Curriculum

  • 1959
    “Pedro Friedeberg,” curated by Mathias Goeritz, Diana Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    1960
    “Recent Works,” Proteo Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    1962
    - “Divertimentos,” Antonio Souza Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Villa Andra Bloc Gallery, Meudon, Paris, France.
    - Carstairs Gallery, New York, USA.
    1963
    - “Pedro Friedeberg of Mexico,” Pan American Union, Washington, DC, USA.
    - Petroleum Workers Club, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Exhibition Hall of the National Information Secretariat, Foz Palace, Lisbon, Portugal.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” curated by Peter Pröschel, Galerie Carroll, Munich, Germany.
    1964
    - Byron Gallery, New York, USA.
    - Antonio Souza Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Christmas Exhibitions,” International Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
    1965
    - Brusberg Gallery, Hanover, Germany.
    - Galerie Carroll, Munich, Germany.
    - “Watercolors and Objects,” Galerie Hella Nebelung, Düsseldorf, Germany.
    - Container Corporation of America, Chicago, USA.
    - International Gallery, Baltimore, USA.
    1966
    - Antonio Souza Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” Byron Gallery, New York, USA.
    1967
    - “Pedro Friedeberg”, Kiko Galleries, Houston, Texas, USA.
    - Feingarten Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    1968
    - “Mexico 68: Cultural Program of the XIX Olympics,” curated by Ida Rodriguez
    Prampolini,
    - Antonio Souza Gallery, Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad,
    Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Glade Gallery, New Orleans, USA.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” Antonio Souza Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    1969
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” Byron Gallery, New York, USA.
    1970
    - Maurice Sternberg Gallery, Chicago, USA.
    - Antonio Souza Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Claudia Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    1971
    - Misrachi Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Gloria Luria Gallery Luria, Miami, USA.
    - “Paintings & Sculpture by Pedro Friedeberg”, The Art Wagon Galleries, Scottsdale,
    Arizona, USA.
    - Kiko Galleries, Houston, Texas, USA.
    - “Surrealism and Fantastic Art”, V World Congress of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico.
    1973
    - Museum of Contemporary Art “Casa de los Once Patios”, Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico.
    - Ex-Convent of El Carmen, Department of Fine Arts, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
    - Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
    1974
    - Pecanins Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
    - Misrachi Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, California, USA.
    1975
    - “VII Puebla Festival”, Casa de la Cultura Puebla, (Cultural Center) Puebla, Mexico.
    - “The Work of Pedro Friedeberg,” Casa de las Campanas, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg: Soiree Mexicaine d‟environnement Hypercadent,” Galerie Iris Clert,
    Paris, France.
    1976
    - Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
    - Grace Hokin Gallery, Chicago, USA.
    - “Paintings & Sculpture,” Covo de Iongh Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
    1977
    - “Pedro Friedeberg: Paintings, Sculpture and Furniture,” Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach,
    Florida.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg: Prints, Painting, Sculpture,” Galerie Ravel, Austin, Texas, USA.
    - Goldman‟s Gallery, Haifa, Israel.
    1978
    - The Art Center Museum, Waco, Texas, USA.
    - Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel, Israel.
    1979
    - Harcourt‟s Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
    - “Taller de Grafica Mexicana” (Mexican Graphic Arts Workshop), curated by Lea Remba,
    Galeria del Circulo, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Mexican Works from The Vaughan Collection”, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton,
    Canada.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg”, Kopeliovich Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California,
    USA.
    1980
    Casa de las Americas, (House of the Americas) Havana, Cuba.
    1981
    - “Pedro Friedeberg: Sculpture”, Phyllis Needleman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
    - Galerie Kopeliovich, Montreal, Canada.
    - Gallery Mixografia, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    1983
    - Galeria Circulo (Circule Gallery), Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Galerie Esperanza, Montreal, Canada
    - “The Venus of Chilpancingo or El Sebastian” Portable,” Mixografia Gallery, Los Angeles,
    California, USA.
    1984
    - Ravel Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA.
    - Manolo Rivero Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
    - Ridecor Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “The Jungle,” Arte Misrachi, Mexico City, Mexico.
    1985
    - “The Lung of Popocatepetl or Beelzebub in Polanco,” Mer-kup Gallery, Mexico City,
    Mexico.
    - “Five Centuries of Siesta: Drawings, Objects, Etc.,” “El Nigromante” Cultural
    Center /INBA / SEP, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
    - “Kinky Toys,” Carmen Llewellyn Gallery, New Orleans, USA.
    1986
    Clepsydra and Babylometer,” Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
    1987
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” Vorpal Gallery, New York, USA.
    - “Mexico Today,” Pape Museum Library, Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico.
    1988
    “Recent Works,” Eva Tarlooki Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
    1989
    “Pedro Friedeberg: Paintings and Sculpture,” Carmen Llewellyn Gallery, New Orleans,
    USA.
    1990
    “Pedro Friedeberg Recent Works,” Curated by Rita Eder, Mexican Art Gallery, Mexico
    City, Mexico.
    1991
    - “Spiritual Exercises,” El Nigromante Cultural Center, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato,
    Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg Sculpture,” R E F Studios, Houston, Texas, USA.
    - Latane Temple Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg”, Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, USA.
    1992
    - “Retrospective”, Curated by Ida Rodriguez Prampolini, Institute Veracruzano of Culture,
    Puerto de Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg: Most Recent Paintings,” L-Temple Gallery, San Miguel de Allende,
    Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “Fridebergueses and Friderberguerias: Objects and Graphic Works,” Curated by Graciela
    Kartofel, Adolfo Best Maugard Gallery / Center for Foreign Language Teaching, UNAM,
    Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Friedeberg Festival,” L-Temple Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “The Road to Bethlehem,” Nativity Play, Set Design by Pedro Friedeberg, El Nigromante
    Cultural Center, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    1993
    - “One Man Show of Paintings, Sculptures, and Original Graphics,” Gallery of Fine Art, San
    Antonio, Texas, USA.
    - Veracruz Cultural Institute, Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico.
    - REF Studios, Houston, Texas, USA.
    - “The Marvelous Elixir,” a nativity play by Ruban Parez Fryman, set design by Pedro
    Friedeberg, “El Nigromante” Cultural Center, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato,
    Mexico.
    1994
