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

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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“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

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.