Edie Fake

Fake was born in 1980 and raised in Evanston, Illinois.{{Cite web|url=https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/edie-fake/|title=Ever Get Turned on by Cooking Instructions? Comics Artist Edie Fake's Personal + Playful Exploration of Sexuality|date=2018-07-12|website=Eye on Design, AIGA|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/edie-fake/|title=Edie Fake|last=MacMillan|first=Kyle|date=2018-12-01|website=Art in America|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oberlin.edu/events/wherestheirtherevisitingartistlecturewithediefake|title="Where's Their There?" — Visiting Artist Lecture with Edie Fake|date=2018-03-16|website=Oberlin College and Conservatory|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06|quote=Fake was born outside Chicago in 1980}} In 2002, he received a B.F.A. degree in Film, Animation and Video (FAV) from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/usc7-edie-fake-drawings-queer-trans-306043|title=USC7 Artist Edie Fake's Gorgeous Drawings|date=2015-06-08|website=artnet News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://our.risd.edu/post/124028126434/questions-of-queer-space|title=Questions of Queer Space|date=2015|website=Our RISD|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06|quote=Edie Fake 02 FAV}} After graduating from RISD, Fake worked as a negative cutter for approximately 6 years,{{Cite web|url=http://magazine.art21.org/2013/04/09/you-cant-always-give-and-you-cant-always-take-edie-fake/|title=You Can't Always Give and You Can't Always Take {{!}} Edie Fake|website=Art21 Magazine|date=April 9, 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}} and started working in comics, collage and drawing, and translating their animation into two dimensional work because it was more accessible.

In 2015, Fake had been enrolled at Roski School of Art at University of Southern California (USC) and was one of the seven artists (nicknamed the "USC7") that dropped out of the school in protest of the mistreatment by the administration.{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/usc-roski-crisis-art-education-305429|title=USC Roski Fiasco Points to Wider Problems|date=2015-06-05|website=artnet News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}

Fakes work uses visual abstraction in their work as an exploration of identity in the transgender and queer experience.{{Cite book|title=Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender|last=Getsy|first=David J.|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2015|isbn=9780300196757|location=New Haven, Connecticut|pages=327}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesmartset.com/translating-identity/|title=Translating Identity|last=Mautner|first=Chris|website=The Smart Set|publisher=Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}} The Gaylord Phoenix short comics series started in 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/blog/2015/01/close-to-home-spotlight-on-local-artists-at-printed-matters-la-art-book-fair-2015-edie-fake|title=CLOSE TO HOME: Spotlight on Local Artists at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair 2015 - Edie Fake|date=2015|website=Hammer Museum, UCLA|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}} In the illustrated book, Gaylord Phoenix (2010) there is expression of desire and transformation happening to a bird-like man in a dream-like, fantasy environment.{{Cite web|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/events/mocca-arts-festival-guests-of-honor-announced/|title=MoCCA Arts Festival Guests of Honor Announced|last=Milligan|first=Mercedes|date=2019-01-23|website=Animation Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}

In the illustrated book, Memory Palaces (2014), Fake reimagines the facades of historical queer spaces in Chicago in abstract, fantasy-like paintings of architecture, which are used as a metaphor for the transgender body.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ae-edie-fake-western-exhibitions-new-show-0923-story.html|title=With 'Gut Rehab' at Western Exhibitions, Edie Fake connects trans bodies with queer architecture|last=Hawbaker|first=K. T.|date=2018|website=ChicagoTribune.com|access-date=2019-11-06}} Both with architecture and the human body, these exist as structures and present decoration and protective features, and both of these are vulnerability due to shifts in U.S. politics and social change.{{Cite web|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/gut-rehab-edie-fake-s-elaborate-and-maze-like-paintings-western-exhibitions-chicago/|title=Gut Rehab: Edie Fake's Elaborate and Maze-like Paintings @ Western Exhibitions, Chicago|website=Juxtapoz Magazine|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-11-06|archive-date=November 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106065247/https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/gut-rehab-edie-fake-s-elaborate-and-maze-like-paintings-western-exhibitions-chicago/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://archpaper.com/2018/06/edie-fake-explores-gender-identity-sexuality-architectural-drawings/|title=Artist Edie Fake explores gender identity and sexuality through architectural drawings|date=2018-06-01|website=Archpaper.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}} Additionally in the exhibition of the same name, Memory Palaces (2013), at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, there were a series of drawings titled "Gateway", where Fake pays tribute the death of his five artist friends, Mark Aguhar, Nick Djandji, Dara Greenwald, Flo McGarrell, and Dylan Williams.{{Cite web|url=http://badatsports.com/2013/edie-fakes-ecstatic-afterlives/|title=Edie Fake's Ecstatic Afterlives|last=Orendorff|first=Danny|date=2013-01-11|website=Bad at Sports|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/63377/homage-to-a-citys-queer-history/|title=Homage to a City's Queer History|date=2013-01-11|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}

Fake won the 2011 Ignatz Award for "Outstanding Graphic Novel" for Gaylord Phoenix.{{Cite book|title=No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics|last=Hall|first=Justin|publisher=Fantagraphics Books|year=2013|isbn=9781606997185|location=Seattle, Washington|pages=[https://archive.org/details/nostraightlinesf0000unse/page/309 309]|url=https://archive.org/details/nostraightlinesf0000unse/page/309}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-spx-ignatz-award-nominees-are-here/2011/08/18/gIQAJF5iNJ_blog.html|title=The SPX 2011 Ignatz Award nominees are here...|date=2011-08-18|newspaper=Washington Post}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/winners-announced-for-2011-ignatz-awards/|title=Winners announced for 2011 Ignatz Awards|date=2011-09-11|website=Cbr.com|access-date=2019-11-06}} In 2019, Fake was one of the guests of honors at MoCCA Festival by the Society of Illustrators.{{Cite web|url=http://www.conventionscene.com/2019/01/23/2019-mocca-arts-festival-guests-of-honor-announced/|title=2019 MoCCA Arts Festival Guests of Honor Announced|last=Solan|first=Colin|date=2019-01-23|website=Convention Scene|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}

This is a list of select exhibitions of Edie Fake's work, separated by the type of exhibition and listed by year of exhibition.

