work
2022
Myth into Monument: Public Art and it’s Legacy. With Hank Willis Thomas & Dara Friedman, Untitled Art Podcast, Dec 19
The Tiger’s Tail, San Carlo Cremona, Italy, June 11 - Sept 09.
River Hill, Silo City, Buffalo, University at Buffalo Arts Collaboratory
Silo City Reading Series, Buffalo, New York, July 30
What Is Left Unspoken, Love, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Mar 25 - Aug 14.
Out Of Space, Julia Stoscheck Foundation, Düsseldorf, Sept 02-16.
On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Sept 9, 2022-Jan 15, 2023.
New Formations, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, Oct 7, 2022- Mar 23, 2023.
Face to Face, St. Moritz Art Film Festival, St. Moritz, Switzerland, Aug 25-28
2021
The Crowning
SUNDAY
The Crowning, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami.
SUNDAY, Virgin Voyages Terminal V, Miami.
Once Upon A Place, Can Marqués, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2020
The Empress
The Empress, Miami.
2019
FIGHT (Temple Door)
Dara Friedman: Temple Door, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg.
When the Land Speaks: Dara Friedman, MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing.
Walking Through Walls, Gropius Bau, Berlin (curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath).
FIGHT (Temple Door), Combo, Venezia.
Some Film Ingredients, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami.
2018
L☿ver
Dara Friedman: L☿ver, Franco Noero, Torino.
Tequesta Legacies, PAMM Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami.
Moving Pictures: Dara Selects, PAMM Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami.
2017
Mother Drum
Dichter
Dara Friedman: Cosmic Noise, Art Basel Miami Beach Nova, Supportico Lopez, Miami Beach.
Mother Drum, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.
Mother Drum, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles.
Dichter, Supportico Lopez, Berlin.
Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami (curated by René Morales).
Dara Friedman, Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Mother Drum, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen (curated by Heidi Zuckerman).
2015
Tequesta Ghost, Fringe Projects, Miami.
Artist Lectures, The University Galleries in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami (travel to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC).
2014
PLAY
RITE
PLAY (Parts 1 & 2), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Alex Katz/Dara Friedman, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York.
Dara Friedman: PLAY, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles.
Dara Friedman: Projecting, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit.
People's Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (curated by Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher).
Le Mouvement – The City Performed, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (curated by Gianni Jetzer).
Sacré 101 – An Exhibition Based on The Rite of Spring, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (curated by Raphael Gygax).
Dancer, ScreenDance Miami, Inkub8, Miami.
2013
Hammer Projects: Dara Friedman, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (curated by Ali Subotnick).
Dancer, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
Rhythm in it - On rhythm in contemporary art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (curated by Madeleine Schuppli).
Dara Friedman: PLAY, Art Basel Unlimited, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Basel, Switzerland.
A New View: Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis.
CITYDANCE: An Evening of Outdoor Screenings, As part of City of Outdoor Screenings, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco.
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (curated by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson) and Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria).
2012
Dancer
Dara Friedman: Dancer, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh.
Dara Friedman: Dancer, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
Dara Friedman: Government Cut Freestyle, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum, Germany.
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, Germany.
Hammer Artist Residency, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
2011
Dara Friedman: Dancer, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.
At Capacity: Large-Scale Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami.
Our Darkness, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (curated by Viktor Newman).
I Hate Karl Marx, Merry Christmas, Espacio1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Dancer, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami.
2010
Greater New York: 5 year review, MoMA PS1, Long Island City.
Off the Wall: Part 1 – Thirty Performative Actions, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (curated by Chrissie Iles).
Off the Wall: Part 1 – Thirty Performative Actions, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal.
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami.
2009
Shooting Gallery, Number Three: Here and Now, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Musical, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Playing the City, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany.
Underwater, Western Bridge, Seattle.
2008
Musical
Dara Friedman: Musical, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.
Dara Friedman: Musical, Summer on the Hudson, Riverside Park South, New York.
Dara Friedman: Musical, Grand Central Station, New York.
Dara Friedman, Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, The New School, New York.
2007
Dara Friedman: Musical, Public Art Fund, New York.
Dara Friedman: Tigertail, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.
Multiplex, Western Bridge, Seattle.
Number One: Destroy, She Said, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düssledorf, Germany.
2005
Marking Time: Moving Images, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
Dara Friedman: Sunset Island, The Kitchen, New York.
Ange Leccia, Anselm Reyle, Dara Friedman, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris.
2004
Dara Friedman, The Wrong Gallery, New York.
Brand New and Retro, Up Projects, London (cat.).
Never Never Landscape, Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin (curated by Kirsty Bell).
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland.
Hysterical, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Michele Maccarone).
2003
As Heavy as the Heavens- Transformations of Gravity, Graz 2003 – Cultural City of Europe, Graz, Austria.
Loop: Film Installations: Dara Friedman, Vibeke Tandberg, Marijke van Warmerdam, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK (curated by Sarah Cook).
20th Anniversary - Welcome home, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.
2002
whip whipping the wall
Dara Friedman: Romance, lemon sky: projects & editions, Los Angeles.
Dara Friedman, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy.
Dara Friedman, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (curated by Madeleine Schuppli) (cat.).
Dara Friedman, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.
Aquaria, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria (curated by Barbara Wally).
There is no accounting for other people’s relationships, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ireland.
Videodrome ll, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Inter.Play, The Moore building, Miami (curated by Silvia Karman Cubiña and Patrick Charpenel) (cat.).
2001
Dara Friedman, Miami Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (cat.).
New Work Miami: Dara Friedman, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
Gravita Zero, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Maria Grazia Tolomeo) (cat.).
The Americans: New Art, Barbican Gallery, London (curated by Mark Sladen) (cat.).
Dara Friedman, American Academy in Rome, Italy (cat.).
2000
Dara Friedman, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York.
Black Box, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (curated by Larry Rinder).
Déjà vu, Art Miami, Miami (curated by Amada Cruz).
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Art Film & Video, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach (traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (curated by Amy Cappelazzo)).
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.).
1999
Bim Bam
Heads Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (curated by Bonnie Clearwater) (cat.).
Leftover Festivities, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple).
1998
Government Cut Freestyle
Dara Friedman: Total, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago.
Dara Friedman & Mark Handforth, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York.
South Florida Cultural Consortium, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
Independing Loop, Swiss Institute, New York (curated by Annette Schindler) (cat.).
New Art South Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
1997
Total
Government Cut freestyle, Miami Arts Project, Miami International Airport, Miami.
Celluloid Cave, Thread Waxing Space, New York (curated by Dara Friedman) (cat.).
1996
she is stupid, I am worried (with Mark Handforth), Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables.
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).
Staedelfilmmacher: New Experimental Film from Germany, Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach.
1992
Maxilla Axilla: Films by Dara Friedman, London Film-Makers Co-op, London.