EMAIL: laurie@lauriefrick.com | IG: @lauriefrick

Galleries: GF Contemporary has a wide range of work, Blueprint Gallery has watercolors and collage, Michelle Mariaud Gallery is in New York + Paris and Ivester Contemporary has shown large and small scale glassworks in Austin, TX.

Data is like plastic, incredibly useful and horrible at the same time. Since the launch of the iPhone, we’ve gone from being mostly anonymous to almost constantly tracked. A horrible thought for most of us. I’m a data artist who makes handbuilt art about the future of personal digital data. I’m naturally tidy, hyper organized and look for ways to sort, arrange and assemble a massive number of parts into a well-ordered pattern. Perhaps data collection is a self-soothing technique, a way to calibrate details about myself and begin to understand who I am. In the absence of real feedback, many, many bits of personal data provide comfort and reassurance. A reaffirmation of self. I want data to feel personal, to overcome the repulsion most of us hold about data surveillance. Numeric data is hard for our brains to absorb, we can’t make sense of large numbers, but we do have an ability to understand patterns, especially colorful patterns, intuitively.

BIO:  

Laurie Frick uses data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built works she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. Evidence of her engineering background and long-history in high-tech are seen in the deep data analysis and detailed explanations of how this future will unfold. Her work about the future of data were recently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Atlantic and Wired Magazine; she has been invited to talk at Google, SXSW, Stanford and TEDx. Recipient of numerous residencies and awards, including Samsung Research, Yaddo, Bemis and Facebook. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from University of Southern California and studied at NYU’s ITP program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Frick’s artwork has been exhibited in museums, galleries and art spaces across North America, including Musee de la Civilization in Quebec City, Science Museum in Oklahoma City, Pavel Zoubok in New York and Edward Cella in Los Angeles. Represented by GF Contemporary, Blueprint, Michele Mariaud and Ivester Contemporary galleries. Current show for Pacific Standard Time at Art Center “Art and Science Collide”, sponsored by the Getty in Los Angeles Fall – Spring 2025.

Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Austin, Texas.

 
 

Photo by Joseph Au, at Transylvania University 2019

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • GF Contemporary, The Frick Experience, Santa Fe, NM Aug 2024

  • Ivester Contemporary, What did you do Today? Austin, TX, Mar 2024

  • Austin Community College, Highland Art Gallery, curated by Peter Bonfitto, Sept 2023

  • Science Museum smART space Gallery, Prismatic, Oklahoma City, OK, 2022- 2023

  • Google, COP25 UN Climate Change Conference, What We Eat (Installation), Madrid, Spain 2019

  • NYU Langone Medical Center, Metamorphosis: Agents of Change, Laurie Frick and Jaq Chartier, curated by Katherine Meehan, New York, NY 2019

  • Transylvania University, Data, Mine: Hasan Elahi & Laurie Frick, Lexington, KY, 2019

  • Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, PCA&D, Quantified-Self: the data doesn't lie, 2017

  • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Who are you, what day is it? New York, 2015

  • Texas State University, Patterned Language, San Marcos, TX, 2014

  • Marfa Contemporary, Walking, eating, sleeping, Marfa, TX, 2013

  • Oklahoma Contemporary, Walking, eating, sleeping, Oklahoma City, 2013

  • Real Art Ways, Making Tracks, Hartford, CT, 2012

  • Edward Cella Gallery, Death and Life of an Object: Lynn Aldrich, Laurie Frick, Tim Hawkinson, Los Angeles, CA 2012

  • W&tWork, Quantify-me, Austin, TX 2012

  • Edward Cella Gallery, Sleep Patterns, Los Angeles, CA 2011

  • Robert Steele Gallery, Visual Time, New York, NY 2009

  • Gallery Shoal Creek, Words, Austin, TX 2009

  • Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX 2008

  • Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY 2007

  • Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX 2006

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • PST Art | Pacific Standard Time LA: Art and Science Collide, Art Center, curated by Stephen Nowlin, Sept 2024

  • Michele Mariaud Gallery, Christmas, curated by Albert Delamour | Bellport, NY 2024

  • Blue Print Gallery, Walk a Mile, curated by Lauren Zogg | Dallas 2023

  • Yunnan Provincial Museum, 12th International Fiber Art Biennial “From Lausanne to Beijing” Space - The Dimension of Fiber | Yunnan China 2022

  • Reeves House, Visual Arts Center, Coded Realities, curated by Nicole Lampl | Atlanta, GA 2022

  • Musée de la Civilization, Head in the Cloud, organized by Marie-Christine Bédard | Quebec City, Quebec 2019-2021

