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Education
1993 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1991 BA Humanities, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Portikus, Frankfurt
  A Torment of Follies, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)
  A Torment of Follies, greengrassi, London
  The Fall of Frances Stark, Culturgest, Lisbon
2007 The Fall of Frances Stark, van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands & FRAC Bourgone, 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, TX
  Frances Stark, "Structures that Fit My Opening" and Other Parts Considered in Relation to their Whole, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
  Structures That Fit My Opening, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
  ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
2005 In and on an Unergonommic Mind, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Bless this Mess, greengrassi, London
  Destroy Date, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
2003 And Another One at the Same Time, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2002 A Bomb Upon the Ceiling, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
  The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  Stark: Self-Portraiture, greengrassi, London, England
2001 CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Ich Suche Nach Meine Frances Starke Seite, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
  Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1999 No, No, No, No, Now, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
  What Part of Now Don’t You Understand?, China Art Objects Galleries, L.A., CA
  Like a Rainbow and so Unlike a Rainbow, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Impossible the grassy maxim’s dream…., greengrassi, London, UK
  In other places Light’s pitched happy tents, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Music is Different, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1996 Plain Sheets No Pillow, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  W is for Werther, Studio 246, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1995 Last Year b/w I hate language, ACME, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Spring for Fall, LEAK, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Slough (it off) b/w Purple Prose, MFA Gallery, ACCD, Pasadena, CA
1991 Total Babe, The Guest Room, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Group Exhibitions
2008 Convocation, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
  Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  Yes No Other Options Art Sheffield 08, UK curated by Jan Verwoert
  Cohabitation: 13 artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufman Gallery, Milan
  Grabbing at Straws, Studio Guenzani, Milan
2007 Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London
  For Ree, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
  Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, NY
  Romantic Conceptualism, Nuernberg Kunstverein &  BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
  If I can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Edition II MuHKA, Antwerp
2006 If I can't Dance... "Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice", De Appel, Amsterdam
  The Studio, The Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin, Ireland. Curated by Jens Hoffman and Christina Kennedy
  Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, The Jumex collection, Mexico, curated by Michel Blancsube
  Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln at Metro Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
  Ovrcast Music + Art festival, Los Angeles, CA
  Textual Works, Bethan Huws - Frances Stark, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Looking at words: the Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary works on Paper. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
  Monuments for the USA, White Columns, New York, NY
  Gallery Artists, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
  Faculty Exhibiton, USC School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles
  Post No Bills, White Columns, New Yorrk
  "AND TO STOP YOU INTERFERING, I SHALL HAVE TO DEMATERIALIZE YOU AGAIN", Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
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, CA
2003 The Space of Writing, MKG Art Management, Houston, TX
  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, CA
  Korrekturen, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
  The Great Drawing Show: 1550-2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Drop Out! China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
  Creeping Revolution 2, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
2002 Jim, Jonathan, Kenny, Frances and Sol, Stedelijk Museum @ Bureau Amsterdam
  Rock My World, California COllege of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco, CA
  Personal Plans, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
  Zasammenhaenge herstellen/ Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg
2001 The Slide Area, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  Drawings, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
  Frances Stark meets Morgan Fisher, Martin Klosterfelde, Berlin
  Patterns: Between Object & Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, DK
  Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece
  Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
  The White Album, curated by Jan Tumlir, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Circles: SIlverlake Crossings, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  OO, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
  made in california: art, image and identity, 1900-2000, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
  Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
  Cleaning Up, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, USC, Los Angeles
  Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
  Opere Su Carta, Studio Guenzani, Milan Italy
  L.A. , Monika Sprueth & Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
1999 Philomene Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
  Hot Spots, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro & Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania
1998 In the Beginning, Murray Guy, New York, NY
  Word Perfect, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Obscure Camera, 2nd Space Gallery, curated by Mary Ceruti, San Francisco, CA
  Paper Thin, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  L.A. on Paper, Three Day Weekend @ Gallerie Krizinger, Vienna, Austria
1997 Der Arbeit des Zeichnens, Gesellschaft Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
  New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  Tracing Marks, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens and Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
1996 The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Just Past: The Contemporary and Permanent Collection 1975-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
  Stream of Consciousness 8 Los Angeles Artists, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
  Affairs, Institute for Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
  Controfiguro, Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy
  Krisanamis/Stark, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA
  First Person, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Dark Memories, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA
  Filmcuts, neugerriermschneider, Berlin, Germany
  Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
1994 Inaugural Exhibition, ACME, Santa Monica, CA
  The Freed Weed, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Invitational ‘93, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  Zuzuglich, Merz Akademie und Room Tomoyo Kawai, Stuttgart, Germany
Publications
2008 O ARQUITECTO & A DONA DE CASA, Portuguese translation (culturgest Lisbon/Dexter Sinister)(forthcoming)
  A TORMENT OF FOLLIES, Frances Stark Vienna Secession text by Martin Prinzhorn
2007 FRANCES STARK: COLLECTED WORKS van Abbe Museum, Eindoven and Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walter Koenig
  "Recently I helped repair the broken horn of pan" in THE ARTIST'S JOKE, White Chapel and MIT press ed. Jennifer Higgie
  PRIMER (ON THE FUTURE OF ART SCHOOL) Roski School of Fine Arts, with Dexter/Sinister
2006 "Dear Maxine" in JUST IN TIME, Stedelijk Museum, Kopsa, Maxine ed.
