EDUCATION

2009 AIM 29 Artist In Market Place, Bronx Museum

2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

        MFA Art Photography, Syracuse University

2004 BFA Applied Media Arts, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (cum laude)

SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2010
Mother May I, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI

2009
The Notion of Family, David Castillo Gallery, Miami FL

The Notion of Family, Hagedorn Gallery, Atlanta, GA

LaToya Ruby Frazier & Victoria Hruska, 1921 Braddock Summoning 1982, Gestures 13
Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

LaToya Ruby Frazier & Sebrina Fassbender, Higher Pictures, NY, NY

2006
The Notion of Family, Community Folk Art Center, Syraucse, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

Piece De Resistance, Larissa Goldston Gallery, NY, NY

2009
Connect / Reconnect, Mercer County Collecge, Trenton, NJ, curators Movis

Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, NY, NY curators Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano, Gioni, Laura Hoptman

Living and Dreaming, AIM 29, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, curator Micaela Giovannotti

2008
Who's Afraid of America, Wonderland Artist Space, Copenhagen Denmark
Curator Laura Heyman

White Lies and Black Noise, Rush Arts Gallery, NY, NY
Curator Derrick Adams

Dark Milk, Milk Contemporary, Copenhagen Denmark
Curator, Laura Heyman

Doppelganger, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Curator Laura Hamilton

National Academy Museum, Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,
National Academy Museum, NY, NY

"Photography: A Group Critique Exhbition" Light Work, Syracuse, NY, curators
Mary Lee Hodgens and John Mannion

2007
"Keeping Up With the Joneses," Schroeder Romero, New York, NY

En Foco New Works #10, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Juror, Alison Nordstrom

Language Arts Exhibition, Delavan Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Curator, David MacDonald

Syracuse University MFA 2007, SU Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Curator, Andrew Saluti

2006
Everson Biennial, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Juror, Claire Schneider

Converge, SPAS Gallery, RIT, Rochester, NY
Juror, John Aasp

Family Lifestyles, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Curator, Mary Lee Hodgens. (invitational)

Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Women's University, Fine Arts Gallery, Denton, TX Juror, Blake Fitch.

Queer Eye, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Jurors, David Areford, Ann Torke and Carol Scollons. (catalogue)

2005
Emerging Artists, Light Work, Syracuse, NY Curator, Mary Lee Hodgens

SPE Regional Conference Exhibition, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Juror, Wilka Roig (invitational)

Breaking the Ice, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

New Space Center for Photography, Portland, OR
Juror, Terry Toedtemeier

Made in New York, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
Jurors, Marion Wilson and Margo Mensing

2004
Spark Open, Spark Contemporary Gallery Space, Syracuse, NY
Juror, Jeremy Baily

Black Artist League Exhibition, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Juror Diana Smith

2003
October Evenings, Meadville Council for the Arts, Meadville, PA Juror, Elizabeth Thomas

Women's Art Exhibition, Edinboro University Center, Edinboro, PA Juror, Heather White

2002
Their Struggle Without A Home, Edinboro University, Bates Gallery, Edinboro, PA

Ellesworth Art Festival, Shady Side Arts Festival, Pittsburgh PA Curator, Hill Jordan

Erie Art Museum Annual Spring, Erie, PA Juror, Sandy Skoglund

2001
Expressions of Saint Clair, Edinboro University, Bates Gallery, Edinboro PA

SCREENINGS & FILM FESTIVALS

2009
David Castillo Gallery, Miami FL

2008
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Curators Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby

Magic Lantern, Providence RI
Curators Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby

2007
Come on: Desire Under the Female Gaze, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracsue, NY
Curator, Astria Suparak


Estatic Transformation and Emotional Realism, Cinema Project, Portland, OR
Curator, Emily Vey Duke

San Diego Women's Film Festival, San Diego, CA
Curator, Emily Vey Duke (invitation)

2006
Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey City, NJ
Jurors, Maggie Kim, Simon Kilmury, Sally Berger, Dorothy Thigpen, Patti Bruck

Through Her Eyes: Women of Color Productions Film Festival, New York, NY
Juror, Jacqueline Wade (invitation)

Brooklyn Underground, Brooklyn, NY
Juror, Josh Koury (catalogue)

Black International Film Festival, New York, NY
Juror, Allen Dawson (invitation)

RESIDENCIES

2009-      Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2010        NYU Visiting Artist Program Resident

2009        Art Omi

2008        Center for Photography at Woodstock

                Byrdcliffe Artist Residency

2007        Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2008
S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award, National Academy Museum, NY, NY

Honorarium, Center for Photography at Woodstock

2007
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship

Master's Prize Award, School of Visual Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY

