Frank Green (b.1958 - d. 2013) was an artist and writer living in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a six-time Ohio Arts Council fellowship recipient in the areas of performance art, media arts, interdisciplinary art, and criticism. He has performed throughout the U.S. and Canada, including five times as a feature artist in the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, and at Franklin Furnace and Dixon Place in New York, the Lab in San Francisco, 7A 11D Performance Festival in Toronto, Wexner Center in Columbus, New Gallery in Calgary and AKA in Saskatoon. He is the art critic for the Cleveland Free Times, an alternative weekly newspaper.
Frank Green used condoms, crutches, nooses, and naked bodies, including his own, in controversial installations and performances.

Frank Green installed and performed art: news obituary (Cleveland.com)
Updated: Feb. 01, 2013, 7:45 p.m.|Published: Feb. 01, 2013, 6:45 p.m.
Green died Jan. 23 at Shaker Gardens from complications of AIDS. He was 55.
"Frank was a formidable intellectual force on the Cleveland avant-garde scene," Tom Mulready wrote on CoolCleveland.com. "The work was dense, challenging, rigorous."

Green was raised in Parma Heights. He graduated from Valley Forge High School and studied filmmaking at Kent State University.
He performed in New York from 1980 to 1988, then moved to Tremont. He appeared in the Sonic Disturbance Festival and in four Cleveland International Performance Art Festivals. He performed the AIDS-themed "Scarlet Letters" at Cleveland Public Theater, at Ohio State University, in Calgary, in Phoenix and elsewhere.

He installed work at Ohio City's Spaces gallery, published poetry and fiction and wrote for Northern Ohio Live, the Free Times and other periodicals. He won three grants from the Ohio Arts Council.

Green drew all sorts of reactions.
In 1996, Plain Dealer freelance critic Linda Eisenstein called his show "Science Gets Serious" a "tour-de-force... It's a daring, deep, and often thrilling voyage." But Plain Dealer's Steven Litt called one of Green's installations "overbearing and oppressive" and said another "succeeds mainly in creating nausea and disgust."
The artist's sister, Sandy Green, said he didn't mind criticism. "He enjoyed being controversial. He wanted people to pay attention." Survivors include his father and six siblings.

Artist Code: 563