• 2019–2020 – Affordable Housing for Trans Elders, solo art wall/mural, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, California{{Cite web|url=https://bampfa.org/program/art-wall-edie-fake|title=Art Wall: Edie Fake|date=2019|website=BAMPFA|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• 2019–2020 – Edie Fake: Labyrinth, Drawing Center, New York City, New York{{Cite web|url=http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/|title=Current Exhibitions: Edie Fake Labyrinth|website=The Drawing Center|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• 2018 – Edie Fake: Structure Shifts, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York{{Cite web|url=https://www.everson.org/explore/past-exhibitions/edie-fake|title=Edie Fake: Structures Shift|website=Everson Museum|access-date=2019-11-06|archive-date=November 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106080854/https://www.everson.org/explore/past-exhibitions/edie-fake|url-status=dead}}
• 2016 – Edie Fake, Marlborough Chelsea, New York City, New York{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/2016/04/uscs-mfa-student-dropouts-to-show-at-new-la-non-profit/|title=USC's MFA Student Dropouts to Show at New LA Non-Profit|date=2016-04-06|website=Observer|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/08/ar-edie-fake-at-marlborough-chelsea/|title=AR: Edie Fake at Marlborough Chelsea|website=Contemporary Art Daily|access-date=2019-11-06|archive-date=November 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106080844/https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/08/ar-edie-fake-at-marlborough-chelsea/|url-status=dead}}
• 2013 – Memory Palaces, solo exhibition, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, Illinois{{Cite web|url=http://www.thomasrobertello.com/exhibitions/1346.html|title=Edie Fake|website=Thomas Robertello Gallery|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/memory-places-edie-fake-blazing-star-lgbtq/Content?oid=13452828|title=Edie Fake's Memory Palaces dazzles|last=Berlatsky|first=Noah|website=Chicago Reader|date=May 11, 2014|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}}

• 2019 – Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota{{Cite web|url=https://cla.umn.edu/art/galleries/katherine-e-nash-gallery|title=Katherine E. Nash Gallery|website=Katherine E. Nash Gallery|publisher=Regents of the University of Minnesota|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• 2019 – Queer Abstraction, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa{{Cite web|url=https://artmargins.com/queer-abstraction-at-des-moines-art-center/|title=Queer Abstraction at Des Moines Art Center|last=Trusty|first=Rachel|date=2019-09-17|website=ARTMargins|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• 2019 – Queer California: Untold Stories, Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), Oakland, California{{Cite web|url=https://museumca.org/exhibit/queer-california-untold-stories|title=Queer California: Untold Stories|website=Oakland Museum of California|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• 2018 – Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York City, New York{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2018/04/24/beyond-surface-miriam-schapiros-enduring-legacy-full-view-museum-arts-design/|title=Beyond the Surface: Miriam Schapiro's Enduring Legacy Is on Full View at the Museum of Arts and Design|last=Selvin|first=Claire|date=2018-04-24|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• 2018 – Declaration, Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, Virginia{{Cite web|url=https://icavcu.org/artist/fake/|title=Edie Fake|website=Institute for Contemporary Art|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}
• 2017 – A Dazzling Decade: Works Acquired Over the Past 10 Years, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (NMOCA), Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas{{Cite web|url=https://www.jccc.edu/exhibitions/2017-06-22-dazzling-decade.html|title=A Dazzling Decade|date=2017|website=Johnson County Community College|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• 2016 – Tomorrow Never Happens, Samek Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania{{Cite web|url=https://museum.bucknell.edu/2016/08/03/tomorrow-never-happens/|title=Tomorrow Never Happens|date=2016|website=Bucknell University|access-date=2019-11-06}}

• {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPE9Ot0UnIAC|title=Gaylord Phoenix|last=Fake|first=Edie|publisher=Secret Acres|year=2010|isbn=9780979960987|location=Brooklyn, New York}}
• {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONltoAEACAAJ|title=Memory Palaces|last=Fake|first=Edie|publisher=Secret Acres|year=2014|isbn=9780988814936|location=Brooklyn, New York}}
• {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53JRswEACAAJ|title=Little Stranger|last=Fake|first=Edie|publisher=Secret Acres|year=2018|isbn=9780999193501|location=Brooklyn, New York}}

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• Article: [https://www.theparisreview.org/art-photography/7192/cities-of-the-future-their-color-renee-gladman-edie-fake Cities of the Future, Their Color] by Renee Gladman and Edie Fake (Summer 2018) in the Paris Review
• Video: [https://vimeo.com/84936829 Rad Queers - Edie Fake] (2013) on vimeo
• Podcast: [https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/episode-346-edie-fake/id631302064?i=1000442482246 Episode 346: Edie Fake] (2015) on RiYL (Recommended If You Like), Apple Podcasts

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