Dwora Fried

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.”

Fried has exhibited in London, England; Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria and the United States

Her art is in the permanent collection of Austria’s MUSA Wien Museum.

Solo Shows:

Jewish Museum (Museo Erbraico) Venice, Italy     Gallerie Benedict Vienna, Austria     SPARC Venice, CA     ONE Gallery  West Hollywood, CA     Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA     Cerritos College Art Gallery     Glendale College Art Gallery     Advocate and Gochis Galleries Los Angeles, CA

Group Shows:

Chicago’s Elmhurst Art Museum     Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Boston, MA      In California:  Gallery 825     Orange County Center For The Arts     Bg gallery at Bergamot Station     Art Share LA     Fullerton College Art Gallery     Irvine Fine Arts     MASH Gallery     Castelli Art, curated by Peter Frank     Quotidian (Transformative Arts) curated by Jillith Moniz

Fried’s book "Box Art" with an introduction by Mat Gleason, was published in 2021.

Her work has been reviewed in LA Times, Huffpost, LA Magazine, Coagula Curatorial, Art and Cake, Artillery Magazine, Artwork LA. and the Jewish Journal.