Andrew Freeman is a photographer, writer, filmmaker and curator based in Los Angeles, California. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Long Exposures: Photography Essays from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (2006); Art, Media and Contested Space, Belfast Biennale, Belfast, Ireland (2008); The Ground Falls Away: expansion, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, California (2009); Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New Technologies, at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Arizona (2010). Publications include [Manzanar] Architecture Double (2006) through RAM Publications, and The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Freeman has received grants from The LEF Foundation Publication Grant (2002), LEF Foundation Special Project Grant (2003), Graham Foundation Art and Architecture (2003), City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs individual Artist Fellowship (2007), and The Center for Cultural Innovation (2009). His work has been written about in Frieze, The Los Angeles Times, Afterimage, and American Quarterly. Freeman has taught in the Photography & Media program at the California Institute of the Arts since 1990, also working as the Program Director from 2003-2010. From 1995 through the present he has helped direct the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) photography program.
Freeman is currently working on several archive-based projects including a film using previously unseen and unreleased footage of Buckminster Fuller; and a new book titled This Year’s Irony.
RECENT PRESS:
American Quarterly 2011
Afterimage 2010
Time Out, London 2006
Frieze 2006
CV
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Born Seattle, Washington
Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1989 MFA, Program in Photography, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts
1984 BFA, Anthropology, College Eight, University of California, Santa Cruz California
EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Center for Creative Photography, Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New Technologies, Tuczon, Arizona
2009 Sam Lee Gallery, Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New Technologies, Los Angeles, California
2009 Las Cienegas Projects, The Ground Falls Away: expansion, Los Angeles, California
2007 Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, C.O.L.A 2007, Los Angeles, California
2006 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Long Exposures: Photography Essays from the Permanent Collection,
Los Angeles, California
Tal Esther Gallery, Studio City, Tel Aviv, Israel
Pescali & Sproveri Gallery, Studio City, London, Uk
2005 Teoretica Gallery, Crossfade, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Villa Nova Gallery, Crossfade, San Salvador, El Salvador
Teoretica Gallery, Experimenter Remix, San Jose, Costa Rica
South LaBrea Gallery, Addicted to Love, Los Angeles, California
LA Freewaves, Golden Throats: The Best of Freewaves Karaoke, Los Angeles, California
2004 Gallery Luisotti, Itineraries, Santa Monica, California
ISEA 2004 Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, Contraband, Stowaway Lounge: Artist-made Karaoke Videos,
Sweden and Finland
El Teatro Presidente, Experimenter Remix: F.US.I.O.N, San Salvador, El Salvador
Teoretica National Center for the Arts, CrossFade, San Salvador, El Salvador
Center for Land Use Interpretation, Diversions & Dislocations, California’s Owens Valley, Los Angeles, California
Festival Universal de Sonido, Imagen y Ondas Nuevas, Experimenter Remix, F.U.S.I.O.N., San Jose, Costa Rica,
curated by Amy Blount Lay and Soo Kim
2003 Arts Center Gallery, Orange Coast College, Orange, California
The National Center for the Arts (CENAR), Experimenter Remix, San Salvador, El Salvador
Gallery 101, some important pictures, some important photographs, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Grey Design, Aerial, Los Angeles, California
2002 LA Freewaves, Step Up to the Mic!, artist’s Karaoke videos, Los Angeles Freewaves Film & Video Festival,
Los Angeles, California
2001 Acuña Hansen Gallery, For Example, Los Angeles, California
2000 Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Time, Space Obsolete In New View of the Universe, University of Las Vegas,
Las Vegas, Nevada
Beyond Baroque, Legal Papers, Venice, California
Democratic National Convention Exhibition, DNC Exhibition, Los Angeles, California
1999 Side Street Projects, Untitled Document; Landing Beacon, film presentation, Santa Monica, California
Film project for Side Street Projects’ web-site magazine
1998 Sao Paulo Biennial, collaborative photographic work with Michael Asher, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Women’s 20th Century Club, I’m Still In Love with You, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Artist’s Studio, Blind Date, A Drawing & Text Group Show, Los Angeles
Midnight Special, Potential & Regret, Reading/Performance, Santa Monica, California
1996 Alyce de Roulet Wialiamson Gallery, Open House; Attic/Storage, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Bennett Roberts Fine Art, Occupato; Station Clock, Los Angeles, California
Remsen Bird Amphitheater, Program for Paradise; Picnic on the Grass, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California
Three Day Weekend, A Cocktail Party; fixture, Los Angeles, California
1994 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Second Nature: Ruins, Santa Monica, California
Fine Arts Gallery, New Work, University of California, Irvine
1993 Irvine Marketplace, Art for Life’s Sake; from here to there, Irvine, California
Side Street Projects, Artist’s Writing/Reading Room, Santa Monica, California
Foundation for Art Resources, Far Parked: Truck Stop, Venice, California
1992 Foundation for Art Resources, Far Bazaar: Architectural Digest, City of Los Angeles, California
Foundation for Art Resources, Far Bazaar: Spy V. Spy, City of Los Angeles
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape, Santa Monica, California
1991 D300, faculty exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1990 The Gate Gallery, 11 Artists, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California
1989 D301, Chronology, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
L-Shape, Project Aids, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
A402, The Splendor of Things, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1988 Nicaragua Centro d‘ Cultura, Project Nicaragua, a cultural exchange, Managua, Nicaragua
1987 Bay Gallery, Photography in 1987, Santa Cruz, California
1986 Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Contempor‘ry Exemplr‘y, Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz
1985 Space to Space Gallery, In Series 1984; Hemisphere Plaza, Nagoya, Japan
1985 Space to Space Gallery, In Series 1985; Santa Cruz Architecture, Nagoya, Japan
1984 Provost’s Gallery, South of Market & The Landscape Suicide, College 5, University of California, Santa Cruz
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006 South La Brea Gallery, A palindromic life, Inglewood, California, artists: Ellen Birrell, David Bunn, Helen Kim,
Thomas Lawson, Lewis Mauk, Shelby Roberts, Efrat Shalem, Sally Stein, Jonas Wood.
