Dara Friedman
Lives and works in Miami, FL
Education
University of Miami, School of Motion Pictures, MFA, Miami
The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, United Kingdom
Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Solo Exhibitions
2012
"Dancer," Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina
"Dancer," Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2011
“Dancer,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2009
“Shooting Gallery,” Number Three: Here and Now, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Musical,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
“Musical,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2007
“Musical,” Public Art Fund, New York
“Tigertail,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2005
“Sunset Island,” The Kitchen, New York
2004
The Wrong Gallery, New York
2002
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Dara Friedman,” Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland, (cat.)
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
“Lemon Sky: Projects & Editions,” Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (screenings)
2001
Miami Art Museum, Miami
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (cat.)
2000
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
1998
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Total,” Miami Art Museum, Miami
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York (with Mark Handforth)
1997
“Government Cut freestyle,” Miami Arts Project, Miami International Airport, Miami
1996
“she is stupid, I am worried,” Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables (with Mark Handforth)
1992
“Maxilla Axilla: Films by Dara Friedman,” London Film-makers co-op, London, United Kingdom
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
"Untied Tastes of America: Artist's Films and Video selected by David Gryn," Double-bill screening: Musical and Dancer, 28th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany
2011
“I Hate Karl Marx, Merry Christmas,” Espacio1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
“Our Darkness,” Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Suttgard, Germany (curated by Viktor Newman)
“At Capacity,” MoCA NoMi, Miami
2010
"How Soon Now," Rubell Family Collection/ Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
“Off the Wall: Part 1 – Thirty Performative Actions,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (travels to Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal)
"Greater New York: 5 year review," P.S.1, Long Island City
2009
“Underwater,” Western Bridge, Seattle
“Playing the City,” Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
2008
“Multiplex,” Western Bridge, Seattle
"Number One: Destroy, She Said," Julia Stoschek Collection, Düssledorf, Germany
2005
“Ange Leccia, Anselm Reyle, Dara Friedman,” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2004
“Hysterical,” Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Michele Maccarone)
“Never Never Landscape,” Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin, Germany (curated by Kirsty Bell)
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland
Brand New and Retro, Up Projects, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
2003
“As Heavy as the Heavens- Transformation of Gravity,” Graz 2003 – Cultural City of Europe, Graz, Austria
Reg Vardy Galley, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom
“20th Anniversary - Welcome home,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2002
“Inter. Play,” The Moore building, Miami (curated by Silvia Karman Cubina and Patrick Charpenel) (cat.)
“Videodrome ll,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“There is no accounting for other people’s relationships,” Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
“Aquaria,” Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria (curated by Barbara Wall)
2001
“The Americans New Art,” Barbican Gallery, London, United Kingdom (curated by Mark Sladen), (cat.)
American Academy in Rome, Italy (cat.)
“Gravita Zero,” Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Maria Grazia Tolomeo), (cat.)
2000
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
“Black Box,” CCAC Institute, Oakland (curated by Larry Rinder)
“Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Art Film & Video,” Palm, Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (curated by Amy Cappelazzo), (cat.)
1999
“Heads Up,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, (curated by Bonnie Clearwater), (cat.)
“Déjà vu,” Art Miami, (curated by Amanda Cruz)
“Leftover Festivities,” Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple)
1998
“New Art South Florida,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
“Independing Loop,” Swiss Institute, New York (curated by Annette Schindler), (cat.)
1997
“Celluloid Cave, Thread Waxing Space,” New York (curated by Dara Friedman), (cat.)
1994
“Filmic Self-Portraits,” Galerie Voges & Deisen, Frankfurt, Germany
1993
“One week's Public Teaching in Search of the Essence of Film,” Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria, (curated by Peter Kubelka)
Awards
2000-2001
Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
1999
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York
1998
Cultural Consortium Fellowship, Miami
1997
New Forms Miami, Miami
Selected Bibliography
2012
Hood, John, "Nite Talk: Filmmaker Dara Friedman Gets Resless at MAM," NBC Miami, February 17, reposted Huffington Post
"Miami Art Museum Receives $1 Million Grant For New Acquisitions," Huffington Post, January 27
2011
Smith, Roberta, “Review: Dara Friedman, Dancer” The New York Times, December 16
2010
Sherman, John, Bombsite.com, August
Johnson, Ken, “The Avant-Garde, No Longer Avant,” The New York Times, July 29
2008
Johnson, Ken, “Review,” The New York Times, June 20
Knowles, David, “Miami Minimal,” Men’s Vogue, February, p. 184-187
Licht, Alan, “Reality Show,” ArtReview, January 2008, p. 48-51
2007
Decter, Joshua, Review, Artforum, December 2007
Robertson, Campbell, “Turning All of Manhattan Into a Broadway Stage,” New York
Times, September 30
Garwood, Deborah, review, The New York Sun, May 3, p.22
Falconer, Morgan, review, Time Out New York, May 3-9, p. 73
2005
Cornell, Lauren, review, Time Out New York, October 6-12, p. 78
Camhi, Leslie, review, The Village Voice, September 28, p. 84
De Monchaux, Thomas, “Scene & Herd: The Artforum Diary”, Artforum.com, Sept.24
2003
Verlag, Wilhelm Fink, Himmel Schwer: Transformationen der Schwerkaft, München
(cat.)
