Amy Friend creates multi-layered photographs that transport viewers into an emotional dream world. She devotes herself with great intensity not only to such issues as identity and the past but to the medium of photography as such.
In Friend’s latest series, Salt Soaked Sea, water has become a crucial feature of her artistic inquiry. The ocean is incorporated into memories of times past. Her prints, dipped into seawater, show a surprising and particularly weighty materiality: Friend leaves them to dry for several weeks until all of the water has evaporated, leaving behind a surface covered with crystalline traces of salt.
Friend’s process driven work has been included in national and international exhibitions, projects and festivals including, Gexto Photofestival (Spain), Paris Photo, incamera galerie (France), Museum London (Canada), Onassis Cultural Center (Greece), ASPA (Sardinia), DongGang Photography Museum (South Korea), GuatePhoto (Guatemala), Mosteiro de Tibães at the Encontros Da Imagem (Portugal), Rodman Hall (Canada), Photoville (New York, USA), National Portrait Gallery, (UK), and at the Abbaye De Silvacane, La Roque D'Antheron (France).
In 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019 she was selected as one of the top 50 photographs in the juried Critical Mass International Photography Competition.
Amy Friend is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University, Niagara, Canada.
In Friend’s latest series, Salt Soaked Sea, water has become a crucial feature of her artistic inquiry. The ocean is incorporated into memories of times past. Her prints, dipped into seawater, show a surprising and particularly weighty materiality: Friend leaves them to dry for several weeks until all of the water has evaporated, leaving behind a surface covered with crystalline traces of salt.
Friend’s process driven work has been included in national and international exhibitions, projects and festivals including, Gexto Photofestival (Spain), Paris Photo, incamera galerie (France), Museum London (Canada), Onassis Cultural Center (Greece), ASPA (Sardinia), DongGang Photography Museum (South Korea), GuatePhoto (Guatemala), Mosteiro de Tibães at the Encontros Da Imagem (Portugal), Rodman Hall (Canada), Photoville (New York, USA), National Portrait Gallery, (UK), and at the Abbaye De Silvacane, La Roque D'Antheron (France).
In 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019 she was selected as one of the top 50 photographs in the juried Critical Mass International Photography Competition.
Amy Friend is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University, Niagara, Canada.
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Exhibitions: (Selection)
2024
• La nuit, le Regard se tourney vers la lune et les Étoiles, Meymac Centre d’art contemporain, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac France
• Summer, Bildhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
• Memory Orchards, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
2023
• L’épreuves de la matière, Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris, France
• Fragments of Everything and Nothing, Museum London, London, ON, Canada,
• Into the dust, Contact Photography Festival, Speducci, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, TX, USA
• Unnecessary Exhibition in Life, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
• Anniversary Edition, Incamera Galerie, Paris, France
2022
• Incadaques Photography Festival, Cadaques, Spain, 2022
• Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON
• It Begins with Salt and Stars, Incamera Galerie, Paris, France
• Celestial Sea, 122 Ricami Gallery, Trapani, Sicily
• Climate Crisis, NAC, St. Catharines, ON
2021
• Ocean, Bildhalle, Group Exhibition, Zurich, (CH)
• Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Centre for Photography, Houston, (US)
2020
• Altered Image, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami Design District, Miami, (US)
• Wild Things, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, (US)
• Finding Love, Center of Photography Mart, Yekaterinburg, (RUS)
• Viewing Room – Contemporary Women, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, (US)
2019
• Taylor Wessing Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London,(UK)
• Foreign Photographers Invitational Exhibition, Busan Photography Festival, Busan, South Korea
• Supernatural, (projections) Fotofestiwal Lodz, (POL)
• Standpoint, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, (UKR)
• Standpoint, Kiev Photo Festival, Lavra Gallery Kiev, (UKR)
• Paris Photo, InCamera Galerie, solo-exhibition, Paris, (FR)
• Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery, New York, (US)
• Unnecessary Exhibition in Life, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
2018
• Co/Action, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas, (US)
• Indian Photography Festival, Hyderbad, (IND)
• Paris Photo, InCamera Galerie, Einzelausstellung, Paris, (FR)
• Elles X Paris Photo, sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, Paris (FR)
• Stardust, Civic Museum of Pallazzo de Penna, solo-exhibition, Perugia, (IT)
2017
• Récits Photographique, Abbey De Silvacane, La Roque D’Athéron, solo-exhibition, Provence, France (FR)
2016
• Eternal Light, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre Gallery, Einzelausstellung, Toronto, (US)
• Denbora/Time, GETXOPhoto Festival, solo-exhibition, Bilboa, (ES)
• Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life, Rodman Hall, solo-exhibition, St. Catharines, (US)
