Brian Fridge (born 1969 in

Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...

) is an American

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. He earned a bachelor in fine arts from the University of North Texas, and a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Texas at Dallas. In both 2005 and 2009, Fridge was a resident at

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, the University of Texas at Dallas artist residency. Exhibitions include the inaugural 2005 edition of the Turin Triennial at the

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- Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin, Italy and the 2000 Biennial Exhibition of the

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in New York. His work is also exhibited in the

. His work has been described as "very Zen and wry". A typical work is ''Vault Sequence'' (1995), recorded in the artist’s own apartment, the video “seems instead to have come directly from the

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".Frieze magazine review
Brian Fridge's low-tech, poetic approach has a precedent in Arte Povera and his explorations of symbol and process are reminiscent of

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fridge, Brian American video artists Living people 1969 births Artists from Fort Worth, Texas University of North Texas alumni University of Texas at Dallas alumni