Dwora Fried

Latest Exhibits and Publications

Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
“Mädchen sein!? Vom Tafelbild zu Social Media"
October 31, 2025 - April 6, 2026
Opening October 22, 2025

Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria"The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory"
September 18, 2024 - March 16, 2025
Opening September 18, 2024

    Site: Brooklyn, New York
    "Explorations of Color"
    January 3, 2025 - February 3, 202
    "Bye Bye Confidence" Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
    October 19, 2023 - March 17, 2024

    Permanent Collections:

    Lentos Kuntsmuseum Linz, Austria - 2026
    POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland - 2025
    Glendale College, Glendale, California - 2022
    Cerritos College, Cerritos, California - 2020
    Wien Museum-MUSA, Vienna, Austria - 2014

    Publications: 

    BOXART by Dwora Fried with an introduction by Mat Gleason
    Mädchen sein!? Vom Tafelbild zu Social Media, Lentos Kuntsmuseum.                                                                     The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory. Jewish Museum Vienna. 
    2000's: Bye, Bye Confidence. Museum Wien.


                         

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