Frances Scholz

Born in 1962 in Washington D.C. • 1982–88 HdK Berlin • 1992 Young Artists’ Award, North Rhine-Westphalia • 1993 Peter Mertes Scholarship, Bonner Kunstverein • 1995 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship • Villa Waldberta Scholarship, Munich • 1996 Kunstfonds Bonn • 1999 Residency at Villa Massimo, Rome • Frances Scholz has lived in Cologne since 1988 • Solo exhibitions (since 1997): 1997 Galerie Toni Wüthrich, Basel; Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin; Brigitte Trotha Gallery, Frankfurt am Main • 1998 “Do you have to bring money here or do you get some?”, Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich • 1999 Monika Sprüth Gallery, Cologne; “Just in Time”, (with Andreas Neumeister) Villa Massimo, Rome • Group exhibitions (selection since 1999): 1999 “ideal”, a video library of the Lucerne exhibition space by Karin Frei and Florian Wüst, MS of Lake Lucerne, Lucerne; “Chroma/Painting of the Nineties”, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (cat.); “Babele V”, Villa Massimo, Rome (cat.) • Videos (since 1998): 1998 “By the way, we know each other”, black and white/colour, 4 min; “Western boy desires romance”, colour, 4 min; “Balloon ride” (colour, 8 min), “Foxmovement” (colour, 2:30 min), “band” (colour, 4 min); “Was ist denn mit die los?” (colour, 6 min) with John Kelsey • 1999 “P.P.P. Ostia am Meer.” colour, 8:50 min. with Andreas Neumeister