FRED STONEHOUSE
Born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1960
Education Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Faculty Meeting Drawings, Museum of Wisconsin Art, March 8 (forthcoming)
Talismans, Hey There Projects, Joshua Tree, CA February 8 (forthcoming)
Fred Stonehouse, Works on Paper, Peep Projects, Philadelphia, PA February (forthcoming)
2024 Signs and Wonders, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Fluid Thinking, Somi Gallery, Sturgeon Bay, WI September
2023 Totems, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Fred Stonehouse, Paintings, Saeger Reeves Gallery
Falling Waters Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
The In-Between Stories, Humor in Fred Stonehouse, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL
Fred Stonehouse, Halle St.Pierre, Paris, France
2021 Broken Books, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Animal, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 Night Vision, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Certainty of Doubt, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Natural Family, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Silent Treatment, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle, WA
Backhand, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2017 The Language of Memory, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2016 The Silent Singers, CG2 Gallery, Nashville, TN
The Language of Memory, Galeria NM Contemporanea, Cuernavaca, Mexico
2015 The Promise of Distant Things, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
A Peaceable Kingdom, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Family Lexicon, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2012 Marschmeister, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2011 Fred Stonehouse, The Deacon’s Seat, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Marsh Night, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Blood Relatives, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
Marshland, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Sang Real, Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
Fred Stonehouse, Retell, Select Works, Dot Weikamp Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, South
Bend, IN
2007 Fred Stonehouse, Painting, Tammen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Selections from the Natural History Portfolio of Marshall Deerfield, Tory Folliard Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI
2006 Nohl Fellowship Exhibition, INOVA, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, WI
Signs & Souvenirs, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Songs and Dreams, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Songs and Dreams, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
Fred Stonehouse: Paintings, Barone Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy
2003 Dope, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Dreams of Youth: Recent Painting, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 The Golden Game: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
Penance, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Fred Stonehouse - 10 Year Survey, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The First Annual Krampus Show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, December
DWD XIX, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany, December
The Blab! Show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA September
Summer Flow, Koplin DelRio Gallery, Seattle, WA, June 29-August 10
Salon, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, April
Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliuard Gallery, Milwaukee, July/August
Perspectives…The Human Figure in Art, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL January
2023 DWD XVIII, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany, December
Holiday Exhibition, Tory Folliard Gallery, December
25 Years of Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany,Anniversary Exhibition, September
Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, July
2022. SCOPE Art Fair, Mortal Machine Gallery, Miami, FL
Don’t Wake Daddy XVII, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany
2021 Don’t Wake Dady XVI, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany
American Strangers, Galerie DYS, Brussels, Belgium
No Space Between Us, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Once, If Memory Serves Me, Mortal Machine Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Blab! Show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2020 The Dog Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
No Country For Old Knuckleheads, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Mythic Menageries, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Expo Chicago, Mythic Menageries, Tory Folliard Gallery
Nature Morte, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Bon A Tirer, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Expo Chicago, Midwest Magic Realism, Tory Folliard Gallery
Don’t Wake Daddy, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Super Natural, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Don’t Wake Daddy, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2013 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2010 Don’t Wake Daddy V, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Mano / Mundo / Corazon: Artists Interpret La Loteria, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Colombia
College, Chicago, IL
Kink, The Seduction of Art, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Neo Fabulists, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Blab: A Retrospective, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2009 Don’t Wake Daddy IV, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
The Blab Show, Copro/Nason Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Midwestern Blab!, A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2008 Four Faces of Foofaraw, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Looky See: a Summer Show, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Institute of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
20th Anniversary Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2007 Don’t Wake Daddy 2, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
SELECTED AWARDS
2020 Creative Arts Award
2017 Romnes Faculty Fellowship
2014 Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts
2011 Vilas Associates Award
2007 Wisconsin Institute of Visual Arts Lifetime Achievement Award
2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Individual Artist Grant, New York, NY
Mary Nohl Artist’s Fellowship, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee, WI
2003 Milwaukee Artist’s Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest Fellowship
Penny McCall Foundation Grant
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CATALOG ESSAYS
Salas, Rafael, “After the Fall” 2021
Cozzolino, Robert, “Monsters Among Us”, 2018
Salas, Rafael, Brehmer, Deborah, “The Promise of Distant Things”, Museum of Wisconsin Art 2016
https://wisconsinart.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MOWA_ebook_Fred-Stonehouse_The-Promise-of-
Distant-Things.pdf
J. Sage Elwell, “The Devil in Fred Stonehouse: The Aesthetics of Evil After Evil” 2013
https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/ijcs/article/29545/galley/137895/view/
McClure, Michael Jay. “Fred Stonehouse: A Field Guide.” Marschmeister, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee,
WI, 2012
North, Bill. Artist-in-Resonance. INOVA, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2006.
