EDUCATION
| M.F.A., University of California
at Berkeley, 1983. |
| B.F.A., Rhode Island School of
Design, 1979. |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| Professor of Art, Pace University,
NY, 1983 - present. |
SELECTED CATALOGUES, ARTICLES, AND REVIEWS
| New
American Paintings, vol. 68, Open Studios Press, Boston, 2007. |
| “A
Visual Feast to Whet All Appetites,” Aidan Dunne, The Irish
Times, October 31, 2006. |
| Catalogue:
New Urbanisms, The Painting Center, 2007. |
| “Country
Road, Take Me Home,” The New York Sun Weekend Section, June
24, 2005 |
| “Artist’s
Road Map Leads to Cleveland,” Marilyn H. Karfeld, Cleveland
Jewish News, 6/6/03. |
| Catalogue:
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center of Contemporary
Art, 2000. |
| Manual:
Art in General 1992 and 1993, Holly Block, 1994. |
| “Jean-Luc
Godard: Picasso, Marx, and Coca-Cola,” J. Hoberman, Arts
Magazine, February, 1993. |
| “The
Contemporary Portrait,” Michael Leonard, Artweek, February
14, 1987. |
| “Barbara
Friedman,” Tim Cohrs, Arts Magazine, Summer 1986. |
| “The
Parameters of Precious,” Aimee Rankin, Art in America,
September 1985. |
| “Update
1984-85,” Grace Glueck, New York Times, June 21, 1985. |
| “Shaped
Canvases and ‘Satellite’ Abstract,”
Malcolm Preston, Newsday, June 18 1985. |
| “Art
Forms in the East Village,” Theodore F. Wolff, The Christian
Science Monitor, April 8, 1985. |
| “Balancing
Acts that Work,” Thomas Albright, The San Francisco
Chronicle, June 19, 1982. |
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
| Open
Studios Northeastern Competition, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, New
American Paintings 68, 2007. |
| Metropolitan
Transportation Authority “Arts for Transit” [poster
project] 1994. |
| Curator’s
Choice Panel, “Artists Talk on Art,” New York, 1995. |
| Residency,
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, July-August 1993. |
| Best
in Show, Roanoke City Art Show [juried by Lowery Sims], 1991. |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Michael
Steinberg Fine Art, New York, March 2007.
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| Van
Brunt Gallery, Beacon, New York, October 2005. |
| Paul
Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, June 2005. |
| Cleveland
State University, Cleveland, OH, May-June 2003. |
| Art
Resources Transfer, New York, September 2002, January 2002, February
2000. |
| The
Painting Center, New York, January 1997. |
| Hewlett
Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992. |
| Roanoke
Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA, 1992. |
| 55
Mercer Street, New York, 1991. |
| Phillip
Dash Gallery, New York, 1987, 1986. |
| Queens
Museum, New York, 1985. |
| White
Columns, New York, 1984. |
| Dana
Reich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1983. |
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| “The
Impermanent Collection IV,” The Temporary Museum of Painting,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2007. |
| “Seen
and Imagined,” Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New
York, 2007. |
| “Out
Looking In; In Looking Out: Urbanism: New York City,”
Painting Center, New York, 2007. |
| “New
Hudson 3,” Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2007. |
| “War
Is Over ‘Again,’” Sideshow Gallery,
Brooklyn, 2007. |
| “Through
Our Eyes: New York,” Metro Building (Queens University
Cultural Fest.), Belfast, UK, 2006. |
| “Michael
Steinberg Fine Art at Scope Hamptons (Featured Artist),” East
Hampton, NY, 2006. |
| “Peace,”
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, December 2005-January 2006. |
| “Vision
Festival X,” Synagogue for the Arts Gallery Space, New York,
May – June 2005. |
| “The
Landscape Show,” Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, January
– February 2005. |
| “Night
New York,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, 2004 |
| “Peace,”
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, 2004. |
| “Through
Our Eyes,” Art in General, New York, 2004. |
| “25th
Anniversary Selections Exhibition,” The Drawing Center, New
York, 2002. |
| “Reactions,”
Exit Art, New York, NY, January 2002. |
| “Philemona
Williamson & Barbara Friedman,” Amelie A. Wallace
Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, 2001. |
| “The
Figure,” Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Staten Island,
2000. |
| “Recollected
Self: Robin Holder & Barbara Friedman,”Marymount
Manhattan College, New York, 1999. |
| “1920,”
Exit Art, New York, 1993. |
| “Child’s
Play,” Art in General, New York, 1993. |
| “Postcards
from Alphaville,” P.S. 1, New York, 1992-93. |
| “Saga(s),”
Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, 1989. |
| “Classical
Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art,” Queens Museum, 1988. |
| “Update
84-85,” White Columns, New York, 1985. |
| “New
Acquisitions,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Connecticut, 1985. |
| “Precious,”
Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York, 1985. |
| “Selections
26,” The Drawing Center, New York, 1984. |
| “Selections,”
Artists Space, New York, 1983. |
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