Frey Michael Austin [they/she/free] is a queer interdisciplinary artist, musician, maker, performer + gardener obsessively flirting with the divine. Their visual artworks and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally and they have performed in such venues as The Park Avenue Armory (NYC), The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, The Art Institute of Chicago, Green Line Performing Arts Center, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center, Arts Incubator and The Smart Museum of Art. They design and build unique altarpieces for both private and public spaces of worship – most recently completing a new central bimah for the historic KAM Isaiah Reform synagogue of Hyde Park-Kenwood – as well as artful, custom home furniture pieces. They compose and produce music for film and for collaborative, multidisciplinary performance projects GABE, Growing Concerns Poetry Collective and Daisy Days.
Headshot: Amanda Thomas
Image: Frey Michael Austin ; Some Kind of Invitation (Another World Is Possible) ; 2024 ; Photographic document of land-based ritual spell ; Variable dimensions ; Artist's image
(updated 2025)
BOLT Residency
HATCH Projects
