Fryd Frydenhal

Fryd Frydendahl divides her time between New York and Denmark. She works in the field of fine art photography. Frydendahl was born on the west coast of Denmark in 1984, graduated from Fatamorgana, the Danish school of art photography, in 2006, and received an Advanced Certificate from The International Center of Photography in General Studies in 2009. Her first book, Familiealbum, was published by the Danish Publishing house Nyt Nordisk Forlag in 2007. Frydendahl has published several books and has exhibited widely in recent years, including solo exhibitions at V1 Gallery, Politiken's Gallery, and Baxter Street Gallery at The Camera Club New York. She is the recipient of grants from Fogtdahls Rejsestipendie, The Henry Margolis Foundation, and Josephine Lyons Merit Scholarship, the 2011 CCNY fellowship program, the Danish art council, and was nominated for the Remmen Foundation's Art Prize in 2018.
Her latest major release, the book "Nephews" (Konnetation, 2017), was followed by a solo exhibition at V1 Gallery, where Frydendahl is represented. Two selected series of works from the book Nephews have during 2017 been included in the permanent collections of Statens Museum for Kunst (The Danish National Galleries) and Det Nationale fotomuseums samlinger (The national photo museums).