  "Not School, not Church, not Home" in Sharon Lockhart's PINE FLAT, K. Halbreich, L. Norden, F. Stark et al., Charta, Milan
  "At the Rim of The F*#@ing Paradigm" in UNCERTAIN STATES OF AMERICA, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
  "A Little Untoward History: On Chinatown's Recent Influx of Art..." in RECENT PASTS..., J. Welchman, ed., Jrp/Ringier
2005 Stark, Frances, Ivory, Cabinet, issue 18. p.12-14.
  Stark, Frances, Always the Same, Always Different, Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire, United States Pavillion, 51st Venice Biennale (ISBN: 3-7757-1654) (with Donna DeSalvo, Linda Norden, Joan Didion)
2003 Stark, Frances, Collected Writing: 1993 – 2003. Opus 3/Book Works, London
2002 Afterall, Issue 6, Allan Ruppersberg, p.64-69
  Stark, Frances. “A beholder of fragments and ruiner of plans” in PersonlichePlane, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
2001 Afterall, "For Nobody Knows Himself...(On Allen Ruppersberg)", Issue 6, p. 102-120
  Afterall, "All things to all People," Interview with Fisher, Hawkins, Kandel, Owens, Mitchell, Snauwaert, Stark and WyEvans, Issue 04, p. 112-120
  Painting at the Edge of the World, "Scared to Death," ed. Douglas Fogle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, p. 206-210
  Painting at the Edge of the World, Scared to Death, ed. Douglas Fogle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, p.206-210
  Artext No. 75, 10SNE1
  Artext No. 74, TYPE: Pull-Quoteable
  Artext No. 73, Type: Hard to Be at Home, p.33-4
  Artext No. 72, Type: Greek Revival, p.34-5
  Artext No. 71, Type: No Values, p.20-21
2000 Bookforum, Volume 7, issue 4, “on In His Own Write, by John Lennon and Grapefruit, by Yoko Ono”, p. 37
  X-Tra, Volume 3, Number 4, the Importance of Planning, p.28-30
  Implosion: Bas Jan Ader, A Craft Too Small, ed. Christopher Mueller, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne
  Texte Zur Kunst, Bildstrecke, June 2000 #38
  Jorge Pardo, The Architect and the Housewife, ed. Barbara Steiner & Joern Schafaff, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfilder- Ruit
  Mall Punk Magazine, Issue 1, Fall 2000, Dear Reader, Damien Echols, p.22-4
  Artext No. 70, Type: The Secret Life, p.22-3
  Artext No. 69, Type: Into the Millenium (The Criminals), p.42-3
  Artext No.68, Type: Knowledge Evanescent, p.42-3
1999 Artext No. 67, Type: Professional Me, p.42-3
  The Architect & The Housewife, Open House/Book Works Projects, London
  Nach Bild, Kunstahalle Basel, 25/1999, Schwabe & Co. AG, Verlag Basel
  Artforum, Top Ten, November 1999, p.60
  X-Tra, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Excerpts from the Architect and the Housewife, p.5-6
1998 Michael Lin, “Complementary”, Dimension Endowment of Art, Taiwan
  Michael Craig-Martin und Raymond Pettibon, Wanzeichnungen,
  Raymond Pettibon & Frances Stark- A Conversation, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf
  Users: Olafur Eliasson, Pennetralia, Sao Paolo Biennial / DCA Foundation, Copenhagen
  Great God Pan, No. 11, cover art, p.51-2
1997 Fama & Fortune Bulletin, Verlag Pakesch & Schlebrugge, Vienna
  Sentiment & Vagrancy: Kevin Hanley, I-20, New York
  More and Less, Bliss, Editor, Sylvere Lotringer
  Asteroid Impaired: Righteous American Fiction, Upon My Arrival, ed. Benjamin Weissman
1994 Framework, Spring ‘94, Untitled Short
  More and Less, Premiere Issue, “Your Highness (and mine)”
  The Grammarians, Chapman College, Orange, CA
1993 Now Time No.3: “The Kid”
  “Untitled”, LACE in conjunction w/ Jean Lowe exhibition “Real Nature”, Editor/Curator, Richard Hawkins
  Felix, Volume 1, Number 3: “Nymph Text” (with Patti Podesta)
1992 The Underthings, catalogue text, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
Readings and Selected Lectures
2007 On the Future of Art Schools (Symposium) Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2005 Art Center, Pasadena, CA
  Claremont College
  OXBOW High School of the Arts, Napa
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, CA
2003 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
