BIO

Ada Friedman has had recent solo exhibitions at the Ana Mendieta Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City (2026); Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, Switzerland (2025, 2022); and David Peter Francis, New York (2024). Her plays have been staged in New York at Essex Flowers, All Saints Church, and Safe Gallery. She holds an MFA in Painting from Bard College, and has taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Connecticut State Community College Housatonic, among others. Friedman has participated in residencies including Shandaken Projects, New York, and Clay Break at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and was a founding member of the artist-run cooperative gallery Essex Flowers in New York. She was the 2025-2026 Grant Wood Fellow in Painting & Drawing at the University of Iowa and currently lives and works between Brooklyn, New York and the Texas Hill Country.