Billy Friebele bfriebele@gmail.com (301) 996-2772 www.billyfriebele.com Education 2008
MFA
Maryland Institute College of Art
2000
BFA
St. Mary College of Maryland
Solo exhibitions 2012
Traversing/Suburban, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2011
New Loops, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
Selected group exhibitions 2012
Flat Out, Art Currents Institute, New York, NY In Our Hood, Art Space DC, Washington, DC Public Art Project
2011
Reside, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Curator: Steven Holmes, Bass Museum & Cartin Collection Digital Works, LBIF Gallery, Long Beach, NY Curator: Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum Art After Dark, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC Going Public 360, 10m2 Gallery, Sarajeva, Bosnia 360, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Detroit, MI Public Spaces Crossing Borders, Duplex Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia Collaborative Video Installations with Freespace Collective Walking as Drawing, O,Miami Festival, Miami, FL Collaboration with KC Culver Space Over Time, (e)merge Art Fair, Washington, DC
2010
Free Space, MLK Library, Washington, DC Supported by Flashpoint Gallery Synery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Confluence, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Drawing in the Expanded Field, Hatton Gallery, For Collins, CO Driving Without Destination, Walsh Gallery, South Orange NJ Regarding Place, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO 5- Channel Video Installation, Valade Gallery, Detroit, MI Sniper Alley, Chalarma Depot Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia
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Triple Fifty, B & AB Projects, Brooklyn, NY Hamden Meditation Map, Baltimore, MD Art Obsessive, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD 2009
Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC Sign as Site, Art is Odd Places, New York, NY Storefront Art Project, Construct: Space Transformed, Washington, DC Local Motion, H Street Playhouse, Washington, DC Convergence 09: Recent MFA Graduates, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Four Walks, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC Smart Multimedia Arts Festival, Open Concept Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI Unauthorized, RDF Gallery, Swainsboro, GA
2008
The Numbers Behind, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC Encounters, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD MFA Thesis Show
2007
Community Mural Project, Piedras Gordas, Panama In-Process, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2006
Site: Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Intrusion or Intimacy, Rockaway Arts Center, New York, NY Art on the Trail, Gwynn Falls State Park, Baltimore, MD
Awards/Grants/Scholarships 2012-2013
Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship
2010
Creative Communities Fund Harriet F. Reinhardt Memorial Prize
2009
Young Artists Program Grant
2008
Small Projects Grant Teaching in Excellence Award Surdna Foundation Scholarship
Professional Experience 2009- Present 2008-2009
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Assistant Professor of Digital Media Maryland Institute College of Art, Assistant Director of MFA-Summer Term St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Visiting Assistance Professor of Sculpture
Residencies 2011
Jatiwangi Art Factory Residency, West Java, Indonesia
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