Chris Friday
Recipient Information
Location
Miami , Florida
Medium
Visual Arts
Year of Award
2027
Grant or Fellowship
Southern Artist Spotlight Grant
Grant Amount
$0
Chris Friday is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, based in Miami, FL.
Friday’s work explores themes of rest, privacy, and supplementing the archive as a way of advocating and claiming space for Black bodies that are historically excluded from it.
Often incorporating a black-and-white Chalkboard aesthetic, which plays on concepts of learning and teaching, Friday analyzes mainstream media to identify problematic representations and their origins, questions the legitimacy of such perspectives, and imagines possible solutions with her work.
Her portfolio features large-scale works on paper, murals, video, ceramics, projections, photography, comic illustrations, and social practice/activism through curating. Friday’s work has been included in exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. Notable group exhibitions include “Narcissist”, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2023) as a part of the Art on the Plaza Residency, “Rest is Power”curated by Deborah Willis and Kira Joy Williams and presented at New York University (2023), and The Cartography Project” presented by the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. (2022). Solo exhibitions include the forthcoming “Where We Never Grow Old”, curated by Rangsook Yoon and presented at Sarasota Art Museum, (2025) “Good Times” curated by Laura Novoa and presented at Oolite Arts, (2023) and One More River, curated by Michael Dickins and presented at Austin Peau State University (2022)
Friday has received numerous awards, fellowships and grants, including being named 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 &2021), The GMBCV People's Choice award in Miami Beach's No Vacancy juried art show (2021), and residencies with AIRIE Everglades National Park (2024), Diaspora Vibes Culture Arts Incubator (2024), Oolite Arts, (2023/22), MassMoCA (2023), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2022), and the Visual Arts Residency at Chautauqua Institute (2019).
Artist Fee: $10k for single artist, $15k-20k for ensemble and activation.
Availability: Currently unavailable June 16-28.
Contact
Email Chris Friday
www.chrisfriday.art
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Did You Eat?
"A question commonly posed by Black mothers, “Did You Eat?”, is a performance/installation that takes the form of a communal meal. The first iteration took place on June 28th, 2024, in the kitchen of my family home."
Narcissist
Narcissist is a large-scale, free-standing metal figure that appears to be captivated by its own reflection in the waters of the Museum's fountain, seemingly oblivious to the gaze of onlookers. Narcissist symbolizes Black art that is concerned only with itself; celebrating its own inherent beauty and essence, without exposing deeper emotions or meanings, especially when placed in a public contemporary art space; a direct response and refusal to the inherent demands for transparency and legibility placed on the Black body, Black art and Black artists.
Curated by Adeze Wilford, presented at the Museum of contemporary Art North Miami.
On view from November 29th, 2023 - February 18th, 2024.