Tom Friedman
Born: Saint Louis, Missouri, 1965
Lives and works in Leverett, Massachusetts
Education
1990
MFA, Sculpture, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1988
BFA, Graphic illustration, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri
Public Artworks and Commissions
2021
Hazmat Love, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Looking Up, Council Bluffs, Iowa (permanent)
Looking Up, Channel Gardens, Rockefeller Center, New York
2019
Hazmat Love, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Looking Up, Tom Hanafan River's Edge Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Takeaway, Beverly Hills, California
2018
XTCA: Cross Town Contemporary Art, outdoor sculpture exhibition presented by University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
2017
Looking Up, Saint Louis Science Center and Planetarium, Saint Louis, Missouri (permanent)
Huddle, The Star in Frisco, Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters and Practice Facility, Frisco, Texas
2016
Looking Up, 4800 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Looking Up, Park Avenue, New York
2015
Looking Up, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas (permanent)
2014
Up in the Air, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012
Circle Dance, The Walk, Waterman Street, Brown University, Rhode Island (permanent)
2011
The Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
2007
Aluminium Foil, Lever House Art Collection, New York
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2024
Tom Friedman: 6S, 5P, 1P, 1C and 1V, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri2023
2023
In Focus, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Thinking About What it is Made of, Lehmann Maupin, Palm Beach, Florida
Cocktail Party, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, California, USA
2022
Many Things All at Once, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea
Vistamare, Milan, Italy
2019
Eternal Return, projects + gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
2018
Always the Beginning, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Ghosts and UFOs: Projections for Well-Lit Spaces, Vista Mare Studio, Milan; Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, California (touring)
2017
Ghosts and UFOs: Projections for Well-Lit Spaces, Luhring Augustine, New York (touring)
2016
Untitled (Foundation), Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
2014
Gravity, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Paint and Styrofoam, Luhring Augustine, New York
Up in the Air, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
New Works, Luhring Augustine, New York
Unique B/W Photo (1997), James Cohan Gallery, New York
2010
Up in the Air, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm; FRAC Montpellier, France (touring)
2009
REAM, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Not Something Else, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Galerie Bernard Ceysson Beaubourg, Paris, France
2008
Monsters and Stuff, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
2006
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
Pure Invention, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
2005
Feature Inc. New York
2004
South London Gallery, London, UK
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Feature Inc., New York
2002
Stitching, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2001
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000
Epic in the Everyday, South-Eastern Centre for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; The New Museum of contemporary Art, New York (catalogue) (touring)
Feature Inc., New York
1999
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
1998
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Oregon
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
1997
Feature Inc., New York
Ynglingagatan, Stockholm, Sweden
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri (catalogue)
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1996
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Feature Inc. New York
1995
Projects 50: Tom Friedman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1994
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland
1993
Feature Inc. New York
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1992
Bonzak Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
1991
Feature Inc., New York
Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Rezac Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
Grand Dessert – The history of the dessert, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
2023
Through the Floods, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Everything Gets Lighter, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Aranya plein air project, Aranya Jinshanling Art Festival, Beidahe, China
Drawings by Sculptors, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York
Qui va là? n°2, Frac Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France
2022
Illusions are Real: Manif d’Art Quebec City Biennial, Quebec, Canada
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (touring)
Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis, World Chess Hall of Fame, Saint Louis, Missouri
2021
States of Being, Lehmann Maupin, Taipei, Taiwan
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (touring)
2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
Le Arti 1966-2020: The Practice of Drawing, Vistamare, Milan, Italy
Unique, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Energy in All Directions, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2019
Drawn Together Again, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
My Head is a Haunted House, Sadie Coles, HQ, London, UK
Every Day Is Another Day, 601Artspace, New York
How We Live: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Family Collection, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, New York
Food, Yoshii Gallery, New York
Zentrified, Thomas Park, New York
2018
Digital Worlds: New Media from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
Knock Knock, Fire Station at South London Gallery, London, UK
Mad World, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Pizza is God !, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (outdoor)
2017
Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness, Jack Shainman, New York
Blessed Inaction, Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen, The Netherlands
Get Outta That Spaceship . . .!, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
