘Memento Mori’: A Reflection on Mortality, Choices in Life.” The San Francisco Chronicle, 24 February 2013.
Higgie, Jennifer. “Ten Women Who Use Film.” UbuWeb, www.ubu.com, February 3, 2013.
Godfrey, Mark. “Friends with Benefits: Mark Godfrey on the Art of Frances Stark” Artforum, January 2013. 159-165.
2012
Haramis, Nick. “The Art of Romance: Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Selects Five Works That Best Exemplify Love.” Bullett, Vol. VIII, Fall 2012. 29.
Cooper, Dennis. “Galerie Dennis Cooper presents… Frances Stark.” DC’s, www.denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com, December 5, 2012.
Russeth, Andrew. “Enhanced Epistles: Frances Stark on Her Show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.” Gallerist NY, www.galleristny.com, April 13, 2012.
Johnson, Ken, “Frances Stark: Osservate, Leggete Con Me.” New York Times, March 30, 2012. C26.
Griffin, Kevin. “Frances Stark: using her personal life to make My Best Thing.” Vancouver Sun Blog, www.blogs.vancouversun.com, March 16, 2012.
Rosenfield, Rachel. “Frances Stark: Not Just Idle Chat.” Canadian Art, www.canadianart.ca, March 15, 2012.
Guthery, Summer. “Frances Stark: My Best Thing.” Pastelegram, pastelegram.org, January 31, 2012.
Griffin, Jonathon. “Best of 2011: Part 6.” frieze blog, www.blog.frieze.com, January 1, 2011.
2011
Abu ElDahab, Mai. “Best of 2011.” Artforum, December 2011. 216–217.
Barber, Jeremiah. “Video Artists Stark and Herschend Embrace Humor, Unbearably Long Titles, and PowerPoint.” KQED Arts, November 27, 2011.
Berardini, Andrew, “Not Safe For Work.” Artforum diary, www.artforum.com, Los Angeles, April 25, 2011.
Berardini, Andrew. “The Letter Writer, Frances Stark.” Mousse, #26, December 2010–January 2011. 106–114. [PDF]
Bishop, Claire. “Safety in Numbers.” Artforum, September 2011. 281.
Casavecchia, Barbara. “Best of 2011: Part 3.” frieze blog, www.blog.frieze.com, December 21, 2011.
Fanelli, Franco. “I’ve included a very well-known outsider: Tintoretto!.” The Art Newspaper, June 1, 2011.
Gioni, Massimiliano. “Amore, Bugie e Chatroulette.” Wired Italia, September 2011.
Griffin, Jonathan. “All of This and Nothing.” frieze, Issue 138, April 2011. 143.
Higgs, Matthew. “Best of 2011.” Artforum, December 2011. 214–215.
Lange, Christy. “Postcards from Performa 11: Part 5.” frieze blog, www.blog.frieze.com, December 21, 2011.
Latimer, Quinn. “Best of 2011: Part 1.” frieze blog. frieze, 21 Dec. 2011.
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “All of This and Nothing.” Artforum, May 2011.
Mizota, Sharon. “Art review: ‘All of This and Nothing’ at UCLA Hammer Museum.” The Los Angeles Times, 2 March 2011.
Neudorf, Paula. “PS1′s New Exhibits Highlight Video Art.” Queens Chronicle. December 1, 2011.
Ollman, Leah. “The mind and art of Frances Stark.” The Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2011. E5.
Princenthal, Nancy. “Frances Stark.” Art in America, January 4, 2011.
Papararo, Jenifer. “Frances Stark: I’ve Had it and a Half.” C Magazine, Autumn 2011. 53-55.
Saltz, Jerry. “The Year in Art.” New York Magazine, December 2011.
Saltz, Jerry. “Generation Blank.” New York Magazine, June 19, 2011.
Smee, Sebastian. “An artist who labels herself.” The Boston Globe, December 5, 2010.
