Edie Fake (b. 1980, Chicago) received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. One of the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists, Fake’s Gaylord Phoenix collection of comics won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse NY, the Museum of Art and Design in New York NY, and the Institute of Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond VA. Fake’s work is held in the collections of the Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines IA, the RISD Museum in Providence RI, KADIST in San Francisco CA, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park KS. Fake’s sitespecific wall paintings have been commissioned by the Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive in Berkeley CA and The Drawing Center in New York NY. Fake’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Art News, Art 21, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Comics Journal.
