Biography
 
1967
Born in Newport Beach
 
Lives and works in Los Angeles
 
 
Education
 
1993
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, MFA
 
1991
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, BA Humanities
 
 
Solo Exhibitions
 
2023
“Serve the Dominant Ideology or Stop Being a Pussy”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
 
2022
“L’architecte Et La Femme Au Foyer”, Treize, Paris
“The Spread: An American’s Experiment in Free Love,” Chinatown Taylor, Los Angeles
 
2021
“Focus: Frances Stark”, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
 
2020
“U.S. Greatest Hits Mix Tape: Volume 2”, greengrassi, London
 
2019
“An Evening with Frances Stark”, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco (Screening)
“lonely and abandoned on the market place”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“U.S. Greatest Hits Mix Tape: Volume I”, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris
“The Magic Flute”, Mirth, Marvel and Maud, London (Screening)
 
2018
“The Magic Flute: An Evening with Frances Stark”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Screening)
“Teen O.P.E.R.A.”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Artist’s Film Club: Frances Stark - Magic Flute”, ICA London (Screening)
“The Magic Flute”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (Screening)
 
2017
“The Magic Flute”, LACMA, Los Angeles (Screening)
 
2016
“UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 
2015
“UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Intimism”, The Art Institute, Chicago
“Sorry for the Wait”, greengrassi, London
 
2014
“Clever/Stupid”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“Bobby Jesus’s Alma Mater”, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
 
2013
“Frances Stark”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
“Frances Stark: My Best Thing”, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
“My Best Thing”, Cube Cinema, Bristol (Screening)
“My Best Thing”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (Screening)
“Memento Mori”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
 
2012
“My Best Thing”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
“Osservate, leggete con me”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
 
2011
“My Best Thing”, MoMA PS1, New York
“Other parts considered in relation to their whole”, Performa 11, New York
“The Whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all parts”, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
“My Best Thing”, The Banff Centre, Banff (Screening)
“My Best Thing”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (Screening)
“My Best Thing”, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
“I’ve Had It and a Half”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Performance)
“Selections 1: ‘I Went Through My Bin Again (with Open Robe)’: A Very Short Introduction to Frances Stark”, Pollock Gallery/Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
 
2010
“Frances Stark: This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind”, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
“But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet”, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
“I’ve Had It! And I’ve Also Had It!”, Wheeler Opera House, Aspen (Performance)
 
2009
“Frances Stark”, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
“Frances Stark, Mark Leckey - and possibly but not certainly”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
 
2008
“The New Vision”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
“A Torment of Follies”, Secession, Vienna
“A Torment of Follies”, greengrassi, London
“The Fall of Frances Stark”, Culturgest, Lissabon
“Cat Videos (1999 - 2002)”, The Apartment, Vancouver
 
2007
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
 
2006
“Textual Works” (with Bethan Huws), New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Artpace, San Antonio
“Structures That Fit My Opening”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
“Structures That Fit My Opening and Other Parts Considered in Relation To Their Whole”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
 
2005
“In and on an unerconomic mind”, CRG Gallery, New York
 
2004
“Bless this Mess”, Greengrassi, London
“Destroy Date”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
 
2003
“And Another One at the Same Time”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
 
2002
“A Bomb Upon The Ceiling”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
“The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work of Art”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Self-Portraiture”, greengrassi, London
 
2001
CRG Gallery, New York
 
2000
“Ich suche nach meine Frances Starke Seite”, Kunstverein München
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
 
1999
“No, No, No, No, Now”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
“What Part of Now Don’t You Understand?”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“Like a rainbow and so unlike a rainbow”, CRG, New York
 
1998
“Impossible the grassy maxim’s dream ….”, greengrassi, London
“In other places Light’s pitched happy tents”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
 
1997
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
 
1996
“Plain Sheets No Pillow”, CRG, New York
Studio 246, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
 
1995
“Last year b/w I hate language”, ACME, Santa Monica
 
1994
“Spring for Fall”, LEAK, Los Angles
 
1993
“Slough(it off) b/w, Purple Prose”, MFA Gallery, ACCD, Pasadena
 
1991
“Total Babe”, The Guest Room, Los Angeles (catalogue)
 
 
Group Exhibitions
 
2024
“Digital Diaries”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
“Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Collection”, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
 
2023
“the last thing you see is the first”, greengrassi, London
“Dowsing”, curated by Nick Irvin, Layr, Vienna
“Signals: How Video Transformed the World”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
“Full Burn: Video from the Hammer Contemporary Collection”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Room by Room: Concepts, Themes and Artists in The Rachofsky Collection”, The Warehouse, Dallas
“Vous N’avez Pas Besoin D’y Croire Pour Que Ça Existe”, Frac à Nantes
“All Crescendo, No Reward”, Zabludowicz Collection, London
 
2022
“WORLDBUILDING”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf 
“A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020”, Whitechapel Gallery, London
 
2021
“Inaspettatamente”, Cloud Seven, Brussels
“Still time”, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
“Things, Words and Consequences”, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art
“Invasive Species”, Anat Egbi, Los Angeles
“The Ecology of Visibility”, Anonymous Gallery, New York
 
2020
“The Map and the Territory: 100 Years of Collecting at UCLA, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
“Honestly Speaking: The Word, the Body and the Internet”, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
“Digital Projects”, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger
“(Self) Portraits”, Parkett Editions, Zurich
 
2019
“A New Moma”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Producing Futures - An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
“Just What is it That Makes Today So Different, So Appealing?”, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
“Bethlehem Hospital”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“Oversharing”, Friends Indeed, San Francisco
“Simon Dybbroe Møller’s Filmklubben Hjerteblod”, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
“Smart to the Core”: Embodying the Self”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
 
2018
Nominee for the Hugo Boss Prize 2018, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“The Message: New Media Works”, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
“Art In the Age of the Internet”, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor 
“Art In the Age of the Internet, 1989-Today”, ICA - Institute of Contemporary, Boston
“After Hours In A California Art Studio”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
“The Party”, Andrew Kern Gallery, New York
“Mickey Mouse has grown up as a Cow”, University Art Museum University at Albany, Albany
“A Time Capsule - Works made by women for Parkett 1984-2017”, Somerset House, London
“Topologies”, The Warehouse, Dallas
“DNA of Painting”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco
“After Curfew”, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
 
2017
“Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage”, LACMA, Los Angeles
“Still Human”, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
“Everywhere Studio”, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami
“Electronic Superhighway (1966-2016)”, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
“Unpacking: The Marciano Collection”, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
“Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection”, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles
“Soft Skills”, The James Gallery / The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York
“Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
 
2016
“Giles”, Gagosian Gallery, Athens
“Me, Myself, I”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“Public, Private, Secret”, International Center of Photography, New York
“Home”, Luma Westbau, Zurich
“Welt am Draht”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
“The New Human”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“Emotional Supply Chains”, Zabludowicz Collection, London
“Come as You Are: Art of the 1900s”, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
“Secret Surface - Wo Sinn entsteht”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
 
2014                                                         
“Nothing is Enough”, International Short Film Festival Hamburg
“La vie domestique”, Parc Saint Leger, Pougues-Les-Eaux
“Another Cats Show”, 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles
“Welcome to Screenland”, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver
“Jennifer Bornstein / Judith Bernstein / Frances Stark”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
 
2013
“La voix humaine”, Kunstverein München
“Carnegie International”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
“The Cat Show”, White Columns, New York
“In the Heart of the Country”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
“Who Runs May Read”, South London Gallery, London
“Double Indemnity”, Cornerhouse, Manchester
“The Sandy Relief Benefit for Printed Matter”, Rauschenberg Project Space, New York
“A Point of View: Selected Gifts from the Laurence A. Rickels Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart”, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
“Sylvia Sleigh”, Tate Liverpool
“Revolution From Within”, Kauffmann Repetto, Milan
“More Love: Art Politics and Sharing since the 1990’s”, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
59th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
25th International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam
 
2012
“Things, Words and Consequences”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
“Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection”, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
“Infinite Jest”, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
“Frieze Sounds”, Frieze Projects New York
“Three Day Weekend”, Los Angeles
“Candor: In Honor of Mike Kelley”, Long Beach City College, Long Beach
“Paper”, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain, Nice
“Spelling the Image”, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
“0 to 100: The New Ages of Life”, Palazzo de Enzo, Bologna and Trienniale, Milan
“West Gallery: Frances Stark”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
 
2011
Institute of Contemporaray Art, London
“Quodlibet III - Alphabets and Instruments”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Performa 11 - Frances Stark feat. Skerrit Bwoy and Mark Leckey”, New Visual Art Performance Biennial, Abrons Art Center, New York
54th Venice Biennale
“15th Tallin Print Triennial”, Tallinn
“All of this and nothing”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“MADE UP: Design’s Fictions”, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena
 
2010
“Following A Line”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
“Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection”, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
“All of This and Nothing”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“for the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there”, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam / Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit / Culturgest, Lisbon
“The Artist’s Museum”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Restless Empathy”, Aspen Art Museum
“The Page”, Kimmerich, New York
“Dexter Sinister, A Model of The Serving Library”, Kunstverein Amsterdam
 
2009
“Talk Show”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“Picturing the Studio”, Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago
“for the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there”, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis / Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“1999: Ten Year Anniversary Show”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“Glue, Paper, Scissors: Collage based work by 15 artists from Los Angeles”, Luckman Gallery
“The Space of Words”, Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxemburg
“Quodlibet II”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“1999: Ten Year Anniversary Show”, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
 
2008
“Art Sheffield 08: Yes, No and Other Options”, Sheffield
“Typed”, Sadie Coles, London
“Word Event”, Kunsthalle Basel
“If I can’t dance to it…. Edition II”, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp
“Typed”, Sadie Coles, London
“Indirect Object”, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
“Emerson Vs. Nietzsche”, Cottage Home, Los Angeles
“Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage”, Francesca Kaufman Gallery, Milan
“Grabbing at Straws”, Studio Guenzani, Milan
 
2007
“Romantischer Konzeptualismus”, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
“Hello Goodbye Thank You”, Castillo / corrales, Paris
“For REE”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
“Fit to print”, Gagosian Gallery, New York
“If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution Part II”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
“Learn to Read”, Tate Modern, London
 
2006
“The Studio”, Dublin City Gallery, Dublin
“If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution”, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
“Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln at Metropictures”, Metropictures, New York
“Langston is celebrating its 30th year”, New Lengston Arts, San Francisco
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
“Textual Works, Bethan Huws - Frances Stark”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
 
2005
“Monuments for the USA”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (catalogue)
 
2004
“Arbeiten auf Papier”, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich
Klosterfelde, Berlin
 
2003
“Korrekturen”, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
“Drop Out! “, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
“Creeping Revolution 2”, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
 
2002
“Acquisitions récentes”, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
“Jim, Jonathan, Kenny, Frances and Sol”, Stedelijk Museum, Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam
“Zusammenhänge herstellen”, Kunstverein Hamburg
“Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock & Roll”, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Fancisco
“Persönliche Pläne”, Kunsthalle Basel
“Paintings”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
 
2001
“Frances Stark meets Morgan Fisher”, Klosterfelde, Berlin
“Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (catalogue)
“The Slide Area”, curated by Terry Myers, James Van Damme, Brussels
Ilena Tounta, Athens
“Locating Drawing”, Lawing Gallery, Houston
 
2000
Galerie Buchholz at Jürgen Becker, Hamburg
“Silverlake Crossings”, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
“Opere su Carta”, Studio Guenzani, Milan
“Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
“Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“L.A.”, Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers, Cologne
 
