Anna Friemoth is an artist born and based in Brooklyn, New York who uses photography to project fantastical universes from ordinary materials and situations. Her work involves a mix of social engagement, private and public performance, and technological experimentation. In Friemoth’s studio laboratory, common tools like gel filters, food dyes, scanners, and screens become portals to alternate realms. Bodies and faces likewise become canvases for expressions of pure color, light, shape and form. Friemoth’s first entryway to photography was in front of her mother’s lens—as a baby, she was on the cover of Time Magazine and Newsweek via her mother’s studio pictures. Over time, she began to explore her own interests both behind and in front of the camera, taking herself and subjects around her as compositional materials. Friemoth’s work has been published in France, South Korea, Turkey, China, London and New York, in BLINK Magazine, Beautiful/Decay, Feature Shoot, MATTE Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Her series “Insight” was exhibited at Palazzo Mora in the context of the 57th Venice Biennale; and “Words for Women” was featured in Time, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Slate, and Vice. She received her B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art and Central Saint Martins.
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Solo Exhibitions
2020 Vertigo, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Words for Women, Gallery 151, New York, New York
2013 Self Portraits, Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
MISS UNIVERSE, Julia Seabrook Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Night Skies and Astro Imaging, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy
2022
Face, Ubique, New York, New York
2020
Darkest Before Dawn, Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Beacon, New York
2018
Instant Satisfaction, Happylucky no.1, Brooklyn, New York
2017
Personal Structures, organized by the GAA Foundation in the context of the 57th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2016
One Clover and a Bee. And Reverie., Happylucky no.1, Brooklyn, New York
2015
New Hampshire Institute of Art: 2015 Biennial, Manchester, New Hampshire
Four Generations, Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
2014
New American Color, Toledo, Ohio
2013
Daniel Cooney Fine Art Emerging Photographers Auction, New York, New York
Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
2012
Women’s Works, Old Courthouse Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2011
67th Ohio Annual 2011, Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, Ohio
Emerging Artists Summer 2011, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, Maryland
Women’s Works, Old Courthouse Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2010
MICA Undergraduate Show Juried Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland
2008
Radiant Minds, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Radiant Minds, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
Press & Publications
2023
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
2021
Portraiture Gallery Issue I ''Ego Death"
2017
A Women's Thing
Visionary Artistry Magazine
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Matte Magazine, Issue 10
Education
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, Maryland BFA in Photography
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, England Fashion Communication and Promotion