BIOGRAPHY
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1965
• Born in Great Britain
1987
• Christ Church, Oxford; BA, English Literature
1991
• California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
• Lives and works in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
• I Hate You, Billboard for Edinburgh, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
• I Am Curious Yellow, Nicole Klagsbrun Booth at The Armory Show, New York, NY
• Feeling Called Love, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2009
• Switch and Bait, Nicole Klagsbrun Galley, New York, NY
2008
• Chicken or beef?, Glenn Horowitz, East Hampton, NY
2007
• U r the problem, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
• Who r u? lost all numbers, Art:Concept, Paris, France
2006
• 8.00 for 8.30, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• My Mistake, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
• History is a Perpetual Virgin endlessly and repeatedly Deflowered by successive generations of Fucking Liars, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2003
• Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome
• The Wrong Gallery, New York
• The McAllister Institute, New York
2002
• Sleeper, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Much Better, 17 Rosebery Avenue, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
• Time Wounds All Heels, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
2010
• Highlights from the Collection, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX
• The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York, NY
• Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Inauguration, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
• Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
• Shape Language, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Pictures & Statues, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg in the Hessel Museum of Art, Curated by Matthew Higgs, The Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• \ (LEAN), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York; Travels to: Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
• Meet Me Inside, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
• Crash, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
• Gallery, Galerie, Galleria, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, Italy, curated by Adam Carr
• The Substance of the Shadow, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
• Under Control, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, IL
• The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
• Beg, Borrow, and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
• Small Packages, The Art Production Fund Lab, New York, NY
• The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
• Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works 1978–2008, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT
• Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
• 20 Years, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Musuem, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
• Just What are They Saying, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008
• The Station, Miami, FL, Co-curated by Nate Lowman and Shamim Momin
• The Art of the Real, Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende, Belgium, Curated by Robert Nickas
• That Was Then... This is Now, PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
• Fair Market, Rental Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Halley Melin
• Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
• Accidental Modernism, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, Curated by Christopher Eamon
2007
• Two Years: Acquisitions for the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Deaf 2: From the Audible to the Visible, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France, Curated by Peter Coffin
• *Pop Art Is..., Gagosian Gallery (Brittannia Street), London, UK
• Open House: Cincinnati Collects, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• Last Attraction Next Exit, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK, Curated by Neville Wakefield
• Irreversible, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY
• Number One: Destroy, She Said, Julia Stoschek Collecton, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Galerie Mitterand + Sanz, Zurich, Switzerland (Three-person exhibition with Peter Coffin and Michael Phelan)
• Saturn Falling, The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland, Curated by Gavin Morrison
• Living With Art: 47 Modern Masters from the Chris Burmeister Collection, The University of New Mexico Jonson Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2006
• Under Pressure , Galerie Art : Concept, Curated by Bill Cournoyer
• Defamation of Character, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY, Curated by Neville Wakefield
• New York, Interrupted, pkm gallery, Beijing, China, Curated by Dan Cameron
• The Kate Show, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Ruby Satellite, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curated by Ciara Ennis; Travels to: University of California/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
• The Rhubarb Society, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Writing in Strobe, Dicksmith Gallery, London, UK
• Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY and QED, Los Angeles, CA, Organized by Drew Heitzler
• Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, Curated by Klaus Biesenbach; Travels to KW Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
• Le Paradox du comédien, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
• Axis of Praxis, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
• Fallout: Cold War Culture, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
• *Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Curated by Philippe Vergne and Chrissie Iles
• The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin, Germany
• The Fig Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky, Los Angeles, CA
• Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY, curated by David Rimanelli
• Love is Colder than Death, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland, curated by Jonah Freeman
2005
• *Superstars, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Blankness is Not a Void, curated by Gardar Eide Einarsson, Standard, Oslo
• Carol Bove, Adam McEwen and Seth Price, United Artists Ltd., Marfa, Texas
• Star Star: Toward the Center of Attention, CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
• General Ideas; Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987 - 2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, curated by Matthew Higgs
• Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
• On the Beach, Printed Matter, New York, NY curated by Justin Lowe
• Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, curated by Neville Wakefield
• Take It Furthur, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England
• The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Craig Kalpakjian
• *Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
