CARRIS ADAMS
  • Work
  • Projects
    • Hands + Stars | New Africa House at UMASS
    • Wheel of Life
    • The YARD
    • Abstractions Mag
    • Another Idea | Gray Center
    • Flat Earthers | Te Whare Hera
    • Too Many Degrees Podcast
    • Offing Mag
  • Bio
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  • Contact

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EDUCATION:
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2015      MFA Studio Art  University of Chicago
2013      BFA  Studio Art  University of Texas at Austin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023      And so it goes..., Art League Houston, Houston,  TX
2023      A Lesson, Basket Books and Art, Houston, TX
2023      Signs All Kinds, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022      Get Over, Get Under, Get Easy, Get Greasy, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019      Double-talk , Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL           
2018      Sweepstakes Red, Carlos Gallery at Sewanee, University of the South, Sewanee, TN            
2017      Send-Go, Courtyard Gallery at AT&T Center at University of Texas at Austin,  Austin, TX​             
2017      This, That and the Third, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Chicago, IL                
​2014       RE- , South Dallas Cultural Center, Arthello Beck Gallery, Dallas TX
           
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023      Water & Air, Space & Time Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023      Block Party, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
2023      A Summer Show, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL​
2022     Passing Through, Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2022     LifeLinien, Scotty, Berlin, Germany
2022     Whole in Pieces, Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX
2022     Wheel of Life, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022     62nd Faculty Exhibition, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
2022     (Trigger)Happy, Pablo Cardoza Gallery, Houston, TX
2021     Flat Earthers, The Engine Room, Whiti o Rehua School of Art at Toi Rāuwharangi
                 College of Creative Arts in Pōnneke Wellington, New Zealand
2020     Flat Earthers (Online Exhibition, Publication and Gallery Exhibition) ,
                 Whiti o Rehua School of Art at Toi Rāuwharangi College of Creative Arts in 
                 Pōnneke - Wellington, New Zealand
2020      Another Idea, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago, IL              
2020     The Ways They Are, San Jacinto College Gallery, Houston, TX
2019      Unseen, Collar Works, Troy, NY                
2019      Ad Astra Per Aspera, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY      
2019      Eternal Recurrence, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago, IL                 
2018       Blackblooded, The New Modern Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2018       Image as a Vessel, Donnelley Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018       Eclipsing,  Arts Incubator at the Art and Public Life Initiative, Chicago, IL      
2017       In Plain Sight, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, New York           
2017       Word to the Wise, ACRE, Chicago, IL              
2017       Breathing Deeply, Pushing Back, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH           
2016       FRUIT, Produce Model Gallery, Chicago, IL          
2016       Palatable, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, New York              
2016      Shared Language, The Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL          
2015      Trapped in Acapulco, Logan Art Center Gallery, Chicago, IL  
2015      Lands End, Logan Art Center Gallery, Chicago, IL               

PUBLIC PROJECTS:

2022       Hands + Stars, Augusta Savage Gallery at New Africa House, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2019      The Color Fields (Blue), Floating Museum Project, Chicago, IL
2016       Message In The Street, billboard project, Chicago, IL 

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS:
 
2023     Talking with Glasstire Contributor Carris Adams, Glasstire 
2023     Something to Look Forward To, Sixty Inches From Center Publication
2021     Candyman, Monkey Paw Productions, MGM
2021      Another Idea Exhibition Catalog, Portable Gray Publication, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry,
                  University of Chicago

2019      Review: Investigation Through Reduction, NewCity Magazine
2019      Seeing Signs: Interview with Carris Adams, published by Tara Betts and Sixty Inches From Center
2019      Giving Ghost Signs New Life, Chicago Mag 
2017      Breakout Artists of 2017, NewCity Magazine
2017      Episode 579,  Bad At Sports Podcast Interview
2016      Review: Foodways: Artists and Museums are Embracing the Cultural, Creative and Convivial Aspects
                  of the Culinary Experience
, Culture Type

WRITING:

2025     The Work is Mysterious and Important: Talking with Renata Cassiano Alvarez
2024      Nasher Public: Urban Historical Reclamation and Recognition in Dallas's Tenth Street Distric
                  Freedman's Town (Fall 2024)
2024     The Urgent and the Understated: Talking with Devin T. Mays, Glasstire
2023     Where Justice Prevails: A Conversation with Angel Faz, Glasstire
2023     Reclaiming and Recognizing Dallas' Freedman's Town: Talking with Jonathan Norton, Glasstire
2022     Land, Image, and Descendants : Talking with Jamie Robertson, Glasstire
2022     On Non-Profits, Research, and Priorities: Talking with Dorota Biczel, Glasstire
2022      Review: The Curious Case of Critical Race... Theory? at Project Row House, Glasstire 
2022      Review: Dos Manos Dos Toques at Cothren Gallery, Glasstire 
2021      Sweet Sweet Candyman, Sixty Inches from Center Online Magazine
2021      Language in Abstraction,  Abstractions Magazine, Tessera Artist
                  Collective and Philadelphia Print Works publication
2020      For White Folks Who Have Considered Terror, Horror as a Way of Life, Portable Gray
                  publication, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago
2016      The Writing in the Landscape,  The Offing Mag (online publication)

LECTURES & WORKSHOPS: 

2022    Artist talk, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2022    Visiting Artist, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2020    Artist talk, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2020    Artist talk with Ben Buchanan and Raewyn Martyn, Flat Earthers Project
2019    Visiting Artist, Sewanee University, Sewanee, TN
2017    The Subject of Landscape with Monika Muller moderated by Zachary Cahill,
                Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery Chicago, IL
2017    Bad At Sports Podcast, episode 579
2015    Visiting Artist, Truman College, Chicago, IL
2015    Visiting Artist, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH

​RESIDENCIES: 
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2023     Arrowmont- Pentaculum Residency, Gatlinburg, TN
2018    Spudnik Artist Residency, Chicago, IL 
2017   The Hambidge Center- Creative Arts Residency, Rabun Gap, GA
2017    Visiting Artist, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
​2016    Teaching Artist in Residence, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
2016    Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT 
2016    ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI 

GRANTS:

2022     Faculty Fulbright Travel Grant, University of Arkansas
2022     Faculty Award for Research and Creative Scholarship, University of Arkansas
2017     3Arts Make A Wave Grant Recipient

  • Work
  • Projects
    • Hands + Stars | New Africa House at UMASS
    • Wheel of Life
    • The YARD
    • Abstractions Mag
    • Another Idea | Gray Center
    • Flat Earthers | Te Whare Hera
    • Too Many Degrees Podcast
    • Offing Mag
  • Bio
  • CV
  • Contact