Raised in Detroit, Michigan, home to the American auto industry, Freedland has been surrounded by large-scale industrial machines since childhood. Throughout his career he has created machines and programmed them to produce symbols of his identity, using his thumbprint or DNA. Recent work includes an army of machines, extensions of Freedland himself, which compose drawings in response to stimuli from the gallery audience.
Read MoreBarry Freedland's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Blüetenweiss Gallery, Berlin; the Boston Center for the Arts; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Arlington Museum of Art, Texas; Santa Fe Institute of Art, New Mexico; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida. Previous projects have been funded by the MetLife Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Trust, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Articles on Freedland's work have been published in international publications.