2016
Tom Friedman (+The Birthday Show), 1969 Gallery, New York
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Bury, UK
Explode Every Day: An Inquiry Into the Phenomena of Wonder, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (catalogue)
This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (catalogue)
Summer School, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2015
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
Arts & Foods. Rituals Since 1851, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
AND, 601Artspace, New York
Carte Blanche to Luhring Augustine, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
Trittico, Cisterna at the Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
2014–2015
Visual Deception II: Into the Future, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Shibuya-ku, Japan; Hyogo
Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (touring) (catalogue)
2014
The Fifth Wall, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
Four Decades of Drawings and Works on Paper, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hyper-resemblances, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Room by Room: Monographic Presentations from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
In __ We Trust: Art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
2013
Seismic Shifts, The National Academy Museum, Manhattan, New York
Lifelike, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
A New View: Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Autocorrect, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
2012
Rip It Up and Start Again, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montepellier, France
Invisible Art: About the Unseen, 1957 - 2012, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (touring)
Paper, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York
After Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sculpture, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY Watch Your Step, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Now Here is also Nowhere: Part 1, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2011
All that Glisters, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Nod Nod Wink Wink: Conceptual Art in New Mexico and Its Influences, The Harwood Museum of Art,
Mandelman-Ribak Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
One, Another, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Out of the Box: Artists Play Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, Saint Louis, Missouri
2010
Tom Friedman and Steve Wolfe, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Floor Corner Wall, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, Texas
The Boneyard, Maloney Fine Art, Culver City, California
Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Human, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
2009
Magic Show, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK
Chasing Napoleon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Six Artists, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
OFF THE WALL, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York
Shaping Space, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2008
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Retrospective, Gagosian Gallery, New York
The Art of Chess, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Styrofoam, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Transformed, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Collecting Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York
Drawn to Detail, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007
Memory and Obsession, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
New Dimensions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Timer, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO Future, Rome, Italy
Art in America, Now, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summer Show, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
microwave, five, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Summer Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York
All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
POP ART IS... Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
INSIGHT?, Gagosian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Fit To Print: Printed Media In Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York
The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York
2006
Into me / Out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York
Portraits of Artists, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Chess Collection, Gary Tatintslan Gallery Inc. Moscow, Russia
It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
Subject: Contemporary Portraiture, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
Twice Drawn, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs, New York (catalogue)
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Nichts, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
EX.05.03.06103: Big, Small, White, Cartin Collection, Hartford, Connecticut
Aisle 5, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Altered, Stitched & Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2005
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Over + Over: Passion for Process, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Laguna's Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Wes Mills - Tom Friedman - Daisy Youngblood, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Ecstasy - In and About Altered States, Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Los Angeles, California
Art of Chess, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
De La comtesse De Castiglione a Cndy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris, France
A Brief History of Invisible Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
Miraculous In The Everyday, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Masters of Illusion: 150 Years of Trompe l’Oeil in America, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan
Paper Pushers, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis, Davis, California
Portraits d’artistes: De la Comtesse de Castiglione à Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
University, East Lansing, Michigan
Meditative, Feature Inc. New York
2004
Symbolic Space, The Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
Think Small, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
View Eight, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Why Not Live for Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Another Zero, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Bug Eyed: Art, Culture, Insects, Turtle Bay Museum, Redding, California
Disparities and Deformations, Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe Fifth International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Fine Line, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Noah’s Ark, National Gallery of Canada at La Cité de l’Énergie, Shawinigan, Canada
2003
Fright Wig, Feature Inc. New York
Tom Friedman, Gaylen Gerber, Joe Scanlan, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
In Full View, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Stacked, D’Amelio Terras, New York
American Dre@m, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Intricacy, ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
The Invisible Thread, Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
2002
Retrospectacle, 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Face Off: A Portrait, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Plotting, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Sunday Afternoon, 303 Gallery, New York
177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatables, AXA Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Playground, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2001
Casino 2001: First Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (catalogue)
Arte Contemporaneo International, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Ruido Blanco/Silencio Blanco, Program Centro d Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
One Million Dollars, The 16 Beaver Group, New York (catalogue)
The Spring Exposition, Joseph Silvestro Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (catalogue)
Art at the Edge of the Law, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalogue)
Een goed in de weg staande tafel, Galerie van Gleder, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, (catalogue)
Point of Departure II, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2000
Self Portraits from the Permanent Collection, Robert Wood Johnson Galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York
Open Ends: Actual Size, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Bubbles, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
ANP: 3ness, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, (catalogue)
Arte Americana, ultimo deccenio, Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna, Logette Lombardesca, Ravene, Italy, (catalogue)
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona; PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (touring) (brochure, colouring book)
Collecting Ideas: Works from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
Vanitas Personæ: An Exploration of the Self and Other Related Characters, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Domestic Bliss, South London Gallery, London, UK
Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina (catalogue)
American Bricolage, Sperone Westwater, New York (catalogue)
Extra Ordinary, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Hairy Forearm’s Self-Referral, Feature Inc. New York
The Visionary Landscape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Grok Terence McKenna Dead, Feature Inc. New York
Snap! Photography from the Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Hand made in America, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York (selected by Gregory Allen)
Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
1999
Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
On the Ball: The Sphere in Contemporary Sculpture, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Collectors Collect Contemporary Art: 1990-1999, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (catalogue)
Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut (catalogue)
Ideas in Things, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California
Holding Court, L & R Entwistle & Co Ltd, London, UK
Stuff, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, Illinois
1998
More Pieces for the Puzzle: Recent Additions to the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hindsight: Recent Work from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Young Americans Part II, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Poussière (Dust Memories), Fonds Regional d’art Contemporain de Burgogne, Dijon, France; Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, Galerie du Trib, Rennes, France (catalogue)
Blunt Object, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Drawing the Question, Dorsky Gallery, New York (brochure)
Dust Breeding, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California; Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (touring) (catalogue)
Transience and Sentimentality: Boston and Beyond, The Instate of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Humble County, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (catalogue)
Word perfect, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bob and Wheel, dfn Gallery, New York
At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, New York; Meyerhof Galleries, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Virginia Beach Centre for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Santa Monica, California; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (touring)
1997
A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (catalogue)
Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (catalogue)
Inaugural installation of the new galleries of contemporary art, The Art Institute of Chicago
Dane County Collects, Madison Art Centre, Madison (brochure)
Frankensteinian, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
Lovecraft, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Cabinet Gallery, London, UK (touring)
1996
Universalis: 23, Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo,Parque do Ibrapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (catalogue)
Affinities: Chuck Close and Tom Friedman, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (brochure)
XXIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
Feature Inc., New York
Stretch the Truth, Art: Concept, Nice, France
Currents in Contemporary Art, Christie’s East, New York
Hero, Fieldwork/Project Room, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
More Than Real, Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy (catalogue)
Subversive Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (catalogue)
