Artist profile

Gloria Friedmann

Karaoke - arantiga erythrogenis / Ecuador (2002)

glass, acrylic and preserved bird
90 x 68 x 30 cm (ref:Gf0075)

Pariah (lemons) (1998)

iron, glass, lemons, sugar
diameter: 117 cm (ref:Gf0066)

Pariah (milk) (1998)

iron, glass, Nestle milk, sugar
80.5 x 80.5 x 4 cm (ref:Gf0059)

Pariah (sauerampfer) (1997)

sauerampfer, sugar, glass and iron
135 x 100 x 4 cm (ref:Gf0051)

Pariah (tomatoes) (1996)

tomatoes, sugar, glass and iron
diameter 130 cm (ref:Gf0035)

Gloria Friedmann has been exhibiting since 1980 when she had a one-person show at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris and was represented at the Paris Biennale. Since then she has had an extensive series of individual and group exhibitions across Europe and in the United States. From 1990 she has worked on 'tableux vivants': living temporary installations in which animals are placed in urban environments alongside items of contemporary material culture: shopping trolleys, cars, oil drums.

Biography

1950
Born Kronach, Germany
Present
Lives and works in Paris and Aignay-le-Duc, France

Selected exhibitions

2016
Galerie Mitterrand, Paris
2009
MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
2004
Musee d’Art Moderne, St Etienne X
1999
École des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes
1994
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1993
Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg
1992
Annely Juda Fine Art, London (with Werner Haypeter and Darren Lago)
1987
Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble
1986
Centre d'Art, Flaine
1980
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris