Frenn immigrated to the United States in 1981[1] and lived for several years in Boston,[6] where he studied art and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design [7] in Boston, MA, in 1985 and completed his MFA at Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA,[1] and at Temple Abroad in Rome, Italy, in 1988.[1] He has taught art at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, MA;[4] Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA;[3] and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, PA.[3] He is currently an Associate Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA,[1] where he received a Teaching Excellence Award in 2009.[8]