Howard Fried
Howard Fried (born June 14, 1946 in Cleveland , Ohio , USA ) is an American avant-garde conceptual artist , video artist and performance artist .
life and work
Howard Lee Fried studied at Syracuse University in New York from 1964 to 1967 and at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland . In 1967 he worked at the Cleveland Art Institute, from 1967 to 1968 at the San Francisco Art Institute and from 1968 to 1970 at the University of California .
He had his first solo exhibition in 1969 at the Art Company in Sacramento . Howard Fried was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the department Individual Mythologies : Self-Presentation - Performances - Activities - Changes and Video . The performance he put on at Documenta 5 is typical of his work: Indian War Dance consisted of himself and an opponent who fought against each other in a simulated studio environment.
Fried lives and works in San Francisco .
Literature and Sources
- Documenta 5. Survey of Reality, Imagery Today. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Material, the presentation of the visual worlds and the artists. Volume 2: List of the exhibited works, the presented situations, the expected events, their nature, their manufacturers and owners, their organizers. General bibliography. Guide through the Exhibition. ). Documenta ua, Kassel 1972, ISBN 3-570-02856-9 (in ring binder).
- Roland Nachtigäller , Friedhelm Scharf, Karin Stengel (eds.): Resubmission d5. A survey of the archive on Documenta 1972 (= series of publications of the documenta archive. Vol. 8). Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fried, Howard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fried, Howard Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American performance and video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |