Estate of Dan Friedman

Dan Friedman was an internationally known artist, educator, and graphic designer. Born in 1945 in suburban Ohio, he went on to receive BFA from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh, USA) and attended Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany) and Allgemeine Gewerbeschule (Basel, Switzerland). As a graphic designer, Friedman held positions at Anspach Grossman Portugal Inc. and Pentagram. As an educator, Friedman held positions at Yale University's Graduate School of Art and Graduate School of Architecture and the State University of New York at Purchase. Beginning in the early 1980s, Friedman shifted from his corporate and academic career to focus on his art practice. He exhibited his genre-defying artwork at notable and iconic New York City galleries such as Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Fun Gallery, Art et Industrie, and Red Studio, as well as in Paris, France, at Galerie Neotu and Galerie Kreo. Shortly before his death due to complications from the virus that causes AIDS, the artist published Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism (1994), his treatise on his life and work with contributions from Jeffrey Deitch and Alessandro Mendini. In 2023, The Art Institute of Chicago staged the first museum retrospective focused on the artist's work, Dan Friedman: Stay Radical. Several prominent public collections hold Friedman's work, including The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA), The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, USA), Gewerbemuseum (Basel, Switzerland), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA), The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada), Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, USA).