Fran Forman’s photo paintings have been exhibited both locally and internationally and are in many private collections as well as the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others.

Fran’s second major monograph, The Rest Between Two Notes: Selected Works by Fran Forman, published by Unicorn, was released on September 2019. Escape Artist, 2014, was selected as one of the Best PhotoBooks by Elizabeth Avedon and won first place in an international competition.

Recently, Fran has mounted solo exhibitions at The Fox Talbot Museum, UK, Griffin Museum of Photography, AfterImage Gallery (Dallas), University of North Dakota, Galeria Photo/Graphica (Mexico), and the Pucker Gallery (Boston). In the past decade, Fran has won numerous significant awards and prizes and is often asked to juror and curate photo exhibitions. Fran received an MFA from Boston University.