1999
Philomene Magers Projekte, Munich
“Hot Spots”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
 
1998
“In the Beginning”, Murray Guy, New York
“Word Perfect”, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Obscure Camera”, curated by Mary Ceruti, 2nd Space Gallery, San Francisco
“Paper Thin”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
“L.A. on Paper”, Three Day Weekend at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
 
1997
“Der Arbeit des Zeichnens”, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
“Tracing Marks”, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Paper”, Boise, Idaho
“Drawings: An Annual Biocoastal Invitational”, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle
“Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens and Frances Stark”, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
“New Work: Drawings Today”, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art
 “Ten Los Angeles Artists”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
 
1996
“The Power of Suggestion: Narrative & Notation in Contemporary Drawings”, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
“Just Past: The Contemporary and Permanent Collection, 1975-1996”, Museum of Contemporary Art at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
“Stream of Consciousness, 8 Los Angeles Artists”, University of California, Santa Barbara (catalogue)
“First Person”, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica
“Affairs”, Institut für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna
“Controfigura”, Studio Guenzani, Milan
“Krisanamis/Stark”, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica
1995″Dark Memories”, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica
“Filmcuts”, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
“New Testament”, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica
“Smells Like Vinyl”, Roger Merians, New York
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
 
1994
“Inaugural Exhibition”, ACME, Santa Monica
“The Freed Weed”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“Red Rover Red Rover”, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
“The Grammarians”, Chapman College, Orange
 
1993
“Invitational ‘93”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Zuzüglich”, Merz Akademie / Room Tomoyo Kawai, Stuttgart
 
 
Lectures and Teaching
 
2019
Visiting Artist Lecture, Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis
Artist Talk: “Name That Tune: Frances Stark”, LAXART, Hollywood, CA
 
2018
Zabar Visiting Artist, Hunter University, NY
Conversation with Sohrab Mohebbi, in conjunction with Daniel Buren - “Voile/Toile-Toile/Voile”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Artist talk, Cal State Long Beach
Artist talk, Carnegie Mellon School of Art, Pittsburgh
 
2017
Conversation with Ian Svenonius, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
 
2016
“Migrating Forms” (screening), Brooklyn Academy of Music
Conversation with Yuval Sharon and Stephanie Barron, LACMA, Los Angeles
Artist Talk: “Frances Stark 1991-2015”, in: “UH-OH”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Conversation with Heidi Zuckerman, Walead Beshty and Liz Larner, “Conversations with Artists” (book launch), ARTBOOK, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Conversation with Alexander Dumbadze, Conversations with Artists Lecture Series, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
 
2015
Artist talk: “Freeway: Crack in the System”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Artist talk: “Alexyss K. Tylor & Frances Stark: Vagina Power”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Artist talk: “Casa de mi Padre”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Panel discussion with Will Ferrell, Matt Piedmont, Andrew Steele and Jessica Elbaum on the film “Casa de mi Padre”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Lecture: “On Sturtevant.”, Artists on Artists Series, MOCA, Los Angeles
Conversation with Stanya Kahn, 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles
“Intimism” (exhibition opening lecture), The Art Institute of Chicago
“At the Rim of the F*#%ing Paradigm” (Keynote Address), Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles
 
2014
Lecture: “On Mike Kelley”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Who Cares If It’s Painting?”, panel discussion on Sigmar Polke, The Museum of Modern Art
UC Irvine Lecture, Irvine
Panel discussion with Leigh Ledare and Simon Castets, Paris Photo Los Angeles
Lecture: “Frances Stark on Robert Ryman”, Artists on Artists Lecture Series, DIA Art Foundation
Lecture: “Complex Education: Paying Homage; A Lecture by Frances Stark”, MoMA PS1, New York
Conversation with David Kravitz: “Opening the Kimono”, Seven on Seven 5th Anniversary, New Museum, New York
Artist talk and group critique, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
 
2013
Artist talk with Ed Atkins, moderated by Klaus Biesenbach, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Artist talk, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
Conversation with Michael Smith, The Aspen Art Museum
Artist talk at the exhibition “White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, May 4, 2013
 
