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Linda Friedman Schmidt self-taught artist b.1949, Eschwege, Germany, BA Foreign Languages, Brooklyn College, New York City
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Identity Textured, Pascal Gallery, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Curator: Sydney O. Jenkins
2005 Textiles Are My Paint, Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Radical Acts of Kindness II, Vector Artist Initiative, Juried Virtual Exhibition
Threads of Tomorrow, Museu Têxtil, International Virtual Exhibition, New Orleans, LA with accompanying hardcover book
Awakening Earth: Narratives of Spring, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL, physical gallery exhibition, print catalog
What Women Create – Daydream, Prism Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023
What If Women Ruled the World Participatory Quilt, New Museum, New York City
Natural Impressions, Museu Têxtil, Invitational International Virtual Exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil, New Orleans, USA
Threading the Needle, Mann Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2022
REBEL, The Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York City
Our Bodies, Our Health: Navigating Wars Within & Around Us, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL, catalog
The Will To Change: Gathering As Praxis, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Tell Me More About Yourself (Self-Portraits & other Autobiographical Endeavors), Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
Disrupted, International Juried Virtual Reality Exhibition in collaboration with WO Women Foundation, Barcelona
2021
Unique Minds: Creative Voices 2021, Juried In-Person Exhibition, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Every Woman Biennial London 2021, Copeland Gallery, London, UK in-person show
UNRAVELED: Confronting the Fabric of Fiber Art, Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York City in-person
REDis, International Juried Virtual 3D Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Fibers, International Juried Virtual Exhibition, The In Art Gallery
2020
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness, Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York City, catalog
Access and Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion, Pollak Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
Know Your Meme: Stitching Viral Phenomena, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
2019
IRL: Investigating Reality, Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York City, catalog
Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York City
Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Fahrenheit 213, Invitational, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California, catalog
2018
Fire in the Belly, Invitational, Burnette Gallery, Woodstock, New York
When Darkness Loves Us, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York City, curated by Kelsey and Rémy Bennett
One Year of Resistance, The Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York City
2017
To Reform: Artists Respond to the Reformation, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD
Women and Anger: Resistance, Power, and Inspiration, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL, catalog
She Inspires, Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York City
Uprise / Angry Women, Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York City
2016
Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women and Work, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, Illinois, catalog
Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All, St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA, catalog
Equality Matters, Conversations on Gender and Race, Mildred M. Cox Gallery, William Woods University, Fulton, MO
One Billion Rising, Winter Haven Fine Arts Gallery, Polk State College, Winter Haven, FL
2015
The Twenty-First Century Body: Thinking Merleau Ponty, Gordon Gallery, Worcester Polytech.Inst., Worcester, MA
Feminism Across the Generations, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, Illinois, catalog
2015 Arts Annual, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, catalog
Square, Narthex Gallery, Citicorp Building, New York City, traveling to Neocon World Trade Fair Chicago, catalog
Views from the Edge: Women, Gender, Politics, Invitational, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, catalog
2014
Gendering Desire: Liberation, Power, and Pleasure, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, Illinois, catalog
Contextile 2014 Competition/International Exhibition, Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Guimarães, Portugal, catalog
Assemblage: Contemporary Fiber Art, Invitational, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2013