A Collection of Sculptures, The Classic Collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalogue)
1995
Strung Into the Apollonian Dream... Feature, New York
I Gaze a Gazely Stare, Feature, New York
Oltre la Normalità Concentrica, Palazzo da Zara, Padua, Italy
lo-fi, Lauren Wittles, New York
Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper, Gallery A, Chicago, Illinois
b/w photos, Feature, New York
1994
Three Person Exhibition, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
precept/image/object, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Objects: Tom Friedman and Linda Horn, Evanston Art Centre, Evanston (brochure)
Critical Mass, A&A Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas (touring)
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Common/Uncommon, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Rien a Signaler, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland
1993
Jeanne Dunning, Tom Friedman, Julia Fish: subject matters, Kendall College Art Gallery, Grand Rapids
The American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Mixed Messages: A Survey of Recent Chicago Art, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis
Times, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
Substitute Teachers, Sadie Bronfman Cultural Center, Montreal, Quebec (catalogue)
New Works, Feigen, Inc. Chicago, Illinois
Once Upon A Time....A Loose Form of Narrative, Gallery A, Chicago, Illinois (catalogue)
1992
Hair, John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Healing, Wooster Gardens, New York, New York; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California (touring)
Misadventures, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin (catalogue)
Lying on the Top of a Building the Clouds Seemed No Nearer Than When I Was Lying in the Street, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
The Mud Club, Winchester Cathedral & Lake Nairobi, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois (catalogue)
Feigen, Inc. Chicago, Illinois
1991
Four person exhibition (with Huma Bhabha, David Shaw, and Sally Webster), Feature, New York
Casual Ceremony, White Columns, New York (catalogue)
White Bird, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Itch, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990
The Thing Itself, Feature, New York
Looking at Labor: What Price Beauty, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Godhead, Feature Inc. New York
Minus, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Thesis: Tom Friedman, Brian Sikes, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Catalogues and publications (selected)
2022
Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece
2021
Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, Phaidon
2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2019
How We Live: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Family Collection, 30-31, Peekskill, New York: Hudson Valley MOCA
2018
Always the Beginning, Tom Friedman’s Sketches and Notes (1980-2018), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
The FLAG Art Foundation 2008-2018, 20, 23, 52, 97, New York: FLAG Art Foundation, 2018. Sculpture Milwaukee, 40-41, Milwaukee: Sculpture Milwaukee
Two x Two x Twenty: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, 68-70, Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art
2017
Visitors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Dezeuze, Anna, Almost Nothing: Observations on Precarious Practices in Contemporary Art, 243–45
Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press
Storr, Robert, Tom Friedman, In Interviews on Art, 185-193, London: HENI
2016
Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder, pp. 264–69, New York: DelMonico
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, Dallas: The Warehouse
This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today, 114, 226–27, New Haven: Yale University Press
2015
20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Body of Art, London: Phaidon Press
The Broad Collection, pp. 232–33, Munich: DelMonico Books
Fig, Joe, Inside the Artist’s Studio, pp. 92–99, New York: Princeton Architectural Press
Fullaondo, María, The Drawing Bazaar, Madrid: Universidad Europea Madrid
2014
Visual Deception II: Into the Future, pp. 60–61, Nagoya: Chunichi Shimbun
George, Herbert, The Elements of Sculpture—A Viewer’s Guide, 87, London: Phaidon
Griffin, Jonathan, Paul Harper, David Trigg, and Eliza Williams, The Twenty-First Century Art Book, 90– 91, London: Phaidon
2013
Tom Friedman: Up in the Air, exh. cat. Milan: Skira Editore
Works on Paper, pp. 36–37, Reykjavík: Crymogea
Getlein, Mark, Living with Art: Tenth Edition, pp. 45–46, New York: McGraw-Hill, Holzwarth, Hans Werner, ed. ART NOW Vol. 4, 152–55. Cologne: Taschen
Moszynska, Anna, Sculpture Now, 27–28, London: Thames and Hudson
2012
Tom Friedman at Luhring Augustine, New York: Luhring Augustine
Rugoff, Ralph, Invisible: Art about the Unseen: 1957–2012, p. 57, London: Hayward Gallery
Sacamoto, Carla, For Which It Stands: Americana in Contemporary Art, pp. 134–37, New York: The Curated Collection
Tovar, Joao, Paper, 52. Nice: Association T, Musée d’Art Modern et d’Art Contemporain
Migone, Christof, Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body, 39–41, Los Angeles and Berlin: Errant Bodies Press
2011
Berry, Ian, and Jack Shear, eds. Twice Drawn, 251, Saratoga Springs, New York: Frances Young
Johnson, Ken, Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art, 113, 166, 169, Munich: Prestel
Spies, Werner, Verboten 7, Zurich: Thomas Ammann Fine Art
2010
Tom Friedman: Up In The Air, Magasin 3 Stocholm Konsthall
Wolf, Sylvia, The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, Seattle: Henry Art Gallery
2009
Latreille, Emmanuel, Tom Friedman, Ceysson Publication
Wahler, Marc-Olivier, Mark Alizart, and Frédéric Grossi, From Yodeling to Quantum Physics Volume 3, Paris: Palais de Tokyo
2008
Danto, Arthur, Tom Friedman, Yale University Press
Rugoff, Ralph. Tom Friedman, London: Gagosian Gallery
2007
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today, London: Phaidon
2006
Tom Friedman: Ream, Gagosian Gallery
Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols, Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George, Tom Friedman, Gagosian Gallery
2005
Getlen, Mark. Gilbert’s Living with Art, New York: McGraw-Hill
Molon, Dominic, and Michael Rooks, Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, 38, New York: Independent Curators International
2003
Tom Friedman: Oh Too O Three, Feature Inc.
