PAST EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Dissolution, May - June, Gallery A2, Boston, MA

2024

BREATHING– LIGHT, Jan - March, Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2021

Hurricane Lost, Jan-April, Emerson Contemporary, Emerson College, Boston, MA

Georgie Friedman: Snow Study, Oct – Dec, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA

2019

Georgie Friedman: Fragments of Antarctica, April-Sept, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Vortex, Jan - May, Spagnuolo Art Gallery, Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, DC

2016

Traces of Wind and Water, Boston AIR (Artist-in-Residence) Project, Strand Theatre (exterior), Dorchester, MA

Slippery Slope, Jan – Nov, 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

2014  Into the Wind, Foster Gallery, Dedham, MA

2013  Ice Study I (Iceland), screening, FROST, Boston, MA

2011  Above the Clouds, installation in gallery windows, Anthony Greaney and Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

2009  Geyser, Boston Cyberarts Festival & Boston College Arts Festival, Chestnut Hill, MA

2008  Seas and Skies, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA

2007  Georgie Friedman, Five Videos, The Artists Foundation, The Distillery, Boston, MA

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 for 100 Federal St, Boston, MA

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 for 100 Federal St, Boston, MA

2017   

Sea Like a Mirror, site-specific video installation on windows. 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

2016  

City of Boston Artist-In-Residence project - Altering the City - Video Landscape: Traces of Wind and Water, site-specific video installation on existing architecture, Strand Theatre (exterior), Dorchester, MA. 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. 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. 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

LOCATION: Massachusetts Convention Center, South Boston, MA.

1. Custom pieces commissioned for a three-sided vertical marquee. Seven LED video screens, 80’ tall x 24’ wide (3,000 sq ft of digital video display), artist programed base lights. All pieces were commissioned by Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in conjunction with Boston Cyberarts.
   

2. 2015    Future Fossils, Visual + Media Artist curated round, with Ria Brodell
   

3. 2014    Digital Waterfall, Art on the Marquee (Dec)
   

4.             Contained Lightning, Art on the Marquee (Jan)
   

5. 2013    Snow Study (excerpt), Art on the Marquee: Science Inspired Art
   

6. 2012    Seas and Skies, version IV
   

SELECTED TWO PERSON & GROUP EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS

2025

Navigating Art & Science, The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA

Boston College Faculty Exhibit, Carney Gallery, Boston College, MA

Public Processes, curated by Jasper A. Sanchez, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA

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, 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 2022 – March 2023

ASC 4, MASARY Studios, Boston, MA

2021 - 2020

BLINDNESS, Muratcentoventidue-Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy, Oct 2020 – Feb 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 & 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 & 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, 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, 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

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

Medici Film & Video Night, SMFA, Boston

Annual Juried Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA (Juror: 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, FL

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

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. 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

Last updated: Dec 2025