Susan Freda

"I very rarely plan out or draw what I’m going to make. Things come to me in dreams. In meditation. When I’m driving. I try to catch the idea when it floats by and remember it. “ Glam Couture

Born 1974
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA, Massachusetts College of Art

Sue Freda is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and mixed media installation. Her practice explores the interplay of light, transparency, and form, using materials such as woven wire, cast glass, resin, and layered surfaces to create immersive, light-responsive works that shift subtly with their surroundings.

Freda has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including at the Bristol Art Museum, RISD Craft, Zenith Gallery (Washington, DC), Shayne Gallery (Montreal), and major fairs such as Art Expo New York. Her work is held in prominent public and private collections including Sir Elton John, the Museo Italo Americano, Cirque du Soleil, Fidelity Investments, MEDITECH, and the Waldorf Astoria, and has been presented in contexts ranging from New York Fashion Week to collaboration with designers, such as Nicole Hollis and Kari Whitman Interiors.

Her practice has been supported by residencies at the de Young Museum and Pilchuck ...

Susan received her BFA from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

She has been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Public Art Grant, A Pilchuck Glass school scholarship and a de Young Museum Artist-in-Residence Award.

Her sculptural forms have been commissioned and exhibited by Nicole Hollis, Kari Whitman, Stuart Weitzman, Neiman Marcus, Ferragamo, Gotham of London and by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery.

Her work is included in the collection of the Museo Italo Americano of San Francisco, and in numerous private as well as corporate collections. She is represented by may prestigious galleries such as : Rosenbaum Contemporary Art, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Gardner Colby Gallery, Jules Place, Lauren Shayne Gallery, Zenith Gallery, Chicago Art Source among others.

Upcoming exhibitions include:
Two Person upcoming exhibition with Rovzar Gallery. (Seattle, WA)2026
"In her own Image" The Bristol Art Museum, Bristol RI
Opening Reception Aug 9th, 2025
Ongoing exhibition with Jules Place, Lauren Shayne Gallery, Zenith Gallery, Chicago Art Source, Rosenbaum Contemporary Art, Arts On Douglas & Patricia Rovzar Gallery.