2002
Tom Friedman, Fondazione Prada
Tom Friedman, South London Gallery
Tom Friedman Kids’ Pack, South London Gallery
2001
Cooper, Dennis, Bruce Hainley and Adrian Searle, Tom Friedman, Phaidon
Estrela, Alexandre and Harrison, Scott, Manual, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 38 (reproduction)
Tom Friedman, Mercantile/Image Press
Portfolio, Arena +, Spring/Summer, p. 251, (reproduction of artwork)
Art at the Edge of the Law, Ridgefield, Connecticut: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
2000
Tom Friedman, Prada Foundation
Tom Friedman, SECCA, North Carolina
Tom Friedman, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
IONS Noetic Sciences Review, March-May, (cover, reproduction)
Tom Friedman, IN, vol. 1, issue 2, New York, (reproductions)
Discover, vol. 23, no.8, August, Fuel for Thought, p. 29, (reproduction)
Parkett, no. 64, Zürich, Switzerland, texts by Dab Cameron, Midori
Matsui, John Waters, pp. 50-92, (reproductions)
Untitled, 2002, Benefit edition for Parkett Editions, Zürich, Switzerland
There, 2002, Benefit edition for New Museum, New York, NY
K48, Fall/Winter, pp. 34-35, (artist’s project)
Lauer, David A. and Pentak, Stephen, Design Basics, Forth Worth, Texas
Hartcourt Brace College Publishers, 278, pp. 28-29, (reproduction)
Peres, Daniel, Letter from the Editor, Details, November, p. 26, (reproduction)
1999
Tom Friedman, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw & Feature Inc. New York
Staring, Stare, Spring, p. 51, (reproduction of artwork)
Stockel, Tommy, It’s a small world, Art-Land, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 22-23,(reproduction of artwork)
Strick, Jeremy guest editor, Museum Studies, Volume 25, No. 1 Modern and Contemporary Art: The Lannan Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois; The Art Institute of Chicago, 104, pp. 88-81, p. 89, p. 99, text by Daniel Schulman, (reproduction)
1998
cream, London, Phaidon Press Ltd, 464 pages, (reproduction)
Adams, Brooks, and Lisa Liebmann. Young Americans 2: New American Art at the Saatchi Gallery, London: Saatchi Gallery
Dagognet, François, Poussière (Dust Memories), Rennes: Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporian Bretagne
Tom Friedman 14 Harris, Susan, and Jennifer Gross
Drawing the Question / Drawing a Conclusion, New York: Dorsky Galler
Klein, Richard, Dominique Nahas, and Ingrid Schaffner, Pop Surrealism. Ridgefield, Connecticut: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Smith, Courtenay, ed. Blunt Object, Chicago: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
1997
Tom Friedman, Saint Louis Art Museum
Castelnuovo, Sheri, Stephen Fleischman, and Toby Kamps, Dane County Collects, Madison, WI: Madison Art Center
Haas, Elise S. Garry Garrels, and Janet Bishop, New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Rugoff, Ralph, and Susan Stewart, At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small Scale Art New York: Independent Curators
Sobel, Dean, and Marc J. Ackerman, Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum
1996
Affinities: Chuck Close, Tom Friedman, Art Institute of Chicago
Tom Friedman: Work Book, New York: Feature, Inc, 20 pages
jst, (Portfolio), Grand Street no. 57, Summer, pp. 23-34, text by Robert Storr
Timothy Paul Smith, Worlds Within Worlds, The Sciences, July/August, pp. 28-33
1994
Romano, Gianni editor, Postmedia, Autumn, (artist’s project)
1995
Friedman, Tom, and Robert Storr. Projects 50: Tom Friedman. New York: Museum of Modern Art
1994
Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography and Craft Media, New York: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Polla, Barbara S. et al. Rien à signaller, Geneva: Galerie Analix
Rowe-Sheilds. Objects: Tom Friedman and Linda Hor, Evanston: Evanston Art Center
1993
Basha, Regine, et al. Substitute Teachers. Montreal: Sadie Bronfman Cultural Center
Cottong, Kathy, and Norman Dubie. Once upon a Time, A Loose Form Narrative, Chicago: Gallery A
1992
Arning, Bill, and Ben Kinmont. Casual Ceremony, New York: White Columns
Hudson, The Mud Club: Winchester Cathedral and Lake Nairobi, Glen Ellyn, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage
Peterman, Dan, Misadventures. Eau Claire: Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1991
Snodgrass, Susan, Tom Friedman, Chicago: Rezac Gallery
Award and Honours (selected)
2001
Grant Award, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc. New York
2000
Hugo Boss Prize (finalist)
1993-95
Luther Greg Sullivan Visiting Artist, Wesleyan University, Middletown
1993
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography and Craft Media, (catalogue)
Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artist’s Fellowship
Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1990
Faculty Prize for Graduate Study in Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Public Collections
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Fotomusuem Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York
Lisser Art Museum, Lisse, Netherlands
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athens, Greece
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina