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
2009
Under Western Eyes, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Adam Helms, MCA, Denver
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
2010
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; travels to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2009
Evading Customs, Brown Gallery, London
2008
Beyond a Memorably Fancy: An exhibition about printmaking, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
A Dead Serious Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles
Warlord, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY
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
2008
Chandler, Mary Voelz, "In the Galleries: Adam Helms," Rocky Mountain News, September 5.
Lanctot, Nicole, "Previews Denver: Adam Helms," Artforum, May.
Hou, Christian, "All Quiet on the Western Front," NY Arts Magazine, Jan - Feb.
Zellen, Jody, "Adam Helms," ArtUS, Issue 21, March
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
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT