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
  • CV
  • Contact

 
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​info@carrisadams.com
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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:

2022      Get Over, Get Under, Get Easy, Get Greasy
                  Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
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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

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2014       RE- , South Dallas Cultural Center, Arthello Beck Gallery, Dallas TX
           
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

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
                 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
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2018       Eclipsing,  Arts Incubator at the Art and Public Life Initiative, Chicago, IL
                   https://www.eclipsing.info/
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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: The Curious Case of Critical Race... Theory?, Project Row House, Glasstire 
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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
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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
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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 
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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
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2016    Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT 

2016    ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI 

GRANTS:

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