• OK / OKAY, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler
• Suburbia, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
• in words and pictures, Murray Guy, New York
• Trade, White Columns, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs
• Post Notes, ICA, London, England, curated by Adam Carr
• Situational Prosthetics, New Langton Center for the Arts, San Francisco, curated by Nate Lowman
2004
• I'll Be Your Mirror: Hotel Project at Frieze Art Fair, organized by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
• The Chaim Soutine: Tattoo Project, Frieze Art Fair, London
• I Love Music, Creative Growth Gallery, Oakland, San Francisco, curated by Matthew Higgs
• Happy Days are Here Again, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, curated by Andre Schlechtriem
• The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden (touring), curated by Klaus Biesenbach
• Let The Bullshit Run A Marathon, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, curated by Nate Lowman
2003
• A Matter of Facts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York. Selected by Clarissa Dalrymple
• Melvins, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, curated by Bob Nickas
• The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
• I See A Darkness, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
• Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple
• Greener Pastures, Toronto, Canada
• Happy Birthday newspaper project, organized by Aleksandra Mir, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, & Greengrassi, London
• Yes We're Excerpts, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
• COPY, Roth Horowitz, New York, curated by Neville Wakefield
2001
• Drawing Show, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
• Art Transplant, British Consulate in New York
• Untitled Painting Show, LEA Gallery, London
• Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
• Grapeshot Bullseye Harvest, Attache Gallery, London
• Super Freaks Part 2, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
*Catalogue
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
• Simek, Peter, "Goss-Michael's New Space Offers Model for How Local Collectors Can Engage and Enrich the City," D Magazine, November 19
• Sanderson, Louiseza, "Review: Goss-Michael Foundation re-opens with a sexy new exhibit," Pegasus News, November 16
• Taylor, Rebecca, "Adam McEwen," HuffingtonPost.com, November 4, 2010
• "Paris Art Fairs: The Contemporary French Revolution," sleek magazine, November 1
• Exhibition Catalog: "Fresh Hell, Carte Blanche à Adam McEwen", Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• Exhibition Catalog: "At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg in the Hessel Museum of Art", Curated by Matthew Higgs, Center for Curatorial Studies, The Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
•McLean Ferris, Laura, "Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard, Gagosian", ArtReview:, April
•Smith, Roberta, "In Fields of Art, Snapping Photos", The New York Times,
April 1
•Basciano, Oliver, "Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard", ArtReview: (online), February 19
•Herbert, Martin, "Art Latest: Crash", Time Out London (online), February 18
•Souriau, Judith, "Armory Show de New York, entre fin de crise et couleurs artificielles," Liberation.fr, March 5
•Johnson, Ken, "Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck," The New York Times, March 4
•Douglas, Sarah, and Goldstein, Andrew, "Bustling Armory Opening Heralds Contemporary Art Market Resurgence," ArtInfo, March 4
2009
• Chu, Ingrid, "Adam McEwen", Frieze, Issue 124
• Knowles, Patrick, "On Grace of Graphite", SOMA, Spring 2009
• Kasper, Chris, "Adam McEwen", Whitehot Magazine, April 2009
• "Art: Galleries - Adam McEwen: Switch and Bait," The New Yorker, April 13
• Rosenberg, Karen, "Art in Review: Adam McEwen: Switch and Bait," The New York Times, April 3
• Saltz, Jerry, "After the Orgy," New York Magazine, March 23
• Keith, Kelsey, "Adam McEwen: Switch and Bait," CoolHunting.com, March 11
2008
• "15 for '09," Interview Magazine, December/January
• Taylor, Kate , "An Artist's Play on Priced to Sell in East Hampton," The New York Sun, September 8
• Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review: 'Under Pain of Death': Sanctioned Killings - and the Very Many That Aren't," The New York Times, February 1
• Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Accidental Modernism," The New York Times, January 18
2007
• Bryant, Eric, "Paint it Bleak," ARTnews, December
• Adams, Tim, "There's No Pop Without Monroe: Two exhibitions charting the rise of Pop reveal the debt its band of up-and-coming artists owed to the loss of Hollywood's most iconic actress," Guardian Unlimited, October 28
• "Review: Peter Coffin, Adam McEwen, Michael Phelan at Mitterand + Sanz," Zurich sur la terre, Number 5, Summer
• Cotter, Holland, "New York Galleries Make an Early Splash," International Herald Tribune, June 8
• Cotter, Holland, "Quirks and Attitude to Burn," The New York Times, June 8
• Saltz, Jerry, "Deal or No Deal," New York Magazine, May 25
• Velasco, David, "Critic's Picks: Beneath the Underdog," Artforum.com, May 9
• Yablonsky, Linda, "Squat Fuzz: Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen try bringing 'Underdog' to the rescue," The Village Voice, May 7
• Thompson, Adam, "Adam McEwen," Art Papers, January/February
• Amy, Michaël, "Adam McEwen at Nicole Klagsbrun," Art in America, January
2006
• Rimanelli, David, "Best of 2006: Adam McEwen," Artforum, December
• Eleey, Peter, "Adam McEwen: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," Frieze, November/December
• Schwendener, Martha, "Art in Review: Adam McEwen," Artforum, November
• McEwen, Adam. Untitled (Richard), Published in W Magazine: The Art Issue, October
• Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review: Adam McEwen," The New York Times, October 6
• Ribas, Joao, "Confronting War Waged with Precision," The New York Sun, September 21
• Scobie, Ilka, "Death on the Installment Plan," Artnet.com, September 8
• Gartenfeld, Alex, "Bubblegum Pop," Paper, September
• Helfland, Glen, "Aligning the Medium with the Message: Adam McEwens's Inkjet Prints,"Art on Paper, July/August
• Kino, Carol, "Hot Numbers: From Brillo boxes to paperweight breasts, multiples prove their mettle as playful - and collectible - works of art," Art + Auction, July
• Neil, Jonathan T.D., "Fallout: Cold War Culture," Modern Painters, June
• Helfland, Glen, "Adam McEwen: Jack Hanley Gallery," Artforum, April 2006
• Schmidt, Jason, "Work in Progress," V Magazine, No. 40, Spring 2006
• Zamudio, Raul, "The 2006 Whitney Biennial," ArtNexus, No. 62 Vol. 5
• Rosenberg, Karen, "Ready to Watch," New York Magazine, February 27
• "The Renegades," W Magazine, February
2005
• Jones, Kristin M., "Bridge Freezes Before Road," Frieze, October
• Saltz, Jerry, "Ups and Downs", The Village Voice, September 23
• Smith, Roberta, "Interstate," Art in Review, The New York Times, September 16
• Cotter, Holland, "Fanciful to Figurative (New York Group Shows), The New York Times, July 8
• Katz, Vincent, "Greater New York 2005, Artcritical.com, July
• Eleey, Peter, "Greater New York," Frieze, May, Issue 91, p.114.
