untitled, 2021
glazed ceramic 22,9 x 22,2 x 17,1 cm / 9 x 8.7 x 6.7 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic 26 x 19 x 7,6 cm / 10.2 x 7.4 x 2.9 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic 26 x 19,6 x 8,8 cm / 10.2 x 7.7 x 3.4 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic 19 x 19 cm / 7.4 x 7.4 in
untitled, 2021
glazed ceramic 22,2 x 8,3 x 8,9 cm / 8.7 x 3.2 x 3.5 in
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Untitled, 2021
pen and colored pencil on paper
22 x 28 cm / 8.5 x 11 in (unframed)
32 x 38,5 x 4 cm / 12.5 x 15 x 1.5 in (framed)
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Untitled, 2021
drawing on paper
32 x 38,5 x 4 cm / 12.5 x 15 x 1.5 in
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Untitled, 2021
drawing on paper
27.9 x 21.6 cm / 11 x 8.5 in (unframed)
35.5 x 30 x 4 cm / 14 x 12 x 1.5 in (framed)
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Untitled, 2021
pen, colored pencil, glitter pen and marker on paper
28 x 22 cm / 11 x 8.5 in (unframed)
32 x 38,5 x 4 cm / 12.5 x 15 x 1.5 in (framed)
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Untitled, 2021
drawing on paper
22 x 28 cm / 8.5 x 11 x 1.5 in (unframed)
35.5 x 30 x 4 cm / 14 x 12 x 1.5 in (framed)
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Untitled, 2021
marker and colored pencil
22 x 28 cm / 8.5 x 11 in (unframed)
32 x 38,5 x 4 cm / 12.5 x 15 x 1.5 in (framed)
untitled, 1999
glazed ceramic, 24,1 x 14 x 14 cm / 9.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 20,3 x 10,2 x 7,6 cm / 8 x 4 x 3 in
untitled, 1989
glazed ceramic, 43,2 x 35,6 x 35,6 cm / 17 x 14 x 14 in
untitled, 1989
(alternate view)
untitled, 2003
glazed ceramic, 25,4 x 20,3 x 11,4 cm / 10 x 8 x 4.5 in
untitled, 2021
glazed ceramic, 24,7 x 12,3 x 9,5 cm / 9.7 x 4.8 x 3.7 in
untitled, 2019
glazed ceramic, 14,6 x 14,6 cm / 5.8 x 5.8 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 29,8 x 22,8 cm / 11.7 x 9 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 15,2 x 11,4 x 8,3 cm / 6 x 4.5 x 3.3 in
untitled, 2002
glazed ceramic, 17,1 x 16,5 x 8,6 cm / 6.8 x 6.5 x 3.4 in
untitled, 2002
(alternate view)
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 13,3 x 36,2 cm / 5.2 x 14.2 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 7,9 x 7,9 cm / 3.1 x 3.1 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 23,5 x 12,7 x 8,8 cm / 9.1 x 5 x 3.1 in
untitled, 2003
glazed ceramic, 19,7 x 12,7 x 12,1 cm / 7.8 x 5 x 4.8 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 29,8 x 40 cm / 11.7 x 15.7 in
untitled, 2019
glazed ceramic
12,7 x 17,8 x 10,2 cm / 5 x 7 x 4 in
untitled, 2019
glazed ceramic, 27,9 x 8,3 x 7 cm / 11 x 3.3 x 2.8 in
untitled, 2021
glazed ceramic, 7,9 x 7,9 cm / 3.1 x 3.1 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 22,9 x 29,8 x 1,3 cm / 9 x 11.8 x 0.5 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 14,5 x 12,7 x 10,2 cm / 5.8 x 5 x 4 in
untitled, 2020
(alternate view)
untitled, 2017
glazed ceramic, 15,2 x 22,8 x 6,3 cm / 6 x 9 x 2.5 in
untitled, 2021
glazed ceramic, 5 x 8,2 x 8,2 cm / 2 x 3.2 x 3.2 in
untitled, 2020
glazed ceramic, 7,9 x 7,9 cm / 3.1 x 3.1 in
untitled, 2017
glazed ceramic, 9,5 x 19,7 cm / 3.7 x 3.8 in
untitled, 2018
glazed ceramic, 19 x 19 cm / 7.5 x 7.5 in
Artifices Instables, Histoires de Céramiques, 2020
installation view, NMNM, Villa Sauber, Monaco
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2017
installation view, kaufmann repetto, new york
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2017
installation view, kaufmann repetto, new york
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2017
installation view, kaufmann repetto, new york
untitled, 2009
glazed ceramic, 23,8 x 15,8 x 16,8 cm / 9.3 x 6.2 x 6.6 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 25,4 x 13,9 x 8,2 cm / 10 x 5.5 x 3.2 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 20 x 8 x 8 cm / 7.8 x 3.1 x 3.1 in
untitled, 2006
glazed ceramic, 14,6 x 14,6 cm / 5.7 x 5.7 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 13,9 x 9,5 x 9,5 cm / 5.5 x 3.7 x 3.7 in
untitled, 2001
glazed ceramic, 3,8 x 14,6 x 7,9 cm / 1.5 x 5.7 x 3.1 in
untitled, 1994
glazed ceramic, 19 x 19 cm / 7.5 x 7.5 in
untitled, 2017
glazed ceramic, 17,1 x 17,7 x 6,9 cm / 6.7 x 7 x 2.7 in
untitled, 2017
drawing on paper, 40 x 30 cm / 15.7 x 11.8 in
untitled, 1976
glazed ceramic, 57,1 x 75,9 cm / 22.5 x 32.9 in
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2016
installation view, kaufmann repetto, milan
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2016
installation view, kaufmann repetto, milan
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2016
installation view, kaufmann repetto, milan
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 28 x 10 cm / 11 x 3.9 in
untitled, 1994
glazed ceramic, 14,2 x 11,4 x 11,7 cm / 5.6 x 5 x 5 in
untitled, 1995
glazed ceramic, 10,2 x 14 x 10,2 cm / 4 x 5.5 x 4 in
untitled, 2004
glazed ceramic, 8,2 x 6,9 x 8 cm / 3.2 x 2.7 x 3.1 in
untitled, 2019
glazed ceramic
7,6 x 13,9 x 9,5 cm / 3 x 5.5 x 3.7 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 22 x 12 cm / 8.6 x 4.7 in
untitled, 2005
glazed ceramic, 1,6 x 9,2 x 9,8 cm / 5.3 x 3.6 x 3.8 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 5 x 8 cm / 1.9 x 3.1 in (each)
untitled, 2019
drawing on paper, 21,6 x 27,9 cm / 8.5 x 11 in
untitled, 2018
glazed ceramic, 17,8 x 9,5 x 10,8 cm / 7 x 3.7 x 4.2 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 12 x 13 x 7,9 cm / 4.7 x 5.2 x 3.1 in
Routine Pleasures, 2016
installation view, Schindler House, mak center, los angelesphoto: Joshua White
Routine Pleasures, 2016
installation view, Schindler House, mak center, los angelesphoto: Joshua White
made in l.a., 2014
installation view, hammer museum, los angeles photo: brian forrest
made in l.a., 2014
installation view, hammer museum, los angeles photo: brian forrest
made in l.a., 2014
installation view, hammer museum, los angeles photo: brian forrest
7 up - the uncola, 1995
glazed stoneware, 43 x 28 x 28 cm / 16.9 x 11 x 11 in
untitled, 1986
glazed ceramic, 29,2 x 15,2 x 15,2 cm / 11.5 x 6 x 6 in
untitled, 2017
glazed ceramic, 14,2 x 14,2 cm / 5.6 x 5.6 in
untitled, 1994
glazed ceramic, 23,5 x 30,4 x 22,8 cm / 9.2 x 12 x 9 in
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2014
installation view, white columns, new york
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 3,1 x 18,4 x 18,4 cm / 1.2 x 7.2 x 7.2 in
untitled, 2002
glazed ceramic, 20,3 x 20,3 cm / 8 x 8 in
untitled, 1999
glazed ceramic, 22,2 x 36,8 cm / 8.7 x 14.5 in
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2014
installation view, white columns, new york
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2014
installation view, white columns, new york
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2014
installation view, white columns, new york
magdalena suarez frimkess, 2014
installation view, white columns, new york
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 17,7 x 12,7 x 5 cm / 7 x 5 x 3 in
untitled, 1970
glazed ceramic, 26,6 x 26,6 cm / 10.5 x 10.5 in
untitled, 1981
glazed ceramic, 8,8 x 15,5 x 14,6 cm / 3.5 x 6.1 x 5.7 in
GRAPEVINE ~, 2013
installation view, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles photo: Fredrik Nilsen
GRAPEVINE ~, 2013
installation view, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles photo: Fredrik Nilsen
snoopy, 1991
glazed stoneware, 36 x 36 x 36 cm / 14.1 x 14.1 x 14.1 in
untitled, 2014
glazed ceramic, 15,2 x 13,9 x 15,2 cm / 7 x 5.5 x 6 in
untitled, 1994
glazed ceramic, 21,6 x 20,3 x 19,1 cm / 8.5 x 8 x 7.5 in
tile table, c. 1990
stoneware, wood, 20,3 x 109,2 x 81,3 cm / 18 x 43 x 32 in
installation view, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles photo: Fredrik Nilsen
tile table, c. 1990
(alternate view)
amigos gatos y perros, 1997
glazed ceramic, 22,8 x 17,8 x 2,5 cm / 9 x 7 x 1 in
untitled, 1997
glazed ceramic, 43,5 x 43,5 x 1,2 cm / 17.1 x 17.1 x 0.5 in
untitled, 2017
glazed ceramic, 11,4 x 10,7 x 13,3 cm / 4.5 x 4.2x 5.2 in
untitled, 2016
glazed ceramic, 32,3 x 26 cm / 12.7 × 10.2 in
biography
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (b. 1929 in Caracas, Venezuela) lives and works in Venice, California. In the 1940s she studied painting at Artes Plasticas, Caracas, Venezuela, moving in 1949 to study sculpture at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. In 1963, Suarez Frimkess was awarded a fellowship to study ceramics at the The Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY, where she met her partner and long-time collaborator, Michael Frimkess. While their collaborative work has achieved acclaim, her first solo exhibition was not held until 2013, at 84 years-old. Since that debut, she has been undoubtedly known for her unique hand-painted ceramics, recognized for their unique flare in the candid capturing of pop culture iconography, ancient histories, mythologies and intimate memory.
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York, Kaufmann repetto in New York and Milan, and South Willard, Los Angeles. Her work was included in Made in LA, the Hammer Museum Biennial, Los Angeles (2014) and the 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (2015), as well as in group exhibitions at MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles (2017) and Nouveau musée national de Monaco, Monaco (2021). In 2024, her work will be the subject of a career retrospective at LACMA, Los Angeles.
Suarez Frimkess’ work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, among others.
2024
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles
upcoming group exhibitions
2023 Funk You Too!: Contemporary Ceramics and the Legacy of Funk Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Selected solo exhibitions
2022 The World is my menu, kaufmann repetto, new york Conversations with Magdalena: The Ceramic Art of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Art Division Students, Art Division, Los Angeles
2019 Magdalena Suarez Frimkess | 90, South Willard, Los Angeles
2018
Hand Built Ceramics 1958-2018, with Michael Frimkess, South Willard, Los Angeles Magdalena Suarez Frimkess | New Work, South Willard, Los Angeles
2017 Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, kaufmann repetto, New York
2016 Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, kaufmann repetto, Milano
2015 Magdalena Suarez Frimkess | New Works, South Willard, Los Angeles
2014 Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, White Columns, New York Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, South Willard, Los Angeles
Selected group exhibitions
2021 Clay Pop, Deitch Projects, New York
2020 Artifices instables, Stories of ceramics, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco Vent’anni – Twenty Years, 20th anniversary exhibition, kaufmann repetto, Milan
2019 Siobhan Liddell: Nobody’s World, Gordon Robichaux, New York
2017 How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney, MAK Center, Sindler House, Los Angeles
2016 Magdalena Suarez Frimkess & Ben Russell, Michael Jon & Alan, Miami
2015 The Avant-Garde Won’T Give Up: Cobra And Its Legacy, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Kelly Marie Conder, Bella Foster, South Willard, Los Angeles Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, selected by Cleopatra’s, White Columns, New York
2014 Selected By…, Limoncello, London Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles
Made In L.A. 2014, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2013
Grapevine, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles The Cat Show, White Columns, New York Why is Everything the Same?, Shoot The Lobster, New York
2012 Michael and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, South Willard, Los Angeles New Work/ Vintage, Lacoste Gallery, Concord
2011 Contemporary Ceramics, Danese, New York
1988 Comic Iconoclasm, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Selected public collections
Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
