Cari Freno lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She uses video, drawing and sculpture to explore the landscape where internal and external worlds intersect. She is currently a professor of Drawing and Sculpture at Ursinus College.
EDUCATION
2009 MFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2004 BFA The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2017
20/92 Video Screening, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Sum Certain, Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
A Dubious Procedure, Edwards Art Center Main Gallery, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2016
A Dubious Procedure, High Tide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
ImageOhio, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
2015
The Woodmere Annual: 74th Juried Exhibition, The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
What Was I?, Little Berlin annex space, Philadelphia, PA (solo show)
2014
Good Neighbors, The Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
2011
Public Art Academy Artist in Residence Exhibition , The Pajama Factory, Williamsport, PA
Performance Post Appropriation (screening), Nightengale Theatre, Chicago, IL
Cold Open, Possible Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Greener on the Other Side (screening), Organhaus, Chongqing, PRC
Tacit, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
2010
I Am Two With Nature, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC (two-person show)
Your Swimming Brain, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Show VI, MMX, Berlin, DEU
Freedom Sparks, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, BC
The Shifting Face: Portraiture and the Art of the Moving Image, (screening) Cornell University, Ithica, NY
2009
I Donʼt Watch the Internet, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery,Philadelphia, PA
Words on Paper, Words on Screen, Cabell Library, Richmond, VA
The Pocahontas State Park Series, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (solo show)
FEED Biennial, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
HAPPY TREE FRIENDS (Or Standing: (Tree as Agent, Index, And Object of Desire), La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
Blend- FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008
The Candidates, Central Fidelity Bank Building, Richmond, VA
VCU/Arizona State University exchange show- Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Tangents, Slaughterhouse Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
VCU/Pratt exchange show- Steuben Galleries, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Videofocus, Stigmart 10 Art Review pgs. 16-23
http://e.issuu.com/embed.html#6477836/10643423
2011 Tacit Group Exhibition Catalogue, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
One Year One Book, MMX Open Art Venue, Berlin, DEU
PRESS
2014 Ursinus Show a Strong Statement, Edith Newhall, The Inquirer
2013 On and On Screen,http://onandonscreen.net/issue-8/Ryan_Eckes-red_sky.html
2010 Nature Lovers, Nick Smith, Charleston City Paper
2009 Post-Modern Flurries in Fleisher Ollman’s Emerging Artist Show, Roberta Fallon, The Artblog
Feed 2009, Richmond, VA, Andrew Kozlowski, Art Papers
Shhhh!, Edith Newhall, Philly.com
La Esquina’s Happy Tree Friends is Smarter and Subtler than it’s Title, Dana Self, The Pitch
Happy Tree Friends Exhibition Catalogue, La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
PRESENTATIONS
2014 The Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA, Artist Talk in conjunction with Good Neighbors
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, Guest Lecture in Digital Portfolio Class
2011 Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, Guest Lecture in Digital Video Class
2011 Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Gallery Talk, Richmond, VA
2010 Redux Contemporary Art Center, Gallery Talk, Charleston, SC
2010 Ursinus College, Philadelphia, PA, Guest Lecture in Sculpture class