Carole Freeman is a Canadian American contemporary figurative artist known for portraits and paintings of cultural, social, political, and personal significance.

In 2011, Freeman adapted this genre to the digital age through the production and exhibition of 200 paintings based on digital images from Facebook profile pictures, utilizing the social media giant as a source as well as disseminator of jpegs of completed paintings to the public and individual subjects.

[2] Unsung, Freeman's first New York solo exhibition in 2018,[3][4] small portraits of 24 unsung American heroes, was reviewed in New York Magazine as "beautiful meditations in paint on great women and men...rendered lovingly and intensely; the works impart that the chariot to greatness comes in many forms and that every artist is also one of these mighty figures, laboring with passion in private shadows.

In 2018 she was invited by the Department of Visual Art, Brown University, Providence, RI, to conduct individual student critiques and deliver a talk about her work, specifically her New York solo exhibition Unsung.

[8] Freeman has produced commission work for Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York Magazine and Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic for The New York Times, Lord and Lady Glentorran, the Barron Collection, and Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker.

December 15, 2011 Notable commissions include The Glass House in New Canaan, CT, three paintings for Jerry Saltz (Senior Art Critic, New York Magazine) and Roberta Smith (Senior Art Critic, NY Times), New York, NY, art dealer Jim Kempner, New York, NY, Guy Barron, Barron Collection, Bloomfield Hills, MI, the final portrait of Los Angeles art dealer Leslie Sacks for African Art from the Leslie Sacks Collection published by Skira, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, New York, NY, Lord and Lady Glentorran, Dublin, Ireland, Portraits of Norman Jewison and David Mirvish for Harold Green Theatre Company, Toronto, Canada, Stefan Olsson, billionaire owner Stena Line, London, UK, and many other international private collectors.