pure joy fritz @gmail.com
Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, installation, and disaster. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, now living and working in San Francisco, California, Fritz’s work is heavily in conversation with the histories of the queer future and representation through documentation. He holds a degree in Film and Women’s Studies from San Francisco State University. His work has been exhibited in galleries, performance spaces and universities throughout the United States and Europe, and featured in KQED Arts, The Bilerico Project, Bullet Magazine, and a feature essay in Royal Enterprise. His film Portrait of Bonnie has been screened at film festivals and toured extensively at universities in 2010. Fritz has participated in performance collaborations in New York, San Francisco, Berlin and Detroit.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2011
Hay Ride, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Garden Performance, San Francisco, CA
Media Love, Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco, CA
Hay Rides/Lemonaids, Live With Animals Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Elegance of Refusal, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
Art Pad 2011, Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco, CA
This Is How WE Do It, AS IS Exhibitions, Oakland, CA
Necro Capital, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Photographic Memory: Radical Light, BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
Suggestions of a Life Being Lived, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Multiocculti, 4707 Telegraph Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009
Ding Dong , You’re Dead, Down at Lulu’s Gallery Space, Oakland, CA
Just Because There Are Questions, Doesn’t Mean There Are Answer, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008
DeFeet of Joy , w/ Raul DeNieves, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Joy’s Birthday, w/ Raul DeNieves, SFMOMA performance with Weimar
New York, San Francisco, CA
Oceans of Potions, Needles & Pens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Fabruatus, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bonnie, Live With Animals Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In The Theme of Red and White, Warehouse 1310, San Francisco, CA
Connie Fucking Francis, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA
Laying Around with Joy, The Parkside, San Francisco, CA
2006
The Keepsakes of Orphans, The Painted Bird, San Francisco, CA
Yarn Show, 3435 Army, San Francisco, CA
This is Not a Painting, Homo-a-Go-Go, Olympia, WA
2005
The Diorama Show, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
Anti-War, Project Artuo, San Francisco, CA
Portrait of Bonnie Tour, 4min, Color (DV, SUPER 8)
Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal, Canada
Glitzer Bar, Hamburg, Germany, BILDWECHSEL
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
OUTFEST, Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
University of California- Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
New York University, New York, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Sara Lawrence, Bronxville, NY
University North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, Baltimore, MD
Swarthmore-Sager Conference, Swarthmore, PA
Towson University, Towson, MD
Vassar, Poughkeepsie, NY
William and Mary University, Williamsburg, VA
University of Texas, Austin, TX
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of California- Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
University of California- Irvine, Irvine, CA
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
In Joy As Model, 7min, Color, (DV, VHS)
Deep House Hell, ATA, San Francisco, CA
Club Feral, The Parkside, San Francisco, CA
Straight Boat, 8min, Color (DV)
Straight Boat, The Parkside, San Francisco, CA
COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE WORK
Falling in Love w/ Chris & Greg, Video, 26min.
Criminal Queers, Video, 27min.
Homotopia, Video, 27min.
You’ll Never Be Popular Like Me, The Cock, New York, NY
Will The Real JT LeRoy Please Stand Up, California College of the Arts, CounterPULSE, San Francisco, CA
