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MAC ADAMS

 
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BORN

Brynmawr South Wales, Great Britain
 

TEACHING

Associate Professor of Photography.

State University of New York
College at Old Westbury
Visual Art Dept
Old Westbury, N.Y. 11568-0210

Tel: 516-876-3056

Photography Department offers classes (introduction and advanced levels) in both  analog and digital photography.
 

AWARDS

New York State Fellowship for the Arts (Sculpture),1988.
National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts (Sculpture),1982.
Berlin Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Berliner Kunstlerprogram, 1981.
National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts, 1980.
National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts, 1976.
 

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

"Wings and Wheels," Solar Pavilion, Dept of  Transportation, New Jersey Cherry Hill,  in Progress, 1997.

"Meditation," Botanical Gardens Louis Pasteur University. City of Strasbourg, France, 1996.

P.S.20 Queens. New York. New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art, 1993-96.

"New York Korean War Memorial," Battery Park, New York City, NY. 1991. This is the first Major Memorial dedicated to the Korean War in the United States.

"Serpent Bearer," Montclair State College, New Jersey. Funded by New Jersey Governor's Challenge for Excellence Grant.

"Sweptaway," North Princeton Developmental Center, Skillmen, NJ, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of Building & Construction, Department of the Treasury.
 

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1989

                      Todd Gallery, London. Great Britain, 1997.
                      Stux Gallery, New York, NY, "Mac Adams & Michael Snow," 1997.

                     Exposition monographique, Mai de Reims. Reims, France, 1996.

                     Galerie Froment and Putman, Paris, 1994.

                      Art Awareness, Lexington New York, 1993.
                      Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1993.

                      John Gibson Gallery, New York, New York, 1992.
                      Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 1992.

                      Sable CasteIIi Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 1990.
                     Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, New York,1990.
                      Farideh Cadot Gallery, New York, New York, 1990.

                      La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, 1988-89.
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

Has  participated in over  120  group exhibitions in many international Museums and Galleries i.e., Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C.,  Documenta, Kassel;  National Gallery, Berlin; Haywood Gallery, London.
 

SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Buddha Book, A meeting of Images. Frank Olinsky. Chronicle Books, 1997.

Catherine Trautmann. catalogue Meditation. CEAAC Strasbourg, France, 1996.

Adrien Schmitt. President de L'Universite Louis Pasteur catalogue. Meditation. Strasbourg, France, 1996.

Robert Grossmann. Presedent CEAAC catalogue Meditation. Strasbourg,
France,1996.

Photographie. des 20. Jahnrhunderts. Museum Ludwig Koln, Germany.

Jacques Soulillou. Fonds Regional D'Art Contemporain-Limousin, 1989-1995, Deuxieme epoque.

Jean-Marc Huitorel. Question of Genres. Reims, France, 1996.

Contemporary Photographs. Group Lhoist Collection Belgium, 1995.

Jacques Soulillou. L'Impunite De L'Art, Editions Du Seuil, Paris, 1995.

Shoichiro Higuchi. Water as Environmental Art. p.148. Kashiwashobo Publishing Company, Tokyo, Japan, 1991.

Public Art, Urban Sculpture of 50 Cities in USA. Shoichiro Higuchi.1991.

Shoichiro Higuchi "Idea," International Advertising Art. Kashiwashobo Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1990.

Series 16: Art in New York Today." pp.124-127,1990.

Donald Wall, Serpent Bearer, Montclair State College Publication,1989.

Sequence (con) Sequence," (Sub)versions of Photography in the 80's. Edited by Julia Ballerini. Aperture Book,1989.

L'observatoire Catalogue. Farideh Cadot Gallery,1989.

"Balkon Mit Facher," 25 Jahre Berliner Kunstlerprogram Des D.A.A.D. pp. 120,1989.

Catalogue "Visual Paradox," Truth and Fiction in the Photographic Image. Joanne Cubbs. pp. 9-43. John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, Wisconsin,1989.

Andy Grundberg and Kathleen McCarthy Guass. Art and Photography, Interactions Since 1945. Abbeville Press. NY. pp. 140/156, 1987.

Anne Hoy. Fabrications. Abbeville Press, NY Publications, 1987.

Joe Jacobs. "This is Not  a Photograph, Twenty Years of Large Scale Photography, 1966 to 1986.

Catalogue. Plo .28. John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art. Florida,1987.

Max Kosloff. Privileged Eye. University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Catalogue "Human Interest, Fifty Years of British Art About People. Selected by Norbert Lynton, p. 38, 1985.

Catalogue. Body and Soul, Aspects of Recent Figurative Sculpture. Sarah Rogers- Lafferty, 1985.

Catalogue. A Journey Through Contemporary Art with Nigel Greenwood. Haywood Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1985.

Catalogue. "El Arte Narrativo." Bruce D. Kurtz. p. 7. Museo Rufino. Tamayo. Mexico City & P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, 1984.

Catalogue. Content, A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984. Hirshorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, p. 41, 1984.

Catalogue. An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture 1.
Kynaston McShine, pp. 18-19. Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1984.

Catalogue. Aspects of New Narrative Art. Debra Brickner Balke. Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, 1984.

Bernard Martin. Mac Adams. Catalogue for Galerie Arlogos. Nantes, France,1984.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Catalogue. In Plato Cave. Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1983.

Catalogue. Works from the Krauss Collection. Neue National Galerie, Berlin, West Germany, 1983.

"Esthetique & Rhetorique, Mac Adams, New Mysteries," Furor Magazine #8 (1983), pp.13, 23.

Weston Naef, "New Trends," The Gallery of World Photography, Shueisha Publishing Company, 1983.

Brooks Johnson/Thomas W. Styron, catalogue. Still Modern After All These
Years,  Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1982.

Michael Klein/Robert Stearns, "Tableaux," text for Tableaux, Nine Contemporary Sculptors, catalogue, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 1982.

Bernard Blistene. Text for catalogue, Mac Adams Mysteries, Musee De Toulon,
Toulon, France, 1982.

Kate Linker. catalogue. Mystery and Meaning in the Work of Mac Adams. Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, West Germany, 1981.

Catalogue. "New Direction, Contemporary American Art," introduction by Sam Hunter, p. 15, in Photo/Documents, Photo/Narratives and Photographs, Robert C. Morgan. pp.80, 82, 83, 85, 1981.

Catalogue, "British Artists in Berlin, Two Decades of the D.A.A.D," Z.G. Magazine, Artist  and Camera,1981.

Kim Levin, "Mac Adams Mysteries," Welsh Arts Council catalogue. Skira Annuel,      Model of History,  p. 99,1979.

Class and `Classlessness' in American Art, Carter Ratcliff, pp.132-133, 1979.

Photographie als Medium, R.H. Krauss, V.A.N. publication, West Germany, p.119, illustration p. 37, 1979.

Antje Von Graeventz, Narrative Art, catalogue, Groninger Museum, Netherlands, 1979.

Concept/Narrative/Document, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1979.

American Narrative/Story Art, 1967-1977, catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 1978.

Documenta 6. Catalogue, Photography/Film/Video, 1977.
 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

                FRAC. Fonds Regional d'art Contemporain, Limogen, France.
                FNAC. Fonds National d'art Contemporain, Paris, France
                Caisse des depots, Paris, France.
                Lhoist Collection, Belgium.
                The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
                Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
                Los Angeles County Museum, California.
                Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
                First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
                La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California.
                Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York.
                Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey.
                The Jane Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., New Jersey
                New Jersey State Council for the Arts.
                Ludwig Museum, Cologne, West Germany.
                Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
                University of Iowa Museum.
                Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia.
                Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, S. Wales, U.K.
                Commodities Corporation of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey..
                Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
                Chase Manhattan Bank, New York.
                Musee De Toulon, Toulon, France.
                Morton Neumann Family Collection, Chicago, Illinois
 

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