  • Springdale Station, The Femme Abstract, curated by Moya McIntyre | Austin, TX 2021-2022

  • XS Gallery, Discursive Geometry / CH-Art, curated by Mark Starel, Kelse, Poland, 2021

  • Art Students League of Denver, Plastic, curated by Kalliopi Monoyios | Denver, CO 2020

  • Arts Westchester, Dataism, curated by Amy Kurlander | White Plains, NY 2019-2020

  • Margaret Thatcher Projects, Future Tense | Chelsea, New York, NY 2019

  • Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery, <Decode> Artists Policing Data | curated by Jayanthi Moorthy and Daria Dorosh, New York, NY 2018

  • ZÖNOTÉKA, Counting Sleep | curated by Sarie Nijboer & Vincent Schier, Berlin, Germany 2018

  • Artificial Knowing, Clustering | Los Angeles, CA 2018

  • Margaret Thatcher Projects, Text Me | Chelsea, New York, NY 2018

  • The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Tensile Strength, Sculpture Month Houston | curated by Volker Eisele, Houston, TX 2017

  • University of Richmond, Crooked Data | curated by Elizabeth Schlatter, Richmond, VA 2017

  • Mass Art, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Encircling the World: Contemporary Art, Science and the Sublime | Bakalar & Paine Galleries | curated by Darci Hanna, Boston, MA 2016

  • Edward Cella Gallery, Constructions | Los Angeles 2015

  • Palo Alto Arts Center, Front Yard/Backstreet | Palo Alto 2015

  • Cerritos College, Abstracted Visions: Information Mapping | Los Angeles 2015

  • Keystone ArtSpace, Divergence | curated by Micke Tong and Rebecca O’Leary, Los Angeles 2015

  • Art.Science.Gallery, X-Marks the Spot | curated by Hayley Gillespie, Austin 2014

  • Old Jail Art Center and Grace Museum, Drawn in-Drawn out | curated by Patrick Kelly, Abilene and Albany 2014

  • Talley Dunn Gallery, Pleased to meet me | Dallas 2013

RESIDENCY AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI | Distinguished Visiting International Artist Program 2019

  • Facebook, Austin, Texas | installation artist-in-residence 2018

  • American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy | visiting artist 2017

  • Samsung Research America, San Jose, CA | artist-in-residence 2014-15

  • Neuroscience Research Center, University of Texas | artist-in-residence 2012-14

  • Outstanding artist of the year | voted by Austin Art Critics Table awards 2012

  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York | Swing Space studio award 2012

  • Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA | artist residency 2011

  • Djerassi Program, Woodside, CA | artist residency 2011

  • Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY | annual keyholder residency 2010

  • McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC | artist residency 2010

  • Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY | artist residency 2010

  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE | artist residency 2009

  • Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY | artist residency 2009

  • American Academy in Rome | visiting artist and scholars residency 2008

SELECTED ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS

  • Austin Chronicle, Cat McCarrey, Mar 15, 2024 | Review: Laurie Frick’s “What did you do today?” at Ivester Contemporary

  • Canvas REBEL, Stories and insights: Meet Laurie Frick, May 2024

  • LUXE Magazine, Stylemaker: Data Drives this colorful Artist, April 2023

  • UPROXX, Data Artist Laurie Frick finds humanity in the Machine, social media video for Lexus | Los Angeles, November 2021

  • Codaworx, Toni Sikes, Mar 2021 | 25 Creative Revolutionaries Lead the way for Positive Change

  • MutualArt, Maya Garabedian, July 10, 2020 | Mediums of the 21st Century: iPads, 3D Printing and Data

  • Sightlines Profile, Barbara Purcell, May 13, 2020 | Waiting for the Kiln to Cool

  • Sightlines, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Jan 13, 2019 | A New Artistic Moment for the Lamar Underpass

  • CultureMap, Katie Friel, Sep 13, 2018 | Colorful new mural gives busy Lamar Boulevard a temporary refresh

  • All Things Considered: NPR radio and news, Laura Sydell, Feb 28, 2018 | An artist sees data so powerful it can help us pick better friends

  • Market Cafe Mag — Dataviz zine, London, Issue 3 - January 2018 | Time

  • Wired Magazine, Liz Stinson, Feb 15, 2017 | The Nerdy Charm of Artisanal, Hand-drawn Infographics

  • Huffington Post, Sarah DiGuilio, July 15, 2016 | Sleep + Your Brain = This

  • Haaretz Sunday Magazine Feature, Neta Alexander Jan 31, 2016 | Follow Yourselves, interview with Laurie Frick

  • Top 10 People of the Year, Tribeza Magazine, Dec 2015 | The locals whose work is changing the course of Austin's culture

  • NPR Studio 360 from WNYC, Jul 2, 2015, Lindsay Patterson | A quantified artist turns data into sculpture

  • Metaleptic, Jul 16, 2015, Tatiana Istomina | Laurie Frick: The future and present of data art

  • ARTE TV, France, Jun 2015, Charles-Henry Groult | We measure to know ourselves better

  • The Atlantic, May 14, 2015, Jacoba Urist | The rise of the data artist

  • Ovation Network, American Canvas with Dave Holmes, Mar 2015 | FRICKbits and a visit to Austin

  • Austin American Statesman, Oct 26, 2014, Jeanne-Claire van Ryzin | Your Travels in Artwork

  • EMBO Reports, Nature Publishing Group essay by Laurie Frick, Mar 2014 | Should you worry or embrace your data?

  • ArtDesk Magazine, Aug 2013, Allison Meier | The Quantified-Self

  • Hartford Courant, Jan 8, 2013, Susan Dunne | Making Tracks at RealArtWays

  • HuffingtonPost, Apr 2012, Peter Frank | The bricolage approach to sculpture

  • Austin Statesman, Jan 28, 2012, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | New installation gets down to the nitty-gritty

  • Chronicle, Jan 27, 2012. Wayne Alan Brenner | The artist as data, casting the metrics of her life in visual form

  • Huffington Post, Jan 5, 2012 update 2017, Kimberly Brooks | Laurie Frick’s Self Quantifying Patterns Track the Unique Patterns of Ourselves

  • KUT NPR for Austin, Texas, Jan 2012, Mike Lee | Arts Eclectic, Quantify-Me

  • LeMonde.fr, Dec 2011, Hubert Guillaud | Comment écrirons-nous demain?

  • Los Angeles Times, Mar 2011, Leah Ollman | Cold Hard Data Gets Transformed

  • New Scientist Magazine, Mar 2011, Jonathan Keats | Rhythms of Life

SELECTED TALKS & LECTURES

  • Pecha Kucha, at Site Santa Fe, hosted by Creative Santa Fe, NM 2024

  • SXSW, Data Art: Processes and Perspectives + Data Art as Time Capsule of the Anthropocene (2 speaker panels), Austin, TX 2023

  • DataViz Global Meetup, zoom talk available here, Dallas, TX 2021

  • Google, Talks at Google, Data is Irresistible, Austin, TX 2019

  • Pecha Kucha, I want my Data, Austin, TX 2019

  • SXSW, The changing role of Women in the Arts, Austin, TX 2019

  • University of Rhode Island, Imagine when everything about you is known, Providence, RI 2019

  • Transylvania University, Art Talk: Hasan Elahi & Laurie Frick, Lexington, KY 2019

  • Visionary Voices Lecture Series, City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, Inside story of why I want my data, 2019

  • TEDx LadyBirdLake, Austin, I want my data! 2018

  • Google@Thought: Art in the Digital Age, Brussels 2017

  • SXSW, Relationships are Ripe for Machine Learning, Austin, 2017

  • Technarte: The Fusion of Art and Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2016

  • DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), Cultural program of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 2016

  • World Future Society, Nanobot Murals, Washington DC, 2016

  • EYEO Festival, Nanobot Murals, Minneapolis, 2016

  • IBM Design Research Conference keynote, The art of data, Austin, 2016

  • Advertising Age Data Conference, Data is Beautiful, New York, 2015

  • International Time-Use conference keynote, The art of time-use, Ankara, Turkey, 2015

  • Microsoft Research, Studio 99, The art of the data-selfie, Seattle, 2015

  • SXSW, From Digital Sharecropping to Data Emancipation, Austin, 2015

  • MediaX, Stanford University, Art makes data sticky, Palo Alto, 2014

  • Creative Mornings, Human data, don't hide....get more, Austin, 2014

  • TEDx Austin, The art of self-surveillance, Austin, 2013

  • SXSW, Warhol goes Social, creativity in the tech age, Austin, 2013

  • Quantified-Self European Conference, Plenary Closing, Amsterdam, NL 2011

  • LASER (Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous) University of San Francisco, 2011

  • CalArts, Conversations on Media, Culture and Practice, Los Angeles, 2011

  • Hyperallergic, Sleep and Self-Tracking, Brooklyn, 2011

EDUCATION

  • 2010-15 ITP, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Tisch School | Summer Programs

  • 2007 New York Studio School, New York, NY | MFA

  • 1997-8 Harvard Business School and London Business School | Executive program

  • 1982 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA | MBA