Art Start art-in-education partnership Grant, Syracuse NY

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

2006
Aperture Portfolio Review Honorable Mention, New York, NY

Geraldine Dodge Fellowship Award, College Art Association New York, NY

Director's Citation Award, Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey City, NJ

Producer's Choice Award, Women of Color Productions film festival, New York, NY

2004-2005
African American Fellowship, African American Studies Dept, Syracuse University

2004
Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA

2002
Patron Purchase Award, Erie Art Museum Erie, PA
Juror, Sandy Skoglund

1999
Congressional Art Competition Winner, Congressman Mike Doyle's office,
Pittsburgh, PA

1998
Outstanding Achievement in Art Award, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS

2010
International Center for Photography, The Photographers Lecture Series
Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Philadelphia, PA
NYU Panel Through Other Lens with Gray Art Gallery

2009
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
New York Studio Program, NY, NY
Hagedorn Foundation Gallery: The Notion of Family, Atlanta, GA
Art Looks: Rutgers University, Studio Museum in Harlem, New Brunswick, NJ

2008
Skowhegan Artist Talks, Lorraine O'Grady and LaToya Ruby Frazier, Artist Space, NY, NYInternational Center for Photography, NY, NY
School for Visual Arts, NY, NY
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2007
College Art Association Conference, NY, NY Panel Chair: Works in Progress
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA

2006
SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Grass Roots Media Conference, 2006, Syracuse, NY Panel Chair: Deconstructing Stereotypes

2005
African American Fellowship Conference, Syracuse, NY
Paper: "Black Intellectual Thought in Art Photography

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2010
(The Self Portrait in Contemporary Art), Susan Bright, Thames and Hudson
Spring 2010

2009
Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory, Edited by Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman, New Museum & Phaidon Press

Younger Than Jesus: The Generation Book, The Reader (Exh. Catalogue), Edited by Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman, New Museum & Steidl

2008
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, M.K. Asante, Jr.
ST Martin's Press

The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Editor Nancy Malloy, John Schmitt/ Evergree & Central, National Academy of Design


2007
Stone Canoe Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York: Syracuse University Press

2006
Photographer's Fourm, Best of College Photography Annual, Serbin Communications Publication


2004
Silver Vision Photography, Editor Kathe Kowalski, Edinboro University Publication

Chimera A Journal of Literature and Art, Vol. 1, Editor John Lysak, Edinboro University Publication

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lorraine O’Grady, December ArtForum Best of 2009, 100

Walter Robinson, Artnet, Weekend Update, October, 16, 2009

Kurt Shaw, Herald Tribune Review, "Artists air their personal struggles in Mattress Factory's latest 'Gestures' exhibit, July 29, 2009

Ken Johnson, The New York Times, "Young Artist Arrive, Either Rough or Ready, Art Review, Bronx Museum, July 9th, 2009

Nicole Pasulka, Morning News, "The Notion of Family," June 15th, 2009

Doug McClemont, Saatchi Oline, "The Generational : Younger Than Jesus," June 14th, 2009

Thomas Micchelli, The Brooklyn Rail, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, Walter Robinson, Artnet, Artnet Gossip, May, 2009

Ben Davis, Artnet, "Jesus Complex," May, 2009

Tod Roulette, Harlem World, "Cost of Dignity-Priceless, LaToya Ruby Frazier, May 7th, 2009

James Hannaham, The Village Voice, The Gospel Accoding to Youth: "Younger Than Jesus," April 14th, 2009

Michael Want, ArtForum.com, "Oh Jesus," April 12th, 2009

Marina Cashdan, Manhattan Magazine, "The Chosen Ones" p.52 & 53
March/April 2009

Chris Wiley, "LaToya Ruby Frazier" Daylight Daily, Daylight Magazine
February 24, 2009

Village Voice, Voice Choices; "Jonesing: Looking from the outside in"
Janurauary 2-8, 2008

Debra Jenks, Chelsea Now, Art Review; "Pulp Fiction: Artists explore the underside of American culture," December 7-13, 2007

New Yorker, Galleries - Chelsea; "Keeping Up With the Joneses"
December 24 & 31, 2007

Alison Nordstrom, "New Works #10 Honorable Mention Artists"
Nueva Luz photographic journal, Vol. 11 No. 3 2007

Letter to the Editor,"In Her Words" Syracuse Post Standard, June 5th 2006

Carl Mellor, "Shots Through the Heart"
Syracuse New Times, May 10, 2006, 5

Emily Kulkus, "Hidden History Comes to Light" Syracuse Post Standard
May 15, 2006 D3

Jennifer Frantz, "Photo Exhibit documents children living in poverty,"
Edinboro Spectator, January 25, 2002, 9-11

Leah Spiegel, "Painting and photography works bring forth emotion,"
Edinboro Spectator, February 1, 2002, 11

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Higher Pictures, New York, NY

COMMISIONS
Aperture Foundation, Green Cart Initiative, New York, NY

PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Joseph T Baio Collection, New York, NY
Francis Greenburg Collection, New York, NY
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Jane U Harris Collection, New York, NY
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2009
James Hyde: Four Compositions from the Stuart Davis Group
Known for his use of "high" and "low" materials such as carpet, vinyl, glass, plastic, handles, boxes, pieces of furniture (just to name a few), James Hyde has constructed and deconstructed the meaning of abstraction. Whether it is painting, photography, sculpture or furniture design, Hyde is a revisionist when it comes to abstract painting.

