Edgar Fabián Frías
Edgar Fabián Frías MFA ‘22
Email: edgar_frias@berkeley.edu
Website: edgarfabianfrias.org
Edgar Fabián Frías (b: 1983, Los Angeles, CA) is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous (Wixárika) and Brown multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist. They work in photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other emergent genres.
Their work has been exhibited at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA; SOMArts, San Francisco, CA; Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Performance is Alive, New York, NY; and ArtBo, Bogotá, Colombia; among others.
Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from the University of California, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy.