Laurie Frick Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Self tracking data becomes medium in the hands of Frick. The artist has said she wants to “understand how it feels to see yourself through your own data”, and that her paintings are “data portraits” that give form to the invisible rhythms of our lives. In May 2020, she cited as a touchstone, Ben Lipkowitz, a member of the Quantified Self community, who life-logged all of his daily time, tracking his every movement. “He believes if you collect enough data about yourself, you can create a future version of yourself. An avatar that goes beyond you.”

2020, What We Eat, Interactive digital app for Google Arts & Culture, London, UK

2019, Transylvania University, Data, Mine: Hasan Elahi & Laurie Frick, Lexington, KY

2019, Google, Talks at Google, Data is Irresistible, Austin, TX

2019, SXSW, The changing role of Women in the Arts, Austin, TX

2018, Tempo Refresh, 500ft Lamar underpass mural, paint, upholstered signs, LED solar lighting, Austin, TX

2018, Facebook, 45 ft wall and ceiling installation, handcut wood blocks and leather, Austin, TX

2018, TEDx LadyBirdLake, I want my data! Austin, TX

2017, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, PCA&D, Quantified-Self: the data doesn’t lie.

2017, SXSW, Relationships are Ripe for Machine Learning, Austin, TX

2016, IBM Design Research Conference keynote, The art of data, Austin, TX

2016, DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), Cultural program of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC,

In a 2015 feature for The Atlantic by Jacoba Urist Frick is featured prominently along with established figures such as Danish artist Jeppe Hein and US based artist Hans Haacke. The article identifies a group of artists who believe that self tracking offers insight into the human condition, while simultaneously asking whether the art can achieve these goals. Ultimately, the author leaves the question unanswered. Hyperallergic’s Allison Meier wrote that Frick’s work gives “us a better understanding of ourselves through place and time.”

2015, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Who are you, what day is it? New York, NY

2015, Advertising Age Data Conference, Data is Beautiful, New York, NY

2015, SXSW, From Digital Sharecropping to Data Emancipation, Austin, TX

2014, Creative Mornings, Human data, don’t hide….get more, Austin, TX

2013, Oklahoma Contemporary, Walking, Eating, Sleeping, Oklahoma City, OK

2013, TEDx Austin, The art of self-surveillance, Austin, TX

2012, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Death and Life of an Object, Los Angeles, CA

2012, Outstanding artist of the year voted by Austin Art Critics Table awards

2012. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York | Swing Space studio award

Frick’s art work has been featured in mass media publications including NPR’s All Things Considered, The Atlantic, and The Los Angeles Times along with online industry magazines such as Artnet and Hyperallergic. In 2011, Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times praised Frick’s exhibition at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, calling it “an invigorating immersion in pattern, rhythm, repetition and variation.” She went on to observe, “again and again in the work, the scientific impulse toward rigor and regularity is tempered by a whimsical urge toward improvisation.”

2011, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Laurie Frick: Sleep Patterns, Los Angeles, CA

Laurie Frick began her career in technology, most notably heading up the emerging markets group in consumer products at Compaq in 1996, before switching her focus to visual arts. After spending twenty years in the technology sector, Frick switched career paths. In 2007, Frick presented her MFA thesis exhibition at the New York Studio School and received her degree.