ADAM HELMS 

1974 Born, Tucson, AZ

Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION

2004 MFA, Yale University, School of Art
1997 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

Adam Helms: Untitled Portrait, World Class Boxing, Miami, FL

Hinterland, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 

Rising Down, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Brother's Keeper, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

Untraceable, Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 

2007

Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, White Columns, New York, NY 

Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX 

Welcome to My World, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London, England, curated by Amy Davila and Matthew Day Jackson

Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Kunsthalle and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

Last Attraction Next Exit, Max Wigram Gallery, London, England, curated by Neville Wakefield 

Phantasmania, Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, MO

Just Kick it till it Breaks, The Kitchen, New York, NY

(the) Melvins @ (the) Mandrake, Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA

Omission, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

2006

View (Eleven): Upstate, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Collection 2005/06, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

2005

You Are Here, The Ballroom, Marfa, TX

Sticks and Stones, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

Delicate Demons and Heavenly Delights, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY

Greater New York 2005, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY

2004

Cable Twentieth Anniversary Show, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

Bungle in the Jungle, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

Relentless Proselytizersm, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

Grotto 2, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Crosstown Traffic, John Slade Ely House - Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2003 Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Gilligan's Island, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

2002

New Homes for America (Under Construction), Weather Records, Brooklyn, NY

Block Party Benefit, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2000

Flat File, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Block Party Benefit, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1999

First Inaugural Show, GV/AS, Brooklyn, NY

War: Artists' Bulletin Board, Postmasters, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007

Bryant, Eric, "Paint it Bleak," ARTnews, December, p. 130. 

Tompkins, David, "Artists in Residence: Fall 2006- Summer 2007," Chinati Foundation Newsletter, vol. 12, pp. 77-78.

Biddle, Stephen, "A Tough Sell: Rethinking US Strategy in Iraq," The Berlin Journal, Fall, 28-31. 

Sholis, Brian, "Adam Helms," Artforum, November, pp. 364-365. 

Rosenberg, Karn, "Adam Helms," The New York Times, September 21. 

"Adam Helms," Time Out New York, September 6-12, p. 132. 

Genocchio, Benjamin, "The Week Ahead: September 2-8," The New York Times, September 2.

"Adam Helms Exhibition to Open in New York," Artdaily.org, August 18, http://artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec2∫_new=21402&b=helms 

Knight, Christopher. "Hero or villain?  It's your call," Los Angeles Times, February 23. 

Cole, Lori. "Omission," Artforum.com. February, http://artforum.com/picks/section=nyc#picks12719

Nickas, Bob. "First Take: Bob Nickas on Adam Helms," ArtForum, January, pp. 210-211.

2006

Miller, Sara Nicole. "Warfare in the Suburbs," The Minnesota Daily, August 9.

2005

Bae, James. "You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa," Artlies, Fall, pp. 106-107

Dailey, Meghan. "Contemporary Drawings," Art + Auction, November.

Bollen, Christopher. "Finely Drawn," Vman, Fall/Winter.

Raven, Lucy. "On the Cover: Adam Helms," Bomb, Fall, 2005, pp. 2, 4, 23, and the cover

Cotter, Holland. "Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable," New York Times, July 8.

Heartney, Eleanor. "Report from New York 1 – Return to the Real?," Art in America, June/July.

Anathema Magazine.

Wakefield, Neville. Bridge Freezes Before Road. (New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2005)

Smith-Stewart, Amy. Greater New York 2005. (New York: PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 2005)

2004

"Palimpsest 2004," Yale Literary and Arts Magazine.

2003

Yoshitake, Mika. The Wright Biennial Catalogue, Entropic Impulses: Three Critiques on the Ideology of Order. (Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, 2003)


RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, and AWARDS

2007

Marfa, TX, The Chinati Foundation

2006

The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant Award

2005

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

2003

Yale University, School of Art, Robert Schoelkopf Traveling Fellowship


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY