You can contact Jim through: jim(at)jimfrazer.com
Jim Frazer studied painting with Fairfield Porter while an undergraduate at Amherst College, after which he studied photography with John McWilliams while in graduate school at Georgia State University in Atlanta. With colleagues from Georgia State, he helped to start Nexus, a non-profit photography gallery that later became The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. He was the first photographer to have a solo exhibit at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and his hand-colored photographs of Southern landscapes were widely collected and exhibited both regionally and nationally. In 1999, he moved with his family to Salt Lake City. After that move, he branched out from photography to a diverse practice that focused on mixed media works and collaborative installations. His newest work, though not appearing photographic at first glance, is nevertheless photo based, deriving from images of details taken from the natural world.
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Born 1949, in Atlanta
Studied at Amherst College (BA 1971), and at Georgia State University (MVA 1973)
Founding President of Nexus, Inc., now Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (www.thecontemporary.org)
Served on Nexus Board from 1973 – 1981
Taught at the Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University, and Mercer University in Atlanta from 1972 – 1982
ONE – PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected):
Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
New Visions Gallery, Salt Lake City
3 W Gallery, Salt Lake City
A Photo Gallery, Salt Lake City
Left Bank Gallery, Salt Lake City
Heath Gallery, Atlanta
Photography Gallery, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia
Hill-Freeman Gallery, Reinhardt College, Waleska, Georgia
Gallery A, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected):
Paperwest, Alvin Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 2019
Traces, with Sandy Singletary, Dalton Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 2017
Going Up: Climate Change + Philadelphia, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016
Collective Experience, collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, Rio Gallery, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, 2015
Play me, I’m yours. collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, street piano project, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, 2012
Intercept, collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, Westminster College, Faculty Exhibit, Salt Lake City, 2011
Surrounded, collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake Arts Council,
Infinite to Venture, collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, Westminster College, Faculty Exhibit, Salt Lake City, 2010
Fragments of Displacement, collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, in Mirror Images: Great Salt Lake, curated by Hikmet Loe, Westminster College Salt Lake City, 2010
Connect/Disconnect, collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, The PDA Show, Nobrow Gallery, Salt Lake City, 2009
unravel, REVEALED, Brolly Arts Water Week, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, 2009, 24 hour durational performance conceived, created, and produced by Suzanne Simpson and Jim Frazer in collaboration with Corinne Cappelletti
Seed of our Undoing, collaboration with Suzanne Simpson, installation for Bioneers Conference, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, 2008
Exposed, The Pickle Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007
Dangerous Art, Patrick Moore Gallery, San Diego, California, 2007
Mixed Media and Works on Paper, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007
Art Five, New Mexico State University Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2007
Digital Art, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, 2007
Assemblation, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006
Untitled, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2006
Box, Paper, Scissors, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005
As They See It, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005
Inadvertently, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005
Drawings and/or Works on Paper, Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia , 2004-2005
Alternative Photography, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004
Digital Splash 2003, sTudio 6 Gallery, Queens, New York, 2003
Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft. Collins, Colorado, 2002
Artists of the Heath Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002
2001 Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, 2001
First Light, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999
The Avant-Garde Revisited, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998
Experiments in Photographic Art and Technology, Backdrop Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
20 Artists/20 Years, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1993
Vital Signs, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1991
Through Nature’s Lens, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Georgia, 1990
The Iron Bridge Show, Applachian Environmental Arts Center, 1989-90 ; Travelled to: The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina; Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia; Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highlands, North Carolina; North Carolina Center for Creative Photography, Durham, North Carolina; Milton Rhodes Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Artists in Georgia, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Flower Show: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum selected by Sam Wagstaff,
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 1985
Atlanta in France, Chapelle de La Sorbonne, Paris; Centre d’Action Culturelle, Angouleme; Refectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse, 1985
Flower Show: Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff, Olympus Gallery, London, England, 1984
Painted Photographs, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York, New York, 1984
Contemporary Panoramic Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 1984
A Century of American Landscape Photography: Selections from The High Museum of Art, 1981-1983; Traveled to: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Holzman Art Gallery, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland; Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; The Nickle Arts Museum, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta; Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas; Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan
Hand-Colored Photographs, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1982
Marked Photographs, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, New York, 1981
The Avant-Garde: 12 in Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1979
Art Patron Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1978
Art EUA: El Sur, U.S. Information Agency, Traveled to Central and South America, 1976
35 Artists in the Southeast, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia,1976 Traveled to: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
National Photography Exhibition, Ohio Silver Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1975
Artist’s Bienalle, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1975
The Southern Ethic, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1975
Artists in Georgia, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1974
New Photographics/73, Central Washington State Gallery, Ellensburg, Washington, 1973
Eight Atlanta Photographers, Bird-in-Hand Photography Gallery, Arlington, Virginia, 1972
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS (selected):
MOCA GA, Atlanta, Georgia
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The High Musuem of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
The Ackland Art Musuem, Raleigh, North Carolina
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
- Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
National Bank of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
Omni International Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Blount, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama
Prudential Life Insurance, Jacksonville, Florida
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Robinson-Humphrey, Atlanta, Georgia
HBO & Co., Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia Power Company, Atlanta, Georgia
Mc Donald’s Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Federal Reserve Bank, Jacksonville, Florida
Coca-Cola USA , Atlanta, Georgia
John Weiland Homes, Atlanta, Georgia
CGR Advisors, Atlanta, Georgia
Printpack, Atlanta, Georgia
Acordia Benefits of the South, Atlanta, Georgia
Hallmark Cards, Atlanta, Georgia
Private Collections
PUBLICATIONS (selected):
The Earth Issue, Edited by Elena Cremona in colaboration with Archive Collective Magazine, 2017
“Jim Frazer: The Explorer in Mind” by Heather Wunderlich, 15 Bytes, Artists of Utah e-zine, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007
The Creative Camera, Nancy Howell-Koehler, Davis Publications, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1989
“The Southern Artist: Jim Frazer” by Laura C. Lieberman, Southern Accents, May-June, 1988
“Interview with Jim Frazer” by Grant Kester, Art Papers, January-February, 1984
Jim Frazer Hand-Colored Photographs, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1981,
exhibition catalogue with essay by Peter Morrin
The Southern Ethic, Southern Exposure and Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia,1975