exhibition history
exhibitions
PAST EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
BREATHING– LIGHT, Jan 19 - March 10, 2024, Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2021
HURRICANE LOST, Jan 27 - April 4, 2021, Emerson Contemporary, Media Art Gallery, Emerson College, Boston, MA
Georgie Friedman: Snow Study, Oct 5 – Dec 5, 2021, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
2019
Georgie Friedman: Fragments of Antarctica, April - Sept 2019, Contemporary Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Vortex, Jan - May 2019, Spagnuolo Art Gallery, Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, DC
2016
Traces of Wind and Water, Boston AIR (Artist-in-Residence) Project, site-specific video installation,
Strand Theatre (exterior), Dorchester, MA
Slippery Slope, Jan 8 – Nov 30, 2016, site-specific video installation, Wold Center, Union College, Schenectady, NY
2015
Eye of the Storm, Roberts Gallery, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA
Sky Studies, Vandernoot Gallery, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA
Under the Icy Sky, two site-specific outdoor video installations, The Building Storm, Shifting Ice,
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
2014 Into the Wind, Foster Gallery, Dedham, MA
2013 Ice Study I (Iceland), screening, FROST, Boston, MA
2011 Above the Clouds, concurrent public art video installation at Anthony Greaney and Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
2009 Geyser, Boston College, 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival & Boston College Arts Festival, Chestnut Hill, MA
2008 Seas and Skies, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2007 Five Videos, The Artists Foundation, The Distillery, Boston, MA
2001 Lost & Everywhere, L.P.K., New Orleans, LA
1998 Night Lights, Wild Abandon, Portland, OR
1997 Blue Note Nights, Fellini, Portland, OR
1995 Coin in the Campo, Bridge Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS | OUTDOOR PROJECTS
2020 - Long-term commission: Journey to the Sun, 60 mins, silent
16 ft. x 35 ft. video wall | Commissioned by Boston Properties | Location: 100 Federal St, Boston, MA
Free and open to the public | Screenings are on rotation
2018 - Long-term commission: Film Haiku: Water Cycle - Four Corners of the Earth, 60 mins, silent
16 ft. x 35 ft. video wall | Commissioned by Boston Properties | Location: 100 Federal St, Boston, MA
installation documentation video | video stills
Free and open to the public | Screenings are on rotation
2017 Sea Like a Mirror, site-specific video installation on windows, 9 x 19 ft. Temporary public art project for
Of Land & Local, commission by Burlington City Arts Center, City Hall Park, Burlington, VT
Rising Tide, video projection onto the façade of Boston's City Hall, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA.
Temporary public project commissioned by HUBweek: Immersion
site-specific video installation on existing architecture, Strand Theatre (exterior), Dorchester, MA.
This public art project was supported in part by an award from the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
and made possible through the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.
2015 Shifting Ice | The Building Storm, two site-specific outdoor video installations on existing architecture,
Science Center Complex (exterior), College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Commissioned by the Arts
Transcending Borders program with funding from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2012 Overhead Current | Electrified Sky, two site-specific outdoor video installations on existing architecture,
The Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA. Commissioned by the
Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, and created in partnership with Boston Cyberarts, Boston Harbor
Island Alliance, and the National Park Service.
ART ON THE MARQUEE: PUBLIC MEDIA ART COMMISSIONS
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Custom pieces commissioned for a three-sided vertical marquee that is made up of seven LED video screens, 80’ tall x 24’ wide (3,000 sq ft of digital video display), artist programed base lights. LOCATION: Massachusetts Convention Center, South Boston, MA. All pieces were commissioned by Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in conjunction with Boston Cyberarts.
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2015 Future Fossils, Art on the Marquee: Visual + Media Artist curated round, in collaboration with Ria Brodell,
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Boston, MA
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2014 Digital Waterfall, Art on the Marquee, Mass Convention Center, Boston, MA (Dec)
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Contained Lightning, Art on the Marquee, Mass Convention Center, Boston, MA (Jan)
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2013 Snow Study (excerpt), Art on the Marquee: Science Inspired Art, Mass Convention Center, Boston, MA
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2012 Seas and Skies, version IV, Art on the Marquee, Mass. Convention Center Authority, Boston, MA
SELECTED TWO PERSON & GROUP EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS
2024
Boston Youth Climate Summit 2024, Commission: Heat Field, 2024, Museum of Science, Boston, MA
Unfiguring - Experiments in the Practice of Science and Art, Kirkland Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Illuminating Perspectives: Exploring Light in Innovative Art, (juror/inclusion of juror's piece),
Sebastopol Center for the Arts | Sebastopol, CA
2023
CLOUDS, Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy
Alumni Exhibition: Fifteen alumni from the classes of 1964 to 2021, Creative Arts Center Gallery, Catlin Gabel, Portland, OR
SPECULATIVE FUTURISMS, MassArtXSoWa, Boston, MA
2022
WATERLINES, Somerville Museum, MA, December 15, 2022 – March 22, 2023
ASC 4, MASARY Studios, Boston, MA
2021 - 2020
BLINDNESS, Muratcentoventidue-Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy, Oct 24, 2020 – Feb 27, 2021
(UK Reception COP26: Raising Climate Ambition, Screening, hosted by the British Consulate-General Boston
and Greentown Labs, MA)*
(UMW Media Wall, Hurley Convergence Center, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA)*
* canceled due to COVID-19
2019
POLAR LANDS, Georgie Friedman, Kristina Kvalvik & Kristina Paustian, Muratcentoventidue-Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy
2018
Looking Out Looking In, Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy
Uncommon Project II, projection on the Little Building, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2017
Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) | Virtual Territories: Fulldome Movies, "Eye of the Storm, V2," Geneva, Switzerland
Of Land & Local, "Sea Like a Mirror" site-specific video installation for City Hall Park, Burlington City Arts Gallery,
Burlington, Vermont
Made in USA: Fulldome Immersive I, "Eye of the Storm, V2," 360° full-dome screening, swissnex Dome,
HUBWeek: Immersion, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA
2016
Constructed Video: Georgie Friedman, Robin Mandel & Andrew Neumann, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
Solstice 2016, "Our Freezing and Melting World," site-specific video installation, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
32° The Art of Winter, Pizzagalli Center, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
Directions, Brant Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Good and Long Looks: Barry Anderson | Georgie Friedman | Liisa Lounila | Academy Records, Reilly Gallery,
Providence College, Providence, RI
Water, Water Everywhere, Touring New Media exhibition & Film Festival: Huntington Museum of Art, WV (Fall 2015-Sum 2016)
2015
Sting! XXI: Kind of Blue, The Beehive, Boston, MA - Fall/Winter 2015/2016
Water, Water Everywhere, Touring New Media exhibition & Film Festival: Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of
Connecticut-Avery Point, Groton, CT; Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
Alien She, Museum of Contemporary Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Lawn on D: Opening weekend Public Art Screening, Boston, MA
2014
BRINK v1, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Water, Water Everywhere, Touring New Media exhibition and Film Festival: University of Maine, Farmington;
The El Paso Museum of Art, TX
BOSTON DOES BOSTON 7, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
2013
Waves & Currents: Georgie Friedman and Lenka Novakova, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
Moving Image Arts: Water, Water Everywhere, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Water, Water Everywhere, Touring New Media exhibition & Film Festival: Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA
2012
Beyond Horizons: Ria Brodell and Georgie Friedman, Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA
Film on Water, curated screening, Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Vast Vistas: Landscape in New Media, Boston Cyberarts Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
Water, Water Everywhere, Touring New Media exhibition & Film Festival: The Museums of Los Gatos, CA;
International Symposium on Electronic Art, Western New Mexico University; Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado;
Upez African Humanitarian Development Project, Lagos, Nigeria
2011
Ripple Effect, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June 2011 – July 2012
Pixilerations [v.8], FirstWorks Festival, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI
NOW.HERE.THIS: Georgie Friedman, Anya Antonovych-Metcalf, Sara Hubbs, |||-ART an Online Curatorial Project
Flash Forward Festival, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, MA
At Work: Boston College Faculty Artists, Lorand Gallery, Boston, MA
2010
The 2010 deCordova Biennial Exhibition, "Dark Swell," deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
Proof of Purchase, Sampsøn, Boston, MA
2009
The New Landscape, Canal View, New York, NY
H2O: Film on Water, "Spiraling Water," The Newport Mill, Newport, NH, curated by Cynthia Reeves
Screening: "Traces - Behind the Scenes," documentary video, Brian Knep:Traces, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
The Illuminated Corridor: Subtidal Goals, Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, Oakland, CA
2008
Islands of Isolation, Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Five Places Imagined and Real, Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Nascent, New England School of Art & Design Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Campaign Buttons 2008-Artists Speak Out!, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Medici Film & Video Night, SMFA, Boston
Annual Juried Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA (Juried by: Pieranna Cavalchini)
I was just looking for a pot of gold..., Weems Center Atrium, Boston, MA
Cloud Windows, site-specific video projection on windows, Weems Atrium, Boston, MA
2007
Word of Mouth, Curated by Brian Burkhardt, Gallery Diet, Bridge Art Fair, Miami
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston MA
Boston CyberArts Festival 2007: CyberWindow, Boston, MA
Wanderlust, William Morris Hunt Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
MASH UP!, Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
Hijacking the Future: Hugs and Kisses, Donnely First Floor Gallery,Boston, MA
Master of Fine Arts Annual Juried Group Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, SMFA
2006
QueerID Conference, Boise State University, Boise, ID
Pretty MFA, Donnely First Floor Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
Proof of Purchase, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
Annual Juried Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
Master of Fine Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
2004
Insider Art, Christie's, New York, NY
2003
Visual AIDS: Postcards From the Edge, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Christie’s 2003 Summer Exhibition, Christie's, New York, NY
2000
Mixed Messages: An exhibit of 11 New Orleans Photographers, CCB, New Orleans, LA
Conjunct [of Seven Artists], Annex for the Arts, New Orleans, LA
1999 New Orleans Book Arts Exhibition, Zeitgeist Art & Film Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996
New Bay Area Women Artists, Epicenter Zone, San Francisco, CA
Photography Guild Exhibit, Bridge Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
COLLABORATIONS
2011 Drawing a Line with the Tide, Sarah Hollis Perry and Rachel Perry Welty, HD Video, 7:19 min
Exhibition: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA
2010 So She Floats, Deb Todd Wheeler, HD Video, 6 min
Exhibition: Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Traces - Behind the Scenes, Brian Knep, artist process documentary, HD Video, 10:13 min
Exhibition: Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
The Superheroes Project, Brian Burkhardt, Tanit Sakakini & LEF Foundation, artist project documentary, HD Video, 5:07 min
Screening: Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Exploring the Drawing World of Ria Brodell, artist process documentary video, 4:12 min
Exhibition: 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition Process Gallery, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
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