1994 Side Street Projects, Regarding the Territory, Santa Monica, California
BIBILIOGRAPHY
2006 [Manzanar] Architecture Double, Ram Publications / Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Essays by Matthew Coolidge, Karin Higa, Elizabeth Wiatr
2003 Waco Texas is not Waco Texas, exhibition essay, Orange Coast College, Orange, California
2003 some important pictures, some important photographs, catalog & essay, Southern Illinois Universtiy
2000 The DNC Show, Catalog, Democratric National Convention Center, Los Angeles, California
2000 Time, Space Obsolete In New View of the Universe, essay & catalog, University of Las Vegas, NV
1998 Malibu on Fire, The Ecology of Fear, photographic work, author Mike Davis
1996 Open House, catalog, Pasadena Art Alliance, Art Center College of Design
Recollections and Recompense, Plot, exhibition essay for Shelby Roberts,Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
1996 Potential & Regret, Things that Quicken the Heart, anthology, editor Soo Kim
1992 Wrest, Impolotic, FrameWork, vol. 6 issue 1
1991 Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Los Angeles Riots, Against the Current, #39 July/August, photographic works
1990 Abandon Your Resources, Art X Press, vol. 1 no. 3 October, 1990
1989 Iowa, Oversight Magazine vol. 1 issue 1, 1989
1989 Narcissism, Schema Z and the Name of the Father, Psychoanalysis and the Field of Vision , Mary Kelly & Jane Rubin,
California Institute of the Arts
REVIEWS
2011 Cheng, Wendy. “ ‘New Topographics’: Locating Epistemological Concerns in the American Landscape,”
American Quarterly, American Studies Association
2010 Albers, Kate Palmers. “Cartographic Postings: GPS, Photography, and Landscape,” Afterimage, Vol. 37, No. 5
2009 Mizota, Sharon. “Finding Some New Terrain,” The Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2009
2007 Westerbeck, Colin. “Photo Synthesis, #3.4.04 – Don Becker’s Garage & Guesthouse Independence,
California N36˚48.229’ W118˚11.620’,” Los Angeles Times West Magazine
2006 O’Reilly, Sally. “Studio City,” Frieze, Issue 100, June-July –August 2006
2006 Sumpter, Helen. “Studio City, Architecture Double” Time Out London, March 29, 2006
2000 Christian, Claire; “In The Eye of the Beholder” LVCity Life, News and Culture Weekly, November 23, 2000
1999 Leffingwell, Edward. “Report from Sao Paulo, Cannibals All,” Art In America, May 1999
1996 Frank, Peter; “Pick of the Week, Open House Exhibition” L.A. Weekly, December 13, 1996
1994 Curtis, Cathy; “Faculty Show is a Grade Above the Others,” Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1994
1992 Curtis, Cathy; “Visual AIDS,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1993
1989 Hoffberg, Judith; “New Periodicals,” High Performance, #47 Fall 1989
1985 Nagoya Sin Bun, Ashi Press, March 25, 1985 (interview/review)
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2009 Center for Cultural Innovation, Individual Artist Grant
2007 City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, C.O.L.A.
2003 Graham Foundation Art & Architecture
2003 LEF Foundation Special Project Grant
2002 LEF Foundation Publication Grant
Faculty Development Grant
CalArts Project Grants
Educational Development Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
TEACHING
1995 –Present Faculty, Photography & Media, California Institute of the Arts
2003 – 2010 Co-Director of Photography & Media, Director of Technical Curriculum, California Institute of the Arts
1995 – 2010 Faculty, Director of Technical Curriculum, Photography & Media, California Institute of the Arts,
1992 – 2007 Photography Program Co-Director, Community Arts Partnership programs in Los Angeles,
Santa Clarita Valley, California Insttute of the Arts
1992 – 1994 Technical Director of Photography Facilities, Direrctor of Technical Curriculum,
California Institute of the Arts
1993 Visiting Lecturer, University of California Irvine, School of Art
1990 – 1993 Visiting Faculty. Otis School of Art and Design
1989 – 1994 Technical Faculty, California Institute of the Arts
LECTURES
Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Society for Photogrpahic Education
Southern Illinois University
California College of Arts and Crafts
Art Center College of Design
University of Southern California
Occidental College
University of California, Irvine
MEMBERSHIPS
Fiat Lux, President of the Board, Co-Executive Director
NeoTropical Conservation Group, Artist Residency and Education Board Member
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Board Member
Society for Photographic Education
College Art Association
American Association of University Professors
BENEFITS
2007 Artist’s Benefit for Free Speech Television
2001 Disaster Relief Auction
2001 Venice Family Clinic, Venice California
2000 Venice Family Clinic, Venice California
1999 Venice Family Clinic, Venice California
1996 Clean Needles Now, @ LACE, Los Angeles California
1993 Clean Needles Now, @ LACPS, Los Angeles, California
1993 Out Auction, Los Angeles, California
1988 Act-Up Los Angeles, auction & poster production, Los Angeles, California