Born 1981, Lynn, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

2011

MFA, The Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College, New York

2008

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

2007

New York Studio Program (Spring), New York

2006

Burren College of Art, Study Abroad Advanced Studio, Ireland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, elbow fist to make

2022

Karma, New York, take care

2021

Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Happy Living Things

2020

Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, Why I’m Turning My Key

2019

Karma, New York, Park Closes at Midnight

2018

Janice Guy at MBnb Project Space, New York, Speechless
Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, Californienne

2017

Downstairs Projects, Brooklyn, Marley Freeman
PSM, Berlin, Never Give a Sword to a Man Who Can’t Dance

2016

Chert/Porcino, Berlin, Postcards for Porcino; organized by David Horvitz
MoAB, Brooklyn, Freeman/Kreher

2015

Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, Decision 2015 (I Change)

2014

Triangle Art Association, Brooklyn, Syntagma: Painting as Event

2013

Kansas Gallery, New York, Carey Dennison/Marley Freeman

2011

This Must Be the Place, Brooklyn, Reading Boyishly, with Corrine Fitzpatrick

2006

Chicago Hot Glass, Chicago, New Works on Brooklyn

2005

Fringe, New York, Two-Person Show with Ali Beletic

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Dunes, Portland, Maine, The Wrong Sea, co-organized with Night Gallery

70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, A Particular Kind of Heaven

Peter Blum Gallery, New York, The Shape of Color

James Fuentes, New York, A Study in Form (Chapter Two), curated by Arden Wohl

Adams and Ollman, Portland, Oregon, Ruined Windows: Jessica Jackson Hutchins with Marley Freeman

2023

Karma Bookstore, New York, Miniatures, with Lukas Geronimas

Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York, The Glass Show curated by David Kennedy Cutler

70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, Kathy Butterly, Lynne Drexler, and Marley Freeman

Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, Wishing Well

2022-23

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, New Abstracts

2022

Dunes, Portland, A Window is Also a Wall 

47 Canal, New York, Impressions of the Fall

8th house projects and Deli Gallery, Mexico City, The Fool 

F, Houston, Nancy Shaver Copper and Propane 

dépendance, Brussels, L’évidence éternelle

2021

WALLSPACEPLEASE, Dubai, Bad Girls

Venus Over Manhattan, New York, The Interior

2020

Nassima-Landau Project, Tel Aviv, High Voltage

Karma, New York, (Nothing but) Flowers
Parts & Labor, Beacon, New York, My Way: The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers and Contemporary Abstraction
Public Art Fund, New York, 50 Artists: Art on the Grid

2019

Gordon Robichaux, New York, Nobody’s World; curated by Siobhan Liddell

2017

Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Monday is a Day Between Sunday and Tuesday; curated by Lisa Offermann

2016

Murray Guy, New York, What Ever Moves Between Us Also Moves The World In General; curated by Sonel Breslav
PSM, Berlin, A Summer Painting Show; organized by Cleopatra’s and Aaron Bogart
Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, Onion by the Ocean
The New School, New York, Syntagma; curated by Natasha Lorens

2015

Lactation Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York, MaMA Cubicle; (unofficial project) curated by Zanna Gilbert
White Room, White Columns, New York, CCCC: Ceramics Club Cash & Carry (as Ceramics Club)
Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, Nuff Said
245 Varet FKA/AKA Wildlife, Brooklyn, Four Options
Artiz Group, New York, Jumping the Line

2014

Franklin Street Works, New York, About Like So: The Influence of Painting
Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, Canaries
Bed, Brooklyn, A Body for the Bedroom
Jane Hatsook Gallery, New York, Ceramics Club Pop Up

2013

Visitation and Reanimation Library Knockdown Center, Queens, Initial Contractions
Signal, Brooklyn, The is the Prism the Spider Dreams of as it Weaves its Web; curated by Benjamin Horns
Fruit and vegetable stand, Queens, Fruit and Vegetable Stand; organized by Paul Branca
247365, Brooklyn, Spread it On: Travis Boyer, Matthew Fischer, Marley Freeman; curated by Jesse Greenberg and Macgregor Harp
Gallleryy, Brooklyn, Rainbows Have Nothing to Hide

2012

The University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Significant Ordinaries
Goethe-Institut, New York Public Library, New York, How Can a Digital be a Gift?
An Impossible Distance, curated by David Horvitz
Franklin Street Works, Stanford, Connecticut, House Arrest; curated by Terri C. Smith
James Fuentes Gallery for VIP Art Fair, New York, Favorite Brooklyn Based Painters

2011

Hunter College, New York, Play it Again, curated by ACE curatorial collective
Columbia University, New York, Exprist: outdoor painting show, curated by Jessie Greenberg
Moving Truck, Brooklyn, Street Trash, curated by Virginia Overton
Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, One Night Show, curated by Leigh Ruple

2010

West Den Haag, Netherlands, Carry On, organized by David Horvitz
MFA Thesis exhibition, Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, How to Change a Tire

2008

Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, summer group show
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Thesis show

2007

New York Studio Program, New York, Crystal Slippage

2006

New Haven open studios, New Haven, Connecticut, Moxi

Public Collections

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas

University of Colorado Art Museum, Bolder

Whitney Museum of Art, New York City

Public Projects

2020

Public Art Fund, New York, 50 Artists: Art on the Grid

Publications

2020

Alvaro Barrington, Dike Blair, Marley Freeman, Zenzaburo Kojima
Texts by Jim Lewis, Tim Griffin, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Karma, New York
54 pages, softcover
11 × 8 1/2 inches
Edition of 500

2019

Park Closes at Midnight
Karma, New York
64 pages, hardcover
10 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches
Edition of 750

 

Nature of the Difficulties
Karma, New York
64 pages, hardcover
4 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches
Edition of 500