EGAN FRANTZ
Born in Norwalk, CT, 1986
Lives and works in Southport, CT
Education
2009 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Egan Frantz: American Painting, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2022
Egan Frantz: Recent Paintings, Galerie Nagel Draxler at Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium
2021
Not Enough Words, Foundry, Seoul, South Korea (catalogue)
2020
The Praying Boy, Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
2019
Egan Frantz, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Egan Frantz, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Not yet no longer Speaking to the void, in spite of Prefigured monumental ruin, Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany
2017
The Oat Paintings, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Dark Tongues, Ghostly Apparitions and Tax Avoidance, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
2015
Captive Vocabulary, curated by Jessica Silverman, Fused Space, San Francisco, CA
Magikal Materialism, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Art Basel Miami Beach, NOVA Sector, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, FL
2014
Monday & Friday & Tuesday & Friday & Wednesday & Friday & Thursday & Friday & Friday, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, FL
Monday & Friday & Tuesday & Friday & Wednesday & Friday & Thursday & Friday & Friday, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany
2013
Art Statements, Tilton Gallery, Art 44 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Multiples, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Tails, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2012
Room Temperature, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
The Serial Poem 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2011
Sequence 3, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Cyberpunk: Egan Frantz, Hell Gette, Stefan Müller, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2020
Abstract! Minimalism to Now, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Egan Frantz and Alan Vega via Grégoire Bonnet, Tyler Wood Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Very Good Abstraction, A Sculpture And A Video, Galerie Nagel Draxler Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Dialogue of Abstraction, with Stefan Müller, curated by Chantal Blatzheim, Bank Merck Finck & Co., Cologne, Germany
2014
Summer & sUMMER, Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit, MI and Miami, FL
Infinitude, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
but that joke isn’t funny anymore…, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Ain’tings, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Conor Backman, Egan Frantz, Alison Knowles, Niall Macdonald, Ross Iannatti, Parker Ito, Asher Penn,
John Riepenhoff, Roman Schramm and Emily Sundblad, James Fuentes, New York, NY
2012
The Road Ahead, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
New. New York, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Tomorrow, NADA, New York, New York
2011
Royal Rumble, C L E A R I N G, Miami Beach, FL
Clearly Addressed, C L E A R I N G, New York, NY
Coming and Going: Works from the collection of Peter Kang, NYCAMS, New York, NY
Combine No. 1, Cage, New York, NY
Form Less Painting, Andrew Roth, New York, NY
Kopfbau, e-flux, Basel, Switzerland
Used Youth: Egan Frantz and Cindy Hinant, by Nicolás Guagnini, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
Tax Day News & Smoke, by Roger van Vorhees, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
Bibliography
Sherer, Daniel. “Egan Frantz: Switched-On Painting.” Princeton University School of Architecture, 2019.
Wood, Eve. “Egan Frantz. The Oat Paintings.” Wall Street International Magazine, February 13, 2017.
Cordray, Julianne. “Gallery Weekend // The Mitte Walkabout.” Berlin Art Link, April 30, 2016.
Steadman, Ryan. “These Are the 7 Must-See Booths at Art Basel Miami.” Observer, November 30, 2015.
“UbuWeb Top 10: Egan Frantz & Liz Wendelbo.” Ubu.com, March 2015.
Small, Rachel. “10 Picks from Independent New York 2015.” Interview Magazine, March 6, 2015.
Fairley, Gina. “Egan Frantz at Michael Jon Gallery.” Ginafairley.com, December 5, 2014.
Goyanes, Rob. “Egan Frantz at Michael Jon Gallery.” Temporary Art Review, December 1, 2014.
Diack, Heather. “Egan Frantz.” Critic’s Picks, Artforum, November 2014.
“Egan Frantz and Nicolas Deshayes at Brand New Gallery, Milan.” Mousse Magazine, 2013.
Bedard, Matthew. “Egan Frantz.” Flaunt Magazine, November 6, 2012.
Wood, Eve. “Egan Frantz/Room Temperature.” November 2012.
Williams, Maxwell. “Discovery: Egan Frantz.” Interview Magazine, October 2012.
Nader, Miriam. "Poetic License: Egan Frantz." Canadian Art, May 24, 2012.
"Egan Frantz at Tomorrow," Contemporary Art Daily, May 14, 2012.
Neustein, Andrea. "Form Less Painting," Flash Art, November – December 2011
Rosenberg, Karen. “Rising and Regrouping on Lower East Side,” The New York Times, April 22, 2011
The Symptom: Egan Frantz reads Barthes' "The Neutral", Lacan.com
Lacanian Ink #37: New York, Spring 2011
Actuality: Patient’s Belongings, Lacan.com
Egan Frantz also performs with minimal electronics girl/boy duo Xeno & Oaklander. They have been featured in documentaries for Japanese TV NPK, Red Bull Music Academy, BOMBSessions, and Live on KEXP. They have toured the US, Europe and Russia numerous times, play extensively in New York music venues, and have performed at festivals and art institutions such as Buchla Source of Uncertainty, the Moog showcase at SXSW, SFMoMA, The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, Art Basel Miami, Kunsthalle Zurich, and the New Museum, New York.