Retazos Testimoniales de Chile y Otras Latitudes, Invitational, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Milestones: Textiles of Transition, Invitational, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California
Diaspora, New Century Artists Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, catalog
Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, Pam Foss Fine Art Gallery, St. Michaels, Maryland, catalog
2012
Backlash/On Women’s Basic Rights and Freedoms, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York City
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, catalog
Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber, World Financial Center, NYC Juror: Rebecca Stevens, Curator, Textile Museum, Washington, DC
2011
24th September Competition Exhibition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana, catalog
About Face: Stories in Portraits, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in assoc. with Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, MD
2010
Art From Found Objects, The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Seeing Double, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts
Reality & Artifice, 2010 New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Art, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, catalog
More Than Fiber, Cohen Gallery, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, catalog
Art Connections 6, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
2009
New Narratives: Stories and Messages in Contemporary Art, Cade Gallery, Anne Arundel College, Arnold, MD
Fiber Celebration 2009, International Juried Exhibition, Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado
Stripes, Invitational Traveling Exhibition, Mikimoto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan traveling to Carnegie Center for Art & History,
New Albany, Indiana
2008
Transformations, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, catalog
Fabulous Fiber, The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Tribal Roots in the Garden State, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, catalog
Are We There Yet? 40 Years of Feminism, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007
On the Carousel, Fall Benefit Invitational Exhibition, American Folk Art Museum, New York City, NY
New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, catalog
2006
Hoyt Mid Atlantic Annual Juried Art Exhibition, The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA,
Juror: Faith Ringgold, Artist, Author, Educator
Shimmer in Chandigarh, Spring Benefit Invitational Exhibition, American Folk Art Museum, New York City, NY
Connections, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, Juror: Dr. Donald Kuspit, catalog
Folks in Fiber, Invitational, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
Jazz Textures, Invitational, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York City, NY
2005
Self and Subject, Invitational, American Folk Art Museum in its new building next to MOMA, New York City
New Jersey Arts Annual, Invitational, Jersey City Museum, Curator: Dr. Rocio Aranda Alvarado, catalog
Contemporary Women Artists International Exhibition XIII, Mad Art Gallery, St Louis, MO, Juror: Judy Chicago, catalog
Trashformations, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Juror: Lloyd Herman, Founder Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, catalog
2004
24th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT
Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, IL, Juror: Lynne Warren, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, catalog
Exploring Gender Roles, International Juried Women’s Conference Exhibition, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
2003
21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, NY Juror: Anne Umland, Curator, MOMA, NYC
Cultural Exploration, New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, catalog
Salute to Women in the Arts, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York City, NY
2002
Third National Juried Competition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
Juror: Maria-Christina Villasenor, Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Salute the East Village, Nexus Gallery, New York City, NY
2001
Ramapo Selections 2001, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ Juror: Regine Basha, Director, Bronfman Center Gallery
Selected Bibliography
2024
Threads of Tomorrow, Rodrigo Franzão, Museu Têxtil Publications, 2024, pp. 96, 97,162,
ISBN: 978-65-998488-2-7
2023
Natural Impressions, Rodrigo Franzão, Museu Têxtil Publications, Brazilian Book Chamber, 2023, pp.132, 133, 158,
ISBN: 978-65-998488-1-0
2022
The Art of Mothering: Our Lives in Colour and Shadow, Karen D. Miller, Ampry Publishing, Northbrook IL, 2022, pp. 68-73, ISBN 978-1-945550-63-8
The Untitled Magazine 10th Anniversary Collector’s Issue, “The Rebel Issue,” Ed. Indira Cesarine, Untitled Media, 2022, p.66, ISSN: 2167-1990
