Freyja Fristad

Born in Australia, lives and works across Dharawal land (Sydney, Australia).

Freyja Fristad is a Wiradjuri artist with a Master of Fine Art majoring in Printmaking from the National Art School.

Fristad was the recipient of the National Art School Aboriginal Art Centre Internship and the Print Council of Australia's Colin Holden Print Commission in 2024, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Indigenous Emerging) in 2023, and the Megalo Studio and Gallery Residency Award (Printmaking) and the Mark Henry Cain Memorial Travel Scholarship in 2022. In 2023, she was a finalist in the Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows, including Freyja Fristad: Between Vessel and Void at PARKER Contemporary, as well as group shows such as ED 6 at Our Neon Foe, The PostGrad Show at the National Art School, DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange at 16Albermarle project space, and Wish You Were Here: Megalo Artists in Residence 2013-2023 at Megalo Print Studio. The National Art School, City of Sydney, Ravenswood School for Girls, Megalo Print Studio and private collections have acquired Fristad’s artwork.