Jonah Freeman

JONAH FREEMAN was born in 1975 in Santa Fe, NM and lives and works in New York City. He has a degree in Film Production and Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He has exhibited extensively since 1998. His work, while grounded in the filmmaking process, has manifested in a variety of forms including painting, pictures, environments, and films. The themes of his work are primarily focused on the odysseys of the constructed world and the resulting social and psychological effects. Fiction is often employed as a means of uncanny distortion in the depiction of specific social/historical situations.

Since 2007 he has engaged in a collaborative project, known as Freeman/Lowe, with artist Justin Lowe. Together they produce large-scale architectural scenarios that explore the connections between counterculture and industrial society. Their signature form of spatial collage creates sprawling sequences of interiors that turn the everyday architectural experience into a cinematic montage.

Solo exhibitions include at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Artist Space, New York; Galerie Mitterrand, Paris and Geneva; Play, Berlin; Kadist Foundation, Paris, and Public Art Fund, New York. Museum Exhibitions include at MOMA P.S. 1, New York; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève; Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea; The Kitchen, New York, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. His films have screened in film festivals that include The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Locarno International Film Festival and The Rome International Film Festival.

Freeman/Lowe’s collaborative projects have been exhibited at Deitch Projects, New York; Marlborough Gallery, New York and London; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museo Maat, Lisbon, Portugal; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, Germany; Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland; Ballroom, Marfa; Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey, and Taipei Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan.

Freeman/Lowe will present their first solo American Museum exhibition at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in October 2024.