Exhibitions

Biography:
MFA in Film, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MA in Art History, concentration in Mid-Twentieth Century American Experimental Film, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Teaching Assistant to Stan Brakhage and P. Adams Sitney. Painting studies at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, IL. Teaching Experience: Columbia College, Chicago: Film Production I and History of Cinema; Truman College, Chicago: World Cinema and Film Rhetoric; Daley College, Chicago: Beginning Photography, Advanced Photography, and Design I.

Selected Group Film Exhibitions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Film"; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Light Cone Preview Show"; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, "Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Time Arts Chicago, the companion film exhibition"; 26th New York International Film Festival; Turbidus Film, Fylkingen ny music osch intermediakonst (included the film Verdauwoo), Stockholm, Sweden; Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago: Included in the 24th, 22nd, 20th, 19th, 16th, and 15th Onion City Film Festival.

2024 Two-Person Film Exhibition:

Chicago Filmmakers 50th Anniversary Screening Series presents:
"Poetic Movements: Selected Films by
Adele Friedman and Jean Sousa"
Friday, May 10, 2024, 7:00 PM at Chicago Filmmakers.

2023 One-Person Film Exhibition:

Cineinfinito, Santander, Spain:
"Adele Friedman, #272"

2018 Group and One-Person Exhibitions:

"Considering the Circle", group exhibition curated by Carole Harmel, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago; painting included. Exhibition catalogue.

WORM, Rotterdam, Netherlands, included 16MM film Christian and Michael (2006), May 23, 2018;

"Explorations of Portrait and Place: The Films of Adele Friedman", Chicago Filmmakers, April 7, 2018 (one-person).

2017 Film Exhibitions:

Euro-Mediterranean Arts, Museo Hermann Nitsch, Naples, Italy
(one-person)

Mire Cinema Experimental, Nantes, France
(one person)

Light Cone 2017 Preview Show, Paris, France
(group)

Before 2017, selected One-Person Film Exhibitions include:

SCRATCH Projection, Paris, France
(five exhibitions)

Arsenal, Kino der Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin, Germany.
(two exhibitions)

Frankfurt Deutsches Filmmuseum, Kommunales Kino, Germany
(four exhibitions)

Munich Stadtmuseum-Filmmuseum, Germany
(two exhibitions)

Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
(seven exhibitions)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Film Center
(four exhibitions)

Millennium Film Workshop, New York, New York
(five exhibitions)

Los Angeles Filmforum
(two exhibitions)

Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria
(one exhibition)

Harvard University Film Archive, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA
(one exhibition)