The Power of Her Connection to the Everglades, 2024
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Chris Friday is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. Her portfolio features large-scale works on paper, murals, video, ceramics, projections, photography, comic illustrations, installations and social practice/activism through curating. Friday’s work has been included in exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally. Recent shows include solo exhibitions “Good Times” (2023) curated by Laura Novoa and presented at Oolite Arts (2023), “One More River” presented at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and group exhibitions such as “Rest is Power” (2023) curated by Deborah Willis and presented at New York University’s Center For Black Visual Culture, “The Cartography Project” presented by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (2022) and “Who Owns Black Art?” presented by Zeal Press (2019). Friday has received numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including being named the 2023 SouthArts Southern Prize and State Fellow for the State of Florida, a Knight Foundation “Knights Champion” support grant (2022), a “The Ellies” Creator award from Oolite Arts (2021), the GMBCV People's Choice award in Miami Beach's No Vacancy juried art show (2021), and residencies with MassMoCA (2023), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2022), and the Visual Arts Residency at Chautauqua Institute (2019).
