Agalot
Into The Woods
Trigger
Dwora Fried
Artist Statement
Born in Vienna, Austria
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Avni School of Fine Arts, Israel
Residing in Los Angeles since 1978
Dwora Fried is an assemblage artist creating mixed media tableaux in various sized wooden boxes. She populates them with miniature vintage furniture, dolls, toys and fabrics from the 50s, adding photographs, plastic, wood, metal and paint.
Her small rooms evoke what it was like to grow up as an outsider in postwar Vienna: being Jewish, lesbian and a child of Holocaust survivors; she learned to see everything through the prism of loss, danger and secrecy.
“I inherited a sense of isolation, displacement and an appreciation for the surreal.”
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Glendale College, Glendale, California - 2022
Cerritos College, Cerritos, California - 2020
Wien Museum-MUSA, Vienna, Austria - 2014
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, California 2023
Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California 2022
Shoebox Projects Los Angeles, California 2017
Gallery 825, LAAA, Los Angeles, California 2016
SPARC Venice, California, Venice, California 2014
Galerie Benedict, Vienna, Austria 2013
Museo Ebraico di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2013
ONE Archives Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, California 2010
Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, California 2009
henere Velt Gallery/Workmen’s Circle, Los Angeles, California 2004
GROUP SHOWS
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, 2025
Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria 2024
Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, California 2024
Brand Gallery & Art Center, Glendale, California 2024
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California 2024
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2024
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2024Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2023
Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, California 2023
Hillel Gallery/USC, Los Angeles California 2023
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2021Quotidian Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2020
Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, 2020
Castelli Art, Los Angeles, California 2019
Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, California 2019
Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, California 2018 Elmhurst Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois 2017
LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California 2016
Women’s Museum of California, San Diego, California 2012