Opening Day Talk | Chris Friday

Join us for an engaging artist talk by award-winning multidisciplinary artist Chris Friday. Hear directly from the artist about her creative journey, the conceptual foundations of her work, and the insights shaping Where We Never Grow Old, her first museum solo exhibition, at Sarasota Art Museum.

Meet in Sarasota High School Alumni Auditorium.

About Chris Friday

Chris Friday is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and social activist based in Miami, Florida. Best known for her large-scale works on paper, her practice also includes murals, video, ceramics, projections, photography, and comic illustrations. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally—most notably, Rest is Power co-curated by Deborah Willis and Kira Joy Williams at New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture (2023) and The Cartography Project at the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. (2022). In 2023, Friday’s large-scale, free-standing metal sculpture, Narcissist, was presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2023) as a part of the Art on the Plaza Residency.

Friday is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including the South Arts Southern Prize State Fellow for the State of Florida (2023), a Knight Foundation Knights Champion grant recipient (2022), a The Ellies Creator award from Oolite Arts (2023 and 2021). She was also rewarded residencies with AIRIE Everglades National Park (2024), Diaspora Vibes Culture Arts Incubator (2024), Oolite Arts, (2023/22), MassMoCA (2023), and Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2022). Friday received her BFA from New World School of the Arts, University of Florida, and an MFA in Visual Arts in 2020.

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