North, Bill. Blab’s Midwestern Rootedness. A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 2009
North, Bill. Marshland. Howard Scott Gallery, 2010.
Smithers, Murray. Outside Influences, Mike Noland and Fred Stonehouse. The Gallery at UTA, University of
Texas at Arlington, 2010
Tynes, Teri. With a Wall. Allen Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2008
Pascale, Mark. The Exquisite Corpse. Printworks Gallery, Chicago, 2000
Bell, Greg. New Religion. Tacoma Art Museum, 1999
Rodriguez, Jeanette and Ted Fortier. New Religion, Tacoma Art Museum, 1999
PERIODICALS
http://www.thevisualist.org/2017/03/fred-stonehouse-the-silent-singers/
Juxtapoz Magazine - The Rebellious Works of Fred Stonehouse https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/the-
rebellious-works-of-fred-stonehouse/
Salas, Rafael, “With Incredible Skill, Fred Stonehouse Embraces the Weird” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
https://archive.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/with-incredible-skill-fred-stonehouse-embraces-the-weird-
b99623486z1-360619781.html/
Barnes, Steve. “Howard Scott’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition.” Art News, November 2010
Baran, Jessica. “Fred Stonehouse: Den of Secrets.” St. Louis Riverfront Times, October 2009
Cooper, Ivy. “Step into this ‘Den of Secrets.’” St. Louis Beacon, October 2009
Ollman, Leah. “A Sprawling, Satisfying Show.” Los Angeles Times, August 2008
Rump, von Gerhard Charles. “Die seltsamen Welten des Fred Stonehouse.” Berlin Die Welt, June 2007
Thibodeaux, Julianna. “Mr. Tomatohead.” Indianapolis NUVO News, February 2007
Camper, Fred. “The Blue Collar Surrealist.” Chicago Reader, 2006
Wild, Matt. “The Devil and Me,” Vital Source, 2005
Baker, R.C. “Fred Stonehouse at Howard Scott.” New York The Village Voice, November 2005
Auer, James. “Irony of self-absorption, social analysis, makes ‘Dope’ addictive.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
August 2003
Hawkins, Margaret. “Creativity Unfurled.” Chicago Sun Times, September 2002.
Berry, S.L. “Milwaukee Painter Enjoys Mimicking Life.” Indianapolis Star, October 2001
Auer, James. “The Surreal Mr. Stonehouse.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 2000
Cebulski, Frank. “The Great Novels Exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center.” Artweek, September 2000
Connors, Thomas. “Fred, Jesus and the Devil.” Milwaukee Magazine, September 2000.
Hawkins, Margaret. Chicago Sun Times, September 1999
Heartney, Eleanor. Art in America, March 1999
Ebony, David. “Ebony’s Top Ten.” Art Net Magazine, May 1998
Johnson, Ken. “Art Guide Review.” New York Times, April 1998
Kandel, Susan. “Artful Illusions and Serial Masquerades Spring To Life.”Los Angeles Times, April 1997
Pagel, David. “Painter Fashions a Thoughtful Commentary.” Los Angeles Times, June 2001
Parlin, Jerry. “Childhood Impulse Still Inspires Artist’s Work.” La Crosse Tribune, February 1999
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Bank of Kaukauna, Kaukauna, WI
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
First Bank, Minneapolis, MN
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Kemper Insurance, IL
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
Quad Graphics, Sussex, WI
San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Madonna Ciccione, Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Ciccione, Los Angeles, CA
Josh Mostel, New York, NY
Paul Winfield, Los Angeles, CA
Marcus Allen, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Vellick, New York, NY
Mr & Mrs David Peoples, Berkeley, CA
Howard & Donna Stone, Chicago, IL
John Cartland, Chicago, IL
Sheryl Crow, LosAngeles,