Franceska Schifrin
Biography
A native of California, Franceska studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has had over thirty-five museum and gallery exhibits, including sevnteen solo shows, and has been the recipient of the prestigious Getty Grant, among other awards. Franceska now lives and works in Topanga, California.
Franceska has specialized in travel painting for over twenty-five years. Her engagement with painting internationally began when she accompanied her father, the Californian painter Arnold Schifrin, on one of his teaching trips to San Miguel d'Allende, Mexico, in 1980. Since then, she has travelled and painted in countries such as Uganda, Morocco, Croatia, Bosnia, Mexico, Indonesia, Guatemala, Kenya, and India. In the past ten years, she has been to Spain, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica to work.
Her work has developed a wide international following. It is part of numerous private collections, including those of Denzel Washington, Alfre Woodard, Angela Basset, and Magic Johnson. It has been featured in several films, such as the Tina Turner biopic, "What's Love Got to Do with It" and Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune." Galleries in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles currently represent her.