  University of California, San Diego, CA
2002 Royal College of Art, London, England
2001 Yale, New Haven, CT
  Readings from Scripts by Raymond Pettibon, Museum of Contemporary Art,
  Los Angeles, CA
  In Honor Of Raymond Pettibon , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angles, CA
  Jurgen Becker Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1999 Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA
  The Hanbury Community Project, Hanbury Hall, London, UK
  Chelsea School of Art, London
  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1998 University of Illinois Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
  Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  SFMOMA, New Collector’s Forum, San Francisco, CA
  "One Half Hour of Air", KXLU, Los Angeles, CA
1997 CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
  Seca, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
  University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Cal State LA, Women History Month Guest, Los Angeles, CA
  Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA
1996 University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  Künstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany
  Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Merz Akademie, Two week workshop, Stuttgart, Germany
  Visiting Artist, School for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
  Visiting Artist, Academy of Art, Vienna, Austria
1995 Mellon Foundation Guest, CAL ARTS, Valencia, CA
  Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA
1994 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA
1993 "Twenty Fall Into Three," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  Los Angeles Poetry Festival, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Bibliography
2008 Kilston, Lyra, Frances Stark on why Dorothy Parker is the "perfect metaphor" for her work, Modern Painters, November 2008
  Cohen, David, Whitney Biennial Has Adopted A Boho Vibe, New York Sun, March 5, 2008
  Hans-Jürgen Hafner,  Double Residence. "Collected Writings" and "Collected Works" , SPIKE, No. 15, April, p. 55-63
  Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, WIENER ZEITUNG, Und ewig lockt die Spottdrossel,  April 29
  Ann Kathrin Fessler, DER STANDARD, Teile von Teilen und kein Ganzes, May 2
  Verwoert, Jan EXHAUSTION & EXHUBERANCE Art Sheffield 08 with dexter/sinister
  O'Niel, Paul. ART MONTHLY, If I can't dance... Feb #313 p. 31-32
  Milliard, Coline. Frances Stark: A Torment of Follies, ART REVIEW, April 2008, p.129
  Rees, Simon ART US Frances Stark (FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon France September 22 issue 21
  Cotter, Holland, NEW YORK TIMES Whitney Biennial 2008: Art's Economic Indicator,  March 7
2007 Champion, Miles.  Book Review/Collected Works, ART MONTHLY
  Leclere, Mary. FOR SOME PERVERTS THE SENTENCE IS A BODY:  ON THE WORK OF FRANCES STARK, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  Bell, Kirsty,  Frances Stark at van Abbemuseum, September #109, FRIEZE p. 177-178
  Kopsa, Maxine, "Doubting Frances" ART ON PAPER, September
  Verwoert, Jan. "Use Me Up", METROPOLIS M, February 2007
  Hoffman, Jens and Kennedy, Christina. THE STUDIO, Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin
  Heiser, Joerg. ROMANTIC CONCEPTUALISM, Kunsthalle Nurenburg, Kerber Verlag
  Dominich Eichler, "If I Can't Dance...", FRIEZE
  Wood, Catherine. Best of 2007, Best Retrospective Exhibitions , FRIEZE, December
  White, Michelle, Frances Stark, ART LIES, Issue 53, Spring
  North Drive Press: NDP NO. 4, Interview Frances Stark and Amy Yao
  Albrecht Fuchs, PORTRAITS, Köln: Snoeck, 2007
  THERE'S GONNA BE SOME TROUBLE> THE FIVE YEAR ROOSEUM BOOK 2001-2006, Rooseum, Malmo, 2007
2006 Hainley, Bruce “Artquake”, New York Times Magazine, October 2, 2006
  Miles, Christopher, “Saying it in words and in pictures” Los Angeles Times, June 16 Gray. Emma, L.A. Confidential, Artnet.com, June 23, 2006
2005 “School of Fine Arts welcomes Distinguished New Faculty,”
  Artfacts: USC School of Fine Arts. Vol IX, No. I.
  Weissman, Benjamin, “Frances Stark: As Eloquence Appears”, Frieze, June-August, P.140-145 + covered. Chris Krauss, Jan Tumlir, Jane McFadden. LA Artland, Blackdog: London.
  Charlesworth, JJ, “Frances Stark CRG Gallery New York”, Tema Celeste, July/August 2005, issue 110. p.72.
  Weissman, Benjamin, “Frances Stark: As Eloquence Appears”, Frieze, June/July/August, p.140-145 + cover
  Short List, New Yorker, May 16, 2005, p. 24
2004 Burnett, Craig. "Preview Frances Stark, London," Guardian Unlimited, November 13
  Abs, Peter. "Mut zur Schaeche: Frances Stark in der Galerie Daniel Buchholz," Text Zur Kunst, Heft Nr. 54, June
  Bell, Kirsty. "Frances Stark: Collected Writing: 1993-2003," Camera Austria International, 86/2004
2003 Meltzer, Eve. "Frances Stark," Frieze, Jan/Feb Issue 72, p94
  Hoffburg, Judith. Artist Books Reviews, Umbrella, Vol. 26, nos. 3/4, Dec., p. 119-120
  Diedrichson, Diedrich. "A Fan’s Notes: On Mike Kelley’s Writings," Artforum, January
  Tumlir, Jan. "Spinning One’s Wheels In Los Angeles," Flash Art, December/January
2002 Wood, Eve. "Frances Stark at the UCLA Hammer Museum," Artweek, Vol. 33, Issue 8, p.21
  Newhouse, Kristina. "Frances Stark at UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles," Artext, Fall Issue, No. 78, p. 91
  tema celeste, July – August, Issue 92, p. 117
  Arnatt, Matthew, "Frances Stark," Zusammenhaenge herstellen/Contextualize, ed. Yilmaz
  Dziewior, Kunstverein in Hamburg, p. 71-75
  Wilshir, Mark, "Frances Stark: Self-Portraiture/greengrassi," What’s On, London, April 3-10, p. 25
  Laird, Tessa, Art on Paper, "The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work of Art at the UCLA, Hammer Museum"
  Comer, Stuart, "Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music," CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
  Ise, Claudine, Hammer Project Booklet, "Frances Stark: Unspeakable Series,"
  Ebner, Joern. "Laecheln fur den Affen menschen - Nigel Cooke bei Modern Art und Frances Stark bei greengrass in London", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, #75, Mar. 30, p.56
  Rugoff, Ralph. "Untimely Meditations," Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock & Roll, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art.