Review, Flash Art, Jan/Feb
2002
Chasin, Noah, review, Time Out New York, November 7-14, p/ 83
Leuenberger, Samuel, review, Frieze, October, p. 101
Hattinger, Gottfried, “Kunst Sprünge,” kursiv, 9-2/02, p.38
DeCruz, Gemma, Make, Special Edition 92, p. 10-11
“Pulsschlage,” Neue Zurcher Seitung, June 15/16, No. 136, p. 60
Dambrot s Shana, “Reviews,” Tema Celeste, May/June, p. 96
Schneider, Caroline, “Preview,” Artforum, May 2002
Farquharson, Alex, “The Americans; New Art”, Art Forum, March 2002, P 136
2001
Sarah Kent, Time Out, London
Moreno, Gean, “Art (of Relation)”, Flash Art, November-December, pp. 72-73
Sladen, Mark, “Young Americans”, Blue Print, November, pp. 50-52
Moreno, Gean, Review, Flash Art, July- September, pp. 122-123
Wallach, Amei, “In Miami, a Hot Spot of Art, the Temperature’s Rising,” The New York
Times, September 16th, pp. 33-36
Van Cleve, Emily, “Fact, Fiction Intersect in Exhibit”, Albuquerque Journal, Sunday,
February 4
Pulkka, Wesley, Review, Albuquerque Journal, Sunday, March 4
Cline, Lynn, “Double Take”, The Santa Fe New Mexican, February 9-15
GariotStejskal, Richard, Review, Crosswinds Weekly, March 29- April 5
Clemmer, David, Review, The Magazine, April
Allen, Steven Robert, “Still and Moving Life”, Alibi Magazine, February 8-14
Kesterson, Marc, “Time and Again”, Dutch, No. 32, March-April, p. 56
2000
Cruz, Amanda, Fresh Cream, Phaidon Press, pp. 280
Moreno, Gean, “Déjà Vu, review” New Art Examiner, May 2000
Moreno, Gean, “Sound Check, Gean Moreno visits Dara Friedman”, Art Papers Magazine, July/ August, 2000
Saltz, Jerry, “My Sixth Sense”, Village Voice, April 4, p. 69
Review, The New Yorker, May 8
Vogel, Carol, “Biennial Buys”, The New York Times, Friday, June 2
Smith, Roberta, “Dara Friedman, Art in Review”, The New York Times, April 28
1999
Turner, Elisa, "Beach artist picked by N.Y. museum", The Miami Herald, Dec. 10
Turner, Elisa, "Moca's 'Banging art' Heralds the New and Notable", The Miami Herald, July 18
Vogel, Carol, "Surprises in Whitney's Biennial Selections", The New York Times, December 8
Feinstein, Roni, "Report from Miami: Part I, Museum Salsa", Art in America, May
Dietsch, Deborah, "Two ways about it: postwar permanence", Sun Sentinel, July 8
1998
Brackman, Yvette, "Dara Friedman + Mark Handforth", Time Out New York, Feb. 12-19, issue 125, p. 49
Clearwater, Bonnie, "new art: south florida", (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, May
Dellinger, Jade, "Cityscape Miami", Flash Art (interview), March-April, p. 72
Johnson, Ken, "Art in review: Dara Friedman and Mark Handforth", The New York Times, Feb. 6
Molon, Dominic, "Dara Friedman, Creator/Destroyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago", Aug. 31 - Oct. 19
Purcell, Greg, "Dara Friedman", New Art Examiner (Chicago), Nov., p. 49
Turner, Elisa, "Prints, videos are art fellows' canvas of choice", The Miami Herald (exhibition review New Art: South Florida), May 17
1997
"Celluloid Cave", Contemporary Visual Arts (New York), issue 14, p. 94
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Young artists play with film", New York Times, June 27
Young, Lisa and Friedman, Lisa, "celluloid cave" (exhibition booklet)
1996 Cantor, Judy, "Art: Techno Trashing", New Times (Miami), July 18-24
Publications
2002
“Dara Friedman,” Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Austria
“Dara Friedman,” Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe