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'''Dennis Adams''' (born 1948) is an American artist. He has made urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture.
'''Dennis Adams''' (born 1948) is an American artist. He has made urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents in [[photography]], [[Film|cinema]], [[public space]] and [[architecture]].


==About==
==About==
Adams was born Des Moines, [[Iowa]]. Through his urban interventions and museum installations, Adams has focused on the conception of photography as a medium that has crucially transformed the representation of history as a primary means for the open reconstruction of imagery resonating within the realm of social context. His first decade of activity is best documented in the monograph entitled ''Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia''(1989). Beginning in 1998, Adams began to explore the medium of video and social engagement with projects such as ''OUTTAKE'' (1999), ''Makedown'' (2004), Spill (2009) and most recently ''Malraux's Shoes'' (2012).<ref name="kentfineart">"[http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/dennis-adams]". [[Kent Fine Art]].</ref>
Adams was born in [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]], [[Iowa]]. Through his urban interventions and museum installations, Adams has focused on the conception of photography as a medium that has crucially transformed the representation of history as a primary means for the open reconstruction of imagery resonating within the realm of social context. His first decade of activity is best documented in the [[monograph]] entitled ''Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia'' (1989). Beginning in 1998, Adams began to explore the medium of video and social engagement with projects such as ''OUTTAKE'' (1999), ''Makedown'' (2004), Spill (2009) and most recently ''Malraux's Shoes'' (2012).<ref name="kentfineart">"[http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/dennis-adams] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027183537/http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/dennis-adams|date=October 27, 2017}}". [[Kent Fine Art]].</ref>


==Work==
==Work==
Adams is a visual artist that has produced inversions of street architecture, urban interventions, performance videos, and works of art that form a discourse with historical and sociopolitical undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture. Since 1980, he has realized over fifty urban projects in cities worldwide from Antwerp to Zagreb. His work has been the subject of over seventy-five solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MHKA, Antwerp; The Kitchen, New York; DeAppel Foundation, Amsterdam; The Barcelona Pavilion, Fundacio Mies Van Der Rohe, Barcelona; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Portikus, Frankfurt; The Queens Museum of Art, New York. Numerous works can be viewed in public collections in the United States, France, Spain, Germany and Belgium.
Adams is a visual artist that has produced inversions of street architecture, [[Urban Interventionism|urban interventions]], performance videos, and works of art that form a discourse with historical and [[Political sociology|sociopolitical]] undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture. Since 1980, he has realized over fifty urban projects in cities worldwide from [[Antwerp]] to [[Zagreb]]. His work has been the subject of over seventy-five solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe including: The [[Museum of Modern Art|Museum of Modern Art, New York]]; [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp|MHKA, Antwerp]]; [[The Kitchen (performance venue)|The Kitchen, New York]]; [[De Appel|De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam]]; The Barcelona Pavilion, Fundacio Mies Van Der Rohe, Barcelona; [[Contemporary Arts Museum Houston|Contemporary Art Museum, Houston]]; [[Portikus|Portikus, Frankfurt]]; and [[Queens Museum|The Queens Museum of Art, New York]]. Numerous works can be viewed in public collections in the United States, France, Spain, Germany and Belgium.


Adams has produced site-specific interventions, often in highly visible locations such as bus shelters, and urban public settings that focus on the phenomenon of collective amnesia in the late twentieth century. A survey of ten years of site-specific works was published in a monograph entitled ''Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia'' (1989) written by Maryanne Staniszewski. The publication was followed by two mid-career surveys organized by the [[Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen]] and the [[Contemporary Art Museum of Houston]]. Following the events of September 11 near his Tribeca studio, Adams created a poetic series of fourteen Ektachrome photographs portraying the detritus filled sky over lower Manhattan. The series was entitled ''AIRBORNE''' which after being shown in New York in 2002 was subsequently featured in the Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal) 2003 and PhotoEspana (Madrid) 2004.
Adams has produced site-specific interventions, often in highly visible locations such as bus shelters, and urban public settings that focus on the phenomenon of [[Social amnesia|collective amnesia]] in the late twentieth century. A survey of ten years of site-specific works was published in a monograph entitled ''Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia'' (1989) written by Maryanne Staniszewski. The publication was followed by two mid-career surveys organized by the [[Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen]] and the [[Contemporary Arts Museum Houston|Contemporary Art Museum of Houston]]. Following the events of September 11 near his [[Tribeca]] studio, Adams created a poetic series of fourteen [[Ektachrome]] photographs portraying the detritus filled sky over lower Manhattan. The series was entitled ''AIRBORNE''' which after being shown in New York in 2002 was subsequently featured in the Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal) 2003 and PhotoEspana (Madrid) 2004.


