Freya Grand has been an artist all of her life. A native of Madison, Wisconsin she received her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, then went on to take additional courses in advanced oil painting at the University and courses in both intaglio and traditional Japanese wood block printing at the Haystack Mountain School in Deer Isle, Maine.
Grand lived for three years on the remote Queen Charlotte Islands in northern British Columbia in a cabin with no electricity or running water, and then later in rural Wisconsin. This period of life, lived so close to the land and the seasons, providing all of one’s own food and warmth, laid the foundation for her sense of closeness to the forces of nature, both the beauty and the danger.
Remote places continue to provide the sources for her work, places that possess the kind of deep resonance that she seeks – ominous beauty, vastness, the sense of time. At this time in our history when the fragile fabric of our natural world is so gravely threatened, this evocation of human emotional response to nature is even more vital.
Grand travels and hikes in places that are still untouched by human intervention. She lives and works in Washington, DC.
Her work has been widely exhibited on the East Coast and in Chicago and Santa Fe.
Museum exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC and an exhibition at the OAS Art Museum of the Americas in January 2020.