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EDUCATION
MFA University of Maryland, Baltimore County Imaging and Digital Arts 1998
MFA University of Pennsylvania Painting 1985
BFA University of California at Santa Cruz Painting 1981
BA University of California at Santa Cruz Painting 1978
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
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2025 Artist Residency, SomoS Arts, Berlin, Germany (Virtual)
2023 Artist Residency, World of Co, Serbia (Virtual)
2022 Artist Residency, Rancho Linda Vista, Arizona
2020 Artist Residency, Arquetopia, Oaxaca, Mexico
2007 Artist Fellowship Grant, DC Commission on the Arts
Purchase Award, DC Commission on the Arts
Sondheim Award, finalist
2006 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Competitive Residency
2005 Bethesda Painting Awards, finalist
1999- Bunting Fellowship, Radcliff Institute, Harvard University
2000
1997 Artist Fellowship Grant, District of Columbia Commission on the Arts
1995 Graduate Merit Fellowship, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1994 Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council
1993 Visual Arts Competitive Grant, Prince George's County Arts Council
1991 Visual Arts Competitive Grant, Prince George's County Arts Council
1990 Visual Arts Competitive Grant, Prince George's County Arts Council
1989 First Place Award, Fairfax County Council for the Arts, juror: Helaine
Posner
Visual Arts Competitive Grant, Prince George's County Arts Council
Critics Residency Program, Maryland Arts Place, critic: Carter Ratcliff
1988 Visual Arts Work-In-Progress Grant, Maryland State Arts Council
1981 Chancellor's Discretionary Fund Award, University of California at Santa Cruz
SOLO SHOWS
2024 Full Orchestra, Jackson Hall, Guerneville, CA
2023 Melody at Night, 17th Avenue Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2021 Memorium, WIP Gallery, Ajo, AZ
Snatches of Song, Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle AZ
2008 Cosmosis, Katzen Center for the Arts, Washington, DC
2007 Fieldwork: Placing Space in the Colorfield Remix, Pyramid Atlantic,
Silver Spring, MD
2006 Illusion: Now, Mind and World, Emerson Gallery, McLean, VA
2005 Parallel Play, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Each/Other: Vanishing Points, I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Turn Around Time, Bunting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1996 Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC
1994 Jones, Troyer, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1992 Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD
Cardinal Gallery, Annapolis, MD
1990 Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1989 Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
1987 BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
1982 Santa Cruz Art Center, Santa Cruz, CA
1978 Oakes College Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2005 "Bethesda Painting Awards", Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2003 "Turnaround," Flatfile Galleries Project Room, Chicago, IL
"Each/Other," Flatfile Galleries Project Room, Chicago, IL
2001 "Temple of Time", Masonic Temple, DeLand, FL
"Faculty Show", Duncan Gallery, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
2000 "Rapture," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1999 "A Range of Views," Bunting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1998 "Anniversary Show," Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery,
Washington DC
"Other Directions," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"MFA Show," University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
1997 "Expansion Arts: Artists of Our Times II," The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
"Thresholds:Limits of Perception," Installation, Eighth Floor Gallery,New York, NY
"A Room of Your Own," Installation, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "A Chronic Act of Desperation," Performance in a U-Haul Truck, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
1995 "Lingua Pittura: Painting's Evolving Agenda," University of Maryland, College Park, MD
"Art Site 6," Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1994 "43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1993 "Lingua Pittura: Painting's Evolving Agenda," McLean Project for the Arts, Emerson Gallery, Arlington, VA
Benefit Auction, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
"Koan New Talent," Clark & Co., Washington, DC
1992 Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1991 Willow Street Gallery, Washington, DC
1990 "City Visions," Harbor Place and the Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Art Against Aids," Washington, DC
1989 Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
"Open Exhibition 1989," Fairfax County Judicial Center, Fairfax, VA
1987 "Art Where It Lives," Creative Metalworks, Washington, DC
1985 "MFA Show," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Alternative Solutions," Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
"Alumni Show," Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS (*indicates reproduction)
2007 Tierney, Robin: “The Showcase Goes On,” The Washington Examiner, January 3, 2007*
2006 Jessica Dawson: "Art Imitates Life and Visa Versa", Washington Post, September 30, 2006 *
2005 Michael O'Sullivan: "Different Strokes For Different Folks", Washington Post, June 24, 2005
2005 Fred Camper: "Grand Illusions", Chicago Reader, October 14, 2005 Victor Cassidy: "Prairie Smoke",
Artnet Magazine, December 1, 2005*
2005 Jim Magner, Artist Profile: Inga McCaslin Frick, Hill Rag, January, p.78-79*
2004 Michael Klant: Grundkurs Kunst 4 - Aktion, Kinetik, Neue Medien, Braunschweig: Schroedel, pp.152/153(textbook).* Michael Klant: Kunst in Bewegung: Aktion, Kinetik, Neue Medien, Ostfildern bei Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2004 (DVD).*
Michael Klant: Grundkurs Kunst 4 - Kunst in Bewegung: Aktion, Kinetik, Neue Medien, Braunschweig: Schroedel, 2004 (DVD).*
2003 Claire Wolf Krantz: Review, Art in America, October, p. 142.*
Review, Mouth To Mouth, Spring 2003.
