Milan – On Wednesday 25 November 2026 at 6.30pm, c|e contemporary opens Art, Identity, Legacy, an exhibition dedicated to the work of Jane McAdam Freud. The opening concludes the study day held the same day at the University Statale of Milan (Aula 113, Via Festa del Perdono 7, from 10am to 4.30pm).
The exhibition is the first stage of an itinerant project of research, dialogue and exhibitions that will travel to different cities, explore new perspectives and create opportunities for dialogue, placing the artist’s work at the centre of an interdisciplinary conversation on identity, memory, genealogy and legacy.
Around thirty works are on show: heads and self-portraits in steel wire and mesh, including Self Portrait Pair, Are You Ready For Me Now?, Eye Mind Eye Out, Lucian Freud Mesh Pair, Lucien MeshHead and Sigmund MeshHead; the photographic works Us2, You see and See you; the self-portrait medals; the small bronzes of the After Bacon series (1992–93); drawings and works on paper; and the installation Dream Catcher, in bronze mesh and fishing net.
The project is carried out with the J. McA. Freud Estate, the University Statale of Milan and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Jane McAdam Freud was born in London on 24 February 1958, the daughter of Lucian Freud and Katherine McAdam and the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. She trained at Central Saint Martins and at the Royal College of Art in London, where she studied with John Stezaker and Eduardo Paolozzi. In 1986 she won the British Art Medal Scholarship to Rome, where she studied sculpture and attended the Accademia di Belle Arti.
Her work spans sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and video, alongside her writing on art and psychoanalysis. A member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, she has work in public collections including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in England, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
In 2017 c|e contemporary presented her solo exhibition L’Autoritratto Impossibile – Freud’s Study Merge, curated by Viana Conti with Christine Enrile.