EDUCATION

M.F.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1983.
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1979.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor of Art, Pace University, NY, 1983 - present.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“Alpträume,” The Painting Center, New York City, April 24, 2012- May 19, 2012
Governor's Island Art Fair "Head Grid” (painting installation), New York City, 2011
Big & Small/Casual Gallery "From our Permanent Recollection” Long Island City, NY, May, 2011
BCB Art, Hudson NY August 2010
Peter Fungesten Gallery, Pace University, Feruary-March, 2010
Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, March 2009
Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, New York, July, 2008
Ober Gallery, Kent, CT April 2008
Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, March 2007
Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, New York, October 2005.
Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, June 2005.
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, May-June 2003.
Art Resources Transfer, New York, September 2002, January 2002, February 2000.
The Painting Center, New York, January 1997.
Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992.
Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA, 1992.
55 Mercer Street, New York, 1991.
Phillip Dash Gallery, New York, 1987, 1986.
Queens Museum, New York, 1985.
White Columns, New York, 1984.
Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1983.

SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Big & Small/Casual Gallery "From our Permanent Recollection” Long Island City, NY, May, 2011

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“20/20/2013,” Studio10, Bushwick, Brooklyn, February 2013.
“Four Who Paint,” Valentine Gallery, Ridgewood, Queens, September 2012.
"Sideshow Nation” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY, February-March 2013.
“Bushwick Basel,” Starr Space, Bushwick, Brooklyn, June 2012.
“This Land,” BCB Art, Hudson, NY, March-April 2012
“Mic Check (The Human Mic),” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY, February-March 2012.
"Twin Twin Postcard Edition,” Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September-October 2011.
"It's All Good,” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, January-February 2011.
“Artists Invite Artists: Small Works Invitational,” Painting Center, New York, December 2010.
“Where There's Smoke,” Amherst College, Amherst, MA, September-October 2010.
“Vault Series: Portraits,” New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, June-September 2010.
“9/11-11/9: New York/Berlin,” Galerie am Meer, Berlin, May-June 2010; and Galerie Ruhnke, Potsdam,      August-September 2010.
“Group Show,” Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT, June 2010.
“Portraits Today,” Mount Vernon Public Library, Mt. Vernon, NY, April-June 2010.
“Selections,” The Ober Gallery, Kent, CT, May – June 2010.
“Works on Paper,” Big & Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY, May 2010.
“Overstimulated,” @seaport, New York, NY, April 2010.
“Micro-Whitney Counterweight,” H215 Gallery, New York, NY, March 2010.
“Selections,” BCB Art, Hudson, NY, January-February 2010.
“It's a Wonderful Tenth,” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, January-February 2010.
“Twin Twin III,” Big & Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City, New York, September 2009.
“Winter Selections,” The Ober Gallery, Kent, CT, January – March, 2009.
“Transartlantik: Wuppertal-New York,” Kunst in der Spartakassen, Wuppertal, Feb.-Apr. 2009.
“Back to the Drawing Board,” Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, December 2008-January 2009.
“It's a Wonderful Life,” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, December 2008 - January 2009.
“Group Show,” Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, December 2008.
“What's in a Face?” Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, October-November 2008.
“Here's Looking at Us (Portraits of Artists by Artists),” curated by Robin Tewes, Peter Fingesten Gallery,
     New York, October-November 2008.
“RISD NYC Alumni Biennial 2008,” Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, September 2008.
“The Impermanent Collection IV,” The Temporary Museum of Painting, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2007.
“Seen and Imagined,” Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, 2007.
“Out Looking In; In Looking Out: Urbanism: New York City,” Painting Center, New York, 2007.
“New Hudson 3,” Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2007.
“War Is Over ‘Again,’” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, 2007.
“Through Our Eyes: New York,” Metro Building (Queens University Cultural Fest.), Belfast, UK, 2006.
Michael Steinberg Fine Art at Scope Hamptons (Featured Artist), East Hampton, NY, 2006.
“Peace,” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, December 2005-January 2006.
“Vision Festival X,” Synagogue for the Arts Gallery Space, New York, May – June 2005.
“The Landscape Show,” Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, January – February 2005.
“Night New York,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, 2004
“Peace,”  Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, 2004.
“Through Our Eyes,” Art in General, New York, 2004.
“25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition,” The Drawing Center, New York, 2002.
“Reactions,” Exit Art, New York, NY, January 2002.
“Philemona Williamson & Barbara Friedman,” Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, 2001.
“The Figure,” Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Staten Island, 2000.
“Recollected Self: Robin Holder & Barbara Friedman,”Marymount Manhattan College, New York, 1999.
“1920,” Exit Art, New York, 1993.
“Child’s Play,” Art in General, New York, 1993.
“Postcards from Alphaville,” P.S. 1, New York, 1992-93.
“Saga(s),” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, 1989.
“Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art,” Queens Museum, 1988.
“Update 84-85,” White Columns, New York, 1985.
“New Acquisitions,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, 1985.
“Precious,” Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York, 1985.
“Selections 26,” The Drawing Center, New York, 1984.
“Selections,” Artists Space, New York, 1983.