In this first appearance of James Hyde's Four Compositions From the Stuart Davis Group, he continues abstract investigations by sampling three photographic details from twentieth century painter Stuart Davis' Report from Rockport 1940 and one photographic detail from Davis' mural for Studio B, WNYC, Municipal Broadcasting Company 1939 (both Metropolitan Museum of Art). The Davis' convey the vitality, speed and tempo of American life in the mid-twentieth century with an emphasis on jazz as a metaphor for the progressive tempo of democracy. In Four Compositions From the Stuart Davis Group, James Hyde has worked with the vernacular of jazz to produce new compositions that contain refreshing rhythm, speed and tempo in the twenty-first century.


Paul Moakley: Shore Points, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
On view in the Project Space is Paul Moakely's photographic works based on New Jersey's Shore Points. Influenced by the dramatic visual techniques used by 18th century romantic artists like Theodore Rousseau, his landscapes depict dramatic brooding skies, light and weather changes. The portraits of the inhabitants and local visitors break objectivity with close subjective intimacy similar to influential photographers like Mary Ellen Mark and Bruce Davidson.

Robert Melee: Robert Melee Mobile
Robert Melee has always viewed himself as a painter. His most recent works deal with life- size figurative sculptures cast in bronze covered with his signature marbleizing technique splattered in bright colors, reminiscent of abstract expressionists Jackson Pollack and Williem de Kooning.

Robert Melee Mobile, is not your typical chandelier. It is an assortment of household items, craft and kitsch, a clash of abstract beauty and the grotesque. In the video projection, This Is For You Backdrop, Melee compresses ten years of documented footage shot on at least four camera formats; color, black and white and super-8 film, from encounters with lovers, friends and family into a 20-minute loop. Melee orchestrates similar dynamics of the choreographer – dancer and mother – to son incorporating theater, dance and performance, integrating a host of characters and behaviors.

Open Juried Exhibition, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, juror

2008
In Suspension Show, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Co-curated exhibition with Mason Gross Dean's Office, Dennis Benson and Movis Group out of Princeton, NJ, 22 sculptural works suspended, by world renown artists; Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dennis Oppenhiem, Charles Ray, Douglas Vogel and more.

Pepon Osorio: Badge of Honor, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Peopon Osorio, a social worker / artist is one of America's most compelling Latino artist. He is world renowned for his unconventional installations that combine conceptual art practice with personal community dialogues. Badge of Honor was sponsored and supported by the Department of Visual Arts and Mason Gross Presents.

Aaron Hraba and Charlie Roberts: New Autobiographies, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, Two person show featuring Aaron Hraba, a radical storyteller and Charlie Roberts, a performance artist utilizing personal life experience and internal conflicts as the subject matter of their videos.

Never Has She Ever…., Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Ten female artists; Shanell Betts, Donna R. Brown, Jamie Bruno, Susanna Coffey, Renee Cox, Lauren Kelley, Priya Nadkarni, Hanneline Rogeberg, Cauleen Smith and Pamela Sunstrum re-define the female gaze and figure, twisting and challenging internalized notions of beauty and womanhood. Sponsored and supported by Visual Arts Department and Office of the Dean, both at the Mason Gross School of Art, The Institute for Women and Art, and the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnership in the Arts & Humanities.

Doppelganger, The first exhibition devoted to honoring artist / performer Lady Jaye and the legendary Genesis Breyer P–Orridge collaborative works; Breaking the Sex. This project is about the re-union and re-solution of male – female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state.The Doppelganger was co-curated by the 2008 MFA graduate student who selected thier counter part artists based on conceptual, formal, aesthetic techniques. All participants ranged from MFA, BFA or BA, Faculty, Staff and Alumni.

2007
The Photographer's Wife, Laura Heyman, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Art Photographer Laura Heyman has appropriated the male gaze in a series of nine self-portraits titled The Photographers Wife.

A History in Paradise, Yasser Aggour, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Through sculpture, digital photography and installation artist Yasser Aggour has created his Museum of natural history critiquing and challenging American history, nature, ideology and technology.