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Derrick Adams

(American, born 1970)

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Derrick Adams

Boy on Swan Float, 2020

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Derrick Adams

Interior Life (Man), 2019

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Derrick Adams

Interior Life (Woman), 2019

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Derrick Adams

Turtle Floats, 2017

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Derrick Adams

How I Spent My Summer, 2021

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turtle floats by derrick adams

Derrick Adams

Turtle Floats, 2017

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Biography

Timeline

1996
Earned a BFA of Art & Design Education from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2001 - 2003
Was the recipient of the Agnes Martin fellowship
2002
Attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2003 - 2004
Contributed to The Space Program, New York, NY
Integrated the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
2003
Earned a MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY
2009
Received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, New York, NY
2010
Obtained The Fountainhead Residency, Miami FL
2011 - 2013
Obtained The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL

Exhibitions

2021
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2021:
Derrick Adams, Salon 94, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA (solo exhibition)
2020
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2020:
Derrick Adams: Buoyant, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (solo exhibition)
Patrick Kelley, The Journey, SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Savannah, GA (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams: Transformers, Luxembourg & Dayan, London, UK (solo exhibition)
TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair, Kent State University Museum, OH
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Collectouples, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Sounds Lasting and Leaving, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2019
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
The Extreme Present, Moore Building, Miami, FL (solo exhibition)
Buoyant, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (solo exhibition)
Family Matters, Luxembourg Dayan, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
The Ins and Outs: Figures in the Urban Landscape, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Where I’m From, The Gallery in Baltimore City Hall, Baltimore, MD (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams: Interior Life, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY New Icons, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
The Extreme Present, presented by Larry Gagosian, Moore Building, Miami Design District, Miami Beach, FL
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., Smithsonian Institution, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA; National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, New York, NY
Painting Is Its Own Country, curated by Dexter Wimberly, Harvey B. Gantt Center for AfricanAmerican Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
Packaged Black: Barbara Earl Thomas and Derrick Adams, a collaboration, Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Made at the New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library, New York, NY
2018
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
The Journey Continues, Ford Foundation Live Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams: Transmission, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams: Sanctuary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams: People Person, Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France; Private Offices, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
American Family: Derrick Adams and Deana Lawson, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY
Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom, Projects+Gallery, St Louis, MO
Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
Postcard from New York- Part II, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Talisman in the Age of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Go Figure, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
2017
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Derrick Adams: Black White & Brown, Primary Projects, Miami, FL (solo exhibition)
Figures in the Urban Landscape, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Repose, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
Tell Me Something Good, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams: Patrick Kelly, The Journey, Countee Cullen Library, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Network, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
Future People, Stony Island Arts Bank, Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, IL, Curated by Theaster Gates (solo exhibition)
Prospect.4, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Maker, Maker, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Unobstructed Views, Hawkins Ferry House in partnership with Library Street Collective and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
Lines of Influence, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Third Space /Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art, curated by Wassan Al-Khudhair, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2016
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Float, Vigo Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams x Messages in the Street, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
ON, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (solo exhibition)
Culture Club, Project for Empty Space, Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, NJ (solo exhibition)
Black and White and in Color, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Crossroad: A Social Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (solo exhibition)
Baltimore Rising, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
FLAT SCREEN, SPLIT SCREEN, SMOKE SCREEN, Barbara Walters Gallery, Heimbold Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, NY
40 Years, Part 1, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Experiments in Print: Derrick Adams, Matthew Day Jackson, Dread Scott & Kate Shepherd, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Black Pulp, Yale School of Art, 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, CT
Tete-a-Tete, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2015
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
The Holdout (performance + installation), Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ (solo exhibition)
Us Is Them, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Young, Gifted and Black, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
All Killer No Filler, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2014
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
LIVE and IN COLOR, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams, T Magazine Villa Necchi-Campiglio, Milan, Italy (solo exhibition)
Borough, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Retreat, Richard Gray Gallery and Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
Szalon, Logan Center, Chicago, IL
RELEVANCE: Perspectives of the African American Experience, Quintenz Gallery, Aspen, CO
Black Eye, Concept NV, New York, NY
Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part II: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2013
Derrick Adams Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Aestheticized Reductions of Self-Representation, Hales Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
In The Company Of Others, Louis B. James, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
DISPLAY: Cloaked in the Proprieties of the Culture Game, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Becoming One With Your Environment, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
tête-à-tête, QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Reloading the Canon: African Traditions in Contemporary Art, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2012
Derrick Adams Exhibitions 2012:
The Channel, BAM Fishman Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
The World According to Derrick: Performative Objects in Formation, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA (solo exhibition)
Deconstruction Worker, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
Derrick Adams – Man as His Element, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA (solo exhibition)
Communicating with Shadows, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
The Entertainer, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
Hillman U, A Dream Deferred; A Dream Fulfilled, The Proposition Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Road Ahead, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA, USA
tête-à-tête, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
NEXT: Artists selected by 30 Americans, Contemporary Wing, Washington, DC, USA

Public Collections

Agnes Gund Collection, New York NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Estee Lauder Collection, New York, NY
Ford Foundation, New York, NY
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Literature

2011
ARTnews, Feb. 2011 Vol.110 No.2.
“Art Basel Miami: Black Artists Push Creative Boundaries” The Root. 5 Dec 2011
2010
IRAAA, Vol. 23 No.2
“Derrick Adams Does Bas Fisher, Mike Tyson, and Darth Vader” Miami New Times Blog. 24 September
Holland Cotter. “Art in Review: Else” NY Times. 24 September
Jody Cutler. "Building a Body of Art – Derrick Adams 2010 IRAAA" The International Review of African American Art Vol. 23 No.2
Holland Cotter. “Art Review: Lower East Side Tale, Refracted Nine Times” New York Times. July 8
“Art in Review: 50 Artists Photograph the Future” New York Times. May 27
Taveras, Julia. “Go Stand Next to the Mountain: Brief talk with Derrick Adams’ upcoming performance” Encore Magazine. 10 May
Charlie Finch. “Bricktop” Artnet.com Feb
Myrtis Bedolla. “Art Basel ‘09” The International Review of African American Art. Vol. 23, No. 1
2007
Holland Cotter. “United Black Girls” New York Times. March 30
RoseLee Goldberg. Performa: New Visual Art Performance
2006
McLean Jackson. "Derrick Adams" Mass Appeal Magazine Issue 38
2005
Michelle Yun. "Derrick Adams" PS1/MoMA Greater New York Book
Soraya Murray, Derek Conrad Murray. "A Rising Generation & The Pleasures of Freedom" International Review of African American Art Volume 20, Number2
Molly Kleiman. "People Sticking Their Heads in Things" NY Arts Magazine Sept/Oct.
Carly Berwick. "Where the Scenes Are – Greater New York’s New Art Geography" New York Magazine Mar. 7.
2004
Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni, Maurizio Cattelan. "Everybody Was There – The Wrong Guide to New York in 2004" Artforum Dec
Holland Cotter. "Art in Review; Charles Gaines." New York Times Apr. 30.
Nuit Banai. "Art; Youth Maneuvers" One World Feb/Mar.
2003
Holland Cotter. "Art Guide; Last Chance". New York Times Oct. 3.
Liutauras Psibilskis. “Critics Picks: Vilnius” Artforum.com Sep.
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