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” L-Temple, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “White Night,” Galerie Jules Laforge, New Orleans, USA.
    1995
    - Mexican Art Gallery, Mexico City.
    - Museum of Fine Arts, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    1996
    - “Illusory Architectures, Hypnerotomagical Botany, Games and Pastimes, Objects of
    Virtue,” Mexican Art Gallery (GAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Modesty Manticore... and Murdered Logarithm,” Diego Rivera House Museum / INBA,
    Guanajuato, Mexico. Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “144 Letters 144,” curated by Michael Bloch, Salon San Miguel de Allende Gallery,
    Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “Sculpture,” Simonne Stern Gallery, New Orleans, USA.
    1997
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” Omar Rayo Museum, Roldanillo, Colombia.
    - “Tarot and Zodiac,” El Chorro Multimedia Cultural Center, San Miguel de Allende,
    Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - -Simonne Stern Gallery, New Orleans, USA.
    - “Oxymoronic Singularities: Army of Metaphysical Liberation,” El Nigromante Cultural
    Center, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    1998
    - “Leaning Towers (Cleopatra‟s Orgasms),” El Nigromante Cultural Center, San Miguel de
    Allende, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “The Recovery of the Beautiful,” Pedro Friedeberg Museum Gallery, San Miguel de
    Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - General Archive of the State, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” CONACULTA / Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City,
    Mexico.
    - “Fear of the Dark or Saint Gudula in Love,” Cultural Institute of Aguascalientes /
    Francisco Diaz de Leon Gallery / Casa Teran, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
    - “The Powerful Hand: Furniture and Design of Pedro Friedeberg, 1960–1998,” Curated by
    Alejandro Diaz and Beverly Adams, Helen Wells Decorative Arts Gallery / Phoenix
    Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
    - Inauguration of the Pedro Friedeberg Museum, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato,
    Mexico.
    2000
    - “Real Spaces,” Drexel Gallery, Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” Galerie im Gäbla 2, Erlagen-Tennenlohe, Germany.
    - “Quite Interesting and a Few Other Works,” El Nigromante Cultural Center, San Miguel de
    Allende, Mexico.
    - Casa del Risco (Cliff House) San Angel, Mexico City, Mexico.
    2001
    “III Desert Festival,” La Paz, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
    2002
    - “Pedro Friedeberg Retrospective,” Museum of Mexican History, Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
    - “Full Moon Menu,” Curated by Carmen Masip de Hawkins, El Nigromante Cultural Center,
    San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “Requiem for a Fly,” Recent work from the payment in kind, Collection
    of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Former Archbishop's Palace, Mexico City,
    Mexico.
    2003
    - Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
    - Former Archbishop's Palace, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Satanic Lottery, Winter's Buttocks, and Homage to Mother Cherry,” Gran Melia Mexico,
    Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico.
    2004
    - “Pythagorean Tarantulas,” Pecanins Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Infonavit of the Cockroaches,” Aguascalientes Cultural Institute, Francisco Diaz de Leon
    Gallery at Casa Teran, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
    2005
    “Macrobiotic Theater”, ISSSTE Culture, Traveling exhibition in galleries of the IMSS and
    ISSSTE.
    2006
    “Pedro Friedeberg,” The Machine Gallery, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
    2007
    - Casa Diana Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
    - “One Hundred Watercolors... and a Few More,” National Watercolor Museum, Mexico
    City, Mexico.
    - “Exhibition and Launch of the 2007 Tequila Cuervo Collection,” Tequila Cuervo Museum,
    Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico.
    2008
    - Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Artistic Gathering #2,” Ruiz-Healy Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
    2009
    - “A Pedro Friedeberg Retrospective: Architect of Impeccable Confusions,” Curated by
    James Oles / Trilce Editions, Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Reyna Henaine Gallery, New York, USA.
    2010
    - “Barroquismo”, Art Gallery of the Municipal Palace, Puebla, Puebla.
    - “Tree of Life”, Bicentennial Commemorative Parade, Bicentennial Festival, Zocalo, Mexico
    City.
    - National Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Extravagances and Nonsense”, Reyna Henaine / Fifty24MX Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg: Hypnotic Aesthetics, Obsessive Mania, and the Utopian Architecture of
    the 21st Century,” Tijuana Cultural Center, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
    - “The Fantastic Worlds of Master Pedro Friedeberg,” Gallery of the American Modern
    School, Mexico City, Mexico.
    2012
    “Pedro Friedeberg in the Tec de Monterrey Collection,” Monterrey Institute of Technology
    and Higher Education, State of Mexico Campus, Atizapan de Zaragoza, State of Mexico,
    Mexico.
    2013
    - “Zona Maco 2013,” Fifity24MX Gallery, Zona Maco Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Quixotic News,” Iconographic Museum of Don Quixote, Guanajuato, Guanajuato,
    Mexico.
    - “Collection of the Museum of Modern Art: A Century of Criticism,” Curated by Daniel
    Garza Usabiaga, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art,
    Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
    2014
    - “Philatelic Objects,” Museum of Philately (MUFI), Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
    - “Boisterous Animals”, curated by Alejandro Sordo, Colonia Roma, Mexico City.
    2015
    - “Mandrill and Aleph-Tail,” Fifty24MX Gallery / Historic Center, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Extravagances,” Centennial Museum, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
    2016
    - “Hands for Mexico,” Gardens of Mexico, Jojutla, Morelos, Mexico.
    - “In Our Hands” Auction, National Auditorium, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Praise of Folly,” Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Mexico, Texas.
    - “Impossible Worlds. “The Early Works of Pedro Friedeberg,” curated by Terri Geis,
    Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg,” Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas.
    - “Art on Paper Fair,” Pier 36, Manhattan, New York.
    - “The Irrational House,” Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - Art Faena Festival, Miami Beach, Florida.
    2017
    - Pedro Friedeberg Solo Exhibition, Zona Maco 2017, Modern Art, Fifty24mx Gallery,
    curated by Alejandro Sordo, Mexico City.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg”, Casa Diana Gallery, San Miguel de Allende.
    - “Polish Geometry”, Heart Ego Gallery, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon.
    - “Tetragrammoebius“, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, California, September 23–November 4.
    - “In Praise of Madness”, MAIA Gallery, Mexico City.
    - “Friedeberg Highlights”, Christie's, New York, NY.
    2018
    - Pedro Friedeberg, Casa Diana Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. 2019
    - “The Irrational House”, Sonora Museum of Art (MUSAS), Sonora. [April 30 - July 11,
    2019]
    - “Multiple Original”, Collective Archive, San Miguel Chapultepec, Mexico City. [August
    15, 2019]

