CV
info@carrisadams.com
EDUCATION:
2015 MFA Studio Art University of Chicago
2013 BFA Studio Art University of Texas at Austin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Get Over, Get Under, Get Easy, Get Greasy
Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Double-talk , Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
Double-talk Brochure written by Claudine Ise
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
Send- Go brochure written by Dorota Bizcel
2017 This, That and the Third, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Chicago, IL
Press: Bad at Sports Podcast Interview
2014 RE- , South Dallas Cultural Center, Arthello Beck Gallery, Dallas TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 LifeLinien, Scotty, Berlin, Germany
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
Press: The Daily Gazette
Press: Antemag
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
https://www.eclipsing.info/
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
Exhibition Brochure and Curator's Essay
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:
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
2016 Review: Foodways: Artists and Museums are Embracing the Cultural, Creative and Convivial Aspects
of the Culinary Experience, Culture Type
WRITING:
2022 Review: Dos Manos Dos Toques at Cothren Gallery, Sixty Inches from Center (online publication)
2021 Sweet Sweet Candyman, Sixty Inches from Center (online publication)
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 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:
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:
2017 3Arts Make A Wave Grant Recipient