BIOGRAPHY

Freyja Fristad is a Wiradjuri print-based artist who lives and creates work across Dharawal and Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia) with a Master of Fine Art majoring in Printmaking from the National Art School. Fristad was the recipient of the National Art School Aboriginal Art Centre Internship and the Print Council of Australia's Colin Holden Print Commission in 2024, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Indigenous Emerging) in 2023, and the Megalo Studio and Gallery Residency Award (Printmaking) and the Mark Henry Cain Memorial Travel Scholarship in 2022. In 2025, she was a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Indigenous Emerging), and in 2023, the Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award, and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows, including  her solo Freyja Fristad: Between Vessel and Void at PARKER Contemporary, as well as group shows such as Edition 6 at Our Neon Foe, The PostGrad Show at the National Art School, DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange at 16Albermarle project space, and Wish You Were Here: Megalo Artists in Residence 2013-2023 at Megalo Print Studio. 

Her prints have been acquired by the National Art School, Ravenswood School for Girls Collection, Megalo Print Studio Archive, Curtain University Printmaking Collection, RMIT Printmaking Collection, and Southern Cross University Printmaking Collection among others.

Fristad has delivered print-based workshops and classes at the National Art School.