Fritz Horstman (b. 1978, Albion, Michigan) is an artist, educator, and curator based in Bethany, Connecticut. A solo exhibition of Horstman's recent work is on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut, from September 2024 through July 2025. Accompanying the exhibition, a book of Horstman’s Folded Cyanotypes has been co-published by the museum, Municipal Bonds, and Planthouse, New York. Recent selected exhibitions include Planthouse (solo); Municipal Bonds (solo); Jennifer Terzian Gallery (solo), Litchfield, Connecticut; Ishibashi Gallery (solo), Concord, Massachusetts; Seton Hill University (solo), Greensburg, Pennsylvania; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; the Martin Museum at Baylor University; drj art projects, Berlin, Germany; and Arctic Hysteria, Bergen, Norway, and St. Petersburg, Russia. He has permanently installed sculptures in Ås, Norway, and at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.
Recent curatorial projects include Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; Anni Albers: Work with Materials at the Syracuse University Art Museum, New York; In Thread and On Paper: Anni Albers in Connecticut at the New Britain Museum of American Art; Becoming Trees at Concord Art in Concord, Massachusetts; and Water Access at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Recent awards and residencies include the Connecticut Artist Fellowship; Bauhaus Dessau Artist-in-Residence; the Arctic Circle Residency; Shiro Oni Residency, Onishi, Japan; and an upcoming residency at Tusen Takk in northern Michigan in October 2025. He has lectured and led workshops at Yale University, Harvard University, l’École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Lebanese American University in Beirut, the Royal Academy of Art in London, and numerous other institutions.
Since 2004, he has worked with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, where he is Education Director. He is the author of Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers's Color Experiments, published by Yale University Press in 2024. He received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his BA from Kenyon College. He is represented by Municipal Bonds.