2012
Artist talk, Paul Branch Lecture Series, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, October 11, 2012
Artist talk, Graduate Fine Arts Lecture Series, Otis College of Art and Design, April 26, 2012
Artist talk, Spring Visiting Lecture Series, University of California Santa Barbara, April 19, 2012
Artist talk, Graduate Art Seminar Lecture Series, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, April 3, 2012
Artist talk and book signing, Emily Carr Theatre, Vancouver, February 3, 2012
 
2011
“Structures That Fit my Opening and Other Parts in Relation to Their Whole” (screening), “The Life of the Artist”, Piet Zwart Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Rotterdam, April 9, 2011
“The whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all the parts” (lecture), Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, December 7, 2011
“Houseguest: Frances Stark Selects from the Grunwald Collection” (lecture), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 16 January 2011
Artist talk, “MFA Lecture Series: Frances Stark from Roski School of Fine Arts”, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, January 26, 2011
McCarthy, Tom/Pendleton, Adam/Stark, Frances: “Staging Language” (lecture), “Performa 11”, Cooper Union, New York, March 28, 2011
 
2010
Artist talk, Princeton University, November 23, 2010
“The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Getting to Know Mark E. Smith”, lecture and teaching engagement, Sommerakademie at Kunsthalle Bern/Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, August 12, 2010
 
2009
Discussion with Malik Gaines: “Scholars in Dialogue: Art and Text”, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, June 6, 2009
Panel discussion with Silke Otto-Knap, Jan Verwoert, Flora Wiegmann, Lindsay Fischer: “Standing anywhere in the space in a relaxed position”, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, July 26, 2009
Artist talk, PSU Monday Night Lecture Series, Portland State University, May 11, 2009
Radio inteview with Arlo Stark-Hanson: “Art Talk AM on the Radio”, 98.1 KPSU, May 11, 2009
Artist talk, Banff Centre, 2009
Program faculty: “Why are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because They Think it is a Good Idea” (thematic residency), Banff Centre, July 6 - August 14, 2009
Panel discussion with Anthony Huberman, Jimmy Raskin, David Hullfish Bailey, Saint Louis Art Museum
Artist Talk, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
“The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Reaching Out to Mark E. Smith.”, Contra Mundum, Mandrake, Los Angeles
 
2008
Artist talk, Randolf Cliff Residency, National Gallery of Scotland
“Hey! Hey! Glossolalia! The Eroticism of Pedagogy”, A Creative Time event, Judson Church, New York
Artist talk, Secession, Vienna
Visiting artist lecture, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles
Artist talk, “The New Vision”, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
 
2007
Conversation with Bruce Hainley and Jeremy Sigler, MAK Center for Art, Los Angeles
“On the Future of Art Schools” (Symposium), Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
 
2005
Art Center, Pasadena
Claremont College, Claremont
OXBOW High School of the Arts, Napa
 
2004
“Art in Southern California: From the 90s to Now”, Southern California
Consortium of Art Schools, Moca Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood
San Francisco Art Institute, California
 
2003
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
University of California, San Diego, California
 
2002
Royal College of Art, London
 
2001
Yale, New Haven, Connecticut
“Readings from Scripts by Raymond Pettibon”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
Jürgen Becker, Hamburg
“In Honor of Raymond Pettibon”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 
1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice
The Hanbury Community Project, Hanbury Hall, London
 
1998
University of Illinois Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
University of California Los Angeles
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SFMOMA, New Collector’s Forum, San Francisco
“One Half Hour of Air”, KXLU, Los Angeles
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
 
1997
CRG, New York
Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Seca, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
University of California Santa Barbara
Art Institute of Chicago
Cal State LA, Women History Month Guest, Los Angeles
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice
 
1996
University of California Los Angeles
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Kunstverein Hamburg
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
 
1995
Mellon Foundation Guest, CALARTS, Valencia
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice
 
1994
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice
 
1993
“Twenty Fall Into Three”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Poetry Festival, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice
 
 
Awards
 
2015
Absolut Art Awards Winner
 
 
Public Collections
 
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw