Fred Ed
Fred Ed
CURRENT Projects
STUDIO NOVAYA/ SPANDAU22
Studio Novaya is a production house founded by Fredrick Edward to investigate the intersections of authentic queer sexuality, pornography, and art. The current main project of the studio is a feature length independent film using documentary footage to explore the relationship between consensual queer BDSM and state carceral violence.Additional projects include a monograph, and original photography.
Queer PORTRAITS
As a part of a rich lineage of artists, performers, and photographers: Fredrick Edward continues the tradition of unabashed, uncensored queer expression through an ongoing series of portraits of queer artists and sex workers.
SOUTH TROY SECRET GARDEN
A private permaculture sculpture garden in South Troy, NY — on view during Upstate Art Weekend 2025 ; join the email list for details about how to attend.
WORK WITH FRED
CREATIVE PRODUCER
Past projects include creating the music program at the New Orleans Film Festival; Authoring a partnership between RAINN & Live Nation for the first Consent Education program for major North American festivals.
LARGE SCALE ART CONSTRUCTION PM
Past projects include managing an 11 million annual construction budget across 80 processes for the Burning Man art festival; as well as private sculpture installations at residential and commercial buildings.
ART COMMISSIONS
Fredrick Edward is known by their Cadre of dreamers as uniquely capable of bringing fantasy to fruition across mediums and disciplines.
PROJECT-BASED CONSULTING FOR COMMON GOOD
For profit, non-profit, just don’t be evil. Fredrick Edward has worked with teams to scale from three to three thousand — and brings an uncommon flexibility and resilience to the board room. Currently accepting Trans projects pro-bono.
LORE
2025
Fredrick Edward is a creative producer, film maker, visual artist, and large scale art construction project manager who is actively working across industries and disciplines.
Fred-ed is queer, trans, intersex, and non-binary.Raised in Los Angeles to commie pinko artist parents; Fredrick Edward was born into creative and free thinking. They left school early to pursue queer life and art in San Francisco at 17 years old with a GED in hand. They found gainful employment producing raves, dominatrixing, as a stage hand, performing with artists, marketing software, and working to translate across teams with different cultures and various functionalities as a project manager. By 2020 they were celebrating a fulfilling executive consulting practice in arts & entertainment after having worked in dozens of cities across four continents and having built competency in German & Spanish through their collaborations with international makers. In 2022 after a sabbatical from entertainment and corporate work and some re-tooling via Otis College of Art & Design: they stepped into making their private creative practice into a publicly expressed constellation of experiments and visual thinking games. Their active studio art practice extends from photography and projection of time-based works into outdoor sculpture and assemblage collage. They currently live in Troy, NY with their brood of rescued reactive animals including three equines, a cat, and a dog.