ADAM WELCH [email protected] CV www.adamwelch.info www.adamwelchcurator.info Education: MFA 2007 - (Sculpture/Drawing) Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA. BA 2001 - Studio Art, (Emphasis in Sculpture) SUNY Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. 2004 - (Sculpture) University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. Professional Appointments: 2016-2020 - Director of Exhibitions, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2016 - Adjunct Associate Professor of Art, Integrative Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 2008-2015 - Curator/Lead Installer, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts/Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. 2006 -Sensory Environments Installer, TFH USA. Gibsonia, PA. 2002-2003 - Teaching Assistant, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA. (Sculpture) 2006-2015 - Independent Installer Clients: AAP, Radiant Hall, The August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Gallery 937, TFH Inc. Curatorial Record: Selected Solo & Collaborative Exhibits Curated: 2019 - Night Blooms, Tra Bouscaren, Co-Curated w/ Michael Olijnyk, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2019 - Dragonfruit, Pepe Mar, Co-Curated w/ Michael Olijnyk, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2019 - Laboratory for Other Worlds, Patte Loper, Co-Curated w/ Michael Olijnyk, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2019 - “Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself”, Adam Milner, Co-Curated w/ Michael Olijnyk, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2019 - You're Not the Boss of Me, Nathan Hall, Co-Curated w/ Michael Olijnyk, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2019 - All is Not Forgotten, Patrick Robideau, Co-Curated w/ Michael Olijnyk, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2018 - ADA, Karina Smigla-Bobinski, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2018 - The Interstisium, Laleh Mehran, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2018 - Screen, Christina A. West, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2018 - Lessons, William Earl Kofmehl III, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Porous Sediments, Haylee Ebersole, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Look At Me, Steven Sherril, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Sportsnation, Brett Kashmere, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Left Virginia, Derek Reese, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Let It Do What It Does, Danny Braken, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Universe, Mark Schatz, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Ground Clearance, BA Harington, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Portrait of a Mother, Joy Christensen Erb, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Comic Configurations, Joseph Lupo, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Nearly Captured, Oreen Cohen, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Fight Well Against the Future, Katie Murken, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Metaphysical Archaeology, Scott Andrew, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Perhaps He is Frightened at Being Dead, Terry Boyd, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Navigable We, Katie Ford, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - Work & Industry, Hisham Youssef, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015 - The Archaeology of Memory, Vlad Basarub, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - Plume, Ian Brill, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - Rampart, John Sanders, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - Woman in Time, Jennifer Negal Myers, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - A Mind of Winter, Meghan Olson, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - Replica of the Universe Methodology, Daniel Lunchman, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - Past Presence, Keith Lemley, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - America’s Least Livable City, Hyla Willis, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - Small Pieces Tied To Something Bigger, Jake Beckman, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - My Black Hole, Jennie Thwing, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - Betwixt and Between—Liminal Objects, Jeanne Jaffe, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Artist Of The Year, Akiko Kotani, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - An Artist Residency In Motherhood, Lenka Clayton, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Rights of Passage, Maggie Mills, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Coming Home, Kay Healy, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Friday Nights at Guitar Center, Allison Kaufman, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - E-block, Mark Perrott, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Non-Work, David Montano, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - This May Not Take That Long, David Bernabo & Emily Wally, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Somewhere In Between, Lenore Thomas, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Homographies, Lizzy DeVita, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Intersubjectivity, Eric Charlton, Ian F. Thomas & Eli Basko, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Transience, Stephen Chalmers, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Above Dusk, Kara Snyder, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - SLO POKE, Jonathan Chamberlain, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Public Lives, William McAllister, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2013 - Untitled I – Jeremy Boyle & Mark Franchino, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - 21st Century JuJu, Venessa German, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - The Practical Romantic, Lewis Colburn, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Glass Tube, Bohyun Yoon, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Episodic Drift, Jennifer Williams, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Greenhouse 1, Christopher McGinnis, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Hungry Ghosts, Stephanie Armbruster, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Long Play in the Video Isles, Chris Beauregard, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Recent Work, Kenneth Batista, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - On Cane Creek, Elizabeth Seamans, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Painted Bones and Hyperlinks, Jerstin Crosby, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Whole Parts Too, Daniel Harvey, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Saint -------, The God of Last Things, Blaine Siegel, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Dying: Tsunami YouTube Prints, Ryan Woodring, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Everything Changed, Then Changed Again, Ivette Spradlin, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012 - Interior: Exterior: Fragility: Strength, Jessica Amarnek and Ashley McFarland, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Motherlands, Heidi Bender, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Midway, Aaron Henderson, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - The Space Between, Anna E. Mikolay, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Ruination, Seth Clark, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Pleasant Momentum, Ian Page, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Rodin, Henery J. Simonds, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Rare is the New Medium, Gerald Van Scyoc, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Call of Duty: Operation 100, Sung Rok Choi, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Living For the City, Michelangelo Lovelace Sr., Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2011 - Walking into the Desert Dream, Doug Kinsey, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2010 - Pastoral Deluxe, Elin Lennox, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2010 - RECALL, Ben Hernstrom & Frank Ferraro, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2010 - Shifting Panoramas, Elizabeth Mooney, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2010 - Inisiaqpunga and the Waking, Thea Augustina Eck, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2010 - The Inherent Pull, James R. Southard, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2010 - Outbreak, Patricia Villalobos Echevera, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2010 - Five Woman, Five Men, One Child. April 1st, 2010. Lenka Clayton, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2009 - Zoo of (in)animate, Makiko Miyamoto, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. 2009 - In Between Presence and Absence, Sun-Young Kang, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2009 - Domestic Landscapes, Aasta Deth, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2009 - Revisiting the work of Henry B., Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2009 - Now from Then – The work of W. Glen Davis, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. Selected Group Exhibits Curated: 2016 - Focus, a two venue-traveling exhibition at AHHA, Tulsa, OK. & Luminary, St. Louis, MO. 2015 - The Landscape Problem, Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014 - 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts/Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. (Collaboration