BIO

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, MaDora Frey employs a multidisciplinary practice to explore her fascination with the relationship between the organic and built environment, with particular attention to the ways nature persists, adapts, and reasserts itself. Her work takes the form of temporary outdoor installations that often remain through photographic documentation; immersive, site-specific indoor installations; public artworks; and mixed-media works.

Frey’s notable commissions and projects include installations for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the Chelsea Music Festival in New York, as well as large-scale outdoor public works for the Katonah Museum of Art, Dashboard US at Woodruff Park, Perennial Projects, and the City of Roswell, Georgia. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at Massey Klein Gallery in New York, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia State University’s Welch Gallery, and Lamar Dodd Plaza Gallery.

Frey has received grants and awards from the Vermont Studio Center, the Prince of Wales Foundation, and the Marble House Project. She received her MFA in painting, magna cum laude, from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA, with a concentration in drawing and printmaking, from Auburn University. She also studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Her work is held in numerous private collections, including the collection of Tim and Lauren Schrager.