BIOGRAPHY / RESUME

Cass Technical High School
MFA, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48226

RECENT SOLO EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS
Detroit Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI 2011
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI 2010
Ann Arbor District Library (Claudene Series), Ann Arbor,
MI 2009
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant MI 2008
Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit, Mi 2008
Bagley Housing Art Gallery, Detroit, MI 2007
Paint Creek Center For The Arts, Rochester, MI 2004-2005
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003
Clique Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1997
Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, MI 1996
Urban Park Gallery, Detroit, MI 1994

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITION HiGHLIGHTS
"The Print" Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI 2012
The Janice Charach Gallery "20th Anniversary..." May 22-July
24, 2011,West Bloomfield, MI
Stable Invitational, June 2011, Ellen Kayrod Gallery
TRA art group, Design Center,Troy MI
"A New Earth," Madonna University, Livonia, MI 2008
"Wayne Print Exhibition," Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI 2005
"War Requiem," Madonna University, Livonia, Mi 2005
P.F. Galleries, Clawson, MI 2003
"Painting as an Abstraction," Award, Paint Creek Center for the Arts,
Rochester, MI 2002
"Pressing Matters," A Printmaking Ivitational, Buckham Gallery, Flint,
MI 2002
"A Really Big Show," Janice Charach Epstein Museum Gallery, W. Bloomfield, MI 2000
"Popism," Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI 1998

RECENT JURIED EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Mid America Print Council juried exhibition, Benedictine
University, Lisle IL 2011
"Holiday Show," Detroit Artists Market 2011, Detroit, MI
Holiday Market "Collections," Art Effect Gallery, Eastern Market,
Detroit MI 2011
"Small(er) Show,"  Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI  2011
"The Print", Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI 2011
50th Annual Greater Michigan Art Exhibition, Alden B. Dow
Museum, Midland MI 2010
Michigan Watercolor Society, 63rd Annual Exhibition, Award,
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI 2010
"Watercolor USA," Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2009
"Tree-Mendous," Cahoon Museum Of American Art," Cotuit, MA 2007
"The Print," Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI 2007
"Go With The Flow", First place, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL
2006
"Watercolor USA 2005," Award, Springfield Art Museum, Missouri, 2005
"Members Invitational Biennial," Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2005
"2004 Biennial," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2004
"Withdrawn," Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI 2003
"Michigan Fine Arts," Birmingham, MI 2009, 2006, 2004, 2003,
2001,1997, 1996
"Town of Longboat Key Exhibit," Award LBKCA, Longboat Key, FL 2003
"Annual All Media Exhibition," Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
"Michigan Watercolor Society," 54th - 58th Annual Exhibition
"American Watercolor Society" 135th Annual International
Exhibition, New York, NY 2002
"Greater Midwest International Exhibition XVII," Central Missouri
State University, MO 2002
"Our Town," Birmingham, MI 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999

COLLECTIONS
Deloitte LLP, Renaissance Center, Detroit,MI
Grand Hyatt, New York, NY
Presidential Suite,Capitol Hill Hilton,Washington, DC
Atlantis Cruise Line,Bahama Islands
City Lofts, Beaufort, South Carolina
The Wacker Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Central Michigan
University,Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Greektown Casino Hotel, Detroit, Michigan
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Naples, Florida
Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, Phoenix, Arizona
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
ABN Amro, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Grotefeld & Denenberg LLC, Chicago, Illinois
Detroit Chamber of Commerce
Pfizer Global Headquarters, Ann Arbor, Michigan
St. John Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Many Private Collections

REVIEWS of EXHIBITION
"Deborah Friedman: "Claudene'" exhibition at Ellen Kayrod
Gallery at the Hannan House, The Detroiter.com, 1/25/08
"Deborah Friedman: Claudene" exhibtion at the Bagley Housing
Collective, The Detroiter.com, 8/17/07
"Singing the Body Eclectic," Longboat Observer, January 16,
2003, p. 3-C
"Painting as an Abstraction," Detroit News, May 4, 2002, p. 12-D
"A Really Big Show," Reproduction, Detroit Jewish News,
February 4, 2000, p. 77
"Sunday Best Art," Ann Arbor News, August 16, 1998, p.31

AWARDS AND GRANTS
Residency Fellowship, Hambrige Center, Rabun Gap, GA
2001, 2002, 2003
Strathmore Artist's Paper Award, Watercolor U.S.A. 2005,
Springfield Art Museum