SCOTT FRASER
BORN: November 23, 1957
EDUCATION:
Kansas City Art Institute, 1976-79
University of Colorado at Denver, 1983-84
FELLOWSHIPS:
Atelierhaus, Worpswede, Germany, 1985-86
Acadia Foundation, Northeast Harbor ME, 2009
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York NY
Arnot Art Museum - Elmira NY
Denver Art Museum - Denver CO
Evansville Museum of Art and Science - Evansville IN
Philbrook Museum of Art - Tulsa OK
Kansas City Art Institute - Kansas City MO
Flint Institute of Arts - Flint MI
Museum of New Mexico - Santa Fe NM
Springfield Museum of Art - Springfield OH
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum - Tucson AZ
Arkansas Art Center - Little Rock AR
Reading Public Museum - Reading PA
West Publishing Company - St Paul MN
Amarillo Museum of Art - Amarillo TX
Mint Museum - Charlotte NC
San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose CA
Longmont Museum and Cultural Center - Longmont CO
Foothills Art Center - Golden CO
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center - Colorado Springs CO
Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art - Denver CO
Acadia Foundation collection, Northeast Harbor, ME
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015:
Lemon Fall, Quidley and Company, Nantucket, MA
2012:
Outside the Box, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010:
Scott Fraser Solo Exhibition -- Pismo Fine Art, Aspen CO
2007:
New Works - J. Cacciola Gallery, New York NY – Catalog
2004:
Still Lifes With Magic and Mystery - Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA – Catalog
New Work -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, Catalog
2003:
Carson Gallery, Denver CO
2002:
Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO -- Catalog
1999:
Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO
1998:
Still Life -- Carson Gallery, Denver CO
Still Life Paintings – traveling exhibit: Philbrook Museum of Art , Tulsa OK - Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville IN -- Catalog
1996:
New Work -- Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO
1994:
Realism in Perspective -- Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO
1993:
Illusions of Reality -- Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO
1990:
Drawings and Paintings of Scott Fraser -- University of Northern Colorado Gallery, Greeley CO and Carson Gallery, Denver CO
1989:
Ink Washes -- Carson Gallery, Denver CO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016:
American Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Truth and Vision: 21st Century Realism, Delaware Art Museum,
2015:
Conscious and Unconscious: Subjects of the Real and Surreal, Aravda Center for the Arts and Humanaties, Arvada, CO
Sonoran Intersections: Portraits of Disappeaering Wildlife, Universum, Museo de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City
Vanishing Circles, Sonora Desert Museum, Tuscon, AZ
Renaissance of Realism, Gallery 1261, Dever, CO
Coors Western, Denver, CO
2014
Celebrate Summer, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Not So Still Life, Southport Galleries, Southport, CT
Windows to the Divine, ArtHAus, Denver, CO
Coors Western, National Western Stock Show, Denver, CO
2013:
Vanishing Circles, Leedy Volkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
Vanishing Circles: Loosing Ground, Museo de Arte de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Fluid, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Evansville Collects: Contemporary American Still Life, Evansville, IN
2012:
Things are Not What They Seem, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2011:
Vanishing Circles -- Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson AZ
Peterson Collection -- New York Academy of Art, New York NY
2010:
Realism in Diverse Media -- Imago Gallery, Palm Desert CA
Small Works -- Gallery 1261, Denver CO
The Annual Small Works Show 2010 -- M A Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK
Reality Check: Contemporary American Trompe L’oeil Painting – Brandywine River
Museum, Chadds Ford PA
Between Realities – Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
2009:
Super Real – The Citadelle Art Foundation, Amarillo TX
Small Works – Gallery 1261, Denver CO
On Paper – Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA
Winter Haiku – Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA
Beyond the Object Project – Gallery 1261, Denver CO
2008:
Small Works – Gallery 1261, Denver CO
Winter Haiku -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA
Beyond Representation – Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA - Catalog
2007:
Small Works -- Gallery 1261, Denver CO
The Object Project – traveling exhibition: Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science, Evansville IN; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville SC; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa OK; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chatanooga TN; Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood CO – Catalog
Fraser, Switzer, Stoner: Still Life -- Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, Longmont CO
REALationships: Works of Surreal Inspiration -- Foothills Art Center, Golden CO
Eighth Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA - Catalog
2006:
To Be or Not to Be, 400 Years of Vanitas Paintings -- Flint Institute of Art, Flint MI – Catalog
Seventh Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA – Catalog
2005:
House and Home -- C T E Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2004:
