Kathryn Freeman is an artist and storyteller who combines classical composition with magic realism. Freeman’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Europe and across the United States, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Washington, DC, and Charleston SC. Her paintings are in numerous private and public collections, and she has completed several large-scale public mural commissions including two, three-story murals for the Main Public Library in Jacksonville, Florida, designed by AM Stern Architects.
Freeman taught drawing and painting at the Corcoran College of Art and Design from 1996-2014. Before that she taught at the New York Academy of Art and Brooklyn College. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College and BFA from the University of New Hampshire. She also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Freeman has been the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, an Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Fellowship and three Maryland State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Awards. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Arts Magazine, Art Forum, American Artist and numerous other publications.
Freeman illustrated “Loon Chase”, by Jean Heilprin Diehl, published by Arbordale Publishing. She also wrote and illustrated “Mr. Hubbard’s Heart,” an odyssey about one man’s search for love and compassion.
Freeman recently moved to Mill River, Massachusetts, with her journalist husband Matthew Vita, her dogs Birdie and Frida and three cats, Mo, Fig and Otis. She has two children, one on each coast. She loves animals and is an advocate for animal welfare.
Freeman teaches privately both from her studio and remotely, specializing in portfolio development for teens applying to art school and colleges.
She also accepts commissions for narrative portraits, employing a form of portraiture based on Renaissance portraits that tell the story of a person’s life.