Nina
Freedman

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nina Freedman is an interdisciplinary installation artist, educator and trained architect. Following work in local and international architectural firms, she founded Dreamland Creative Projects, an creative pivot, reframing her previous architectural discipline. She is an educator at Pratt Institute, the New School (Parsons School of Design ) and Cornell University NYC School of Architecture and Art. Her artistic practice is strengthened by her podcast ‘Whereing’, about Belonging, Home and Space. She is a 2024 New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) grantee and is currently exhibiting ‘Face-Ade’ at the European Cultural Council 2024 Art Biennale in Venice, Italy, which has the theme of Personal Structures/Beyond Boundaries. She has exhibited ‘Spaces for Spontaneous Singing’ at the LA Design Festival for which she was an Architizer + Award finalist, and 'RiBox’at the Pomerantz Gallery ‘Picturing Space’ Exhibition. She holds a Bachelors and Masters of Architecture from the Architectural Association in London.

Rooted in a background of architecture, her art practice uses an architectural lens to explore inclusivity, belonging, and visibility through psycho-spatial boundaries of domestic symbols, and experiences with the personal and collective ‘Home’. This interest in ‘home’ has several scaled layers; The Home with Body, Home with Self, Home with Ancestry, Home with Community, Home with Nation and Home with Earth. Working with physical and emotional thresholds, she is interested in dissolving social, cultural and intergenerational boundaries. Her public installations celebrate norms of privacy in public to create unexpected, inclusive, safe space.