Andy Freeberg
Artist Bio Artist Work
Andy Freeberg was born in New York City, studied at the University of Michigan, where he was the photo editor of the Michigan Daily. He moved back to New York, where he began his professional photography career working for publications such as Rolling Stone, Time, The Village Voice, and Fortune, photographing the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Gates, and Neil Young. Freeberg began concentrating on his own photography projects, and in 2007, his series Sentry, about the large gallery desks in New York’s Chelsea art galleries, had its debut at the Danziger Gallery in Chelsea. His project and book Guardians, about the women who guard the art in Russian museums, was published in 2010 and has been exhibited extensively around the world. His series Art Fare was published as a monograph in 2014.
Freeberg’s work is in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, SFMOMA, and the George Eastman Museum. He currently lives in Northern California and part of the year in Helsinki, Finland.
Exhibitions
2024
Art Fare, Daejeon International Photo Festival, Daejeon, South Korea, November 13 - 24
2023
Advisor, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 4 - March 18
2022
Where Art Thou, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland, March 25 - September 4
2021
Open Show, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
2020
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
2019
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Guardians, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, St. Petersburg, Russia
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017
Guardians, Telfair Museum, Wundercamera Exhibition, Savannah, Georgia
2016
For Love and Money: Guardians, Hasan and Partners, Helsinki, Finland
Art Fare, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Guardians, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Petrozvodsk, Russia
Who We Be Exhibition, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
Still/Moving: Photographs and Video Art from the DeWoody Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2015
Guardians, Patricia Conde Gallería, Mexico City, Mexico
2014
Miami Project, Andrea Meislin Gallery
Paris Photo, Andrea Meislin Gallery
Art Fare, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Art Fare Book Launch, Kopeikin Gallery, Glendale, CA
AIPAD, New York, NY
2013
Guardians, "Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum Festival", State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
Guardians, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Art Fare, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2012
Cartier Bresson: A Question of Color, Somerset House, London, England
Paris Photo, Andrea Meislin
Guardians, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
Art Fare, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gatekeepers at International Orange, Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary, Fort Point, San Francisco, CA
Guardians, FotoFest 2012 Biennial, Houston, Texas
2011
Embarrassment of Riches, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Fotofest Discoveries Show, Redline: Month of Photography Denver, Denver, Colorado
Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Truth is Not in the Mirror, The Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2010
Pulse Miami, Kopeikin Gallery, Miami, Florida
Littlest Sister 10, Spinello Gallery, Miami, Florida
Guardians, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Guardians, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Press
San Francisco Chronicle – 2016
Du Magazine Art Basel – Jun, 2014
Bomb Magazine interview by A. M. Homes – Nov, 2013
Korean Monthly Photography – Sep, 2013
Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine – Dec, 2012
Le Monde M Magazine – Aug, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul, 2012
New York Times Arts and Leisure – Jun, 2012
Photograph Magazine – Dec, 2012
The Sunday Times of London – Oct, 2012
IO Donna, Milan, Italy – Sep, 2012
New York Times AIPAD Review – Mar, 2012
Los Angeles Times Review – Apr, 2010
Russian Esquire Online – Jun, 2010
Io Donna, Milan, Italy – Apr, 2010, 9 pages with Novelist's Scenarios
Houston Press, Fotofest Discoveries Show Review – Apr, 2010
Geo Magazine, Italy – Apr, 2010
Photonews, Hamburg, Germany – Apr, 2010
Sleek Magazine, Berlin, Germany – Aug, 2009
Soura Magazine, Dubai – Feb, 2010
Morning News website, Interview – Jan, 2010
Gorod 812, Story and interview, St. Petersburg, Russia – Feb, 2009
New York Times article – Sep, 2007
New Yorker review by Vince Aletti – Sep, 2007
Next Level Magazine, London, England – Aug, 2008
Art Magazine, Hamburg, Germany – Dec, 2007
European Photography Magazine Issue No. 83 Berlin Germany – Aug, 2008
The Economist More Intelligent Life Blog, London, England – Sep, 2007
Click HERE to see Alyssa Coppleman's feature in Slate on Andy Freeberg's photographs entitled The Art of Guarding Art.
Click HERE to see the Art Daily feature on Andy's exhibition at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center
Click HERE to read about and to order Andy Freeberg's monograph entitled GUARDIANS
Click HERE to read a review of Andy Freeberg's GUARDIANS in the French issue of Philosophie Magazine
Click HERE to read the NPR, National Public Radio, feature on Andy Freeberg's GUARDIANS
Click HERE to read the article in The New Yorker Magazine about Andy Freeberg
Click HERE to read about Andy Freeberg in The New York Times
Click HERE to read (in Russian) the review of Andy Freeberg's GUARDIANS in the Russian Publication 812
Click HERE to read Charles Mitchell's review of Andy Freeberg's book entitled GUARDIANS in PhotoEye Magazine
Click HERE to read Nicole Pasulka's interview with Andy Freeberg for The Morning News
Click HERE to read about Andy Freeberg's Guardians series in Beautiful / Decay Magazine
Click HERE to read more about Andy Freeberg's Guardians series in the Art Blog Mocoloco
Click HERE to read the David Keeps review of Andy Freeberg's Guardians exhibition in the Los Angeles Times
Click HERE to order Andy Freeberg's monograph entitled GUARDIANS from PhotoEye.