Laguna Art Museum
On Exhibit: Fred Tomaselli – Second Nature
Fred Tomaselli was born in California (Santa Monica, 1956), and has lived in Brooklyn since 1985. Solo exhibitions include Fred Tomaselli at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha (2019); After California at the Oceanside Museum of Art (2018); Keep Looking: Fred Tomaselli’s Birds at the Toledo Museum of Art (2016); Focus at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2014); The Times at the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor (2014) and the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California (2015); Monsters of Paradise at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh (2004); New Paintings at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (2003); and Gravity’s Rainbow at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (1999). The survey exhibition Fred Tomaselli opened at Aspen Art Museum in 2009 and toured to the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Sarasota Springs, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum in 2010.
Tomaselli has participated in international exhibitions—including the Biennale of Sydney (2010), Prospect.1 New Orleans (2008), the fifth SITE Santa Fe, and the Whitney Biennial (both 2004)—and his works are in the collections of museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
Laguna Art Museum’s collection of over 3,600 artworks provides a vital perspective on how the ever-evolving California experience impacts artmaking and informs the region’s burgeoning artistic community. Drawing from our nationally recognized collection and partnering with a dynamic range of curators, collectors and artists, we thoughtfully exhibit the full range of California art, reflecting the great diversity of the California experience.
Laguna Art Museum is located at 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach 92651 www.lagunaartmuseum.org
