Freya Powell uses time-based and linguistic platforms to explore language and its relationship to memory, myth, and history. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at Art in General, Brooklyn, NY (2017), Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN (2017), Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (2014.) She has participated in group shows at institutions including EFA Project Space, New York, NY, Queens Museum, Corona, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, #1 Cartagena: the First International Biennale of Art, Cartagena de India, Colombia, and the Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, among others. Her work is in the collections of the New York Public Library; the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection; and the Franklin Furnace Archive. Most recently she was included in MoMA PS1’s survey show Greater New York (2021) and received two New Work Grants from the Queens Council on the Arts (2019 & 2021), and a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant (2022.) Powell holds an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY and a BA from Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY.

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