Howard Fried

Biography

Selected works

• The Seven States of Openness – installation, objects, drawings, text
• All My Dirty Blue Clothes – installation
• Spectral Analysis – installation
• Studio Relocation – photo and text
• 1970 – Super 8 film installation
• Chronometric Depth Perception – Super 8 film, photo and text
• Inside the Harlequin: Approach-Avoidance III and II – Double Super 8 film installation
• Synchromatic Baseball – performance action, 16 Rose Street, San Francisco
• 40 Winks – performance action, University Art Museum, Berkeley
• Fuck You Purdue – videotape
• Sea Sell Sea Sick at Saw Sea Soar – videotape
• The Schizophrenia Projects – installation with text
• Drawings 1-9 - drawings
• Which Hunt? – videotape
• Indian War Dance / Indian Rope Trick – performance action, documenta V, Kassel, Germany
• Fireman’s Conflict Resolution – installation
• Seaquick – performance, installation, videotape
• Long John Servil vs. Long John Silver – performance documentation
• Interaction performance/installation, April 20, 1973, All Night Sculptures, MOCA and Ghost of the Creamer – videotape
• Sustatense - videotape, KQED
• Derelict - installation
• The Burghers of Fort Worth – performance action, 16mm film transferred to video
• Clock of Commercial Significance 1976-80 – photo and text documentation of Synchromatic Baseball, 40 Winks and Portrait by Rumor.
• Vito's Reef – videotape
• The Museum Reaction Piece – video installation
• Condom – videotape
• Making a Paid Political Announcement – videotape
• Sociopath – installation
• The Edge of the Forest – installation
• Pattern Maker - installation
• Atomic +- Control - video installation
• Commercial Explosion #3 - installation
• Watershed D - installation

  Selected bibliography

• Richardson, Brenda. "Howard Fried: The Paradox of Approach-Avoidance," Arts Magazine, 45
• Bear, Liza. "Howard Fried; The Cheshire Cat," Avalanche, no. 4
• White, Robin. Interview with Howard Fried at Crown Point Press, ‘’View’’. Oakland, California: Crown Point Press, 1979.
• Roth, Moira. "A Star is Born: Performance Art in California," Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1980.
• Foley, Suzanne. Space Time Sound, Conceptual Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: The 1970s. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
• Lewallen, Constance. Howard Fried: Works from 1969 to 1983. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
• Albright, Thomas. Art of the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.,
• University of Massachusetts Amherst, University Gallery. In site: five conceptual artists from the Bay Area: Terry Fox, Howard Fried, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni: University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 2 March 17, 1990. Amherst: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1990.
• Hall, Doug, Sally Jo Fifer, ed. Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art. New York: Aperture Foundation/BAVC, 1991.
• Schimmel, Paul, author. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998.
• Verigne, Lea, ed. Body Art and Performance: The Body As Language. Skira Editore S. p. A., Milan, 2000.
• Fried, Howard. "Structuring Inside the Harlequin; Watershed; Patternmaker," New Observations,
• Montano, Linda. Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
• Phillips, Glenn, ed. California Video: Artists and Histories. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008,
• Bishop, Janet, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, eds. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward. San Francisco: SFMOMA.
• Anker, Steve, Kathy Geritz, and Steve Seid, eds. Radical Light: Alternative Film & Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000 University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2010.
• Hoffmann, Jens and Paul McCarthy, eds. Paul McCarthy's Low Life, Slow Life, Hatje Cantz, 2010.
• Schimmel, Paul and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds. Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, Prestel USA, 2011.
• Lewallen, Constance, Karen Moss, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Anne Rorimer. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, University of California Press, 2011.