Kaori Freda
Born in Nagasaki, Japan
Lives in Vancouver, WA
Kaori Freda is multi-talented: a startup operations wrangler by day and a multi-media artist by night.
She is the recipient of the Portland Art Museum Mad Paw Grant, the Reed College President’s Winter International Fellowship and Initiative Grant, and recently exhibited in the Blackfish Gallery in Portland. She has shown in various galleries in Washington and Oregon. Kaori was on the outreach committee of the North Bank Artist Gallery in Vancouver, WA, and worked with a local art high school to organize an ongoing internship program. She has worked in a contemporary art gallery in Florence, Italy, and has interned at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Her work contends with issues of religious grounds, the effect of memory upon spatial relations, and tends to lean towards illustrative design or mediums including casting processes, casual sculpture, and assemblages.
For more information, please email kaorihannah@gmail.com.