Dara Friedman uses everyday sights and sounds as the raw material for film and video artworks that reverberate with emotional energy. With a background in structural film and dance, Friedman’s cinema calls for a radical reduction of the medium to its most essential material properties. Friedman’s solo exhibitions include: The Tiger’s Tail, San Carlo Cremona, Italy (2022), Harburger Kunstverein (2019), a mid-career survey “Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger”, Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017-2018), Aspen Art Museum (2017), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014), and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (1998, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2017) among others. Major public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf. Friedman is a recipient of the Rome Prize (1999) and a Guggenheim Fellow (2019). Recently she completed “The Empress”, a large-scale labyrinth commission. She is currently in production with Ecologist Josh Smith on River Hill at Silo City in Buffalo through a residency with the University at Buffalo Arts Collaboratory. The project is an active monumental garden and labyrinth transforming a quarter acre of brownfield with hardy pollinators and speaking to the meander of the Buffalo River.

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