Born:  Pretoria, South Africa, 1953
Education:  University of West Australia
Address:  P.O. Box 1316 Kurtistown, Hawaii 96760
E Mail:  stephenxfreedman@gmail.com

 Influences

Many of the concepts which have engaged me during my career were seeded by my early childhood in South Africa.  My grandparents had migrated from Russia to avoid persecution that had defined the recent history of Jews in Europe.  My father became a biologist, working with now mythological figures in the field of human evolutionary study, such as Raymond Dart, Louis Leaky and John Robinson.  My Mother's interest in pottery began in Africa offering me medium, while my father's pursuit of the principles of evolution imprinted the way I subsequently perceived the world.

Selected Exhibitions and Commissions:

1999       Museum of West Australia - The Language of Art
               Mori Museum of Contemporary American Ceramics, Japan
               Amaury Saint-Gilles Fine Arts, Hawaii
               Lecture/workshop series for Hui No'eau, Maui

1998       Cal. State, Los Angeles - solo exhibition:  War Songs
               Purchases: Reno Museum, Nevada, National Vietnam Veterans
               Museum, Chicago, Illinois.
               Commissions:  Carillon of 15 Bells for the Viejas Reservation
               Casino - California.  Fountain for The Lapid-Shapiro Torah
               Center, Long Beach, California "Sh'ma".  Two fountains for
               the Niznick Residence, Mana Lani at the Cape, Hawaii: 
               Water and Fire & Spheres.
               Ritz Carlton, Istanbul, Turkey.
               Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.

1997      Solo exhibitions:  War Songs - Reno Museum, Nevada -
              National Vietnam Veterans Museum, Chicago, Illinois -
              Cleavland State University Art Gallery, Ohio
              Commissions:  Mulia Senayan, Indonesia.  Loews Miami
              Beach Resort, Florida.  Swisotel, Atlanta, Georgia.
              Amaury Saint-Gilles Contemporary Fine Arts, Hawaii

1996      Solo exhibitions:  War songs - Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los
              Angeles.  Amaury Saint-Gilles Fines Arts, Hawaii
              The Complex, Nashville Tennessee
              Del Mano Galleries, Los Angeles
              Kohala Kollection, Hawaii
              Commissions:  Saigon Center, Vietnam.  Four Seasons
              Hotel, Kona Hawaii.  Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong

1995      Ghattam:  CD recording of ceramic instruments created
              for collaboration with The Antenna Repairmen
              percussion ensemble and Arthur Jarvinen.
              Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los Angeles
              Kohala Kollection, Hawaii

1994      Commission for the Los Angeles Public Library -
              Felipe de Neve:  Word Cage
              Ghattam:  World Premiere, Los Angeles Contemporary
              Exhibitions, LAX Bienniel 94
              Thresholds:  Solo exhibition Wailoa Gallery Hilo, Hawaii

1993      Elaine Horowich Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
              Little Deaths:  Performance collaboration with composer
              Arthur Jarvinen.  Premiere at Beyond Baroque, Venice
              California.
              Felipe de Neve Library Commission, Los Angeles
              Space Gallery, L.A. Satellite Galleries Exhibition
              Commission:  Kawamura, Japan
              Ralleigh Gallery, Fllorida, Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los
              Angeles

1992      Art Matters Fellowship for literature and sculpture
              Venice Artwalk Invitational, Los Angeles.
               Ralleigh Gallery, Florida
              West Australia Museum, Australia aquisition.
              Stones Gallery, Kauai, Hawaii
              Solo Exhibition:  Butterfly, Salem Museum,
              Massachusetts
              Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los Angeles

1991      Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles: Gold
              Ralleigh Gallery
              Solo exhibitions:  Butterfly, The Butler Institute,
              Youngstown, Ohio.  Fiona Whitney Gallery, Los Angeles
              Solo exhibitions:  Memory Containers,  Stafford Studios,
              Perth Australia.  Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los Angeles

1990      Los Angeles County Museum of Art:  Commission for 12
              pieces - Art in Architecture.
              Garth Clark Gallery, New York
              Solo exhibition:  Memory Containers, Fiona Whitney
              Gallery, Los Angeles
              Macquarie Gallery, Sydney Australia
              Solo exhibition:  Crow:  Vessels from the Performance,
              Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los Angeles
              Raleigh Gallery, Miami, Florida
              Los Angeles Theater Center, 'Crow': with composition by
              Dusan Bogdanovic, choreography by Gilberte Munier,
              Poetry Ted Hughes, sculpture Stephen Freedman.

1989      Solo exhibitions:  Memory Containers, Lizardi / Harp
              Gallery.  Ralleigh Gallery, Bay Gallery, Perth, West
              Australia.
              Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California
              The Chamelion - Ravenwoods Gallery, Seattle,
              Washington
              Invitational fellowship: Kenneth Patchen Festival, Ohio

1988      Solo exhibition:  The Chameleon, my Dad and the Other -
              Lizardi / Harp Gallery
              Ralleigh Gallery
              Purchase:  American Craft Museum, New York
              Commissions:  Ana Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.  Westin Kauai,
              Hawaii, Shanghai i, Shanghai, China

1987      Solo exhibitions:  The Pongid/Hominid Behavioral
              Transition - Lizardi / Harp Gallery.  The Works Gallery,
              Long Beach,California, Ralleigh Gallery, Florida
              Commissions: Ana Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
              Saks Fifth Avenue Collections.

1986      Solo exhibitons:  Multiples - Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los
              Angeles.  The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California.
              Ralleigh Gallery. 
              Commission:  Chicago Hilton and Towers.

1985      Solo exhibitions:  In Vitro - Lizardi / Harp Gallery, Los
              Angeles, The World Gallery, Long Beach, California.
              Art Institute of Boston
              Raleigh Gallery

1984      Solo exhibitions:  The Patchen Series - Lizardi / Harp
              Gallery, Los Angeles
              Ralleigh Gallery, Florida

1983      Solo exhibitions:  The Patchen Series, Marcia Rodell
              Gallery, Los Angeles

1975-79  Bunbury Art College, West Australia

Selected Collections and Public Commissions:
          
              Los Angeles County Museum of Art
              Los Angeles Theater Company
              West Australian Museum of Art
              Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
              Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, California
              Art Institute of Boston
              Getty Musuem, Malibu, California
              Saks Fifth Avenue Collection
              Saigon Center, Vietnam
              Westin Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia
              American Craft Museum
              Mori Museum of American Ceramics, Japan
              Bunbury College Collection
              Butler Museum, Youngstown, Ohio
              Art Matters Fellowship
              Felipe de Neve Public Library Commission
              Westin Maui, Hawaii
              Westin Kauai, Hawaii
              Shanghai Hilton, China
              Kawamura Hotel, Japan
              Hyatt Regency, Melbourne Australia
              Doubletree Hotel, Atlanta
              Chicago Hilton and Towers
              La Toc Hotel, West Indies
              Regent Singapore
              Steven Bochco Productions, Hollywood
              Grand Hyatt Waikaloa, Hawaii
              Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong
              Mulia Senayan, Jakarta

Publications:

Butterfly; A collection of short stories---Graphic Torch 1991
Dreamgirl; A book about making books for Children---Green Beard Press
1995
War Songs; Essays and Poems of the Vietnam Experience---Lizardi / Harp
Inc. 1996
Art and Cooperation; a series of articles on art and evolution---West
Hawaii Today 1994-96