Fred Tomaselli — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works98

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney

MoMA

Met

NGA Washington

Art Institute of Chicago

SFMOMA

Seattle Art Museum

LACMA

Previous Sales 53

Sotheby's

Untitled, 2002

$1,700

Dec 2021

Sotheby's

Brooklyn Garden Field Recordings, 1998

Unknown

Dec 2020

Christie's

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, 1994

$100,000

Nov 2013

Christie's

Map of New Jerusalem, U.S.A., 1999

Christie's

Christie's

Breathing Head, 2002

Christie's

Christie's

Study for Hummingbird, 2004

£145,250 ($192k USD)

Jun 2012

Christie's

49 Palms Oasis, 1995

$314,500

May 2012

Christie's

Multiple Landscape, 1995

$266,500

Mar 2012

Christie's

Recent Extinctions, 1993

$98,500

Mar 2012

Christie's

Untitled (Photogram # 2), 2007

$40,000

Mar 2012

Christie's

Warbler, Waterthrush, Ovenbird, 1997

$3,750

Mar 2012

Christie's

Ripples-Trees, 1994

$482,500

Nov 2011

Christie's

Study for Big Bird, 2004

$242,500

Nov 2011

Christie's

Wow and Flutter, 1992

$86,500

Nov 2011

Christie's

Untitled (Expulsion), 2000

$1,650,500

Nov 2011

Christie's

Lil' Phosphenea, 1992

$52,500

Mar 2010

Christie's

Fade into You, 1993

Christie's

Christie's

Arcs in Self-Surveillance, 2001

$145,000

Nov 2007

Christie's

Gravity in Four Directions, 2001

$937,000

Nov 2007

Christie's

Fade into You, 1993

Christie's

Christie's

For Sale 2

Graphicstudio USF · Artsy

Untitled (bloom), 2018

US$8,000

Archival pigment print with 11-run screenprint

Goya Contemporary LLC · Artsy

16 x 14 To A Higher Power, 1998

US$6,000

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Market206 auction results

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$8.8K – $1.7M

38 of 40 paintings lots with prices

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$221K

Object-type specific

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$26.5K

38 priced paintings lots

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Oct 2025 · $9.5K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Paintings: $26.5K medianWorks on paper: $3.8K medianPhotographs: $1.0K medianEditioned prints: $1.1K medianBooks/portfolios: $1.0K medianUnclassified lots: $883 medianPosters/ephemera: $4.8K median

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Galleries1

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Education1

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

Valencia, CA, USA

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Publications1

Exhibition Catalog 1

Fred Tomaselli

Prestel · 2009

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Current Exhibitions2

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Blooms Disrupted

Fred Tomaselli

48, 52 Walker St 2nd Fl, New York, NY 10013, USA

May 15, 2026 — Jun 27, 2026

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Jane Freilicher, Diana Horowitz, Amy Weiskopf, Joshua Marsh, Louise Kruger, Jan Müller (1922-1958), Susannah Phillips, Paul Resika, Alfred H. Maurer, Arnold Friedman, Fred Tomaselli, Julie Heffernan, Olive Ayhens, Polly Apfelbaum, Joe Brainard, Hiroyuki Hamada, Glenn Goldberg, Jimmy Wright, Susan Jane Walp, Nell Blaine, Elena Sisto, Daisy Craddock, Matt Magee, Robert Kulicke, Francie Bishop Good, Katherine Bradford, Ezra Johnson, Gregory Botts, Eric Holzman, Ron Milewicz, Lois Dodd, Sarah Lutz, Dave Walsh, Ying Li, Louis Fratino, Tracy Miller, Antone Könst, Elizabeth O'Reilly, Alix Bailey, Xico Greenwald, Donna Moylan, Deborah Wasserman, Haidee Becker, Ruth Miller, Sutton Allen, Jack Ceglic

39 E 78th St 4th Floor, New York, NY 10075, USA

Jun 11, 2026 — Jul 24, 2026

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Recent News20

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Past Exhibitions5

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Early Work or How I Became A Painter

Fred Tomaselli

48, 52 Walker St 2nd Fl, New York, NY 10013, USA

Feb 5, 2016 — Mar 19, 2016

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FRED TOMASELLI Current Events

FRED TOMASELLI

48, 52 Walker St 2nd Fl, New York, NY 10013, USA

May 1, 2014 — Jun 14, 2014

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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

FOCUS: Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli

3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA

Jan 12, 2014 — Mar 23, 2014

FOCUS: Fred Tomaselli FOCUS Jan 12, 2014 - Mar 23, 2014 The exhibition presents a selection of works that span the past 10 years of the artist’s career, incl...

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