Biography

Professor Nancy Friese is a painter-printmaker in the lineage of American landscape artists. Her practice of experiential on-site painting and drawing posits landscape in a philosophical and phenomenal space. She has had more than 25 one-person shows and 150 shows, nationally and internationally, including at the Barbican Center in London, the International Center of Print in New York, and Tokyo’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Friese’s work is in 45 corporate and museum collections. She has been awarded three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and 15 residencies, including one at Monet’s home in Giverny. Friese came to RISD as head of Printmaking (1990-98). During a subsequent tenure as Dean of Graduate Studies (1998-04), she initiated a teaching collaborative between RISD’s Graduate Division and Brown University, which has contributed to the advancement of collegiate-level teaching in the fields of art, design, and architecture, and which has awarded teaching certificates to over 350 RISD graduate students and faculty.

Nancy Friese

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nfriese@risd.edu
401-454-6667

• MFA, Yale University
• BS, University of North Dakota - G

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