PHRANC Lives and works in Santa Monica, CA and Vancouver, BC
Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Butch Closet, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2023 The Butch Closet, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 The Great Outdoors, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID Swagger, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Toys, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2015 Toys, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 It Happened in Sun Valley, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2013 Winter, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Phranc of California, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Phranc & Co: The Out West General Store, The Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Phranc, CUE Art Foundation, NY
2006 Paper Play (with Alison Bechdel), Pine Street Art Works, Burlington, VT 2004 The Cardboard Cobbler, The 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Phranc-O-Mat, Creative Time, 42nd Street Arts Project, New York, NY 1992 Brief Encounter, The 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 GARB, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Art After Stonewall 1969-1989, Columbus Museum of Art, New York
2017 Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano LA, Museum of Contemporary Art at The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Paperworks, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Incognito 10, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Filtered, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2013 Compass-Navigating the Journey to Self Identity, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA This Side of the 405, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA #3, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA
2010 The Man I Wish I Was, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Support, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
2008 This Side Up: The Art of Cardboard, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2008 Grandmasters, The Art Directors Club, New York Pink and Bent, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York
2007 Welcome Home, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Forming: The Early Days of Punk, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Stonewall 25: Imaginings of the Gay Past, Celebrating the Gay Present, White Columns, New York
1978 Books, Posters, Postcards, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED LECTURES & PERFORMANCES
2024 PhrancTalk, Michigan Theater at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Weirdo Night, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Outsider Fest-Legacy Award, Austin TX
2018 Phranc and El Vez, Grand Performances, Los Angeles, CA 2012 Phranc at Track 16 gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Phranc at California Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Phranc, McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Phranc Visions and Voices, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Phranc, City of Los Angeles (COLA) Arts Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Phranc Cue Art Foundation, New York Phranc, Euclid Park Opening Day, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Phranc, Hannukah: A Celebration, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA The Knitters, West coast tour
2005 Phranc, The Reform Female Rabbi’s Conference
2004 Phranc The Getty museum, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Phranc Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH
2004 Phranc at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
1997 Phranc, Ryles Jazz Club, Cambridge, MA
1994 Hot August Phranc, Dance Theater Workshop, New York
1991 Morrissey, Kill Uncle tour with Phranc support Phranc, Élysée Montmarte, Paris, France
1989 The Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada Phranc Mariposa Folk Festival, Molson Park, ON, Canada
1988 Vancouver Folk Festival, Jericho Beach Park, BC, Canada
1987 Phranc, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA Phranc, William Randolph Hearst Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA
1986 Phranc Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, OH
1986 Phranc, Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England
1986 Phranc, Théâtre de la Mutualité, Paris, France
1986 Morrissey, The Queen is Dead tour with Phranc support The Smiths, US tour with Phranc support
1986 Phranc, The Dead Kennedys, Mojo Nixon, UC Davis, CA
1986 Phranc Pier 84, New York, NY
1986 Phranc, Universal Amphitheater, Universal City, CA Phranc Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
1986 Phranc Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England 1985 Phranc, The Palace, Los Angeles, CA 1981
1986 Phranc, Sparks, The Fibonaccis, The Whisky A Go Go, West Hollywood, CA
1980 Phranc Club 88, Los Angeles, CA 1979 The Hong Kong Café, Los Angeles, CA
1976 The Grandma Prisbrey Doll Shrine at The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS
2024 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visiting Artist, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2022 Santa Monica Artist Fellowship, Santa Monica, CA
2019 The Outsider-Fest Legacy Award, Austin, TX
2008 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship
2004 City of West Hollywood Pat Parker Music and Art Award, West Hollywood, CA
2001 Outfest LA Best Soundtrack, Audience Award, West Hollywood, CA
1992 GLADD Media Award: Music, Los Angeles, CA
1986 The Woman’s Building Vesta Award: Music, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
2023 Trish Bendix, “Phranc’s Butch Closet,” SPIN Magazine, November 29
2023 Tom Knectel, “Gallery Rounds: Phranc,” Artillery Magazine, November 17,
2023 Shana Nys Dambrot, “Phranc’s Queer Cardboard Fashion Sense,” LA Weekly, November 2
2023 Candace Hansen, “Phranc opens ‘The Butch Closet’ in Santa Monica. It’s queer life meticulously documented in cardboard,” The Los Angeles Times, October 28
2023 “I Enjoy Being a Butch,” Curve Magazine
2019 Art After Stonewall (Rizzoli/Electra), edited by Jonathan Weinberg Art & Queer Culture, 2nd Edition (Phaidon), edited by Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer
2018 Shana Nys Dambrot, “Phranc the Cardboard Cobbler’s Folksy, NonbinarySwagger,” LA Weekly, July 30
2018 My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan and Bush Years (Routledge), Sarah Shulman
2017 We Were Going to Change The World: Interviews With Women from The 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene (Santa Monica Press), Stacy Russo
2012 Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Feminist Art Program and the Collective Visions of Women Artists (Routledge), edited by Jill Fields
1996 Angry Women in Rock (Juno Books), edited by Andrea Juno
1993 On Edge: Performance at the End Of the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press), C. Carr
RECORDED MUSIC
1998 Milkman, Phancy Records
1995 Goofyfoot, Kill Rock Stars
1991 Positively Phranc, Island Records
1989 I Enjoy Being a Girl, Island Records
1985 Folksinger, Rhino Records