CURRICULUM VITAE
b. Hong Kong 1963
Permanent resident of US: Green Card
Lives and works in down town Los Angeles
Website: http://www.kayefreeman.com
2024: Winner Juror’s Award -Brand Works on Paper 52
Solo
2022 Cosmic Origami, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon GA USA
2021 Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsen AL USA
In the Midsts of All That Is, Band of Vices, Los Angeles
2019 Anatomy of a Painting, curated/ collaborated with Amy Kaps for
MOAH, Lancaster CA
2012 Floating Worlds, Wangaratta Gallery, Australia
Fluids, Gasworks, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Kingdom, Gallery 775, Australia
Floating Worlds, Frankston Arts Centre, Australia
2009 Falling Sky, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Falling Sky, Wodonga Art Space, Australia
Art At Work, Wodonga Council Chambers, Australia
2002 Tokyo Disney Death Mask, TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Two Artist Show: TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001 Kaye Freeman, TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996 The Tribe, ARDT Gallery Sydney, Australia
Group shows
2024 Ephemera 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Highways Performance and Art Space Santa Monica
Vigil, Dorado Gallery Los Angeles
Tufenkian Gallery group show Los Angels
2023 Drinks, Dorado Gallery Los Angeles
Wytches, Dorado Gallery Los Angeles
2021 C11H17NO3, Band of Vices, *Curated by Terrell Tilford
Multifaceted, Tufenkian Fine Arts Los Angeles,
*Curated by Peter Frank
2020 That Layered Look, Tufenkian Fine Arts Los Angeles
*Curated by Peter Frank
2019 Eye to Eye, Band of Vices, *Curated by Terrell Tilford
2018 Clay Contemporary, Norfolk, United Kingdom
2017 Two Artist Show: New Anatomy, curated by House of Wren at Castelli
2016 Rogue, House of Wren, Los Angeles, USA
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2015 At_Salon2, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Words that Matter, Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery, Australia
2014 Venice Art Walk, Los Angeles, USA
2013 “the rest is silence,” Death Be Kind, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Gallery 775, Australia
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Gallery 775, Australia
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Small Works, Brunswick St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2007 9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Albury Regional Art Gallery, Australia
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Fresh & Unframed, Yackandandah Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2002 Fluro Show, TAP Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2001 Buiten, Chiba Municipal Gallery, Japan
1997 Manly Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996 Leichardt Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Tamworth Art Gallery, Australia
1995 Four Women, ARDT Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Temple of The Third Millennium, Urban Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Christmas Show, ARDT Sydney Australia
Kaye Freeman (b. 1963, Hong Kong, China) Explores the nature of transformation and the symbiosis of organic matter in the natural world. Her work utilizes painting, drawing, performance and film to describe the micro and macro of interconnections between environment, the self and nature. Most recently she was awarded the Juror’s Choice award at the Brand Works on Paper 52 anual exhibition, by renowned art critic Shana Nys Dambrot for her monolithic drawing titled The Ascension of Tubbsie, a work created to celebrate the passing of her dog into the ether. Freeman earned her BA and Masters in Japanese language and art education from the University Victoria Australia. Prior to that she earned her diploma in painting and print making from TAFE NSW. Freeman was a recipient of the John Olsen Scholarship at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. Recent solos shows include, Cosmic Origami at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon GA. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsen AL. Recent performances include; Sea Levels Rising for Diverse Art LA at the Los Angeles Art Show, Air at Building Bridges Santa Monica, Lifes: All Fours: The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Air with the Heidi Duckler Dance Company. Ongoing collaboration with Amy Kaps: Hibiscus TV. A recipient of the She Prize for portraiture in Australia and first place for painting at the Beverly Hills Art Fair in 2018. Freeman was granted an O1 visa in 2016 for gifted artists. She is a qualified Masters of Wisdom Mediation teacher and lives and works in down town Los Angels with her husband, actor Miguel Perez and her dog Oscar the wise.
Teaching and artist talks
2023 Winter Camp, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
Kaleidoscopic Drawing Workshop, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
2021 Artist Talk Multifaceted Exhibition, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Los Angeles
2020 Artist Talk Featured as Artist of the Week at Tufenkian Fine Arts
Artist Talk: In the Midst of All that is. Band of Vices
2015 Guest Lecturer, Saddleback College, CA, USA
Guest Lecturer, National Arts School, Sydney,
2014 Guest Lecturer, Saddleback College, CA, USA
Opening Speech and Guest Adjudicator,
Wangaratta Jazz Festival Art Competition Vic, Australia.
2013 Opening Speech, Wangaratta TAFE Exhibition at
Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia.
2012 Artist in Residence Talk, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Australia
2011 Artist in Residence Talk, Wodonga Art Gallery, Australlia
2007-13 Art and Japanese Teacher, Wangaratta High School Victoria Education, Australia
1994-96 Japanese Instructor at Tamworth TAFE Australia
1983-89 Contemporary & Classical Dance Instructor,
Aboriginal Dance Theatre Redfern Australia
Performance
2024 Live performance with HIBISCUS TV at Los Angeles Art Show
Hibiscus TV 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Highways Performance and
Art Space Santa Monica
2023 Performance of AIR with HIBISCUS TV
Building Bridges Art Exchange Los Angeles
Performance of AIR with HIBISCUS TV at Heidi Duckler
Dance Company, Ebb and Flow Festival, State Park Chinatown,
2022 Lifes: All Fours:,The Hammer Museum, Los
*Curated by Aram Moshayedi
Ladies Lair Lake, LAND Los Angeles
*Created by Trulee Hall
2021 WOLF, Torrance Museum, NOMAD, Torrence,
Los Angeles
Collaborations
2018 – present Hibiscus TV with Amy Kaps
2018 Turn and Face the Strange, Book published with
Poet Natasha Dennerstein by Norfolk Press.
Digital Exhibitions :
Solo
2020 Further from Heaven Band of Vices, Los Angeles
Group
2023 Hidden Gallery
2020 Museum Program Exhibition Curated by Cross Contemporary Partners
Art Fairs
2018 Beverly Hills Art Fair
Palm Springs Art Fair with Cassera Art Premiers
2017 LA Art Fair with BG Gallery Los Angeles
Palm Springs Art Fair with Cassera Art Premiers
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2024: Winner, Jurys Award -Brand Works on Paper 52
2018 Winner, Painting, Beverly Hills Art Fair USA
Second Place, 21st Century Open,Woman Made Gallery Chicago USA
2017 PAPER perVIEW, Brand Library & Art Center
Glendale, USA
2012 Mount Eyer Art Prize, David Rex Livingston
Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Sydney, Australia
2011 She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Mount Eyer Art Prize, David Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 Winner, She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery, Australia
Mount Eyer Art Prize, David Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Melbourne, Australia
St. Michael’s Archangel Prize, Melbourne, Australia
Works On Paper, Brunswick St. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2007 She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Winner, Chroma Art Award For Outstanding Student Work, Australia
1991 Winner, John Olsen Scholarship, Julian Ashton, Sydney, Australia
1988 Winner, Best Female Performer, Festival of New Australian Theatre