Bio
Born 1968, Bad Kreuznach, DE
Lives and works in Miami and Bad Kreuznach, DE
Education
The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, UK
University of Miami, School of Motion Pictures, MFA, Miami, US
Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, PAMM Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami
Generation Loss – 10 years of Julia Stoschek Collection, JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION Düsseldorf, DE
Dichter, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
Mother Drum, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, US
Mother Drum, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, US
2014
Play, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, US
Play, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Projecting: Films from Dara Friedman, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, US
2013
Dancer, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL Play, Art Unlimited Basel, Basel, CH
Hammer Projects: Dara Friedman, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Play, Art Unlimited Basel, Basel, CH
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US
2012
Government Cut Freestyle, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum, DE
Dancer, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, US
Dancer, Miami Art Museum, Miami, US
2011
Dancer, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
2009
Shooting Gallery, Number Three: Here and Now, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, DE
Musical, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2008
Musical, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
2007
Musical, Public Art Fund, New York, US
Tigertail, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
2005
Sunset Island, The Kitchen, New York 2004 The Wrong Gallery, New York, US
2002
Dara Friedman, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
Dara Friedman, Kunstmuseum Thun, CH
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, IT
Lemon Sky: Projects & Editions, Los Angeles, US
Dara Friedman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
2001
Miami Art Museum, Miami Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
2000
Dara Friedman, Gavin Brown's enterprise
1998
Dara Friedman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Total, Miami Art Museum, Miami, US
Dara Friedman with Mark Handforth Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, US
1997
Government Cut freestyle, Miami Arts Project, Miami International Airport, Miami, US
1996
She is stupid, I am worried, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, US
1992
Maxilla Axilla: Films by Dara Friedman, London Film-makers co-op, London, UK
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2017
Generation Loss 10 years of JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION. With: Eleanor Antin, Ed Atkins & Simon Thompson, Charles Atlas, Lutz Bacher, Lynda Benglis, Bernadette Corporation, Johanna Billing, Dara Birnbaum, Hannah Black, Chris Burden, Matt Calderwood, Patty Chang, Ian Cheng, Jen DeNike, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Cheryl Donegan, Trisha Donnelly, Cao Fei, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Dara Friedman, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Hammer, Christian Jankowski, Joan Jonas, Jesper Just, Imi Knoebel, Mark Leckey, Klara Lidén, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Lutz Mommartz, Bruce Nauman, Jon Rafman, Lucy Raven, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, James Richards, Rachel Rose, Jack Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ulay & Marina Abramović, Steina Vasulka, Klaus vom Bruch, Hannah Wilke, Jordan Wolfson, Tobias Zielony
2015
Tequesta Ghost, Fringe Projects, Miami, US
2014
People's Biennial, Co-curated by Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, US
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, MUDAM, curated by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, Luxembourg, DE
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, AT
Le Mouvement - Performing the City, Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Curated by Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp, Biel-Bienne, CH
Le Mouvement - The City Performed, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel, CH
Sacré 101 – An Exhibition Based on The Rite of Spring, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH
Dancer, ScreenDance Miami, Inkub8, Miami, US
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US
2013
CITYDANCE: An Evening of Outdoor Screenings, As part of City of Outdoor Screenings, CCA Wattis Insititue for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
A New View: Contemporary Art. St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, US
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US
Play, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, CH
Rhythm in it - On rhythm in contemporary art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
2012
Dara Friedman, Wesleyan University, Contemporary Art Center, US
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,Hamburg, DE
2011
I Hate Karl Marx, Merry Christmas, Espacio1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico, US
I Hate Karl Marx, Merry Christmas, Espacio1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico, US
At Capacity, MoCA NoMi, Miami, US
2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection/ Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, US
Off the Wall: Part 1 – Thirty Performative Actions, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Greater New York: 5 year review, P.S.1, Long Island City, US
2009
Underwater, Western Bridge, Seattle, US
Playing the City, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, DE
2008
Multiplex, Western Bridge, Seattle, US
Number One: Destroy, She Said, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düssledorf, DE
2005
Ange Leccia, Anselm Reyle, Dara Friedman, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, FR
2004
Hysterical, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, DE
Never Never Landscape, Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin, DE
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, NL
Brand New and Retro, Up Projects, London, UK
2003
As Heavy as the Heavens- Transformation of Gravity, Graz 2003 – Cultural City of Europe, Graz, AT
Reg Vardy Galley, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
2002
Inter. Play, The Moore building, Miami, US
Videodrome ll, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
There is no accounting for other people’s relationships, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ireland, IR
Aquaria, Landesgalerie, Linz, AT
2001
The Americans New Art, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Dara Friedman, American Academy in Rome, IT
Gravità Zero, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
2000
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Institute, Oakland, US
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, US
1999
Heads Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
Déjà vu, Art Miami, US
Leftover Festivities, Nature Morte, New Delhi, IN
1998
New Art South Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
Independing Loop, Swiss Institute, New York, US
1997
Celluloid Cave, Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
1994
Filmic Self-Portraits, Galerie Voges & Deisen, Frankfurt, DE
1993
One week's Public Teaching in Search of the Essence of Film, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, AT