Revelation -- Mint Museum, Charlotte NC
Sixth Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, Catalog
2003:
Re-representing Representation VI -- Arnot Art Museum, Elmira NY
35th Anniversary Exhibition -- Foothills Art Center, Golden CO
Magic Realism -- Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo CO
Fifth Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA – Catalog
2002:
Random Acts of Beauty -- Foothills Art Center, Golden CO
Fourth Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA – Catalog
Gallery to Gallery -- J. Cacciola Gallery and Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2001:
Form and Figure -- J. Cacciola Galleries, New York NY
Third Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA – Catalog
Contemporary American Realism IV 2000: -- M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK
2000:
Second Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA –Catalog
Introductions -- J. Cacciola Galleries, New York NY
Contemporary American Realism III -- M.A. Doran Gallery - Tulsa OK
Annual Realism Show -- Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum, Taos NM
1999:
Re-representing Representation IV -- Arnot Art Museum, Elmira NY – Catalog
Drawings -- John Pence Gallery, San Francisco CA – Catalogue
New Realism for a New Millennium -- Memorial Art Gallery - University of Rochester, Rochester NY
First Annual Realism Invitational -- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA – Catalog
Trompe l'Oeil, Art and Illusion -- John Pence Gallery, San Francisco CA
Poetics of Life -- Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte NC
1998:
Realism '98 -- Amarillo Museum of Art , Amarillo TX
Still Lifes and Florals -- John Pence Gallery, San Francisco CA
The Realist Mystique – Foothills Art Center, Golden CO
American Still Life Paintings – M A Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK
1997:
Shared Treasures -- Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY
Patrick Hughes, Scott Fraser – Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO
1996:
Colorado Artists: Recent Acquisitions -- Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
Arranging Things -- Contemporary American and European Still Life --Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville IN
Realism '96 -- Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe NM
American Realism: Past and Present -- 1856-1996 -- John Pence Gallery, San Francisco CA
1995:
Realism '95 -- Vision and Poetry" -- Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Artists of America --Denver CO – Catalog
1994:
Contemporary Realism -- Gerold Wunderlich Gallery, New York NY
Slice of Life: Contemporary Still Life -- Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA
Contemporary Perspectives II -- Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills CA
Artists of America – Denver CO – Catalog
Realism '94 -- Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe NM
An Original Idea -- Gerold Wunderlich Gallery, New York NY
Flowers in February -- Sherry French Gallery, New York NY
1993:
Contemporary Realism -- Gerold Wunderlich Gallery, New York NY
Much Ado About Something -- Close Range Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
Artists of America – Denver CO – Catalog
Still Life 1963 - 1993 --Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe NM – Catalog
1992:
The Real Thing - Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills CA
Artists of America – Denver CO - Catalog
1991:
Contemporary Still Life Painting -- Coe Kerr Gallery, New York NY
New Horizons in American Realism – traveling exhibition: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI;
Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples FL; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN – Catalog, cover image
Artists of America – Denver CO -- Catalog
1990:
165th Annual Exhibition -- National Academy of Design, New York NY
1900 to Now -- Gerold Wunderlich Gallery,New York NY
Contemporary Realism -- Gerold Wunderich Gallery, New York NY
Rocky Mountain National Park 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO
Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition award winner, Golden CO
1989:
Small Works-- Fendrick Gallery, Washington DC
Colorado Artists at the Kennedy Center -- Washington DC
The Food Show – Still Lifes by 66 American Artists -- Grand Central Art Galleries, New York NY -- Catalog
New Works - Grand Central Art Galleries, New York NY
Audubon Artists Exhibition - National Arts Club, New York NY
1988:
Trains and Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting – traveling exhibition: Sherry French Gallery, New York NY; National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC; Robertson Center for the Arts, Binghamton NJ; Evansville Museum of Arts, Evansville IN; Noyes Museum, Oceanville NY
52nd Annual National Midyear Show --Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH
Colorado State Fair Fine Art Exhibit -- Juror's Choice Award, drawing, Pueblo CO
Self Portraits -- Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada CO
1985:
Art and the Law: Honoring the US Supreme Court. – traveling exhibition: Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC; Alexandria Courthouse, Alexandria VA; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City UT; Minnesota Museum of Art.
1984:
Art and the Law – traveling exhibition: Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul MN; The Albany Museum of Art, Albany GA; South Texas College of Law, Houston TX; The Canton OH Art Institute, Canton OH