Elri Friedman
selected Wall Works
Tattoo
About
Contact
CV
Based in Eugene, OR / Berlin, DE
elri0011@gmail.com
Education
2026 MFA, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Painting and Drawing, Art History Concentration in Political History of Abstraction.
2015 BA in Philosophy, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Primary Coursework in Philosophy of Biology, Feminist Philosophy, Phenomenology, Queer Theory, Aesthetics, Metaphysics.
Awards and Honors
2026-27 Dedalus MFA Fellowship
2026-27 Fulbright Research Fellow
2025-26 Georgianne Teller Singer Dean's Graduate Fellowship
2026 Frank Okada Memorial Scholarship
2026 Ralph Baker Scholarship
2025 Ina McClung Art Scholarship in Fine and Applied Arts
2025 Philip Halley Johnson Scholarship
2024 Philip Halley Johnson Scholarship
2024 Virginia Green and Leila Johnston Scholarship
2015 Cum Laude Tufts University
Solo and 2 Person Shows
2025 – Excessive Laps, Washburne Gallery, Eugene, OR
2025 – Come and Get Your Bread, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
Group Shows
2026 – Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR
2025 – TDOV Show, Transponder, Eugene, OR
2025—Lloyd Center Gallery, Portland, OR
2025—Experiments in Drawing, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
2024—New Oasis, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
2024 – Lost Trails, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
2023 – Closing Show, Soft Spot, Seattle, WA
2020 – Crush Repeat, Gay City, Seattle WA
2019 – Group Show, Love City Love, Seattle, WA
2018 – CA$H 4 GOLD, Steve Gilbert Photo Studio, Seattle, WA
2018 – Fierce Femme, Hiawatha Arts Space, Seattle, WA
2018 – She/He They/Them Us/We, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 – festival;festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2018 – festival;festival, Amplifier Art Lab, Seattle, WA
2017 – The Cockpit, Seattle, WA
2017 – Officespace, Seattle, WA
2016 – Equinox Studios, Seattle, WA
2015 – Nation State Live, The Rez, Medford, MA
Arts and Cultural Organizing
2024-2026 T4T.omg, Eugene, OR
2017-2019 festival;festival, Seattle, WA
2019 TUF Collaboration, Seattle, WA
2017-2019 Young Women Empowered, Seattle, WA
2015 Nation State, Somerville, MA
2013-2015 El Tit, Somerville, MA
Teaching Experience
2023-2026 University of Oregon:
2026 Introduction to Sculpture, Instructor of Record - 3 quarters
2025 Drawing I, Instructor of Record
2025 Introduction to Digital Print Media
2024 Core Intradisciplinary Laboratory
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture Discussion
2023 Surface, Space and Time
2023 The Artist Experience, TA - 2 quarters
Gage Academy of Art
2018 - 2019 Teaching Artist
Talks
2026 – Panelist, Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR
2025 – Change Changing, Ralfiepalooza, Orcas Island, WA
2025 – Object Oriented Ontology and Fred Moten, Art History Symposium, Eugene, OR
2024 – David Getsy’s Queer Abstraction, Eugene, OR
2024 – Untethered Sign: On the Western History of Tattooing, Art History Symposium, Eugene, OR
2019 – Decolonizing Youth Spaces, Young Women Empowered, Seattle, WA
2019 – Engaging the Mysterious, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
Collaborations
William B. Heberling – Decolonizing Youth Art Spaces Curriculum
Veronica Little – Nation State, El Tit
Jamie Meyer – NYT Performance
Press
https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/fellows-recipients/fellow/elri-friedman/
https://www.tattrx.com/underground/2022/12/26/the-micro-niche
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/events/skyrocketing-seattle-prices-and-lack-of-space-for-artists-prompted-this-group-to-start-its-own-
arts-festival/