Fran Forman

Fran Forman is an American artist-photographer, and cinematic storyteller. The photographer studied art and sociology as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, followed by an MFA from Boston University in graphic design. Her works are in permanent museum collections around the world, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and  the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM, Washington, DC).  In addition to residencies, honours and grants, Forman has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions around the world. 

An artist and photographer from the Baby Boomer generation with experience as a therapist, Forman equips her stories with a profound, personal understanding of the drastic changes society has undergone over the last half a century. Her acute sensitivity to the personal challenges all generations face in the midst of division is tangible in the empty spaces and isolated subjects that constitute her staged compositions. The uncertain settings within which the elusive subjects are placed expand on the noir tradition to expose fragility, longing, lost kinship and a sense of companionship that sits just out of reach. In the early 90s, Forman began incorporating photography and digital collage into her design work, a method she has re-invented throughout her career to bring paradox, illusion, assemblage and the dislocation of time and place to her visual narratives. Recently, Forman has incorporated AI into her practice and moulded it to seamlessly integrate into her visual style. AI, she explains, is another tool in the artist’s inventory, like all others.