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Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Proverbs, Adages, and Maxims 
Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, New York City
On view through June 24, 2026
One West Fourth Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street)
New York, NY 10012
Monday – Thursday, 9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Admission is free.  Photo ID required for security
Catalog and exhibition audio guide available

Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt’s 2025 work Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks is featured in this exciting group exhibition in the heart of Greenwich Village. Linda is proud to be showing alongside renowned artists Judy Chicago, Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Ben Shahn, and other amazing artists in this show.

2025 Museum Acquisition
She Resisted, 2025, has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum in Galilee, Israel. This is the perfect venue for artist Linda Friedman Schmidt’s commemorative portrait of her Aunt Toby, a resistance fighter who smuggled guns and ammunition into the Warsaw Ghetto while working as a seamstress sewing Nazi uniforms.

2025 Awards
Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt is honored to be a recipient of a 2025 artist grant awarded through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship program. This competitive cash award administered by Mid Atlantic Arts is granted solely on independent peer panel assessment of work samples. The anonymous process is focused on artistic quality.

Linda’s artwork Fault Line was a winner of the Juror Award for ”The Bias Inside Us” 2025 exhibition at The Monmouth Museum, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.

Artist Audio Recording
2023 Cornell University audio recording with video features Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt explaining the motivation behind her artwork during the “Threading the Needle” exhibition.

Interviews
2025 The Untitled Magazine Print Art Edition 001 “The Art of Resistance”
An exclusive interview with artist Linda Friedman Schmidt by Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director Indira Cesarine is published in this issue. Available to order at untitled-magazine.shop

Interlocutor Magazine May 20, 2021  An in-depth interview with Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt by Millicent Borges Accardi begins with questions about her four artworks in the exhibition “UNRAVELED: Confronting the Fabric of Fiber Art” and continues with queries about the purpose of her art, her childhood, her process, medium, technique, and more.

Press and Film
Mr. X Stitch September 21, 2021 
Linda Friedman Schmidt Stitchgasm! An outstanding feature story about artist Linda Friedman Schmidt and her artwork appears in the UK International Textile Magazine “Mr X Stitch.” This powerful and sensitive artist profile by Editor Ailish Henderson includes multiple images, some of which you may have never seen before.

 

A film about artist Linda Friedman Schmidt released on Hyperallergic!
Under Her Skin: Linda Friedman Schmidt, a short documentary about artist Linda Friedman Schmidt was released on January 25, 2018 on Hyperallergic, the highly regarded arts online magazine. The 10 minute film was directed by Kelsey and Rémy Bennett and produced by The FRONT Media. Read the magazine article here.

Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt’s “Weeding” on German Magazine Cover
Linda Friedman Schmidt’s activist art was featured on the cover of the German Magazine kompass  “Weeding,” discarded clothing, 26 x 26 inches confronts not only Germany’s dark past, but also its present radical right wing anti-immigrant, anti-muslim, and anti-Roma views.