SELECTED CATALOGUES, ARTICLES, AND REVIEWS

“Barbara Friedman: Interview,” Painter’s Table: magazine of the painting blogosphere
“Interview with Barbara Friedman,” Mira Gerard, Figure/Ground Communication
“Valentine hearts painting,” Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint
“New American Paintings,” #86, Boston, Open Studios Press, 2010.
"NBAM exhibits offer much to engage viewers," David B. Boyce, The Standard-Times, New Bedford,
     August 5, 2010.
“Pic of the Day,” ArtCritical.com June 16, 2009
“Wuppertal grüßt New York: In der Stadtsparkasse wurde eine neue Schau eröffnet,” Westdeutsche
     Zeitung, February 7, 2009, p. 23.
Catalogue: Transartlantik: Wuppertal-New York, Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, Germany, 2009.
Video interview on French television ("13h15" on France-2), November 2, 2008.
“The Art Scene: Barbara Friedman on view at Ober Gallery,” Judith Linscott, The Lakeville Journal, The      Millerton News, & The Winsted Journal, May 8, 2008.
“The Tenuous Universe,” Brooklyn Days blog 4/25/08.
Selected painter, PaintersNYC.com 3/26/07; citation of exhibition at Michael Steinberg Fine Art.
Catalogue: In Passing, Michael Steinberg Fine Art (Essay "Paint, Memory," by Lilly Wei), 2007.
New American Paintings, vol. 68, Open Studios Press, Boston,2007.
“A Visual Feast to Whet All Appetites,” Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, October 31, 2006.
Catalogue: New Urbanisms, The Painting Center, 2007.
“Country Road, Take Me Home,” The New York Sun Weekend Section, June 24, 2005 
“Artist’s Road Map Leads to Cleveland,” Marilyn H. Karfeld, Cleveland Jewish News, 6/6/03.
Catalogue: The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, 2000.
Manual: Art in General 1992 and 1993, Holly Block, 1994.
“Jean-Luc Godard: Picasso, Marx, and Coca-Cola,” J. Hoberman, Arts Magazine, February, 1993.
“The Contemporary Portrait,” Michael Leonard, Artweek, February 14, 1987.
“Barbara Friedman,” Tim Cohrs, Arts Magazine, Summer 1986.
“The Parameters of Precious,” Aimee Rankin, Art in America, September 1985.
“Update 1984-85,” Grace Glueck, New York Times, June 21, 1985.
“Shaped Canvases and ‘Satellite’ Abstract,” Malcolm Preston, Newsday, June 18 1985.
“Art Forms in the East Village,” Theodore F. Wolff, The Christian Science Monitor, April 8, 1985.
“Balancing Acts that Work,” Thomas Albright, The San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1982.

SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

Open Studios Northeastern Competition, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, New American Paintings 68, 2007.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority “Arts for Transit” [poster project] 1994.
Curator’s Choice Panel, “Artists Talk on Art,” New York, 1995.
Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, July-August 1993.
Best in Show, Roanoke City Art Show [juried by Lowery Sims], 1991.
N. Y. State Council on the Arts Grant 1985.
Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Summer 1985.