BILLY FRIEBELE bfriebele@gmail.com (301) 996-2772 www.billyfriebele.com
EDUCATION Maryland Institute College of Art, M.F.A., 2008 St. Mary’s College of Maryland, B.A. Philosophy, Art Minor, 2000 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS 2012
Orlando Museum of Art, Traversing/Suburban, Solo Show, Orlando, FL Art Currents Institute, Flat Out, New York, NY Art Space DC, In Our Hood, Public Art Project, Washington, DC
2011
Boston Center for the Arts, Residue, Boston, MA Curated by Steven Holmes, Adjunct curator: Bass Museum & Cartin Collection LBIF Gallery, Digital Works, Best in Show Award. Long Beach, NJ Curated by Christiane Paul, Adjunct curator of New Media: Whitney Museum Civilian Art Projects, New Loops, Washington, DC Solo Show. Three Video Installations with Digital Prints Art Museum of the Americas, Art After Dark, Washington, DC 10m2 Gallery, Going Public: 360, Sarajevo, Bosnia Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, 360, Detroit, MI Duplex Gallery, Public Spaces Crossing Borders, Sarajevo Bosnia Collaborative Video Installations with Freespace Collective O,Miami Festival, Walking as Drawing, Miami, FL. Collaboration with KC Culver (e)merge Art Fair, Space over Time, Washington, DC
2010
MLK Library, Free Space, Washington, DC. Supported by Flashpoint Gallery Interactive photography project with 6-channel video installation Corcoran Gallery of Art, Synergy, Washington, DC George Mason University, Confluence, Fairfax, VA Hatton Gallery, Drawing in the Expanded Field, Colorado State University, CO Single-Channel Video with Digital Print Walsh Gallery, Driving Without Destination, Seton Hall University, South Orange,NJ St.Louis Artists’ Guild, Regarding Place, St. Louis, MO Winner of Harriet F. Reinhardt Memorial Prize Valade Gallery: College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 5-Channel Video Installation with Bruce Feldman Chalarma Depot Gallery, Sniper Alley, Sarajevo, Bosnia B & AB Projects, Triple Fifty, Brooklyn, NY Chestnut Art Space, Hamden Meditation Map, Baltimore, MD University of Maryland Art Gallery, Art Obsessive, College Park, MD
2009
Hamiltonian Gallery, Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere, Washington, DC. Interactive live video projection in gallery window with Mike Iacovone Art in Odd Places, Sign as Site, Public Art Project, New York, NY Sand tracings of shadows placed along 14th street in Manhattan Construct: Space Transformed, Storefront Public Art Project, Washington, DC Collaborative video presented on twelve televisions in storefront windows H Street Playhouse, Local Motion, Washington, DC Interactive drawing machine created record of viewers’ movements in space Maryland Art Place, Convergence 09: Recent MFA Graduates, Baltimore, MD. Collaborative video documenting four walks in Baltimore, MD
Billy Friebele 2009
Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC. April-May Four walks circumambulating the gallery Washington, DC with Mike Iacovone Open Concept Gallery, Smart Multimedia Arts Festival, Grand Rapids, MI Video camera installed in helium balloons floating above central plaza RFD Gallery, Unauthorized, Swainsboro, GA
2008
Flashpoint Gallery, The Numbers Behind, Washington, DC with Mike Iacovone MFA Thesis Show, Encounters, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007
Community Mural Project, Piedras Gordas, Panama Maryland Institute College of Art, In-Process, Baltimore, MD
2006
Baltimore Museum of Art, Site:Maryland, Baltimore, MD Kinetic sculpture installed over museum entrance with outdoor video Rockaway Arts Center, Intrusion or Intimacy, New York, NY Gwynn Falls State Park, Art on the Trail, Baltimore, MD
WORK EXPERIENCE 2009-Present, Assistant Professor of Digital Media St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland 2009-Present, Assistant Director of MFA-Summer Term Program Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Duties: Mentoring Graduate Students, Manage Visiting Artist Program, Teaching Graduate Courses in Digital Media 2008-2009, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture, (Sabbatical Replacement) St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland Courses: Sculpture Studio, Introduction to Sculpture, Installation and New Media, Public Art, Introduction to Drawing, Foundations (Introduction to Visual Thinking) RESIDENCIES 2011
Jatiwangi Art Factory Residency, West Java, Indonesia
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2010 Creative Communities Fund Sponsored by the Cultural Development Corporation and Flashpoint Gallery 2009 Young Artist Program Grant District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities 2008 Small Projects Grant District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities 2008 Teaching in Excellence Award, Options Public Charter School 2008 Surdna Foundation Scholarship Billy Friebele bfriebele@gmail.com (301) 996-2772 www.billyfriebele.com