BIOGRAPHY
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
2008
Denver, CO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Adam Helms, August 12, 2008 – January 19, 2009
2007
Miami, World Class Boxing, Adam Helms: Untitled Portrait, December, 2007 – February, 2008
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, September 6 – October 6, 2007
Los Angeles, Sister, Adam Helms: Rising Down, January 27 – February 24, 2007
2005
Los Angeles, Sister, Brother's Keeper, April 2 – 27, 2005
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
New York, Smith-Stewart, Warlord, June 14 – July, 2008
Portland, OR, Feldman Gallery, PNCA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Untraceable, February 28 – March 28, 2008
2007
New York, White Columns, Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, November 16 - December 21, 2007
Marfa, Texas, Ballroom Marfa, Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, September 22, 2007 - February 3, 2008, curated by Bob Nickas
London, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, Welcome to My World, July 13 – September 1, 2007, curated by Amy Davila and Matthew Day Jackson
Vienna, Kunsthalle and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, June 29 - October 4, 2007
London, Max Wigram Gallery, Last Attraction Next Exit, June 2 – July 21, 2007, curated by Neville Wakefield
Kansas City, MO, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Phantasmania, June 1 – August 19, 2007
New York, The Kitchen, Just Kick it Till it Breaks, March 8 – April 28, 2007
Los Angeles, Mandrake, (the) Melvins @ (the) Mandrake, February 17 – March 24, 2007
New York, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Omission, January 9 – February 10, 2007
2006
New York, Mary Boone Gallery, View (Eleven): Upstate, October 5 – 28, 2006
Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian, August 11 – November 19, 2006
Brussels, Belgium, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Collection 2005/06, April 21 – May 27, 2006
Aspen, CO, Aspen Art Museum, Having New Eyes, Februry 7 – April 16, 2006
2005
Marfa, TX, The Ballroom, You Are Here, August 8, 2005 – February 27, 2006
New York, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Sticks and Stones, June 28 – August 12, 2005
New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Bridge Freezes Before Road, June 23 –
August 19, 2005
New York, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, Delicate Demons and Heavenly Delights, June 10 – July 29, 2005
Queens, NY, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Greater New York 2005, March 13 – September 26, 2005
2004
New York, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Cable Twentieth Anniversary Show, September 10 – October 16, 2004
New York, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Some Exhaust, August 13 – September 25, 2004
Los Angeles, Sister, Bungle in the Jungle, August 7 – September 4, 2004
New York, Feigen Contemporary, Relentless Proselytizersm, July 1 – August 14, 2004
Brooklyn, NY, Jessica Murray Projects, Grotto 2, June 25 – August 1, 2004
2003
New Haven, CT, John Slade Ely House - Center for Contemporary Art, Crosstown Traffic
Los Angeles, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, 2003 Wight Biennial, October 10 – November 7, 2003
Miami, FL, Ambrosino Gallery, Gilligan's Island
2002
Brooklyn, NY, Weather Records, New Homes for America (Under Construction)
Brooklyn, NY, Bellwether Gallery, Block Party Benefit
2000
Brooklyn, NY, Bellwether Gallery, Flat File
Brooklyn, NY, Bellwether Gallery, Block Party Benefit
1999
Brooklyn, NY, GV/AS, First Inaugural Show
New York, Postmasters, War: Artists' Bulletin Board
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Lanctot, Nicole. "Previews Denver: Adam Helms," ArtForum, May 2008
Hou, Christian. "All Quiet on the Western Front," NY Arts Magazine, Jan-Feb 2008
Zellen, Jody. "Adam Helms," ArtUS, Issue 21, March 2008
2007
Bryant, Eric. "Paint it Bleak," ARTnews, December, 2007, illus. 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 2007, pp. 28-31
Sholis, Brian. "Adam Helms," Artforum, November 2007, pp. 364-365
Rosenberg, Karen. "Adam Helms," The New York Times, September 21, 2007
"Adam Helms," Time Out New York, September 6-12, 2007, p. 132.
Genocchio, Benjamin, "The Week Ahead: September 2-8," The New York Times, September 2, 2007
"Adam Helms Exhibition to Open in New York," Artdaily.org, August 18, 2007, http://artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21402&b=helms
Knight, Christopher. "A room of glorious doom," Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2007
Cole, Lori. "Omission," Artforum.com. February 2007, http://artforum.com/picks/section=nyc#picks12719
Nickas, Bob. "First Take: Bob Nickas on Adam Helms," ArtForum, January, 2007, pp. 210-211
2006
Miller, Sara Nicole. "Warfare in the Suburbs," The Minnesota Daily, August 9, 2006
2005
Bae, James. "You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa," Artlies, Fall, 2005, pp. 106-107
Dailey, Meghan. "Contemporary Drawings," Art + Auction, November, 2005
Bollen, Christopher. "Finely Drawn," Vman, Fall/Winter, 2005
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, 2005
Heartney, Eleanor. "Report from New York 1 – Return to the Real?," Art in America, June/July, 2005
Rosenberg, Karen. "Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough." New York Magazine, March 7, 2005
Anathema Magazine, 2005
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, 2004
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
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY