Laurie Frick
Laurie Frick builds hand-made works in wool, leather, and paint assembled from the data of daily life. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across North America, including the Getty-sponsored PST ART: Art & Science Collide in Los Angeles, the Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City, Oklahoma Contemporary, Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York, and Edward Cella Art & Architecture in Los Angeles. She has held residencies at Yaddo, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the McColl Center, and artist-in-residence appointments at Samsung Research and Facebook. Her work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in The Atlantic and Wired, and she has spoken at Google, Stanford, SXSW, and TEDx. Frick holds an MFA from the New York Studio School and studied at NYU's ITP. Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Austin, Texas. Represented by GF Contemporary, Michele Mariaud Gallery, and Ivester Contemporary.
Laurie Frick builds patterns by hand in wool, leather, and paint assembled piece by piece into geometric grids. The patterns are imagined data: bloodwork and biomarkers, sleep, appetite, the shape of a day -- what the algorithm will soon know about each of us, composed before it exists. The work proposes a different way to face relentless surveillance. Where data capture is endless, these grids are slow, physical, and organic. The algorithm's portrait remade at human scale. Color and geometry carry what raw numbers cannot, the experience of a measured life: the steady pulse of routine, the lurch where something broke, the density of a crowded week, the thin stretch of a bad month. Against the fatigue and anxiety of a hyper-tracked society, the patterns offer a new kind of self-representation for the algorithmic age.
Oil paintings on linen
& Paper cut
The Imagined Time Series
Watercolors & Ink. Framed
Exhibitions & Publications
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Michele Mariaud Gallery, Bellport NY, Unseen Patterns, Sept 2025
Austin Community College, Highland Art Gallery, curated by Peter Bonfitto, Sept 2023
Science Museum smART space Gallery, Prismatic, Oklahoma City, OK, 2022- 2023
Google, COP25 UN Climate Change Conference, What We Eat (Installation), Madrid, Spain 2019
NYU Langone Medical Center, Metamorphosis: Agents of Change, Laurie Frick and Jaq Chartier, curated by Katherine Meehan, New York, NY 2019
Transylvania University, Data, Mine: Hasan Elahi & Laurie Frick, Lexington, KY, 2019
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, PCA&D, Quantified-Self: the data doesn't lie, 2017
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Who are you, what day is it? New York, 2015
Texas State University, Patterned Language, San Marcos, TX, 2014
Marfa Contemporary, Walking, eating, sleeping, Marfa, TX, 2013
Oklahoma Contemporary, Walking, eating, sleeping, Oklahoma City, 2013
Real Art Ways, Making Tracks, Hartford, CT, 2012
Edward Cella Gallery, Death and Life of an Object: Lynn Aldrich, Laurie Frick, Tim Hawkinson, Los Angeles, CA 2012
W&tWork, Quantify-me, Austin, TX 2012
Edward Cella Gallery, Sleep Patterns, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Robert Steele Gallery, Visual Time, New York, NY 2009
Gallery Shoal Creek, Words, Austin, TX 2009
Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX 2008
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY 2007
Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX 2006
SELECTED TALKS & LECTURES
SXSW, Data Art: Processes and Perspectives + Data Art as Time Capsule of the Anthropocene (2 speaker panels), Austin, TX 2023
DataViz Global Meetup, zoom talk available here, Dallas, TX 2021
Google, Talks at Google, Data is Irresistible, Austin, TX 2019
Pecha Kucha, I want my Data, Austin, TX 2019
SXSW, The changing role of Women in the Arts, Austin, TX 2019
University of Rhode Island, Imagine when everything about you is known, Providence, RI 2019
Transylvania University, Art Talk: Hasan Elahi & Laurie Frick, Lexington, KY 2019
Visionary Voices Lecture Series, City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, Inside story of why I want my data, 2019
TEDx LadyBirdLake, Austin, I want my data! 2018
