Visual & Performing Arts Center
WCSU, Westside Campus

Fritz Horstman is an artist, educator, and curator based in Bethany, CT, where he is Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and his BA from Kenyon College. Recent exhibitions of his work include solo shows: Glacial Movements at Ishibashi Gallery; Glacial Folds at Seton Hill University; Folded Cyanotypes and Formworks at Jennifer Terzian Gallery. His work has been exhibited in recent group shows at Wadsworth Atheneum; Martin Museum, Baylor University, TX; drj art projects, Berlin, Germany; and in a traveling exhibition “Arctic Hysteria” in Asker and Bergen, Norway, and St. Petersburg, Russia.

Fritz’s curatorial work includes many projects, among them: Anni Albers: Work with Materials at 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, Concord, Massachusetts; and Water Access at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Fritz is the recipient of many awards and residencies, including the Connecticut Art Fellowship; Bauhaus Dessau Artist-in-Residence; the Arctic Circle Residency; and Shiro Oni Residency, Japan. He has lectured and given workshops at l'École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Lebanese American University in Beirut, The Royal Academy of Art in London, MoMA, Yale University, Princeton University, and many other institutions.