Dennis Adams
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Dennis Adams is an American artist internationally recognized for his urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture. Over the last three decades, he has realized over fifty urban projects in cities worldwide from Antwerp to Zagreb. His work has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe.
Since 2001 Adams has been a Professor at the Cooper Union
in New York City. From 1997-2001, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program and Professor in the school of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. He has also taught at Parsons School of Design, New York; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
, Paris; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich.
His work is in many international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art
,Whitney Museum of American Art
, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, the Fotomuseum Winterthur
, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
, and the Walker Art Center
.
He is represented by Kent Fine Art LLC in New York City, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie in Paris, Galerie Lumen Travo in Amsterdam, and Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz in Pamplona
Since 2001 Adams has been a Professor at the Cooper Union
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
in New York City. From 1997-2001, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program and Professor in the school of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
. He has also taught at Parsons School of Design, New York; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.The École des Beaux-arts is made up of a vast complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près,...
, Paris; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich.
His work is in many international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
,Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a representation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is on the one hand an art gallery for photography by contemporary photographers and artists...
, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...
, and the Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...
.
He is represented by Kent Fine Art LLC in New York City, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie in Paris, Galerie Lumen Travo in Amsterdam, and Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz in Pamplona
Selected Exhibitions
- 1984 Solo Exhibit, the KitchenThe KitchenThe Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City...
, New York - 1987 "Skulptur Projekte MünsterSkulptur Projekte MünsterSkulptur Projekte Münster is an exhibition of sculptures in public places in the town of Münster...
", Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany - 1987 "Building Against Image" (retrospective), The Alternative MuseumThe Alternative MuseumThe Alternative Museum was founded in 1975 by artists for artists and the broader New York City community in the United States. Its primary purpose was to present works of art created by artists of conscience through exhibitions of contemporary art, world music concerts, performances and panel...
, New York - 1988 Solo Exhibit, De AppelDe AppelDe Appel is an internationally focused contemporary arts centre, located in Amsterdam. Since it was founded, the goal of de Appel is to function as a stage for research and presentation of visual arts. Exhibitions, publications and discursive events are the main activities of de Appel. In 1994...
Foundation, Amsterdam - 1988 "Bezugspunkte 38/88", Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
- 1989 "Magiciens de la terreMagiciens de la terreMagiciens de la Terre was a contemporary art exhibit at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette in 1989.-Background:...
", Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris - 1989 "Image World: Art and Media Culture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 1989 "Images Critiques: Adams, Jaar, Jammes, Wall", Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
- 1989 "Tenir l’image à distance", Musée D’art Contemporain, Montréal
- 1990 “WORKS: Dennis Adams”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
- 1990 "Passages de l’image", Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- 1990 "Rhetorical Image", The New Museum, New York
- 1990 "The Ready Made Boomerang", Sydney Biennale, Australia
- 1991 “Road to Victory”, PROJECT Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1992 "Post Human", FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; traveled to: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg
- 1993 “Der Müll, ( ) Unde Der Tod", PortikusPortikusPortikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main, originally founded in 1987 through the initiation of Kasper König, one of the most influential living curators of contemporary art. It's name derives from the surviving portico of the Stadtbibliothek from 1825 that was...
, Frankfurt am Main - 1994 “Selling History” (retrospective), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
- 1994 "Transactions" (retrospective), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
- 1995 "Light Constructions", Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1995 "10 thru 20" (solo exhibition), Stroom HCBK, The Hague
- 1996 “Ederle”, Queens Museum of Art, New York
- 1999 "Panorama 2000", Organized by Centraal MuseumCentraal MuseumThe Centraal Museum is a museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1838. Initially, the collection - exhibited on the top floor of the Utrecht townhall - was limited to art related to the city of Utrecht...
, Utrecht, The Netherlands - 2000 Whitney BiennialWhitney BiennialThe Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...
, Whitney Museum of Art, New York - 2001 "Hortus Conclusus", Witte de With, Rotterdam
- 2001 Solo Exhibit, Contemporary Museum BaltimoreContemporary Museum BaltimoreLocated in Baltimore, Maryland, Contemporary Museum is a museum specializing in contemporary art, founded in 1989. During its first decade, the peripatetic Contemporary was "dedicated to redefining the concept of the museum." "Like a hermit crab, it moved around the city of Baltimore, sponsoring...
in collaboration with the Walters Art MuseumWalters Art MuseumThe Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters , who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American...
, Baltimore - 2002 "Video topiques/Tours et Retours de l’Art Vidéo", Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
- 2003 "Warum", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
- 2004 "Ambulates/Cultura Portátil: Actitudes y Prototipos en el Espacio público", Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo of Sevilla, Spain
- 2004 “Freeload”, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
- 2005 "Make Down", Kent Fine Art, New York City
- 2005 "Regarding Terror: The RAF- Exhibition", Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
- 2007 "Filles rebelles". Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
- 2008 "Blickmaschinen", Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
- 2008 "Revolutions 1968", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
- 2009 "Evento 2009: Collective Intimacy", Bordeaux, France
- 2009 "Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the Colonial City", The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
- 2010 "How Wine Became Modern", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- 2010 "La Memoria del Otro"; Museo Internacional de Chile, traveled to Centro de Arte Contempráneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana
- 2011 "Uncanny Familiarity: Images of Terror", C/O Berlin
Selected Bibliography
- Abramovic, Marina. “Dennis Adams: Franck & Schulte.” Flash Art, Summer 1992, pp. 122–23.