• Rimanelli, David, "Greater New York 2005," Artforum, May, pp 239- 240.
• Cook, Angus, "Artists on Artists: Adam McEwen by Angus Cook," Bomb, Spring, Number 91.
• Jothady, Manisha, "Ruyter Project: Suburbia," Die Presse, March 11.
• "Im Zentrum der Peripherie," Der Standard, March 10.
• Strohner, Iris, "Suburbia," Hauptstadt, March.
• "Suburbia," Viennahype, March.
• Scott, Andrea K., "Local Heroes: MoMA and P.S.1 survey five years of emerging art in New York," Time Out New York, March 31 - April 6, Issue 496.
• Wilson, Michael, "Reviews: Adam McEwen, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," Artforum, February.
• Rimanelli, David, "First Take: Adam McEwen," Artforum, January.
2004
• Higgs, Matthew, "Best of 2004," Artforum, December
• Smith, Roberta, "Adam McEwen," Weekend Arts, The New York Times, November 26.
• Cohen, David, "Arts & Letters: Adam McEwen," The New York Sun, November 18.
• Scwendener, Martha, "Adam McEwen," Artforum, November.
• Levin, Kim, "Art: Adam McEwen," The Village Voice, November 11.
• Spears Mears, Emily, "Reviews: Adam McEwen," Time Out New York, November 11 - 17, p. 65.
• Gavlak, Sarah, "Manifesto," Issue Magazine, Fall
• Savage, Jack, "Adam McEwen: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," The New York Art World.com, November.
• "The Wrong Gallery," Issue, Fall.
• Yablonsky, Linda, "What's So Funny About Contemporary Art?," Artnews, September.
• Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review: Happy Days Are Here Again, David Zwirner", The New York Times, July 23.
2003
• Iles, Chrissie, "Best of 2003", Artforum, pp122-23 (illus.), December.
• Harrison, Sara, "Review, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo," Contemporary Magazine, p. 66 (illus.), Issue no.57, December.
• J Charlesworth, "Coastal Melancholy," Modern Painters, pp36-37 (illus.), summer issue
• LaBelle, Charles, "I See a Darkness," Frieze, p116 (illus.), Issue 76, June/July/August.
• Knight, Christopher, "On the underbelly of the zeitgeist," Los Angeles Times, (illus.), February 21.
2002
• Smith, Roberta, "Yes We're Excerpts, Art in Review," The New York Times, August 2.
2001
• Wapshott, Nicholas, "A New York state of mind," The Times (London), October 22.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2010
• Fresh Hell, Carte Blanche à Adam McEwen, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2007
• Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
2005
• Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Adam McEwen
2004
• Power, Corruption and Lies, Roth Horowitz, New York, Curated by Adam McEwen and Neville Wakefield
• Couldn't Get Ahead, Independent Art Space, London: Georgina Starr, Sam Durant, Bob & Roberta Smith, Andrea Bowers, Bob Gunderman (catalogue & CD)
• A Fete Worse Than Death, with Joshua Compston. Curated sound stage of live bands and performance.
SELECTED WRITING
2002
• "Tom Friedman," Frieze, Issue 69 (cover article)
• "Marcel Dzama," Frieze, Issue 59
1998
• "Into the Woods: New work by Simon Periton;" Camden Arts Centre, London (catalogue essay)
• "Don; Don Brown's Sculpture," Jerwood Space, London (catalogue essay)
• "Simon Periton at Sadie Coles," New York
