Nancy Friedland

b. 1971, Toronto, Canada

EDUCATION 

2001 Rochester Institute of Technology, MFA, graduated with honours
1999 Ontario College of Art & Design, AOCAD, graduated with honours 
1993 University of Toronto, BA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2026 Call When You Get There, smoke the moon gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2026 A Small Song, The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth, UK
2025 Roadtripping in My Mind, U-Haul Gallery, New York, New York
2025 Everything We Broke Today Needed Breaking Anyway, pm/am Gallery, London, UK
2024 I Wish I Had a River, smoke the moon gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2024 Heavy Weather, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, California
2023 Daybreak, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina 
2022 Highway of Diamonds, smoke the moon gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 
2021 Wolf Moon, Lyceum Gallery, Toronto
2020 Between Dog and Wolf, Samara Contemporary, Toronto
2019 Paintings, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2016 Constellations, Circuit Gallery, Toronto
2012 Vigil, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2009 The Pity of Lost Things, Satellite Gallery, Okayama, Japan
2005 The Pity of Lost Things, Katharine Mulherin ContemporaryArt Projects
2003 Life Boat, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto 
2001 Sixes and Sevens, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto 
2000 Safe, Bus Gallery, Toronto 
1998 A land, alone. Bus Gallery, Toronto

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS 

2026 Littoral Zone: Margins of Light, Working Loose and La Loma Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
2026 Sixteen by Twenty, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York City, NY
2026 Soon You Will Be Home, Dominique Porter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025 In Plain Sight, Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO
2025 Aspen Art Fair with Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO
2025 A Forest, curated by Dylan Seigel and Jack Chase, Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO
2024 NADA Miami with La Loma Gallery, Miami, FLA
2024 Weighted Blanket, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Goth in a Landscape, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
2023 A Room with a View, Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 New Paintings, Sonya Gallery, New York City, NY
2023 I’m Looking Through You, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Art Toronto, Toronto 
2023 Meeting at Night, Gold Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2023 Les Canadiennes, Gallery b, Castine, ME
2022 Art Toronto, Toronto
2022 NADA Miami with smoke the moon, Miami, FLA
2022 Flower Shop smoke the moon, Santa Fe, NM: 
2021 Postcards,  Curated by Brit Pruiksma, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Sweden: 
2021 Chrysalis * Metamorphosis, smoke the soon, Santa Fe, NM: 
2021 Mothspell, Two person show with Kristin Sjaarda, Lyceum Gallery, Toronto: 
2021 High Desert High, smoke the moon, Santa Fe, NM:
2020 Under the Radar, Dupont Rail, Toronto
2019 A Change in the Light, Two person show with Johanna Reynolds, Lyceum Gallery, Toronto: 
2019 Artful Reunion: MFA Alumni Triennial, William Harris Gallery, RIT, Rochester, NY
2012 Summer Invitational, Kathryn Markel, New York City
2012 Fresh Faces, Newzones Gallery, Calgary
2006 New Works, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta
2005 Blame Canada, Harvey Levine Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Inside/Outside, Miller Block Gallery, Boston 
2002-04 The Found and The Familiar, The Snapshot in Contemporary Canadian Photography, Curated by Sophie Hackett and Jennifer Long, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Toured across Canada: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, P.E.I.; Gallery Connexion, New Brunswick; Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Quebec 
2003 Landing Case Studies, York Quay Gallery, Toronto,
2002 Body of Water, Luft Gallery, Toronto 
2001 New Works Bus Gallery, Toronto: 
2001 His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Celebrating Works of Canadian Artists Gooderham and Worts Historic District, Toronto
1999 Travelling Light, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto 
1999 Life-like, with Nick Ostoff, Bus Gallery, Toronto
1999 Instamatic, Bus Gallery, Toronto
1999 The Photography LessonHarbourfront Centre, Toronto

REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS 

Trabant by Stefan Sommer, cover art, published by Otto Muller Verlag, 2024
New York Review of Books, cover art for October 5th 2023 edition
Harper’s Magazine, illustration for The Return, a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, 2023
There Was a Time for Everything by Judith Friedland, cover art, Uof T Press 2023
New York Review of Books, illustration for A Theology of the Present Moment by Marilynne Robinson, December, 2022 
New York Review of Books, illustration for article on protection of animals by Martha C. Nussbaum, March, 2022
En Route Magazine, illustrations for article on Canadian Fiction, March, 2006
The Address Book by Steven Heighton cover art, House of Anansi Press, 2004
Fotopost Connecting with Contact, by Jack Liang, June 1, 2003
The Globe and Mail, N. Ostoff, N. Friedland at Katharine Mulherin, by Gary Michael Dault, Saturday, April 5, 2003 
Lola, Something from nothing, by Sophie Hackett, Summer 2000
National Post, Looking for Lerski in all the wrong places, by Thomas Hirschmann, Saturday, May 6, 2000  
Eye Magazine Bus shelters new and youthful artists, by R.M. Vaughan, 1999
Visceral edited by Iza Mokrosz, OCAD press
The Globe and Mail, Life Like at Bus Gallery, by Gary Michael Dault, 1999
The Globe and Mail Nancy Friedland at Bus Gallery, by Gary Michael Dault, 1998. 

GRANTS SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS 

Canada Council for the Arts: Emerging Creation/Production Grant, 2003 Ontario Arts Council: Mid-Career Creation/Production Grant, 2003
Best Photography: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, 2003
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi: Rochester Institute of Technology, 2001 Honourable Mention for Best Photography: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, 2001 Graduate studies Scholarship: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1999, 2000 Society for Photographic Education Student Scholarship: 2000 
Sir Edmund Walker Scholarship: Ontario College of Art and Design, 1999
The First Light Scholarship for Emerging Talent in Photography:
Ontario College of Art and Design, 1999
Corkin-Reeves Award for Photography: Ontario College of Art and Design, 1998 Nora E. Vaughan Award for Photography: Ontario College of Art and Design, 1997