- Adams, Dennis. “Sky Writing.” Historias: VII Edición del Festival Internacional de Fotografia y Artes Visuales PhotoEspaña. Catalogue. Madrid: 2004, pp. 63-66, 168-170.
- Adams, Dennis. “Questionnaire.” Zone 1–2, 1986, pp. 423, 455.
- Alberro, Alexander. “Dennis Adams: Kent Gallery.” Artforum, May 1999, p. 178.
- Beros, Nada. “Street Ventriloquist/An Interview with Dennis Adams.” Artpress, December 1999, pp. 24-29.
- Brenson, Michael.“He Challenges a Privileged Point of View.” New York Times, March 13, 1988, sec. 2, pp. 35, 38.
- Celik, Zeynep, Clancy-Smith, Julia and Terpak, Frances, eds. "Walls of Algiers/Narratives of the City Through Text andImage". Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute and University of Washington, Seattle and London, 2009, pp. 7, 8-9, 10-11f.
- Cooke, Lynne. “Dennis Adams.” Galeries Magazine, February–March 1991, pp. 88–91, 144.
- Cotter, Holland. “Outtake. A Public Project by Dennis Adams.” New York Times, January 15, 1999, p. E 42.
- D’Agostino, Peter, and Lew Thomas, eds. "Still Photography: the problematic model". San Francisco: NFS Press, 1981, pp. 111–115.
- "Dennis Adams". Pamplona: Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, 2004. (catalog)
- "Double Feature". New York: Kent Gallery. 2008. (artist book)
- Durand, Régis. "La Part de l’ombre: Essais sur l’expérience photographique". Paris: La Différence, 1990, pp. 196–202.
- Faust, Gretchen. “Dennis Adams: MOMA.” Arts Magazine, April 1991, pp. 97–98.
- Funken, Peter. “Strategie & Rhetorik: Dennis Adams, John Baldessari und Jochen Gerz.” Artefactum, April-May, 1990, pp. 49-50.
- Goldmann, Daniela. “Kontradiktionen der Kunst: Daniela Goldmann im Gespräch mit Dennis Adams.” Noema Art Journal, October/November 1991, pp. 58–65.
- Heartney, Eleanor. “Street Scenes.” Art in America, April 1989, pp. 230–37, 277.
- Indiana, Gary. “Dennis Adams at Nature Morte.” Art in America, January 1987, pp. 133–34.
- Kolbowski, Silvia. “Freeload/Interview with Dennis Adams.” Scapes, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 27-32.
- Kozloff, Max. “Through the Narrative Portal.” Artforum, April 1986, pp. 86–97.
- Leffingwell, Edward, and Karen Marta, eds. Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop. New York: The Clocktower Gallery, The Institute for Contemporary Art, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: MIT Press, 1988, pp. 6, 9, 110–117.
- Novakov, Anna, ed. "Carnal Pleasures/Desire, Public Space and Contemporary Art". San Francisco: Clamor Editions, 1998. pp. 122-135.
- Phillips, Patricia C. “Adams, Jaar, Wodiczko des images parasites.” Artpress, March 1988, pp. 17–20.
- "Port of View". Marseille: L’observatoire, 1992. (catalog)
- Richard, Paul. “‘Archive’ of a Hidden Washington, at Hirshhorn.” The Washington Post, April 25, 1990, pp. B1, B10.
- Smith, Roberta. “Exploring the World’s-Fair Mentality.” The New York Times, June 28, 1996, p. C33.
- Sans, Jérôme. “An Interview with Dennis Adams.” Flash Art, Summer, 1989, pp. 129–31.
- Staniszewski, Mary Anne. "The Power of Display. A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art". Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 296-298.
- "The Architecture of Amnesia". New York: Kent Fine Art, 1990. Essay by Mary Anne Staniszewski. (catalog)
External links
- http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/main/press_adams_01.pdf, "Interview with Dennis Adams by Nada Beros", Art Press 252 1999
- http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/adams_past_09.html
- "dennis adams", Journal of Contemporary Art
- "Dennis Adams : works.", SIRIS
- http://schools.nyc.gov/community/facilities/PublicArt/Art/artitem.htm?an=11746
- http://www.leftmatrix.com/adamslist.html
- http://www.artnet.com/artists/dennis-adams/past-auction-results
- http://www.galeriampa.com/en/artistas/Dennis-Adams?auk=cv
- http://www.gabriellemaubrie.com/web.php?mode=article&id=49