Fred Schmidt-Arenales fredschmidt-arenales.net [email protected] Selected Exhibitions 2021 Lost Art, The Incubation Series, , PA (forthcoming) Artist in Residence Exhibition, PRACTICE Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Tiger Strikes Asteroid: It feels like the first time, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL What is Real?, The Real House, Brooklyn, NY AFTERIMAGE, curated by Alex Paik, Maake Magazine (digital exhibition) 2019 0.1%, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA Lino Kino Public Access Installation, Cherry St. Pier, Philadelphia, PA Holding Pattern, curated by Ken Lum and Matthew Freedman, Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY Analogous to Our Own, curated by Sara O’Keeffe, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA Open Video Call, Institute of , Philadelphia, PA Weak Link, Automat Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Sufficiently Charged, Charles Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2017 Cantering Loop, curated by Kelsey Harrison, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL The Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago IL The New Normal, curated by Murat Adash and Hiba Farhat, Beruit, Lebanon 2016 Yes, but is it performable? Investigations into the Performative Paradox, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, AT Relief Work, curated by Tara Plath, Songs for Presidents, Queens, NY 2015 Terrorists in the Library, President’s Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL Destination Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, , AT 2014 My Last Three-Hour Conversation with Edward Said, with Celia Hollander, DIANA, Los Angeles, CA Coriolis Effect, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 Fronts, curated by Jennifer Harris, Hundred Forsyth, New York, NY Performances, Screenings, Radio Projects 2021 Rehearsing Philadelphia (Solo performance), Philadelphia, PA Lino Kino TV (Artist), Automat Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2020 Tokyo Lift-off Film Festival (Artist), Tokyo, Japan 2019 Creative Authority (Co-organizer), with Suso Phizer, one day participatory event hosted by Co-prosperity Sphere as a part of Togetherism Festival, Chicago, IL Close Enough (Artist), film program at Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA Out of Actions (Artist), one day performance festival hosted by the Incubation Series and Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, PA Authority, Emotion, and Exclusion (Co-organizer), with Suso Phizer, Group Relations Conference and screening series, University of Pennsylvania, PA 2018 Revisions (Artist), film program at Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA 2017 Committee of Six (Artist), performances at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA This is Not Normal (Artist), performance festival at The Brick Theater, New York, NY 2016 Fulton Rib, Dixon Place, New York, NY (performance) Words & [ ] — a Durational Conference of Art & Thought (Presenting Artist), The Darling Foundry, Montreal, QC, Canada 2015 Reconnaissance, with Asa Mendelsohn, Independent podcast exploring intersections between political realities and fictions through interviews, audio performances, and field recordings This is Your Lover (Artist), performance at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL Kneeling and Streetwashing (Director, Editor) Broadcast: Radio ORANGE, Vienna, AU. Staged readings: WUK Projektraum and depot, Vienna, AT. Research supported by 2014-15 Fulbright Fellowship Albatross (Director, writer, performer): Radio play broadcast: WLPN, Chicago and KCHUNG, Los Angeles. Staged readings: Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, Regards Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA 2014 The Life+ Series, Rhinofest (Presenting Artist), Prop Theatre, Chicago IL I think about it every day, iterative performance presented at ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL; Links Hall, Chicago, IL; Franconia Performance Salon, , CA Walk Around Me in Circles Until You Get Tired and Then Go Home, iterative performance presented at Chicago Home Theater Festival, Chicago, IL; Forever + Always, Chicago, IL; EAR EATER at Meat Train, Chicago, IL; ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI; FIT Fine Arts Division, New York, NY 2013 He’s Always Crying (Presenting artist), part of Not Enough Space performance series, Archer Ballroom, Chicago, IL (performance and screening) Extinct Entities Festival (Presenting Artist), Links Hall, Chicago, IL Spaulding (Co-organizer and presenting artist), Archer Ballroom, Chicago IL (performance) You Should Go (Director), feature film screening at Doc Films, University of Chicago, Chicago IL Selected Publications 2021 The Chart, Portland Maine (essay contributor, forthcoming) 2020 CIGALE Issue 2, organized by Laure Bourgault and Anne Marie Trepanier 2019 Lumpen Magazine: Togetherism, published by Public Media Institute, Chicago IL Studio Tokyo, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2016 The New Normal, curated by Murat Adash and Hiba Farhat, Beruit, Lebanon Yes, but is it performable? Investigations into the Performative Paradox exhibition publication, edited by Christian Egger, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien (Artist) 2015 Fred Schmidt-Arenales interviews Nick Bastis, Ten, Regards Destination Wien exhibition publication, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT (Artist) 2014 Artists Statement, South Side Weekly, Chicago, IL (Artist) Teaching, Talks, and Studio Visits 2020 Consensual Collaboration and Micro-culture, co-taught with Amber Hopkins, Julia Gladstone, and Akeema-Zane with The School of Making Thinking, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY 2019 Undergraduate Senior Mentorship, University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts 2018 Undergraduate Studio Visits, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Coffee and Conversations: The Combahee River Collective and Identity Politics, ICA Philadelphia Undergraduate Studio Visits, RICE University, Houston What’s Next?, A conversation inside of the exhibition Brown People are the Wrens in the Parking Lot, Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago, IL 2017 Coffee and Conversations: Broadcasting the Platform, Platforming the Broadcast, ICA Philadelphia 2015 Listening: Workshop and Artist Lecture, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL 2014 Collaborative Writing for Performance Workshop, SAIC Early College, Chicago, IL 2013 Artists Talk, FIT Fine Arts Division, New York, NY Reading from That Night with the Green Sky, organized by Brandon Alvendia, Susanin’s Auctions, Chicago, IL Not Enough Space, roundtable discussion, Archer Ballroom, Chicago, IL

Grants and Awards 2021 Planning grant recipient, Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA 2020 Grants to Individuals recipient, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL 2018 Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2017 Edes Prize for Emerging Artists Finalist, Chicago, IL 2013 Theatre and Performance Studies Award, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2012 Summer Arts Council Fellowship, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Residencies and Fellowships 2021 Core Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship Oberhausen Short Film Festival Seminar, Oberhausen, Germany 319 Artist in Residence at PRACTICE Gallery, Philadelphia, PA The Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship, The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY 2020 Another World is Possible, Collaborative Studio Program, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY (remote) Montage, my beautiful trouble, led by Eli Cortinas, Salzburg Summer Academy (remote) Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin, Germany (remote) 2019 IMMERSION 3.0, The School of Making Thinking and Cucalorus, Wilmington, NC 2018 SCORES, The School of Making Thinking, Middlesex, NY 2017 Mall of Found residency, New Lebanon, NY Summer Documentary Lab, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Non-Human Seminar with Doug Ashford, Salzburg Summer Academy, Salzburg, 2013 ACRE, Steuben, WI

Education University of Pennsylvania, MFA in Interdisciplinary Art (2017-2019) University of Chicago, BA with Honors in Theater and Performance Studies, Minor in Visual Art (2009-13)