freyja fristad Curriculum Vitae
Residing and working across Dharawal & Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia)
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EDUCATION
Master of Fine Art (Printmaking), National Art School, Sydney, 2024
Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking), National Art School, Sydney, 2022
Foundation year in Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2019
AWARDS/PRIZES
Finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Indigenous Emerging), 2025
Recipient of the National Art School Aboriginal Art Centre Internship, 2024
Finalist in the Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award, 2023
Finalist in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, 2023
Winner of the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Indigenous Emerging), 2023
Recipient of the Megalo Studio and Gallery Residency Award, 2022
Recipient of the Mark Henry Cain Memorial Travel Scholarship, 2022
Finalist in the ArtRules Prize, 2018
Solo EXHIBITIONs
2025 Between Vessel and Void, PARKER Contemporary, Brisbane
Group EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize Exhibition of Finalists, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
Open Print Exchange 2024-25, Köln, Germany [touring internationally]
Disruption, Queensland College of Art and Design (WEBB Gallery), Griffith University, Brisbane
Edition 6, curated by More Than Reproduction, Our Neon Foe, Sydney
2024 Colin Holden Print Commission 2024 Exhibition, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
NAS Library Artists’ Book Annual Exhibition, National Art School (Library Stairwell Gallery), Sydney
Post Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
Open Print Exchange 2023-24, Köln, Germany [touring internationally]
DISRUPTION Discourse and Exchange, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Exhibition Hall, Fine Arts Building), Bangkok, Thailand
Schmick Contemporary Fundraiser, Schmick Contemporary, Sydney
2023 Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Exhibition, Hazelhurst Arts Centre (Hazelhurst Gallery), Sydney
Open Print Exchange 2022-23, Köln, Germany [touring internationally]
DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange, curated by Carolyn McKenzie–Craig, 16Albermarle project space, Sydney
Wish you were here: Megalo Artists in Residence 2013-2023, Megalo Print Studio, Canberra
PUSH Mag Launch, curated by PUSH Magazine, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize Exhibition of Finalists, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
FUTUREPROOF, Megalo Print Studio [online]
GOOD THINGS IN SMALL PACKAGES, curated by Make Space Art Collective, Bad News Gallery, Wollongong
2022 BFA Grad Show, National Art School, Sydney
The International Print Exchange 2021-22, Köln, Germany [touring internationally]
NOCLIP, National Art School (Library Stairwell Gallery), Sydney
PICKLED: An Emerging Printmaker’s Exhibition, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney
2020 Margret Olley Drawing Week Exhibition, National Art School (Rayner Hoff Project Space), Sydney
2018 ArtRules Exhibition, Hazelhurst Arts Centre (Broadhurst Gallery), Sydney
RESIDENCIES
Megalo Print Studio, April-May, Canberra, 2023
COLLECTIONS/ACQUISITIONS
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
City of Sydney, Sydney
Insitut Seni Surakarta, Surakarta (Indonesia)
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok (Thailand)
Queensland College of Art & Design, Griffith University, Brisbane
16albermarle Project Space, Sydney
Ravenswood School for Girls Collection, Sydney
Megalo Print Studio Archive, Canberra
National Art School Archive, Sydney
Curtin University Printmaking Collection, Perth
RMIT Printmaking Collection, Melbourne
University of Southern Queensland Printmaking Collection, Queensland
National Art School Printmaking Archive, Sydney
Open Press Project, Köln (Germany)
Private Collections: Australia + worldwide
PUBLICATIONS
Featured in IMPRINT for the ‘PCA Colin Holden Print Commission 2024’, Summer 2024 Vol.59 No.4
Feature artist and interview (September) with More Than Reproduction, 2024
Featured in the Open Print Exchange 2023-24 Catalogue, 2024
Interview with Aoife Moynihan for North Shore Living in Female art celebrated at Ravenswood, 2023
Interview with Angela Stretch for Talking Through Your Arts in Program 33 – 23 Arts Friday on Eastside, 2023
Interview with Ravenswood School for Girls for the 2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, 2023
Featured in the Open Print Exchange 2022-23 Catalogue, 2023
Featured in the Open Print Exchange 2021-22 Catalogue, 2022
Professional Engagement
Intern (May-July), Ernabella Arts , South Australia, 2025
Co-facilitated Bespoke Masterclass: Heat Press Collage at Sticky Beak Festival with Bella LaSpina and Annabelle McEwen at the National Art School, Sydney, 2024
Co-facilitated Patchwork (Heat Press Printmaking) with Annabelle McEwen at NAS NEO - STATE OF AFFAIRS at the National Art School, Sydney, 2023
Participated in DJURALI (alumni workshop), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2022
Short Course Intern (Ceramics) with Dr Louise Boscacci at the National Art School, Sydney, 2021
Participated in DJURALI (creative pathways workshop), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2017
Participated in DJAMU (program for Indigenous art education), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017
OTHER ARTISTIC INVOLVEMENT
Open Print Exchange 2024-25 with Open Press Project, Köln, Germany, 2025
Open Print Exchange 2023-24 with Open Press Project, Köln, Germany, 2024
DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange with Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta (Surakarta, Indonesia), King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Bangkok, Thailand), Queensland College of Art (Brisbane, Australia), and the National Art School (Sydney, Australia).
Open Print Exchange 2022-23 with Open Press Project, Köln, Germany, 2023
20x20 Printmaking Exchange Portfolio with Curtin University, RMIT, the University of Southern Queensland, and the National Art School, 2022
Open Print Exchange 2021-22 with Open Press Project, Köln, Germany, 2022