Fran Siegel (b. 1960) isolates, examines, and rearticulates conventional approaches to drawing and painting in order to unpack the visual iconographies that influence how we interpret the world. Her large-scale installations incorporate porcelain, African Dutch cloth, cyanotype, and Flashe paint, with commonplace materials such as denim, string, and paper to reimagine familiar associations through unique composition.
Siegel has exhibited internationally and undertaken numerous fellowships and residencies. She earned her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art and her B.F.A from Tyler School of Art. Her monumental works have been acquired by LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA’ Long Beach Museum of Art, CA’ Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; the Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, CA, and others. She is currently a professor in the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach, CA.