Derrick Adams CV
Born 1970, Baltimore, MD, USA Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
EDUCATION
2003 MFA, Columbia University, New York NY.
1996 BFA, Art & Design Education, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2015 The Holdout, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey, USA
2014 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2013 Performa 2013, New Visual Art Performance Biennial, New York, USA Aestheticized Reductions of Self-Representation, Hales Gallery, London, UK Becoming One With Your Environment, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France In The Company Of Others, Louis B. James, New York NY DISPLAY: Cloaked In The Proprieties Of The Culture Game, 80WSE Gallery, New York NY
2012 The Channel performance, BAM Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn NY Hillman U. – A Dream Deferred, A Dream Fulfilled, Proposition Gallery, New York NY Architectural Archetypes, General Audience Presents, Miami FL The World According to Derrick, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA Communicating with Shadows performance, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY, Organized by: Thomas Lax Man As His Element, Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington VT Deconstruction Worker, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
2010 Feed Them With A Long Spoon, Third Streaming, New York NY Go Stand Next to the Mountain, The Kitchen, New York NY Welcome to Monument City, Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York NY
2009 Introduction to Bizarro Wiz, Collette Blanchard Gallery, NADA, Miami Beach FL, (Installation and performance at Le Jardin Theatre, Deauville Beach Resort)
2006 Sometimes I Just Don’t Feel Like Myself, Momenta Arts, Brooklyn NY
2005 Anew (PERFORMA ‘05 performance biennial), Participant Inc, New York NY I'm Sorry, I'm Lost, Marvelli Gallery, New York NY I'm Smoke; You’re Mirror, Participant Inc, New York NY
2004 Triple Candie (Project Space), New York NY Me and My Imaginary Friends, Triple Candie (Project Space), New York NY
2003 For press contact [email protected] For sales contact [email protected] Hales Gallery, Tea Building, 7 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA, +44 (0)207 0331938 www.halesgallery.com
The Big Getaway, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Go Stand Next to the Mountain, Hales Gallery, London Black Eye, Concept NV, New York NY, curated by Nicola Vassell Radical Presence; Black Performance In Contemporary Art, Studio Museum Harlem (continuing from 2013) The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA (continuing from 2013)
2013 Tete-a-Tete, QF Gallery, East Hampton NY Reloading the Canon: African Traditions In Contemporary Art, The James E.Lewis Museum Of Art, Baltimore MD
2012 Radical Presence; Black Performance In Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Tx Bigger Than Shadows, Dodge Gallery, New York NY, Friends With Benefits, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY Tete-a-Tete, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York NY The Road Ahead, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles CA Summer Group Show, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris France Pratt Alumni Painters, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York NY Sonando en Color, Havana Biennial, Centro Experimental De Los Artes Visuales, Havana Cuba Next Generation: Selections by Artists in the 30 Americans Collection, Contemporary Wing, Washington DC, Tete-a-Tete, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL Sunday Sessions, PS1 MoMa, Long Island City NY Campaign, C24 Gallery, New York NY
2011 Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York
2010 Lush Life: Chapter One: Whistle, Sue Scott Gallery, New York NY (Curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez Chahoud) 50 Artists Photograph the Future, Higher Pictures, New York NY NeoIntegrity Comics Edition, Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art, New York NY Precarity And The Butter Tower, CTRL GALLERY, Houston TX Dissecting Intersections: Performative Responses, Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY Bite: Street Inspired Art + Fashion, Third Streaming, New York
2009 Revelatory Tension, BRIC Arts, Brooklyn NY Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
2008 1968: Then and Now, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York NY Casa de Carton, Ingalls & Associates, Miami FL Bedtime Stories, Red House Arts Center, Syracuse NY Untitled (On Paper), Moti Hasson Gallery, New York NY
2007 Neo Integrity, Derrick Eller Gallery, New York NY (Curator: Keith Mayerson) Dream of Today, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles CA (Curator: Amy Smith-Stewart) Taking Possession, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Reasons to Riot, Memphis College of Art, Memphis TN
2006 Invade My Dreams, Taxter & Spengemann, New York NY (Curator: Kalup Linzy) The Pulse of New Brooklyn, MoCADA, Brooklyn NY (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art)
2005 If You’re Feeling Sinister, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York NY
For press contact [email protected] For sales contact [email protected] Hales Gallery, Tea Building, 7 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA, +44 (0)207 0331938 www.halesgallery.com
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 MoMA, NY Jack Tilton Inaugural Exhibition, Tilton Gallery, New York NY
2004 Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, Wall Street Rising / Deutsche Bank, New York NY Me, Myself & I, Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Boca Raton FL (Renee Riccardo & Paul Laster, Curator) Notorious Impropriety, Sampson Projects, Boston MA Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
2003 24/7: Wilno – Nueva York (Visa Para), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania Confrontation or Commentary, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York NY Summer Jam, Roebling Hall – Satellite, New York NY (Franklin Sirmans, Curator) You, Lisa Kirk Projects, New York NY Adams, Cerrillo, Perkins, Massimo Audiello, New York NY Veni Vidi Video, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY Urbanites: New York, London, Tokyo, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2002 Hotel/Motel, Triple Candie, New York NY and L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME
2001 Striking Blows, Manhattan Borough Presidents Office, New York NY
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2012 The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL
2011 William H. Johnson Award Finalist
2011-13 The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL
2010 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami FL
2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, New York NY
2003 – 2004 The Space Program, New York NY Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
2001 – 2003 Agnes Martin Fellowship
2002 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: JPMorgan Chase & Co Studio Museum in Harlem Virginia Museum of Fine Art AC and Thelma Hudgins Peter Norton / courtesy of MoMA Friends of Education Hort Family Collection Martin Nesbitt & Dr Anita Blanchard Rhona Hoffman Collection Jack H. Tilton Collection For press contact [email protected] For sales contact [email protected] Hales Gallery, Tea Building, 7 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA, +44 (0)207 0331938 www.halesgallery.com
Pizzuti Collection Barbara Hoffman, Atty. Sherry Bronfman Ronald Soshinski & Ellen Donahue
For press contact [email protected] For sales contact [email protected] Hales Gallery, Tea Building, 7 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA, +44 (0)207 0331938 www.halesgallery.com