Bio
FRED FOLSOM
212 Hillsboro Drive
Silver Spring MD 20902
301-681-4688
Fred@folsom.com
BORN: 1945, Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION: 1964 - 1967 Pratt Institute, New York
1967 School of Visual Arts, New York
1969 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.
1973 Maryland College of Art & Design, Silver Spring, Maryland
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
1966
Performer in Robert Wilson’s first Theater Productions, New York
1967
"F.I.P.E Exhibition," Foresthills Country Club, New York
1974
“Maryland Biennial Exhibition,” The Baltimore Museum of Art
1978
“Summer Group Show,” Gallery K, Washington, D.C.
1979
“Fred Folsom: Paintings & Drawings,” Gallery K, D.C. (solo
show)
“American Nude Drawings,” Middendorf/Lane Gallery, D.C
1981
“Crimes of Compassion,” Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
1982
“Artscape ’82,*” Baltimore, Maryland
“Drawings and Paintings of Fred Folsom,” Gallery K, D.C. (solo show)
1983
“Maryland Artists Exhibition,” Towson State University, Maryland
1984
“In the Tradition,” University of Richmond, Virginia
“Fred Folsom: Paintings & Drawings,” Gallery K, D.C. (solo show)
1985
“The Washington Show,” Corcoran Gallery of Art
“Maryland Biennial 1985: Painting and Sculpture,” Baltimore Museum
of Art
1987
“Tough Realism,” Dimock Gallery, GWU, Washington, D.C.
1988
Fred Folsom at Gallery K (solo show, D.C.)
1989
“Fred Folsom's Last Call” Kaiser Gallery, Byfield MA (solo show)
Washington, D.C. (solo show)
1990
“Group Show,” J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
“Washington/Moscow Art Exchange,” Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow USSR
1991
“Art Expo Show,” J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
“Lithograph Review,” Machida City Museum, Tokyo Japan
Dedication of Statue of Mayor of Silver Spring,Md
1992
“WPA in the Hemicycle,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, D.C.,
“James M. Goode Collection of American Self Portraits,” Hickory Museum
of Art, N.C.
“The Shepherd Park Go-Go Bar Paintings,” WPA, DC (solo show)
1993
“Fred Folsom: The Shepherd Park Go-Go Bar Paintings,”
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, (solo show)
1995
“Black Art” Rockville Art Place, Rockville, MD
1996
"ArtSites 96" DCAC, Washington, D.C.
1997
“Deceptive Presence” Gallery Stendhal, New York, NY
“Fred Folsom: Following the Muse” Artists‘ Museum, Washington
DC (solo show)
1999
"Edna Flying" Montgomery College, Takoma Park MD (solo show)
2002
"Landscapes by Fred Folsom" Strathmore Hall Art Center, Bethesda MD
(solo show)
"Go-Go Bar paintings by Fred Folsom" The Arts Club of Washington, D.C.
(solo show)
2004
Dedication of bronze bust of Coach Fred Folsom (1873-1944), Univ. of Colorado,
Boulder
GRANTS
Maryland State Arts Council 1981, 1982*, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2000
National Endowment for the Arts (major grant) 1985
PUBLISHED ARTICLE
“The Man Who Made New York NEW YORK” Museum of American Financial
History Mag, NY, 2000
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC; Superior Court of the District of Columbia;
The Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory NC; The George Washington University,
DC; Lyndon B,. Johnson Library, Austin, TX; Lerner Corporation, DC; The
Artery Organization, DC; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Nushotah House Seminary,
WI; Jacobsen Holman, DC; Peat, Marwick & Main, DC; Government House,
Annapolis, MD; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; University of Maryland.
PATENTED IN FIELD: #4,840,169 Two artists’ safety devices, 1989
BUSINESS: Founded Art Restoration Center, 1973