Smith, Roberta. “So Big, Performa Now Misses the Point.” The New York Times, November 26, 2011.
Tan, Lumi. “A review of Frances Stark’s Put A Song In Your Thing.” PERFORMA Magazine, November 2011.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Artifacts: Frances Stark’s Best Thing.” New York Times Magazine, October 26, 2011.
2010
Herbert, Martin. “David Hockney & Frances Stark.” frieze, Issue 128, January–February 2010. 116–117.
Holte, Michael Ned. “Frances Stark.” Artforum.com, September 1, 2010.
Kotzé, Talitha. “But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet?” The List, March 18–April 1, 2010. 89.
Macchi de Vilhena, Catherine. “Frances Stark: Why should you not be able to assemble yourself and write?.” ROVEN, #3, Spring–Summer, 2010. 105–109.
Mansfield, Susan. “Making a minimal disturbance show.” The Scotsman, March 23, 2010. 37–38.
Majeski, Anna. “Frances Stark tackles the riddles of the creative process.” The Tufts Daily, November 1, 2010.
Moira, Jeffrey. “Textual Relations.” Scotland on Sunday, February 21, 2010.
Oksenhorn, Stewart. “She’s got it! Stark gives Aspen musical a spin.” The Aspen Times, June 30, 2010.
“Art Preview: Frances Stark.” The Scotsman, February 23, 2010.
“Frances Stark.” The Times Scotland, March 6–12, 2010. 21.
2009
Carey-Thomas, Lizzie. “Solo shows: Frances Stark.” frieze, January–February 2009.
Clark, Robert. “David Hockney/Frances Stark.” The Guardian Guide, November 14–20, 2009. 39.
Fiduccia, Joanna, “The Space of Words.” Artforum, April 2009.
Fox, Dan. “Poor. Tired. Old. Horse..” frieze, Issue 126, October 2009. 226.
Herbert, Martin. “David Hockney and Frances Stark.” frieze. January–February 2010. 116–117.
Holder, Will. “ART AND INDUSTRY.” Roland, May 2009. 32–36.
Lack, Jessica. “Artist of the week 46: Frances Stark.” The Guardian, June 24, 2009.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/24/artist-frances-stark
Searle, Adrian. “The pleasure principle.” Guardian.co.uk, November 11, 2009.
“Frances Stark.” Roland, November 2009–January 2010. 11.
2008
Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Brigitte. “Und ewig lockt die Spottdrossel.” Wiener Zeitung, April 29, 2008.
Champion, Miles, “Frances Stark.” Art Monthly, January 2008.
Cohen, David. “Whitney Biennial Has Adopted A Boho Vibe.” The New York Sun, March 5, 2008.
Cotter, Holland, “Art’s Economic Indicator.” The New York Times, March 7, 2008.
Cotter, Holland. “Indirect Object at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.” The New York Times, December 18, 2008.
Fessler, Ann Kathrin. “Teile von Teilen und kein Ganzes.” Der Standard, May 2, 2008.
Hafner, Hans-Jürgen. “Double Residence. ‘Collected Writings’ and ‘Collected Works.’” Spike, No. 15, April 2008. 55–63.
Milliard, Coline. “Frances Stark: A Torment of Follies.” Art Review, April 2008. 129.
O’Neill, Paul. “If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution.” Art Monthly, February 2008. 31–32.
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren and Frances Stark. “500 Words: Frances Stark.” Artforum, November 2008.
Rees, Simon. Frances Stark (FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon France). US Art, Issue 21, September 22, 2008.
Verwoert, Jan. “Private Lives, Public Gestures 2.” frieze, March 2008.
“Frances Stark.” Kunstbulletin, #6, 2008. 68.
2007
Bell, Kirsty, “Frances Stark at van Abbemuseum.” frieze, #109, September 2007. 177–178.
Eichler, Dominic. “If I Can’t Dance… Part II.” frieze, Issue 106, April 2007.
