FRAN SIEGEL

In 2022 Siegel participated in OCMA’s Sea Change symposium to discuss her Wetlands project for the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time exhibition. She was included in the previous PST- LA/LA with Lineage Through Landscape, a solo project at The UCLA Fowler Museum that was researched during a Fulbright award to Brazil. Siegel represented the United States in the IX International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador and has been awarded numerous residency fellowships across the globe.

Siegel’s monumental works have recently been acquired by LACMA, Los Angeles CA; MOCA, Los Angeles CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, and the Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, CA. She is currently working on a commission from Los Angeles Metro Rail to create a large site-specific piece that will be permanently installed at the La Brea Wilshire station, due to open in 2023.

Siegel received a Getty Grant from the California Community Foundation, a C.O.L.A Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, and the OC Contemporary Collectors Grant. She earned her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, and B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA. She is currently a professor in the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach, CA.

Courtesy Wilding Cran Gallery