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Seeing the act of weaving as a unification of warp and weft—or left and right brain—Friedman attempts to weave new neural pathways on her loom and in her brain, combatting a climate of anxiety and instability with fiber.
About Terri Friedman
Terri Friedman received her BA with Honors from Brown University and her MFA from the Claremont Graduate School. She made a mid-career transition from painting and sculpture to weaving on a floor loom in 2014. Having received critical reviews in Artforum, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and more, in 2019 she was included in Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art, Phaidon Press. She has exhibited at such venues as the Geffen Contemporary MOCA, SF Contemporary Jewish Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, CODA Museum Netherlands, CUE Art Foundation NYC, Berkeley Art Museum (Art Wall), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Orange County Museum of Art Biennial, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum and more.
She received a San Francisco Artadia Award in 2021 and SHACK15 Art Prize in 2025. Included in many private and public collections, recent acquisitions include the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, De Young Museum San Francisco, and the Denver Art Museum. She resides in El Cerrito, California with her family and is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts.
Terri Friedman CV
Education
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California. M.F.A.
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, B.A. with Honors.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2023 Tomorrow is just a thought, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Rewire, CUE Art Foundation, New York City, NY
2019 Hello Uncertainty, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 The Smell of Gasoline, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 ART WALL, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2012 Set me free, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011 Delirious Lucky, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Mystic Vacation, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 Breathing Underwater, Cheryl Numark Gallery, Washington D.C.
2001 Falling Up, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Terri Friedman: New Work, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2000 Adventures in Denial, jenjoygallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 thirsty, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Water in a Straitjacket, Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1996 “If you want chocolate, why are you eating vegetables?” W139 Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994 Sunny von Bulow is Still Alive, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2025
A New Dawn: The Fundamentals of Making, Design Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Consider the Oyster, Anthony Meier Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Golden Threads 2, Bravin Lee Programs, NYC, NY
Inner Vision: Abstraction and Cognition. Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, CSU Long Beach
Step and Repeat, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Don’t Forget to Hydrate, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL Apex, Volume Gallery, Chicago, IL (curated by Meaghan Rhoddy)
PhillipsX and Artadia, Phillips Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Lover’s Eye, Sargent’s Daughters West, Los Angeles, CA Hardcore threadlore, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
PhillipsX and Artadia, Phillips Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Tikkun: for the Cosmos, Community, and Ourselves, SF Contemporary Jewish Museum
2021 A New Realism, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Glenn Adamson) Above and Below, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Shapeshifters, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2020 The Future is Female II: Love Letters. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Personal Alchemy: Terri Friedman, Maria Paz, Musae Sesay San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Abstract! Minimalism to Now, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY Mass Ornament: Pleasure, Play, and What Lies Beneath, South Etna Montauk, NY (curated by Allison Gingeres) Patch, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2019 The Weight of Matter, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA Thread, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Woven Stories, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2018 Handmade: Women Reshaping Contemporary Art, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
2017 A line can go anywhere, James Cohan Gallery, curated by Jenelle Porter, NY DUST, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA Liminal Focus, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY By the River, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 The Way Things Go, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Betti-Sue Hertz)
2013 ReMODEL, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, CA
2010 Set Theory 1, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Intimate Nature, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Everyday Mystics, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
IAA Retrospective Exhibition, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
A Measure of Humanity, Grand Galleries, Tracy, CA
2006 Last Show, Cheryl Numark Gallery, Washington D.C.
2003 Los Angeles Post Cool, San Jose Museum or Art, San Jose & Otis College of Art. Curated by Michael Duncan
2002 Transparent, Cheryl Numark Gallery, Washington D.C. Organic/Mechanic, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary Art, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
2002 Fleurs du Mal, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA The Importance of Being Earnest, Occidental College, Pasadena, CA
2001 Surface and Paint (Terri Friedman, Sally Elesby, Pia Fries), CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Munchie Munchie, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
Los Angeles, Cheryl Numark Gallery, Washington D.C.
Cool Painting, Brian Gross Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999 Survivalist, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Tripindicular, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles, CA Slippery, Blohard Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Life in Space, Dave Muller- Three Day Weekend Project, Four Walls & CCAC
1998 Love at the end of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1997
Orange County Museum of Art Biennial, Newport, CA
Working Out the Kinks, Hersleusgate 10B, Berlin, Germany. Plastered, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Diskland, Snowscape, shed im eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
From Los Angeles, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996
The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing, Artists Space Hooghuis, Arnhem, The Netherlands. New Age Dada, Kunstruimte Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Between the Acts, The Icebox, Athens, Greece & C/O Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
Ether, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
An Embarrassment of Riches, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
L.A. Freewaves Festival, MOCA- Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Inside the Exterior, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Septet, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Human Condition, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
A scattering matrix, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Simple Means, Montgomery Gallery Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1995
Machine, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport, CA
Action / Station, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Postmarked L.A., P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Felicity, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LoCal, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
December 20th, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994
L.A.X. 1994, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Current Abstractions, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pixies, Fairies, and Netherworlds, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Balls, Newspace Gallery, curated by Suzanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
1993 The Zone, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Awards and Projects
2025
SHACK15 Art Prize, San Francisco, CA
2022 De Young Museum, Textile Arts Council lecture
2021 SF Artadia Awardee FACEBOOK Artist in Residence, Sunnyvale, CA
2020 CUE Art Foundation Grant (for solo show), NY, NY
2016 Francis Helman and Warren Breslau Foundation Grant, BAMPFA Art Wall, Berkeley, CA
2014 Greater Good Science Center, UCBerkeley. Interactive Gratitude wall for an event of 1000 people coming together to honor recipients of 5 year grants studying the effects of gratitude on the human brain
2009-2011 Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Oncology Ward Artist in Residence/Aquisitions, Baltimore, Maryland, funded by Mayor Bloomberg of NYC
2000 Santa Barbara Arts Fund Grant, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Grant , San Francisco, CA
1994 Cultural Affairs Honorarium, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Academic Positions
2001- present
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Associate Professor
2001
Mills College, Oakland, CA. Visiting Artist
1999-2001
College of Creative Studies, UCSB. Santa Barbara, CA. Lecturer
1996-1999
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. Visiting Artist
1997
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Visiting Artist
Bibliography
2025
Patricia Malarcher, Surface Design, Weaving new Trajectories, Christie Matson, Terri Friedman, Melissa Cody, Diedrick Brackens. July 2025
Brian Boucher, Artnet, A Glorious Show of Textile Art Unspools in 18th-Century New York Building. April 2025
Mary Corbin, 48 Hills, Inspired by Sister Corita Kent, Terri Friedman’s Meticulous Weaves Erupt into Protest, San Francisco, CA. July 2025
2024
Scott Hutchins & Anthony Girardi, Ateliers D’Art, Terri Friedman et Maria Guzman Capron, Paris, France, Dec-Jan 2024-2025.
2023
Tomorrow is just a thought, (Catalogue), essays by Glenn Adamson and Jill D’Alessandro
David M. Roth, A Festival of Fiber Art, Squarespace Cylinder
Jody Zellen, Gallery rounds: Terri Friedman Shoshana Wayne Gallery Artillery Magazine
2022
Melissa Nathan Gerson, A dense (and very pink) tapestry of joy and pain, JWeekly
Laura Paull, The healing arts: CJM’s ‘Tikkun’ exhibit contemplates our fractured world, Jewish News of Northern California
2021 George Adams, Interview Shapeshifters, October 2021 Allison Strauss, Gallery Rounds, Artillery Magazine, August, 2021 Betty Brown, Above and Below, Art ant Cake, August 2021 Glenn Adamson, A New Realism, Catalogue Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, N.Y. 2021