Kopsa, Maxine. “Doubting Frances.” Art on Paper, September 2007.
Verwoert, Jan. “Use Me Up: Exhaustion and the limits of the potential to perform.” Metropolis M, February 2007.
White, Michelle. “Frances Stark: Structures that fit my opening….” ArtLies, Spring 2007. 115.
Wood, Catherine. “Biennials, Surveys and Retrospectives: Looking Back.” frieze, Issue 112, January–February 2008.
2006
Goddard, Dan R. “Artworks built on writing.” San Antonio Express News, June 25, 2006.
Gonzalez, Michele. “San Antonio: An Interview with Hudson Show (Room) artist Frances Stark.” Mightbegood, Issue #69, May 12, 2006.
Hainley, Bruce. “Artquake.” The New York Times Magazine, October 2, 2006.
Harmanci, Reyhan. “Between the Lines: Textual Works.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 2006.
Miles, Christopher. “Saying it in words and in pictures.” The Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2006.
Mitrovic, Sinisa. “If I Can’t Dance, I don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution.” frieze, Issue 97, March 2006. 170.
Putze, Patrick. “Frances Stark at ArtPace.” Voices of Art, Volume 14.2, 2006. 24.
Rhodes, Dusti. “‘Open’ Sesame: Frances Stark lets the sexual innuendo roll.” The Houston Press, December 21, 2006.
Walworth, Catherine. “Frances Stark.” Glasstire, July 2006.
2005
Charlesworth, JJ. “Frances Stark CRG Gallery New York.” Tema Celeste, issue 110, July/August 2005. 72.
Weissman, Benjamin. “Frances Stark: As Eloquence Appears.” frieze, Issue 92, June–August 2005. Cover, 140–5.
“School of Fine Arts welcomes distinguished new faculty.” Artfacts: USC School of Fine Arts, Vol IX, No. I, 2005. 2–4.
“Short List.” The New Yorker, May 16, 2005. 24.
2004
Burnett, Craig. “Preview Frances Stark, London.” Guardian Unlimited, November 13, 2004.
2003
Abs, Peter. “Mut zur Schaeche: Frances Stark in der Galerie Daniel Buchholz.” Text Zur Kunst, Heft Nr. 54, June 2004.
Bell, Kirsty. “Frances Stark: Collected Writing: 1993–2003.” Camera Austria International, 86, 2004.
Diedrichson, Diedrich. “A Fan’s Notes: On Mike Kelley’s Writings.” Artforum, January 2003.
Hoffburg, Judith. “Artist Books Reviews.” Umbrella, Volume 26, #3⁄4, December 2003. 119–120.
Meltzer, Eve. “Frances Stark.” frieze, Issue 72, January–February 2003. 94.
Tumlir, Jan. “Spinning One’s Wheels In Los Angeles.” Flash Art, December–January 2003.
2002
Ammirati, Domenick. “Frances Stark.” Modern Painters, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2002. 114–5.
Ebner, Joern. “Laecheln fur den Affen menschen – Nigel Cooke bei Modern Art und Frances Stark bei greengrassi in London.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, #75, March 30, 2002. 56.
Isé, Claudine. “Hammer Projects: Frances Stark.” Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum.
Newhouse, Kristina. “Frances Stark at UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.” art/text, 2002. 91.
Wilsher, Mark. “Frances Stark Self-Portraiture.” What’s On, April 3–10, 2002. 25.
Wood, Eve, “Frances Stark at the UCLA Hammer Museum,” Artweek, Volume 33, Issue 8, October 2002. 21.
2001
Prinzhorn, Martin. “The housewife in public.” Afterall, Issue 04, 2001. 104–111.
Richard, Frances. “Frances Stark, CRG Gallery.” Artforum, XL, No. 3, December 2001. 144–145.
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, October 12, 2001.
Tumlir, Jan. “Baldessari’s Urn: 90s Art in Los Angeles.” artext, No. 71, November 2000–January 2001. 42–51.
2000
Hess, Barbara. Flash Art, Vol. xxxiii, No. 215, November–December 2000. 111.
Hess, Barbara. “Frances Stark at Daniel Buchholz.” Flash Art, Volume xxxiii, No. 215, November–December 2000. 111.
Holert, Tom. “Frances Stark – Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne.” frieze, 2000.
1999
D’Souza, Aruna. “Reviews.” Art in America, May 1999. 152–153.
Erickson, Karl. “Frances Stark: The Architect & The Housewife.” Cakewalk, No. 3, Fall 1999. 64.
Levin, Kim. “Voice Choices.” The Village Voice, February 2, 1999. 80.
1998
Harvey, Doug. Art Issues, Summer 1998. 42.
Intra, Giovanni. “Frances Stark at Marc Foxx Gallery.” Art/Text, No. 61, May–June 1998. 82–3.
Meyers, Terry R. “Frances Stark: In other places light’s pitched happy tents.” On Paper, Vol. 2 No. 5, May–June 1998. 49.
Owens, Laura. Cakewalk, Spring–Summer 1998. 13–14.
1997
Auerbach, Lisa Anne. “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens and Frances Stark at Blum & Poe.” L.A. Weekly, June 27–July 3, 1997.
Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch.” San Francisco Examiner, May 9, 1997.
Cooper, Dennis. “Frances Stark.” Artforum, XXXV, No. 8, April 1997. Cover, 80–81.
Intra, Giovanni. “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens & Frances Stark.” FlashArt, November–December 1997. 76.
Hainley, Bruce. “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens & Frances Stark at Blum & Poe.” Artforum, XXXVI, No. 3, November 1997. 119–120.
Hackett, Regina. “Ephemeral Themes.” Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 11, 1997.
Helfand, Glen. “Art Museum and Galleries.” Bay Guardian, May 7, 1997.
Jakobsen, Klaus Thejll. Ojeblikket, #32/33, Summer 1997.
Kandel, Susan. “Exploring Power of Three Among Friends.” The Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1997. F18.
Knight, Christopher. “Riding Tradition’s Currents to a Higher ‘Consciousness.’” The Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1997. F4.
Martin, Vitcoria. Art Week, Volume 28, #8, August 1997.
Pagel, David. “Isolated Concepts.” The Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition), February 1997. F12.
Rickles, Lawrence. “Already Given at the Office: On Techno Feminism.” Paralax 5, 1997. 73.
Schnoor, Chris, “3 Syllables.” Performance on Paper, #8, June 1997.
1994
Curtis, Cathy. “Freeing Words from their Life Sentence.” The Los Angeles Times, 1994.
1993
Anderson, Michael. “Invitational ’93.” Art Issues, #3, 1993.
DiMichele, David. “Fresh Work, Invitational ’93.” Artweek, Volume 24, #21, November 4, 1993.
Kandel, Susan. “Invitational ’93′s Controlling Personas.” The Los Angeles Times, Volume 24, #21, October 14, 1993.
Print Editions
2013
Untitled, London Underground, Art on the Underground, (unlimited edition of posters, print edition of 150)
2011
Untitled, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (edition of 20 + 2 AP)
2010
Consider the following again: Why should you not be able to assemble yourself and write?, Artists Space (edition of 100 + 20 ap)
2009
Conceited girl wants to show she has a seat (after Goya), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (edition of 100 + 10 ap)
Untitled, Nottingham Contemporary (edition of 100)
2007
The members of our class…, Emily Carr Institue Press, Print Portfolio (edition of 15)
Selected Lectures & Outside Teaching
2013
Stark, Frances. Artist talk, from International House, in conjunction with exhibition White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 4, 2013.
2012
Stark, Frances. Artist talk, Paul Branch Lecture Series, from Bijou Theater, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, October 11, 2012.
