Angela Freiberger

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Angela Freiberger
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Born1953 (age 70–71)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
CitizenshipBrazil
Education
  • BA
  • Computer graphics
  • MFA
Alma mater
  • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  • University of California in Los Angeles
  • Stony Brook University
OccupationArtist
Known forKnown for works that emphasize the relation between sculpture and performance.
Websiteangelafreiberger.com

Angela Freiberger (born 1953) is a Brazilian artist from Rio de Janeiro. She is best known for works that emphasize the relation between sculpture and performance.

Education and training

In 1976, she received a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). In 1987 she studied computer graphics at the University of California in Los Angeles. In the early 1990s she lived in Italy and Portugal where she learned to sculpt in marble. In 2007 she earned an MFA from Stony Brook University, New York.

Exhibitions

Freiberger was included in the Sixth Havana Biennial in 1997[1], the First Prospect New Orleans Biennial in 2008 and the Second Bronx Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York in 2010.[2] Her installation Collection of Urinals (2001), was shown at Rio de Janeiro’s Centro Cultural Oduvaldo Vianna Filho in 2002.[3] She was a reperformer in Marina Abramovic's show "The Artist is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009.[4] In 2012 she participated in “Hotel de Inmigrantes 2, Cosmopolitan Stranger,” in Hasselt, Belgium, which paralleled Manifesta 9.[5]

Collections

Freiberger’s work is part of the João Sattamini collection[6] at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói in Rio de Janeiro and the Gilberto Chateaubriand collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.[7]

Awards

Freiberger received the Senior Fellowship from Terra Foundation for American Art in Europe (Giverny, France) in 2010.[8]

In the media

     

References

  1. "6th Biennial of Havana: Artists". universes-in-universe. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  2. "Second Bronx Latin American Art Biennial". Bronx Hispanic Festival. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  3. Carvalho, Denise (April 2005). "Focus: Angela Freiberger". Sculpture. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  4. Biesenbach, Klaus (2010). Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present. The Museum of Modern Art. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-87070-747-6.
  5. "Exhibition Cosmopolitan Stranger, HDI 2, Hasselt". Hotel de Inmigrantes.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Exposição 'Arte Contemporânea Brasileira – Coleções João Sattamini e MAC-Niterói'" [Exhibition ‘Brazilian contemporary art - João Sattamini Collection’ at the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art]. City of Niterói cultural affairs website (in português). May 2009. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  7. "O Espírito de Nossa Época - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - 2001". Encyclopedia Itau Cultural. Retrieved 2020-07-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Terra Summer Residency 10 year anniversary brochure" (PDF). Terra Foundation for American Art. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-07-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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