Amy Friend is a Canadian artist working with various methodologies through photography, installation, and community based collaborations. Friend’s process driven work has been included in national and international exhibitions, projects and festivals including, Gexto Photofestival (Spain), Paris Photo, incamera galerie (France), Museum London (Canada), Onassis Cultural Center (Greece), ASPA (Sardinia), DongGang Photography Museum (South Korea), GuatePhoto (Guatemala), Mosteiro de Tibães at the Encontros Da Imagem (Portugal), Rodman Hall (Canada), Photoville (New York, USA), National Portrait Gallery, (UK), and at the Abbaye De Silvacane, La Roque D'Antheron (France).
Friend’s work fluctuates with investigations relative to history, time, land-memory, dust, oceans and our connection to the universe.
Her work has been featured in select publications such as, New York Times Magazine (USA), Keeper of the Hearth (Amsterdam), California Sunday Magazine (USA), GUP Magazine (Amsterdam), LUX (Poland), EyeMazing (Thames and Hudson), Time Magazine (USA), and The Walrus (Canada). Friend published the sold out monograph, Stardust with L' Artiere Publishing, Italy in 2017.
In 2019 her work was selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Competition and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London (UK). In 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019 Friend was selected as one of the top 50 photographers in the juried Critical Mass International Photography Competition.
Friend is currently showing work in the L’épreuve de la Matière exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale De France, curated by Héloïse Conésa and is included in the 2023 publication ELLES X a book featuring 130 interviews with contemporary women photographers.
Friend is Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts at Brock University, Niagara, Canada.
Amy Friend recognizes and sends thanks for support from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Arts Council for the Arts.