    - “Interactive Multiple Original”, Metro Gallery, Bellas Artes Metro Station, Mexico City.
    [September 4, 2019]
    - “Fifipolis”, MAIAContemporary, Mexico City. [November 21 - December 22]
    2020
    - “Doctorate in Caryatids”, House of Mexico in Spain, Madrid, Spain. [June 8 - September
    20]
    - “Patience, yes or no?”,CAM Gallery, Polanco, Mexico. [October 22 to December 22] 2021
    - “Amaze me and I amaze you”, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, FL, USA.
    - “Pedro Friedeberg”, Hotel Presidente Intercontinental, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “The nefarious influence, still” Letters from Pedro Friedeberg to Mathias Goeritz, Cabañas
    Museum, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
    - “SD NFTs x PF @CAM”, CAM Gallery, Curated by Alejandro Sordo, Mexico City,
    Mexico.
    2022
    - “Pedro Friedeberg”, Urbana Gallery, Merida, Mexico. [April 1]
    - “Architectural Emotions”, Casa Gilardi, Mexico City, Mexico. [February]
    - “Summa Hartis”, Art Collector Forum, MANIFESTO Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico.
    2023
    - “Hypnerotomagic”, MAIA Contemporary Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
    - “Hypnerotopolis. The City of Love Dreams,” curated by Alejandro Sordo, ECC Italy,
    Time, Space, Existence, Architecture Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy.
    - “Hypnerotopolis”, Cerquone Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    2024
    - Printmaking. “Multiple Originals by Pedro Friedeberg”, Mexican Cultural Seminar,
    Mexico City, Mexico. [July]

    - “Cabo Mogador, Pedro Friedeberg”, Ehtra Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. [October-
    November]

    - “Because You Say So” Pedro Friedeberg, Casa Chihuahua / CAM, Chihuahua, Mexico.
    [July]
    2025
    - “Symmetries and Vanishing Points”, Saenger Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. [January 23]
    - “Festive Tapestry," Urbana Gallery, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. [May 21]

    - Printmaking,” Multiple Originals by Pedro Friedeberg”, Museum of the City of Queretaro
    Saenger Gallery, Queretaro, Mexico.
    - Epsilon City, Museum of Contemporary Art of Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico. [October
    10]