Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) (1998) and the University of Alberta where he received his MFA (2005) in Drawing and Intermedia. Since 1995, the artist has received numerous scholarships, grants and awards from public and private funders like Canada Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, ACAD, University of Alberta, Enbridge and the Edmonton Arts Council. Since 1995, he has also participated in many group and solo exhibitions. It’s Only Natural featuring two provocative life-size sculptures of antlered and aroused elk at Art Gallery of Alberta received the Eldon and Anne Foote Visual Arts Prize in 2013. He also appeared in the 2007 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. A community activist, Freeman is the founder and Artistic Director at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts which is an arts centre for artists with developmental disabilities.