Stark, Frances. Artist talk, Graduate Fine Arts Lecture Series, from Graduate Fine Arts Studios, Otis College of Art and Design, April 26, 2012.
Stark, Frances. Artist talk, Spring Visiting Lecture Series, from Grivetz Hall, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, April 19, 2012.
Stark, Frances. Artist talk, Graduate Art Seminar Lecture Series, from LA Times Theater, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California, April 3, 2012.
Stark, Frances, Artist talk and book signing, from Emily Carr Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, February 3, 2012.
2011
“Structures That Fit my Opening and Other Parts in Relation to Their Whole.” Screening, The Life of the Artist from Piet Zwart Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Rotterdam, April 9, 2011.
“The whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all the parts.” Lecture, from Danforth Lecture Hall, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California, December 7, 2011.
“Houseguest: Frances Stark Selects from the Grunwald Collection.” Lecture, from Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, 16 January 2011.
Artist talk, MFA Lecture Series: Frances Stark from Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, January 26, 2011.
McCarthy, Tom and Pendleton, Adam and Frances Stark. “Staging Language.” Lecture, Performa 11 from Fredrick P. Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, New York City, March 28, 2011.
2010
Artist talk, Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, New Jersey, November 23, 2010.
“The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Getting to Know Mark E. Smith.” Lecture and teaching engagement, Sommerakademie from Kunsthalle Bern/Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, August 12, 2010.
2009
Gaines, Malik and Stark, Frances. “Scholars in Dialogue: Art and Text.” Discussion, from Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California, June 6, 2009.
Otto-Knap, Silke, and Jan Verwoert, and Frances Stark, and Flora Wiegmann and Lindsay Fischer (Ballet Master of National Ballet of Canada). “Standing anywhere in the space in a relaxed position.” Panel Discussion, from the Banff Centre, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada, July 26, 2009.
Artist talk, PSU Monday Night Lecture Series, from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, May 11, 2009.
Stark-Hanson, Arlo and Stark, Frances. Radio interview. Art Talk AM on the Radio from 98.1 KPSU, May 11, 2009.
Artist talk, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, 2009.
Program faculty, 05 Thematic Residency: Why are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because They Think it is a Good Idea, from the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, July 6–August 14, 2009.
Panel discussion with Anthony Huberman, Jimmy Raskin, David Hullfish Bailey, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Artist Talk, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
“The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Reaching Out to Mark E. Smith.” Contra Mundum, Mandrake, Los Angeles, California
2008
Artist talk, National Gallery of Scotland, Randolf Cliff Residency
“Hey! Hey! Glossolalia! The Eroticism of Pedagogy.” A Creative Time event, Judson Church, New York City, New York
Artist talk, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Visiting artist lecture, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, California
Artist talk, The New Vision, Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
Frances Stark, and Bruce Hainley and Jeremy Sigler, MAK Center for Art, Los Angeles.
On the Future of Art Schools (Symposium) Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2005
Art Center, Pasadena, California
Claremont College, Claremont, California
OXBOW High School of the Arts, Napa, California
2004
Art in Southern California: From the 90s to Now, Southern California
Consortium of Art Schools, Moca Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood
San Francisco Art Institute, California
2003
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
University of California, San Diego, California
2002
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2001
Yale, New Haven, Connecticut
Readings from Scripts by Raymond Pettibon, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
In Honor of Raymond Pettibon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Jurgen Becker Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California
The Hanbury Community Project, Hanbury Hall, London United Kingdom
1998
University of Illinois Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SFMOMA, New Collector’s Forum, San Francisco, California
“One Half Hour of Air”, KXLU, Los Angeles, California
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1997
CRG, New York, NY
Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
Seca, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Women History Month Guest, Cal State Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California
1996
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Künstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany
Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany
1995
Mellon Foundation Guest, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Reading, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California
1994
Reading, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California
1993
“Twenty Fall Into Three” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Poetry Festival, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
