CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

  • EXHIBITIONS
    • Nemeth Art Center: Magic and Loss with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez 2024
    • Museum of Nebraska Art: Magic and Loss with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez 2025
    • Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University: A Serious Man 2024
    • Gregory Allicar Museum of Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future 2024
    • Everson Museum of American Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future 2022
    • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future 2021
    • Panopticon: A Collaboration with Nancy Fridemann-Sánchez 2020
    • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: 2019
    • Ceró Galeria: two-person show with Lucas Ospina, Bogota Colombia: 2018
    • SUNY Stony Brook, two-person show with Nancy Friedeman-Sánchez: 2018
    • VSOP Projects: Greenport, New York: 2018
    • LUX Center for the Arts: 2017
    • Arts & Culture Center/Hollywood, FL, Miami FL: 2017
    • Museum of Nebraska Art: 2017
    • Omi International Art Center: 2016
    • The Fields at Art Omi: 2016
    • Gallery Diet: 2015
      • Installation Images
      • The Western Code
    • Neues Kunstforum, Köln Germany, two-person show with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: 2014
    • Gallery Diet: 2010
    • Gallery Diet: 2008
    • Barbara Mathes Gallery: 2007
    • Sheldon Museum of Art: 2007
    • White Columns: 2000
    • CRP: 1998
  • SCULPTURE-INSTALLATION
    • Magic and Loss
    • Deadpan
    • War Room
    • Menorah
    • Portrait of Alex Ross
    • Soundtracks for the Present Future
    • Unknown Pleasures
    • Magic Powers (vertical spew)
    • Self-Portrait
    • Magic Powers (45 degree spew)
    • The Talisman
    • Arrows
    • Tiny Talisman
    • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    • Science Project
    • Squirrel Gang
    • Squirrel Gang (Plasticine)
    • Ash Tray
    • Magic Powers
    • Special Powers
    • I LIKE MOIST THINGS
    • Big Red Ball
    • Fake Calder
    • Q-Tips
    • Carpet World
    • Gross Anatomy
    • Lobster Clock
    • Garden
    • Basic Information
    • nancy's tasty vagina
    • Big Eyes
    • Big Eyes II
    • Jellybean Piece
    • G-O-D
    • Cake Box
    • Soundproof Box
  • PHOTOGRAPHS
    • Family Portrait
    • Chasid in the Woods
    • Dandelion
    • E G G S
    • Nipple Eyes
    • Untitled (Chasid)
    • Untitled (Chuck Close)
    • doody de deer
    • Cow Staring at You
    • Cow Profile
    • Tortoise
    • Fall Swastika in Cornish, NH
    • MOM
    • My Father with His Shirt Off
  • PERFORMANCE
    • The Talisman
    • Bitzalel Friedemann: Docent guided tour of Sheldon Museum of Art
    • Betsey Geffen: Docent guided tour of Sheldon Museum of Art
    • A Brief History of Performance Art
    • Betsey Geffen: Tour at Sarah Meltzer Gallery
    • Betsey Geffen
    • Felix, Flowers, Flags & Poems
    • Grapefruit Piece as Adenoid
  • VIDEO
    • One Hours Smiles: 2026, 2015,2005,1995
    • The Grapefruit Piece
    • The Talisman
    • True Stories - Live!
    • Four Track Memory
    • Felix, Flowers, Flags & Poems
    • Grapefruit Piece (remastered)
    • Walking Backwards in the Woods While Air Guitaring Sgt. Peppers from Beginning to End
  • PAPER
    • HOLOCAUST DENIERS WORD SEARCH
    • HOLOCAUST DENIERS WORD SEARCH: Edition of 30
    • EVERTHING IS GOING TO BE OK
    • EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK: Edition of 45
    • Gross Anatomy/Anatomia Completa: Edition of 70
    • Ocean & Sea
    • vagina
    • The Western Code
    • Looking at The Sun
    • Ten Letters
    • Coat Rack
    • Magic Rays
    • Growth Gouache
  • COMMISSION
    • Big Lake Park: 2014
  • WRITING
  • INTERVIEWS
  • CV
  • artist statement
  • links
  • contact
  • bibliography
  • catalogs
One Hour Smile
2026
LIVE-Performance on Instagram
VARIES

“One-Hour Smile” consists of a series of videos taken

every ten years beginning in 1995. Each video

features myself staring into the camera and smiling as

hard as I can for one hour uninterrupted and

documents the inevitable break down of this gesture.

This piece was created in response to the posturing

and socializing I observed in social settings and the

inauthenticity of the masks we wear to engage within

them. It's a piece about empathy, self-awareness, and

how as social animals we learn how to read one

another. This work is ongoing and will be completed

only upon my passing. This current iteration

completed in January 2026 was the first time I

performed the piece live on instagram. The

emotional connection between me and the instagram

audience in palpable. It is at once 100% private and public.


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