Ed Freeman

Ed Freeman started his career in the music industry: as a road manager on the last Beatles tour, playing guitar on dozens of pop recordings, writing and conducting orchestral arrangements for Carly Simon and Cher among others and producing over two dozen albums, including Don McLean's immortal "American Pie."

Starting twenty-five years ago he gradually transitioned to his other great love, photography. Since then he has published two hardcover books, an iBook and exhibited widely in galleries and museums, both in the United States and abroad. He has been featured in dozens of photography magazines and books and has scores of cover pictures to his credit. His fine art images are in private collections worldwide and in the permanent collections of several prominent American museums.

Freeman is widely recognized for his expert and innovative use of Photoshop in creating images that run the gamut from believable realism to pure fantasy. His controversial position regarding image manipulation is that what he is producing is not journalism but fine art – pictures that are to be appreciated for their intrinsic esthetic value rather than for their accuracy in depicting an actual event or place in time.

EXHIBITIONS:
2023 1/1 Chung King Gallery
2021 bG Gallery Santa Monica
2020 Montana Gallery Barcelona
Adda Gallery, Paris
Tambaran Gallery, New York
2019 Adda Gallery San Josep de sa Talaia, Spain
2019 Stairwell Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles
2019 Tambaran Gallery, New York
2018 Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles
2017 Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles
2015 bG Gallery, Los Angeles

2014 945 Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 945 Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI
Goddard Center for the Arts, Ardmore OK
2010 Hardin Center for the Arts, Gadsden AL
Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa TX
2009 State University New York, Potsdam NY
2006 California State University, Northridge CA
2003 Santa Monica College, Santa Monica CA
2000 A&I, Los Angeles CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015 bG Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA
2009 Spokane Falls College, Spokane WA
Fresh Fair, Los Angeles CA
Carnegie Museum, Oxnard CA
2008 Santa Monica College, Santa Monica CA
Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins CO
Dba 256 Gallery, Pomona CA
2006 Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs CA
2002 ecce cultura, Lisbon, Portugal
Strategic Fine Art, Lo...