2021
Mr X Stitch International Textile Magazine, “Linda Friedman Schmidt Stitchgasm!“ by Editor Ailish Henderson, Sept.2021
Interlocutor Magazine Interview Linda Friedman Schmidt May 20, 2021, Interview by Millicent Borges Accardi
2020
Living Artists Magazine, Issue 1: Religion and Spirituality, ed. Toni and Rochelle Roberts, Dec. 2020, pp. 49-51, 62
Interview: Artist Linda Friedman Schmidt on the Trauma of Anti-Semitism in America, November 24, 2020, combatantisemitism.org
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness, Exhibition Publication, Indira Cesarine, Curator, 2020, ISBN 9798558940022
Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump, Karen M. Gutfreund, Curator, 2020, pages xi, 81, ISBN9798666759790
2019
Maake Magazine, Issue 09, August 30, 2019, “Linda Friedman Schmidt” Interview by Andreana Donahue, pp. 34-35
2018
Paper Darts Magazine, June 29, 2018, “Linda Friedman Schmidt,” by Jessica Eckerstorfer
Hyperallergic, January 25, 2018, “Stitching Together an Artist’s Meditations on Genocide and Trauma“ by Monica Uszerowicz
2017
Fashion Monster Book, June 2017, Thames & Hudson, UK
Bust Magazine, November 2, 2017, “6 Women Visual Artists To Get Obsessed With”
Linda Friedman Schmidt: Under Her Skin. FILM, Dir. Kelsey & Rémy Bennett, The Front Media, 2017
Les Femmes Folles, Women in Art, “We Shall Overcome: Linda Friedman Schmidt”
Kompass Magazine Germany Cover March 2017, So Muss Stadtmagazin Ausgabe 98 3/17
The Untitled Magazine, January 6, 2017, “80 Female Artists Unite for ‘Uprise / Angry Women’ Exhibit
The Tribeca Trib, “Uprise: Exhibition by Women Artists”
Dress [with] Sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious Closet, Chapter 4 “Dispose,” Thames & Hudson, UK, March 2017
2014
Fiber Art Now Magazine, Winter 2014, Volume 3, Issue 2, “Assemblage: Contemporary Fiber Art,” pp. 10-12
Linda Friedman Schmidt: Transformation Through Clothing, Textile Study Group of New York, April 25, 2014
2012
The Tribeca Trib, New York City Monthly, Feb. 2012, Vol. 18 No.6, “Face To Face With The Art of Fiber: The Fabric of Art,” Cover, p.34
Fiber Art Now Magazine, Fall 2012, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 44-45
2011
“ Fashioning An Identity,” Rug Hooking Magazine, March/April/May 2011, Vol. XXII, Number 5, pp. 52-57
2010
Celebration of Hooked Rugs XX, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, September 2010, pp.14-15
2009
Asahi Shimbun International Herald Tribune Japan, “Stripes” Tokyo exhibit review Sunday, Jan.11, 2009
Surface Design Journal, “Off the Grid,” Winter 2009, Volume 33, No. 2, “Exposure,” page 63
2008
Fiberarts Magazine, Jan/Feb 2008 Vol. 34, No.4, “Linda Friedman Schmidt: Hooking Her Way to Healing” by Stefanie Berganini, p. 80
2007
Conemporary Hooked Rugs: Themes and Memories by Linda Rae Coughlin, Chapter Five, “The Many Faces of Linda Friedman Schmidt,” Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007
ATHA Magazine, Cover and Story, issue no.164, Association of Traditional Hooking Artists, April/May 2007, p.15
2005
The New York Times, Sunday, Sept 11, 2005, Fall Art Preview: From Homages to Homer to Pop Art Indians” by Benjamin Genocchio, p.14
Fiberarts Magazine, “Textiles are My Paint,” Interweave Press, Sept/Oct 2005, p. 68
Northeast Journal of Antiques & Art, “A Day on the ‘Outside” by Noah Fleisher, July 2005
Lancaster New Era, “Linda Friedman Schmidt: I Piece Together The Life That I Want” by Kathleen Daminger, June 30, 2005
ATHA Magazine, Cover and Story, issue no.153, Association of Traditional Hooking Artists, Dallas, TX, June/July 2005, p.13
2004
Fiberarts Design Book 7, ed. Susan Mowery Kieffer, Lark Books, div. Sterling Publishing, NY, 2004, p.133
ATHA Magazine, Cover and Story, no.146, Association of Traditional Hooking Artists, Dallas, TX, April/May 2004, p.13
Celebration XIV, Stackpole Publications, Lemoyne, PA, 2004, pp.82-83
2003
Quilts Japan, Volume NV3124, Nihon Vogue Company Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, November 2003, page 124
American Folk Art Museum quarterly: Quilt Connection, New York, Summer 2003, Vol. XV, “Linda Friedman Schmidt” by E. Berman, p.3
Rug Hooking Magazine, Cover Story, Volume XIV, No.5, Stackpole Pub., Lemoyne, PA, March/April/May 2003, pp.4, 23-26
Awards
2023 New Jersey State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award
2020 Emma Lazarus Art Award, Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAS)
2015 The Twenty-first Century Body: Thinking Merleau-Ponty In and Out of Time, Cash Award Prize, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2009 Cheryl McWilliams Award, Fiber Celebration 2009, Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado
2003 Award of Excellence, The Healing Power of Art, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY
1994 Benjamin Moore Color Award, National Award honoring exceptional use of color in design
1986 National FAME Award for fashion merchandising excellence