  Amaretti, Dominick. Review, Modern Painters, Spring Issue, pp. 114-115
2001 Cameron, Dan. "Recurring Patterns," Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, DK
  Richard, Frances, "Frances Stark, CRG Gallery," Artforum, November, p.144-145
  Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, "Art in Review," Oct. 12, p. E37
  Tumlir, Jan. "Baldessari’s Urn: 90s Art in Los Angeles," Artext, No. 71, Nov. 2000-2001, p.42-51
  Relyea, Lane. Public Offerings, "L.A. - Based and Superstructure", p.261, MOCA
  Prinzhorn, Martin. "The Housewife in Public", Afterall, p.104-111
  Fisher, Hawkins, Kandel, Owens, Mitchell, Snauwaert, Stark and Wyn Evans. "All things to all people", p.112-120, Issue 04
2000 Hess, Barbara. "Frances Stark at Daniel Buchholz," Flash Art, Vol. XXXIII, no. 215, Nov.-Dec., p.111
  Cruz, Amanda. Fresh Cream - Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon Press Ltd., p. 574-579
  Holert, Tom. "Frances Stark - Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne," Frieze, Issue 54, Sept./Oct., p. 119
  Unruh, Rainer, "Junge Kunst aus Kalifornien," Kunstforum International, Bd. 154, April/May p. 384-5
  Cutter, Kimberly, "Eastside Story," W, September Issue
1999 The New Yorker, Feb. 1
  Erikson, Karl. "Frances Stark: The Architect & The Housewife," Cakewalk, Fall, No. 3, p.64
  Courtney, Cathy, "Why Oh Why?," Art Monthly, No. 230, October, p. 47
  Brown, Elizabeth, "LA: Crank up the Heat," in Hot Spots, Weatherspoon Art Gallery & Pittsburg Center for the Arts
  D’Souza, Aruna. "Frances Stark at CRG," Art in America, May, p. 152-53
  Levin, Kim, Village Voice, "Voice Choices", February 2, p. 80
1998 Intra, Giovanni. "Frances Stark at Marc Foxx Gallery," Art/Text, No. 61, May-June, p. 82-83
  Meyers, Terry R. "Frances Stark: In other places light’s pitched happy tents," On Paper, Vol. 2 No. 5 May-June, p. 49
  Owens, Laura. Cake Walk, Spring/ Summer, pp. 13-14
  Harvey, Doug. "Frances Stark at Marc Foxx Gallery," Art Issues, Summer, No. 53, p. 42
1997 Rickels, Lawrence. Paralax 5, "Already Given at the Office: On Techno Feminism", p. 73
  Intra, Giovanni. Flash Art, "Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens & Frances Stark", Nov-Dec. p. 76
  Hainley, Bruce. Artforum, "Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens & Frances Stark," Nov. p.119-120
  Young, Paul. Los Angeles Magazine, "On the Edge", p.92, November
  Jana, Reena. Flash Art, "New Work: Drawings Today SFMOMA", p.75, October
  Kandel, Susan. L.A. Times, "Exploring Power of Three Among Friends," Jul. 4, p. F16
  Jakobsen, Klaus Thejll. Ojeblikket, #32/33, Summer
  Martin, Victoria. Art Week, Vol. 28, No. 8, August
  Hackett, Regina. Seattle Post Intelligencer, "Ephemeral Themes Dominates Ambitious ‘Drawings’ Exhibit," July 11
  Helfand, Glen. Bay Guardian, Art Museum and Galleries, May 7
  Ferguson, Russell. "The Sound of Ripping Canvas," Sunshine Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997
  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Hulebaek, Denmark
  Auerbach, Lisa Anne. L.A. Weekly, Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark
  Schnoor, Chris. 3 Syllables, Performance on Paper, June, # 8
  Bonetti, David. San Francisco Examiner, Gallery Watch, May 9
  Cooper, Dennis. Artforum, "Openings," p. 80-81, April
1996 Butler, Cornelia. The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary
  Drawing, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Knight, Christopher. L.A. Times, "Riding Tradition’s Currents..." Oct. 9, p. F4
  Brown, Elizabeth. Stream of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Pagel, David. L.A. Times, "Isolated Concepts", February, F12
1994 Curtis, Cathy. .L. A. Times, "Freeing Words from Their Life Sentence"
1993 Kandell, Susan. L.A. Times "Invitational ‘93’s Controlling Personas,", October 14
  Anderson, Michael. Art Issues, "Invitational ‘93", No. 31
  DiMichele, David. "Fresh Work, Invitational ‘93," Artweek, Vol. 24, No. 21, Nov. 4
Public Collections
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
  Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, NY
  UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  Fonds Regional d’art Contemporain, Champagne-Ardenne
Frances Stark was born in Newport Beach, California in 1967. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.