2020
Kathy Butterly & Alexis Wilkinson, REWIRE, Catalogue Cue Art Foundation. NYC, NY
Maria Rosaria Roseo, ARTEMORBIDA Textiles Art Magazine, Rome, Italy 2020
TxP (Textiel Plus) Magazine, The Power of Imperfection: Terri Friedman defies the rules of weaving
Emily Zaiden, The New Nowness of Tapestry, Weaving Current American Narratives New Tapestry Alliance, CODA
2019
Julia Wolkoff, Artsy.net, These Artists are Changing our Expectations of What Tapestry Can Be,
Juxtapose Magazine, Terri Friedman greets the Uncertain in her new solo show at Guerrero Gallery
Eve Wood, Weight of Matter, Riot Material
Talking Textiles with Terri Friedman, Interview Phaidon Press
2018 San Francisco Magazine, Making Waves: 100 Artists Putting the East Bay on the Map
2017 Martha Schwendener, New York Times, What to See in New York Galleries this Week
2011 Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Unspecified
2010 DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, Green Zones
2007
Chris Miles, Terri Friedman, Artforum
2002
Jessica Dawson, Flying Colors at Numark, The Washington Post
Shauna Miller, Breathing Under Water, Washington City Paper
2001 Chris Miles, Terri Friedman and Philip Argent, Artforum (on line) Doug Harvery, Synthetics: Big Plastic, LA Weekly Joan Crowder, Flower Power, Santa Barbara News Press-Scene
2000
Laura Lark, The Munchie-Munchie/Diverseworks-Houston, Artlies, #27
Glen Helfand, ‘Cool Painting 2000’, San Francisco Bay Guardian
1999
Jim Jenkins, Humanizing the Machine, Sculpture, December 1999, pp. 41 – 47
Doug Harvey, Closures, Openings, Los Angeles Weekly, Nov. 26 – Dec. 2, 1999
Sarah Coleman, Survivalist, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct. 13-19, 1999. Vol.34
Leslie Jarvis, Tripindicular at Lemon Sky, Artweek, Sept.1999, Volume 30, Issue 9
1998 Michelle Grabner, Cut Out and Keep (Simon Periton), Frieze Art Magazine, September 1998 Jim Demetre, Love at the End of the Tunnel, New Art Examiner, July/August 1998 Matthew Kangas, Flower power and frivolities, The Seattle Times, Feb.12, 1998, p.19 Jim Demetre, End of the world? I feel fine, The Seattle Weekly, February 1998 Susan Kandel & Marilu Knode, Love at the end of the Tunnel, (catalogue)-C.O.C.A., 1998 M.A. Greenstein, ‘Terri Friedman: Heavy Breathing’, World Art, Winter 1998
1997
Michael Duncan, ‘Terri Friedman at Special K’, Art in America, September, 1997
Christopher Miles, ‘Heavy Breathing: Artist Terri Friedman Talks Respiration’, SOMA,1997
Carmine Iannaccone, ‘Terri Friedman at Special K Exhibitions’, Art Issues, Summer 1997
Garret Keith, ‘Terri Friedman: Water in a Straitjacket’, zingmagazine, Summer, 1997
Marilu Knode, “A scattering matrix: Richard Heller Gallery’, zingmagazine, Summer, 1997
Daniella B.Walsh, ‘Where all things old are new again’, Orange County Register, 1997
Cathy Curtis, ‘Inextricable References’, Los Angeles Times (O.C.), May 6, 1997
Susan Kandel, ‘Oozing Images’, Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1997
Bruce Guenther, ‘Beyond Ego’s Shadow’, OC Museum of Art, Biennial Catalogue, 1997 Mario Cutajar, ‘Terri Friedman at Special K Exhibitions’, Artweek, April, 1997
Christopher Miles, ‘A Scattering Matrix’, Artweek, February, 1997
1996
Suvan Geer, ‘An Embarrassment of Riches’ -Huntington Beach Art Center, Artweek
Cathy Curtis, ‘Riches’ Spins Its Gold From Everyday Straw, Los Angeles Times,O.C.
Lisa Anne Auerbach, The Land of the Bland, The Reader, June 16-22, 1996
Christina Petrinos, Between the Acts, The Art Magazine, Athens, Greece
M.A. Greenstein, Action/Station: Exploring Open Systems, New Art Examiner
Peter Frank, Art Picks of the Week: Septet, Los Angeles Weekly
Suvan Geer, Spirit and Soul, ArtScene
1995
Glen Helfand, Terri Friedman, Stephen Shackelford- Victoria Room, New Art Examiner Rebecca Solnit, San Francisco Fax, Art Issues
Cathy Curtis, Going Through the Motions, Los Angeles Times (O. C.)
Daniella B. Walsh, Artists Probe the Price of Progress, Orange County Register
Kenneth Baker, Art That Needs No One’s Approval, San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Frank, Art Picks of the Week; Action Station, Los Angeles Weekly
David Bonetti, Gallery Watch, San Francisco Examiner, September 1,
Kim Levin, Short List, Choice Section, Village Voice
Glen Helfand, California Sweet, San Francisco Weekly
Peter Frank, Art Picks of the Week; LAX ’94Municipal Art Gallery, L. A. Weekly
1994
Michael Duncan, L.A. Rising, Art in America
Susan Kandel, Over the Top, Los Angeles Times
Jan Tumlir, Processes and Properties-Current Abstractions, Artweek
Peter Frank, Art Picks of the Week; Current Abstractions, Los Angeles Weekly
William Wilson, …Works Aren’t Always What They Appear To Be, Los Angeles Times
1993 Michael Duncan. The Zone / Technocolor, Frieze International Art Magazine
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