Fritz Horstman

Fritz Horstman (b. 1978, Albion, Michigan) is an artist, educator, and curator based in Bethany, Connecticut. Recent selected exhibitions include Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA (solo); Jennifer Terzian Gallery (solo), Litchfield, Conn;  Ishibashi Gallery (solo), Concord, Mass; Seton Hill University (solo), Greensburg, Penn; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn; Martin Museum, Baylor University; drj art projects, Berlin, Germany; Artic Hysteria, Bergen, Norway, and St. Petersburg, RU. He has permanently installed sculptures in Ås, Norway and at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. Recent curatorial projects include Anni Albers: Work with Materials at the Syracuse University Art Museum, 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. Recent awards and residencies include the Connecticut Art Fellowship; Bauhaus Dessau Artist-in-Residence; the Arctic Circle Residency; and Shiro Oni Residency, Onishi, Japan. He has lectured and given 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 many 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, which will be published by Yale University Press in the spring of 2024. An upcoming solo exhibition of his recent work will be held at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Conn from September 2024 through March 2025. A book of Horstman's Folded Cyanotypes will be published to accompany the exhibition. He received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and his BA from Kenyon College. He is represented by Municipal Bonds.