2000 Asher, Steve (Filmmaker): "Greater Boston Arts - Rapture at Mass Art" (television interview), WGBH, Jan-Feb
Temin, Christine: "Assorted Artists Capture Rapture," The Boston Globe, February 2
1996 Protzman, Ferdinand: "Canvas of Change," The Washington Post,June 5*
Howell, George: Review, Art Papers, May/June, p. 32*
Protzman, Ferdinand: "It's the Thought that counts," The Washington Post, March 2
Howell, George: Review, Art Papers, May/June, p. 32*
Oda, Ken: Review, Koan, March, p. 17
1995 Howell, George: "Lingua Pittura: Painting's Evolving Agenda,”
Art Papers, January
1994 Richard, Paul: "Canvas of Dreams," The Washington Post, September 9
Richard, Paul: "How to Canvas the Neighborhood,”
The Washington Post, June 2
Russell, Donald: Review, Washington Review, May-June, p 26*
Moss, Brett: “'Sites' shows art has its place," The Washington Times, June 9
Edelman, Robert G.: "The Figure Returns," Art in America, March, pp. 39-43
Cohen, Jean: "The 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," Art News, February, p 145
Howell, George: "Inga Frick: 43rd Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary Painting," Washington Review”, February, p. 18*
1993 Baker, Kenneth: Review, "Contemporary Painting Celebrated in DC,"
The San Francisco Chronicle: Datebook, November 21
Fleming, Lee: "Koan, Drawing New Blood," The Washington Post, November 6
Richards, Paul: "What's Wrong with this Picture,”
The Washington Post, October 31
Burchard, Hank: "Out of the Fire, Into the Melting Pot," The Washington Post, October 29
Mahoney, J.W.: "Lingua Pittura: Christopher French, Inga Frick, Greg
Hannan, Raimundo Rubio and Jeffrey Smith," Art Papers, September/October, pp. 66-67*
Mahoney, J.W.: Review, Art in America, May, pp. 127-128*
Pollan, Andrea, "Lingua Pittura: Painting's Evolving Agenda," January (publication in conjunction with show)
1989 Ratcliff, Carter: "Maryland Art Place Critics Residency Program1987-1989"
(publication in conjunction with project)*
TEACHING
2000-2003 Stetson University
Introduction to Digital Art
Fundamentals of Design
Advanced Digital Art Studio
Advanced Issues in Time-Based Media
Sequential Images
Drawing
Interactive Art
1999 Harvard University
Graduate student mentoring
1998 Art Institute of Phoenix
Digital Audio/Video
Broadcast graphics
Character Study
Analysis of Form (anatomy)
Drawing
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1997-98 University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Visual Concepts
1993 University of Maryland, College Park
Design
1986 University of California at Santa Cruz
Painting
Drawing
Visual Fundamentals
1983-84 University of Pennsylvania
Drawing
1979-81 University of California at Santa Cruz
Drawing
Painting