BIOGRAPHY

Education 

2003    MFA, Columbia University.  New York NY    


1996    BFA, Pratt Institute, Art & Design Education.  Brooklyn NY



RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

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
       

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2006  Momenta Arts.  Brooklyn NY
 "sometimes i just don’t feel like myself"


2005 Participant Inc.  New York NY
PERFORMA ‘05 (performance biennial)
"anew"
       

Marvelli Gallery.  New York NY “i'm sorry, i'm lost"
       

Participant Inc.  New York NY “i'm smoke; you’re mirror”


2004  Triple Candie (Project Space).  New York NY
 "me and my imaginary friends"


2003  Jack Tilton Gallery.  New York NY
 "the big getaway"



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007  Derek Eller Gallery.  New York NY
 "neoIntegrity"
       

Memphis College of Art.  Memphis TN "reasons to riot"


2006  MoCADA.  Brooklyn NY (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art) "the pulse of new brooklyn"


2005  Alona Kagan Gallery.  New York NY
  "if you’re feeling sinister"
       

P.S.1 MoMA.  Queens NY
"greater new york 2005"
       

Tilton Gallery.  New York NY
 "jack tilton inaugural exhibition"


2004  Wall Street Rising / Deutsche Bank.  New York NY "art downtown: connecting collections"
        Florida Atlantic University Gallery.  Boca Raton FL
"me, myself & i"                
       

Sampson Projects.  Boston MA "notorious impropriety"
       

Brooklyn Museum of Art.  Brooklyn NY "open house: working in brooklyn"


2003  Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary.  New York NY "club in the shadow"
   

[Collaborative installation by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether]"October 3rd: Derrick Adams – Installation & Video"    
       

Contemporary Art Centre.  Vilnius, Lithuania "24/7: wilno – nueva york (visa para)"
       

Nathan Cummings Foundation.  New York NY "confrontation or commentary"
       

Roebling Hall – Satellite.  New York NY
 "summer jam"
     

Lisa Kirk Projects.  New York NY "you"
       

Massimo Audiello.  New York NY
 "adams, cerrillo, perkins"            
       

Studio Museum in Harlem.  New York NY
 "veni vidi video"
       

Centenary Gallery, Camberwell Coll. of Arts.  London, UK
 "urbanites: new york, london, tokyo"


2002  Triple Candie.  New York NY
"hotel/motel"

2001  UFA Gallery.  New York NY
"adams & finney"    
       

ABC No Reo.  New York NY "politics of racism" 
       

Fire Patrol No.5 Gallery.  New York NY "politics of racism, pt. II"
       

Manhattan Borough President’s Office.  New York NY


2000  Corridor Gallery.  Brooklyn NY "derrick adams & dread scott"                
       

UFA Gallery.  New York NY
  "rewriting history"    


1999  Skylight Gallery.  Brooklyn NY
  "challenge exhibition"                        



BIBLIOGRAPHY    



RoseLee Goldberg. Performa: New Visual Art Performance. 2007

Holland Cotter. “United Black Girls” New York Times. March 30, 2007
McLean Jackson. 

“Derrick Adams”  Mass Appeal Magazine  Issue 38, 2006
Michelle Yun. 

“Derrick Adams” PS1/MoMA Greater New York Book 2005.
Soraya Murray;

Derek Conrad Murray. “A Rising Generation & The Pleasures of Freedom” International Review of African American Art  Volume 20, Number 2. 2005


Molly Kleiman.  “People Sticking Their Heads in Things” NY Arts Magazine  Sept/Oct 2005


Carly Berwick. “Where the Scenes Are – Greater New York’s new art geography” New York Magazine  7 Mar. 2005


Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni, Maurizio Cattelan.  “Everybody Was There – The Wrong Guide to New York in 2004.”  Artforum  Dec. 2004    


Holland Cotter.  “Art in Review: Charles Gaines.”  New York Times  30 Apr. 2004.


Charlotta Kotik & Tumelo Mosaka.  Open House: Working in Brooklyn 2004.


Nuit Banai.  “Art: Youth Maneuvers”  One World  Feb/Mar. 2004


Holland Cotter.  “Art Guide: Last Chance.”  New York Times 3 Oct. 2003.


Liutauras Psibilskis.  “Critics Picks: Vilnius”  Artforum.com  Sep. 2003.


Ken Johnson.  “Art in Review: From Mouse Ears to Poetic Pop...”  New York Times  2 Feb. 2002.


Ken Johnson.  “Art in Review: National Black Fine Arts Show.”  New York Times  2 Feb. 2001.