Ania Freer is an award winning Australian-Jamaican artist, filmmaker, cultural researcher, and curator based between New York City and Jamaica. Working in installation, film and curating, Ania uses oral histories to explore identity through themes of resistance, labour, folklore, craft traditions, race and class. Her films work to disrupt imperialist narratives and recenter marginalised voices.
Ania’s video installations have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Jamaica and her short film Strictly Two Wheel, won Best Documentary Short at Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. She has received fellowships from the Caribbean Film Academy, New Local Space Kingston and scholarships from the American Australian Association Arts Fund. She has participated in residencies at Art Omi, Ox-Bow and Artist in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE). Her work has been featured in Jamaica Journal, Forgotten Lands and DIZZY Magazine. Ania’s documentary series Real Talk, an intimate collection of video portraits from across Jamaica, are in the process of being archived at the Black Film Centre and Archive: Indiana University Bloomington. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Film Theory from the University of Sydney.
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EDUCATION
BA Degree, Anthropology & Film Theory, University of Sydney,
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Passages” AIRIE Nest Art Gallery
Sound, Stories, Locust Projects, Miami
Art Omi Group Open Studios, Ghent NY
National Gallery of Jamaica Summer
London CHROM/ART International
CURATORIAL INTERVENTIONS
“All That Don’t Leave” NLS Kingston
GRANTS
American Australian Association Arts Fund, NY
Filmed by Bike BIPOC Filmmaker Grant, Portland
Black Creative Endeavours Grant, New York
FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
Ox-Box, Saugatuck, MI
Art Omi: Artist Residency, Ghent, NY
Artist in Residence at Rose Pan African Education, Senegal
Artist in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), Florida
Caribbean Film Academy Fellow
Curatorial & Art Writing Fellow NLS Kingston
FILM FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS
Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Close Up, Barbican Centre
Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica, BAM
BlackStarFilm Festival, Official Selection
Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, WINNER Best Documentary Film Short
Filmed By Bike, Officail Selection
Atlanta Film Festival, Official Selection
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS
DIZZY Magazine, NYC, Issue #8
Forgotten Lands, NYC Vol.4
Jamaica Journal, Vol. 37
All That Don’t Leave, Jamaica Observer
Gal-Dem, UK New media publication
YCreate, Prince Claus Fund
ARTIST TALKS
Chelsea College of Arts London (UAL)
Feminist Futures//Feminist Pasts Symposium, University of Texas Austin
Cologne Women's Film Festival
The Jamaican Hummingbird Taino Tribe