Edgar Fabián Frías

Curriculum Vitae

Edgar Fabián Frías
Email: contact@edgarfabianfrias.org 

Education

• MFA in Art Practice (Cum Laude), UC Berkeley, 2020-2022

• Graduate Certificate in New Media, Berkeley Center, 2020-2022

• MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Cum Laude), PSU, 2010-2013

• Graduate Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology, PSU, 2010-2013

• Double BA in Art (Studio) and Psychology (Cum Laude), UC Riverside, 2001-2006

Teaching and Visiting Artist Experience

• CalArts

• Special Faculty, Art & Community Engagement (Spring 2025)

• Visiting Artist, Conversations in Contemporary Theater (April 2024)

• University of California, Berkeley

• Graduate Student Instructor, Introduction to Visual Culture (Art 08) (Spring 2022)

• Instructor, Digital Photography: Foundations (Art 21) (Summer 2021)

• Graduate Student Instructor, Thinking Through Art & Design @Berkeley: Time-Based Media Art (L&S 25) (Spring 2021)

• Graduate Student Instructor, Thinking Through Art & Design @Berkeley: Visual Cultures: Aesthetics of the Digital (L&S 25) (Fall 2020)

• University of California, Los Angeles

• Community Learning Partner, Ritual, Healing & Transformation (Gender CM143) (Fall 2020 and Spring 2025)

• ArtCenter College of Design

• Visiting Artist, Eco-Imaginaries (January 2024)

• Idyllwild Arts

• Visiting Artist, Honoring Relations & Making Art Spells (October 2023)

• San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

• Visiting Artist, The Power and Presence of Performance Art (October 2023)

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

• Visiting Artist, Standing On The Ground With Your Body In The Sky (June 2023)

• Feminist Center for Creative Work

• Visiting Artist, Thinky Feely Tank #2 (May 2023)

• Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Visiting Artist, Art & Design Seminar: The Ethics of Care in Contemporary Art (March 2023)

• Grizzly Grizzly

• Visiting Artist, An Introduction to NFTs (December 2021)

• Pomona College

• Guest Lecturer, Performance in Contemporary Art (Art 192) (April 2018, Fall 2016)

Solo Exhibitions

• VESSEL, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Gloria Molina Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA (Sep 4 - 29, 2024), curated by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.

• Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA (Jan 5 - Feb 23, 2024), curated by Katie Peyton Hofstadter.

• Hechizo Tuutú, Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA (June 1 - June 30, 2023), curated by Jim Campbell.

• Nierika: The Pause, The Void, The Map, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (Mar 10 - Mar 14, 2022), curated by Renee Cyla Villasenor and Christine Koppes.

• Nierika: Santuario Somático, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR (Feb 1 - Mar 13, 2020), curated by Justin Hoover.

• Perpetual Flowering, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Apr 13 - Jul 20, 2019), curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• EMPIRES MIRROR // Echosystems of Code and Flesh, The Wrong Biennial, Online (November 1, 2025 - March 31, 2026). Curated by Zen Cohen.

• Holographic Selves, The Wrong Biennial, Online (November 1, 2025-March 31, 2026). Curated by Lineadeluz.

• HOWL. Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA (Sep 14-21, 2025).  Curated by Ashton S. Phillips.

• The Third Way. Electra Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (Jul 11 - Aug 23, 2025). Curated by Georgia Carbone.

• Dieu Est Algorithme, Plateforme Paris, Paris, France (February 20 - March 31, 2025.). Curated by Rolando J Carmona.

• EDEN, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA (Nov 15 - Dec 13, 2024). Curated by Emily Lucid.

• Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees, MOAH, Lancaster, CA (Sep 7 - Dec 29, 2024). Curated by Juniper Harrower and Sant Khalsa.

• SUMMERTIME, Brand Library and Art Center, Los Angeles, CA (Mar 23 - May 18, 2024). Curated by Marcela Vieira.

• Arch Lunar Art Archive, Arch Mission Foundation, The Moon, (February 22, 2024).

• LIFELIKE, Cal Poly Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA (Oct 12 - Dec 9, 2023). Curated by Katie Peyton Hofstadter.

• The Grammar of Animacy, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, CA (Sep 29 - Oct 26, 2023). Curated by Berfin Ataman, Kira Xonorika, Isabel Beavers, and Yara Feghali.

• Lush Computation, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle Central College, WA (Sep 26 - Nov 16, 2023). Curated by Meghan Elizabeth Trainor.

• One Blown Fuse Away From Irrelevance, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia (Aug 1 - Oct 10, 2023).

• Mexicali Biennial: Land of Milk and Honey, The Cheech Center, Riverside, CA (Feb 25, 2022 - May 28, 2023). Curated by Ed Gomez, Luis Guillermo Hernandez, and Rosalía Romero.

• HI, SOLO #11, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (May 20 - 21, 2022). Curated by Alexsa Durrans and Miles Brenninkmeijer.

• The 52nd Annual UC Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, CA (May 13 - Jul 24, 2021). Curated by Claire Frost.

Scholarships, Grants, and Residencies

• 2026. Mensch-Maschine-Residency, E.ON Foundation, E-WERK Luckenwalde, and Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.

• 2025. Public AI Seminar, Public AI, San Francisco, CA.

• 2024: PAiD Artist Council, Los Angeles Department of Art & Culture, Los Angeles, CA

• 2023: Artist in Residence, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA

• 2022-2023: Participating Artist, Artists’ Adaptability Circle, Diamond Wave, San Francisco, CA

• 2022: Artist Residency, Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA

• 2021: Arts Ambassador, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

• 2021: Murphy Cadogan Award, San Francisco Foundation, CA

• 2021: Summer Research Fellowship, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, CA

• 2019-2020: Visual Artist Fellowship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK

• 2019-2020: Public Research Fellowship on Play, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, University of Tulsa, OK