FRED FLEISHER
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
 
2003
         Biennale Di Arte Contemporanea Di Porto Ercole, Italy
	 Future Species, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY  
                        (curated by David Liss, MOCCA)
	 . . . In the summer, Christopher Cerra Space, Dallas, TX
	 MiArt 2003, Milan, Transient NYC/Laura Martin         
         One Minute Distractions, Transient Gallery/Laura Martin
         Dark Science, www.gallerythe.org (Curated by Koan-Jeff Baysa)
         $99 Bargain Store Show, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York City
         Figures of Invention II, The Work Space, New York City

2002	
         20 | 02 , Rotunda Gallery 20th Anniversary Benefit, Rotunda
                   Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 
         Fear, Paranoia and Malevolence, ABC NO RIO, New York City
         Toyland, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR (Curated by Sean Elwood)
         Diaspora, Difference, Division: New Work, 473 Broadway Gallery, 
                   New York City
         Curious Objects, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York City (Curated by Aleksey Vaynshteyn)
         The Ides Of March, ABC NO RIO, New York City
         Toys II, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York City

2001	
         The Gift Show, Mastel + Mastel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
	 Machine Dreams: An Exhibit of Mechanical Sculpture, Chirchirillo Space, Jersey City, NJ
         Lost and Found: Reclaimed Moments, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Mihee Ahn) 
	 Art Miami (Nikolai Fine Art)

2000	
         Figures of Invention I, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, NY
                                 (Curated by Elisabeth Condon)
	 San Francisco International Art Exposition, (Nikolai Fine Art)
	 The Toy Show, Nikolai Fine Art, New York City
	 A Hole In One, Gallery 128, New York City

1999	
         Post-it Durban Art Gallery, Durban 4000, South Africa
	 hunkydory solo exhibition, Queens College, NY

1998	 
         100 Self Portraits Show, ACME ART, Columbus, OH (Curated by Charles Cave)
	 The Art Exchange Show 2, (McKinney Arts)

1997	 
         Multiple Personalities Queens College, NY (Curated by Benny Andrews) 
	 The Art Exchange Show, (McKinney Arts)
	 Taunting Toys and Terrified Tots, two person exhibition, McKinney Arts, New York City
	 The Graven Image, The Tomasulo Gallery of Union County College (Curated by Robert Costa)


ON-LINE
www.nineteeneighty.com 
www.artistsspace.org
www.gallerythe.org 


LECTURES

2000	
         Art Forum Lecture Series, Montclair State University, NJ Visiting Artist
2003	 
         MFA Program Seminar - Montclair State University, NJ


BIBLIOGRAPHY

        -Webb, Jay “Society Pages, Fashionistas gather for a cause” Dallas Observer, July 3, 2003
	-Cotter, Holland "Art Review: Where Witty Meets Gritty" The New York Times, November 15, 2002
	-Biddle, Erika "Art Review: Summer 2002"  ArcadeProject.com  (image)Summer 2002, Vol. 103
        -Speer, Richard "Toying with Play-Two new exhibits crash the nursery" Willamette Weekly Sept. 2002
        -Wilson, Michael "New York Reviews" Contemporary, (image) June, July, August 2002
        -Biddle, Erika "Art Reviews: "Ides of March @ ABC NO RIO" (image) ArcadeProject.com Summer 2002
	-Leovich "Objections" NY ARTS Magazine, pg. 93, April 2002, Vol. 7 No. 4
        -The Korea Daily, March 20, 2002
        -Ahn, Mihee "Noteworthy Artists of this year . . . America" Misulsegae, pgs. 46-48 January 2002 
          Vol. 206
	-Ahn, Mihee "Lost & Found: Reclaimed Moments" Misulsegae, pgs. 132-133 February 2001 vol. 195
	-Ortiz, Lori  "Brooklyn Pastiche" The Brooklyn Rail, Issue 45-46, February/March 2001
	-"One Man's Garbage Is Another Man's Art" Park Slope Courier, Jan. 15, 2001
	-"Rotunda Gallery Mounts 'Lost and Found' Exhibit" Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News, 
          January 4, 2001
	-"Rotunda Gallery Presents Lost and Found: Reclaimed Moments" Brooklyn Daily Eagle & Daily Bulletin, 
          pg. 2, December 29, 2000
	-Levin, Kim The Village Voice, August 8, 2000 XLV No. 31
	-Castro, Andres The U.S. Latino Review,  (image) pgs.  48, 59 Winter/Spring 2000
        -Green, Gaye L. "The Return Of The Body: Performance Art and Art Education" pg. 11
		(see endnotes pg. 12)  Art Education, January 1999	
        -Herron, Annie "Fred Fleisher and Peter Bregoli at Mckinney Arts" Review Magazine, March 1997


EDUCATION	
	MFA   (Studio Art) Queens College - CUNY
	BFA    (Painting and Drawing) Penn State University
        BS      Art Education, Penn State University


BACKGROUND
Born in Pennsylvania; former Airborne Ranger