Friday

(Chris) Friday is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. Her work serves as both a contemplative reflection of and counter-narrative to the pervasive under/misrepresentations of Blackness in mainstream media and popular culture. Friday’s portfolio features large-scale works on paper, murals, video, ceramics, projections, photography, comic illustrations, and social practice/activism through curating.

Friday’s work has been included in exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions such as “Good Times” (2023) curated by Laura Novoa and presented at Oolite Arts (2023), “One More River” presented at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and group exhibitions such as “Black Rest is Power” (2023) curated by Deb Willis and presented at NYU, “The Cartography Project” presented by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (2022) and “Who Owns Black Art?” presented by Zeal Press (2019).

Friday has received numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including being named the South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellow for the State of Florida, a Knight Foundation “Knights Champion” support grant (2022), a “The Ellies” Creator award from Oolite Arts (2021), the GMBCV People’s Choice award in Miami Beach’s No Vacancy juried art show (2021), and residencies with MassMoCA (2023), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2022), and the Visual Arts Residency at Chautauqua Institute (2019).

She is currently a 2nd-year resident studio artist at Oolite Arts in Miami, Florida.