• Dare alla Luce, Pictura Gallery, solo-exhibition, Bloomington, IN, (US)
Grants, Awards, Residences:
• Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create: Research and Creation, 2018
• Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad Grant, 2008, 2017
• Regan Peacock-Fung Memorial Art Fund, 2015
• Clarke Thompson Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching, 2015
• Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 • Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Windsor Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Artist Grant, Visual Arts, 2012 • Banff Artist in Residence - Banff, Alberta, 2011
Publications:
• 2020, Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Time of the Pandemic (Catalogue), CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, (US)
• 2019, Photography and Culture: Volume 12. No. 4. Cover Art, Routledge, (UK)
• 2018, Coccioli, Emma. “Animae. The invisible sources of the artwork: talks with today’s artists”, Vernon Press, (ES)
• 2017, Friend, Amy. Stardust, Ed. Gianluca Gamberi. Essay: Laura Serani, L’Artiere Publishing, (IT)
• 2017, Photomonthly Magazine, See the Sea. Timekeeper Series. Photo Essay. (KOR)
• 2016, Gup Magazine. Mixing it up. Issue 48. Amsterdam, (NL)
• 2015, Musée Magazine. No. 13 Women. New York, (US)
• 2015, Friend, Amy. Dare alla Luce, Photolucida Publishing
2024
• La nuit, le Regard se tourney vers la lune et les Étoiles, Meymac Centre d’art contemporain, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac France
• Summer, Bildhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
• Memory Orchards, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
2023
• L’épreuves de la matière, Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris, France
• Fragments of Everything and Nothing, Museum London, London, ON, Canada,
• Into the dust, Contact Photography Festival, Speducci, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, TX, USA
• Unnecessary Exhibition in Life, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
• Anniversary Edition, Incamera Galerie, Paris, France
2022
• Incadaques Photography Festival, Cadaques, Spain, 2022
• Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON
• It Begins with Salt and Stars, Incamera Galerie, Paris, France
• Celestial Sea, 122 Ricami Gallery, Trapani, Sicily
• Climate Crisis, NAC, St. Catharines, ON
2021
• Ocean, Bildhalle, Group Exhibition, Zurich, (CH)
• Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Centre for Photography, Houston, (US)
2020
• Altered Image, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami Design District, Miami, (US)
• Wild Things, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, (US)
• Finding Love, Center of Photography Mart, Yekaterinburg, (RUS)
• Viewing Room – Contemporary Women, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, (US)
2019
• Taylor Wessing Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London,(UK)
• Foreign Photographers Invitational Exhibition, Busan Photography Festival, Busan, South Korea
• Supernatural, (projections) Fotofestiwal Lodz, (POL)
• Standpoint, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, (UKR)
• Standpoint, Kiev Photo Festival, Lavra Gallery Kiev, (UKR)
• Paris Photo, InCamera Galerie, solo-exhibition, Paris, (FR)
• Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery, New York, (US)
• Unnecessary Exhibition in Life, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
2018
• Co/Action, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas, (US)
• Indian Photography Festival, Hyderbad, (IND)
• Paris Photo, InCamera Galerie, Einzelausstellung, Paris, (FR)
• Elles X Paris Photo, sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, Paris (FR)
• Stardust, Civic Museum of Pallazzo de Penna, solo-exhibition, Perugia, (IT)
2017
• Récits Photographique, Abbey De Silvacane, La Roque D’Athéron, solo-exhibition, Provence, France (FR)
2016
• Eternal Light, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre Gallery, Einzelausstellung, Toronto, (US)
• Denbora/Time, GETXOPhoto Festival, solo-exhibition, Bilboa, (ES)
• Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life, Rodman Hall, solo-exhibition, St. Catharines, (US)
• Dare alla Luce, Pictura Gallery, solo-exhibition, Bloomington, IN, (US)
Grants, Awards, Residences:
• Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create: Research and Creation, 2018
• Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad Grant, 2008, 2017
• Regan Peacock-Fung Memorial Art Fund, 2015
• Clarke Thompson Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching, 2015
• Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 • Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Windsor Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Artist Grant, Visual Arts, 2012 • Banff Artist in Residence - Banff, Alberta, 2011
Publications:
• 2020, Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Time of the Pandemic (Catalogue), CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, (US)
• 2019, Photography and Culture: Volume 12. No. 4. Cover Art, Routledge, (UK)
• 2018, Coccioli, Emma. “Animae. The invisible sources of the artwork: talks with today’s artists”, Vernon Press, (ES)
• 2017, Friend, Amy. Stardust, Ed. Gianluca Gamberi. Essay: Laura Serani, L’Artiere Publishing, (IT)
• 2017, Photomonthly Magazine, See the Sea. Timekeeper Series. Photo Essay. (KOR)
• 2016, Gup Magazine. Mixing it up. Issue 48. Amsterdam, (NL)
• 2015, Musée Magazine. No. 13 Women. New York, (US)
• 2015, Friend, Amy. Dare alla Luce, Photolucida Publishing
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