Google@Thought: Art in the Digital Age, Brussels 2017
SXSW, Relationships are Ripe for Machine Learning, Austin, 2017
Technarte: The Fusion of Art and Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2016
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), Cultural program of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 2016
World Future Society, Nanobot Murals, Washington DC, 2016
EYEO Festival, Nanobot Murals, Minneapolis, 2016
IBM Design Research Conference keynote, The art of data, Austin, 2016
Advertising Age Data Conference, Data is Beautiful, New York, 2015
International Time-Use conference keynote, The art of time-use, Ankara, Turkey, 2015
Microsoft Research, Studio 99, The art of the data-selfie, Seattle, 2015
SXSW, From Digital Sharecropping to Data Emancipation, Austin, 2015
MediaX, Stanford University, Art makes data sticky, Palo Alto, 2014
Creative Mornings, Human data, don't hide....get more, Austin, 2014
TEDx Austin, The art of self-surveillance, Austin, 2013
SXSW, Warhol goes Social, creativity in the tech age, Austin, 2013
Quantified-Self European Conference, Plenary Closing, Amsterdam, NL 2011
LASER (Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous) University of San Francisco, 2011
CalArts, Conversations on Media, Culture and Practice, Los Angeles, 2011
Hyperallergic, Sleep and Self-Tracking, Brooklyn, 2011
SELECTED ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS
LUXE Magazine, Stylemaker: Data Drives this colorful Artist, April 2023
UPROXX, Data Artist Laurie Frick finds humanity in the Machine, social media video for Lexus | Los Angeles, November 2021
Codaworx, Toni Sikes, Mar 2021 | 25 Creative Revolutionaries Lead the way for Positive Change
MutualArt, Maya Garabedian, July 10, 2020 | Mediums of the 21st Century: iPads, 3D Printing and Data
Sightlines Profile, Barbara Purcell, May 13, 2020 | Waiting for the Kiln to Cool
Sightlines, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Jan 13, 2019 | A New Artistic Moment for the Lamar Underpass
CultureMap, Katie Friel, Sep 13, 2018 | Colorful new mural gives busy Lamar Boulevard a temporary refresh
All Things Considered: NPR radio and news, Laura Sydell, Feb 28, 2018 | An artist sees data so powerful it can help us pick better friends
Wired Magazine, Liz Stinson, Feb 15, 2017 | The Nerdy Charm of Artisanal, Hand-drawn Infographics
Huffington Post, Sarah DiGuilio, July 15, 2016 | Sleep + Your Brain = This
Haaretz Sunday Magazine Feature, Neta Alexander Jan 31, 2016 | Follow Yourselves, interview with Laurie Frick
Top 10 People of the Year, Tribeza Magazine, Dec 2015 | The locals whose work is changing the course of Austin's culture
NPR Studio 360 from WNYC, Jul 2, 2015, Lindsay Patterson | A quantified artist turns data into sculpture
Metaleptic, Jul 16, 2015, Tatiana Istomina | Laurie Frick: The future and present of data art
ARTE TV, France, Jun 2015, Charles-Henry Groult | We measure to know ourselves better
The Atlantic, May 14, 2015, Jacoba Urist | The rise of the data artist
Ovation Network, American Canvas with Dave Holmes, Mar 2015 | FRICKbits and a visit to Austin
Austin American Statesman, Oct 26, 2014, Jeanne-Claire van Ryzin | Your Travels in Artwork
EMBO Reports, Nature Publishing Group essay by Laurie Frick, Mar 2014 | Should you worry or embrace your data?
ArtDesk Magazine, Aug 2013, Allison Meier | The Quantified-Self
Hartford Courant, Jan 8, 2013, Susan Dunne | Making Tracks at RealArtWays
HuffingtonPost, Apr 2012, Peter Frank | The bricolage approach to sculpture
Austin Statesman, Jan 28, 2012, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | New installation gets down to the nitty-gritty
Chronicle, Jan 27, 2012. Wayne Alan Brenner | The artist as data, casting the metrics of her life in visual form
Huffington Post, Jan 5, 2012 update 2017, Kimberly Brooks | Laurie Frick’s Self Quantifying Patterns Track the Unique Patterns of Ourselves
KUT NPR for Austin, Texas, Jan 2012, Mike Lee | Arts Eclectic, Quantify-Me
LeMonde.fr, Dec 2011, Hubert Guillaud | Comment écrirons-nous demain?
Los Angeles Times, Mar 2011, Leah Ollman | Cold Hard Data Gets Transformed
New Scientist Magazine, Mar 2011, Jonathan Keats | Rhythms of Life