David Fried

David Fried, Stemmers, exhibition view, aluminium, acrylic, epoxy, paint. Way of Words, motiongram of sound stimulated interactive sculpture "Self Organizing Still-Life". Self Organizing Still-Life, 2004, Sound stimulated interactive object, granite, marble, microphone, sensor, mixed media. private collection Brussels. Globalexandria, PS-11, stainless steel, polished, 355 x 600 x 150 cm. Globalexandria, W1-13, stainless steel, polished, 130 x 180 x 20 cm.

David Fried (born 1962, New York City) is an American interdisciplinary, contemporary artist.

His stated conceptual focus is on dynamic non-linear and interdependent relationships found in nature and society, juxtaposed with the human desire to control, manipulate and predict outcomes. Fried’s works have been exhibited in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Major works have been included with artists Rebecca Horn, Robert Rauschenberg and Alexander Calder in an extensive traveling museum exhibition; "Drehen, Kreisen, Rotieren", and in "Genesis—The Art of Creation" with Joseph Beuys, Antony Gormley, Bruce Nauman at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland. His works are in international collections including a commissioned interactive installation on permanent view in Germany’s comprehensive kinetic art collection at the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen. Fried first became known to the New York established art world in the early 1980s through his activities as a painter in the street art group AVANT, who alongside the then emerging artists Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat began the post-graffiti street art movement in NYC. His efforts are mainly concentrated in Europe since relocating his studio from NYC to Düsseldorf in 1989. In 1972 at the age of ten, he was accepted to the Art Students League of New York as one of the few minors in the institution's history, and studied oil painting in the Isaac Soyer class. His earliest influences were painters like Rembrandt, Dalí and Yves Tanguy. His earliest works show experimentation in a range of styles with a common subject matter about the nature of being. In the late 1990s, he expanded his artistic oeuvre into a multidisciplinary approach employing sculpture, interactive objects and photographic works. By 1996, he began his research into the color photogram and interactive art. According to an interview from 2001, it took Fried two years to amass the tools and skills necessary to create his first multimedia interactive work. In 1998, he publicly exhibited his first interactive "Self Organizing Still-Life" sculpture at the art fair "Art Forum Berlin".

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2013 Spheres of Influence II, SPAM Contemporary, Düsseldorf, Germany 2012 Troner Art, Stilwerk Düsseldorf, Germany 2009 Position Probable, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2009 Spheres of Influence, Gallery Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld, Germany 2008 Ultimate Photography, Gallery Monos, Liège, Belgium 2007 Far from Equilibrium, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA 2007 Living Variables, Galerie Kasten, Mannheim, Germany 2005 Distribution of Fate. Regional Museum Xanten, Germany 2003 Missing Link, Gallery Adler, Frankfurt, Germany 2001 Night of the Museums, Jörg Immendorff harbor penthouse, Düsseldorf, Germany 1990 Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

2013 Grosse Kunst Austellung NRW, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany 2011 Wasser, Kunsthalle Messmer, Germany Google Science, Google HQ, Palo Alto, CA 2010 Agenda, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia Schaulager, Hans Peter Zimmer Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany 2009 Fall Forward, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York Uber's Sofa II, Tröner Art, Düsseldorf, Germany 2008 Bildertausch 3 - Collection Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Kunstmuseum Ritter, Germany 2007 Genesis - The Art of Creation - Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland Sculpture in Motion - Atlanta Botanical Garden, USA Galerie Kasten, Mannheim, Germany Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany 2006 Bewegung im Quadrat, Commission for Permanent Collection, Kunstmuseum Ritter, Germany A Summer Show, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA Galerie Kasten, Mannheim, Germany Plastic Fantastic, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, NJ, USA Joint Venture, Richard Nelson & Pence Gallery, University of CA. at Davis, USA 2005 Himmelsbilder, Dommuseum Salzburg, Austria 2004 Skywatch, K26, Frankfurt, Germany Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany 2003 Kunst in Bewegung, traveling exhibition: Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany 2002 Kunst in Bewegung, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany Kunst in Bewegung, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany Kunst in Bewegung, Kunstmuseum im Kulterspeicher Würzburg, Germany Gleicher Ort Neue Zeit, Düsseldorf, Germany 2001 Illusions in Space, Sculpturesite Gallery, Berkeley, USA. 2000 Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Permanent collection & display 1998 Martin Kudlek Fine Art, Aachen, New York Artists, Cologne, Germany 1997 Martin Kudlek Fine Art, Aachen, Cologne, Germany 1993 Amerika Haus, Cologne, Germany 1992 Das Bild im Bild, Articom, Frankfurt, Germany Visionäre Schweiz, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany ID Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany 1985 The B.A.D.Gallery, NYC, USA 1984 Gallery 51X, NYC, USA 1983 AVANT, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, NYC, USA LowerEastSide Street Art, GuGu Ernesto Gallery, Cologne, Germany LowerEastSide Street Art, Galleria Lo Zebbetto, Milano, Italy AVANT - Guerilla Art, Gallery 51X, NYC, USA Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NYC, USA Avant and friends, N.Y.U. Contemporary Art Gallery, NYC, USA 1982 The Monument Redefined, Gowanus Memorial Art Yard, NYC, USA. Stolen Show, curated and exhibited, Alain Bilhaud Gallery, NYC, USA 1981 The Monumental Show, Gowanus Memorial Art Yard, NYC, USA. International art fairs 1998-2011

Art Stage Singapore, Art Forum Berlin, Art Frankfurt, Art Brussels, Scope New York, Scope London, Art Cologne, Art Basel,

Scope East Hampton, Wynward Miami, Paris, Paris Photo, Melbourne Art, Photo London, Art.Fair Köln, Liste Berlin, Liste Köln.