Roland De Fries

American artist of Belgian-German descent.
Lives and works in New York City.

Art Students League New York, Studio Gregg Kreutz and Studio Sam Goodsell
2024-25 Art Students League, Margaret Stefan Draughon Merit Scholarship for Painting
1984-92 Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Germany (BFA and MFA), and Philosophy (Aesthetics and Semiotics) at University Stuttgart.

2025 Art Students League Salons Studio 6 (Kreutz) and Studio 8 (Goodsell)
2024 Art Miami Context
2024 Aqualina Sunny Isles Miami
2023 Art Students League New York Holiday Group Exhibition
2023 MIAF K-ART Seoul Korea
2023 Art Miami Context
2023 'One Thousand Museum' Miami
2023 Solo Exhibition 'Everything Must Go!' Undercroft Gallery 1085 Fifth Avenue
2023 'Love Bade Me Welcome' Undercroft Gallery Group Exhibition, 1085 Fifth Avenue
2023 Student Salon Art Students League Group Exhibition
2022 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
2022 Arts Initiative / Curating: 'Remember Me' Public Art Installation, 1085 Fifth Avenue, Artist: Hank Willis Thomas
2022 'Re-Imaging Rural' ChaShaMa Group Exhibit Brooklyn Heights
2022 Award/Grant Creatives Rebuild New York (A. Mellon Foundation)
2022 AIA Art by Architects New York (group exhibit)
2022 In+Sight New York (group exhibit)
2021 Artist-in-Residence ChaNorth
2021 Recipient New York City Art Corps Award
2020 Art by Architects AIA New York (virtual exhibit)
2019 Art by Architects, AIA New York
2019 Heavenly Lights New York (NYFA open call)
2018 Heavenly Lights New York (group exhibit)
2017 Heavenly Lights New York (group exhibit)
2017/18 Inaugural Artist-in-Resident, Church of the Heavenly Rest, 1085 F...