Beginning in 1998 and continuing today, Adams began to explore the possibilities of video with his ''OUTTAKE'', exhibited in Bremen, Berlin and with Kent in New York. Adams presented a 17:23-second segment (416 film stills) from ''Bambule'', a 1969 un-broadcast German documentary on delinquent girls directed by [[Ulrike Meinhof]]. These photographic stills were re-recorded as they were distributed in the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin, as "handbills," or "flyers," associated with political propaganda and advertising. Adams continued realizing a number of single channel videos including "Takedown", "Spill", "Curtain Call", "Black Belmondo" and prominently a performative installation entitled '''MAKE DOWN'' (2005). Here, Adams addresses the complexity of layers of representation contained in one except from ''[[The Battle of Algiers]]'', particularly in the context of the ongoing transformations of the historical conflict between Islamic and Western cultures. Instead of presuming to unravel these meanings, Adams chooses instead to locate himself between the frames of the image in a re-enactment of the process of disguise.
Beginning in 1998 and continuing today, Adams began to explore the possibilities of video with his ''OUTTAKE'', exhibited in Bremen, Berlin and with Kent in New York. Adams presented a 17:23-second segment (416 film stills) from ''Bambule'', a 1969 un-broadcast German documentary on delinquent girls directed by [[Ulrike Meinhof]]. These photographic stills were re-recorded as they were distributed in the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin, as "handbills," or "flyers," associated with political propaganda and advertising. Adams continued realizing a number of single channel videos including "Takedown", "Spill", "Curtain Call", "Black Belmondo" and prominently a performative installation entitled '''MAKE DOWN'' (2005). Here, Adams addresses the complexity of layers of representation contained in one except from ''[[The Battle of Algiers]]'', particularly in the context of the ongoing transformations of the historical conflict between Islamic and Western cultures. Instead of presuming to unravel these meanings, Adams chooses instead to locate himself between the frames of the image in a re-enactment of the process of disguise.


Adams has been a faculty member or Visiting Professor at numerous institutions including: Parsons School of Design, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, and the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program in the School of Architecture at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He currently lectures at Cooper Union, New York.
Adams has been a faculty member or Visiting Professor at numerous institutions including the [[Parsons School of Design]]; École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; and the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program in the School of Architecture at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. He currently lectures at Cooper Union, New York.


==Artist books==
==Artist books==
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*1988 Solo Exhibit, [[De Appel]] Foundation, Amsterdam
*1988 Solo Exhibit, [[De Appel]] Foundation, Amsterdam
*1988 "Bezugspunkte 38/88", Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
*1988 "Bezugspunkte 38/88", Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
*1989 "[[Magiciens de la terre]]", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris<ref>http://cooper.edu/art/faculty/dennis-adams/</ref>
*1989 "[[Magiciens de la terre]]", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cooper.edu/art/faculty/dennis-adams/ |title=Dennis Adams » the Cooper Union |access-date=July 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012181142/http://cooper.edu/art/faculty/dennis-adams |archive-date=October 12, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*1989 "Image World: Art and Media Culture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
*1989 "Image World: Art and Media Culture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
*1989 "Images Critiques: Adams, Jaar, Jammes, Wall", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
*1989 "Images Critiques: Adams, Jaar, Jammes, Wall", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
*1989 "Tenir l'image à distance", Musée D'art Contemporain, Montréal
*1989 "Tenir l'image à distance", Musée D'art Contemporain, Montréal
*1990 ''Architecture of Amnesia'', [[Kent Fine Art]], New York
*1990 ''Architecture of Amnesia'', [[Kent Fine Art]], New York
*1990 "WORKS: Dennis Adams", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.<ref>http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/images_adams_1/details_0408_05.pdf</ref>
*1990 "WORKS: Dennis Adams", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/images_adams_1/details_0408_05.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402155657/http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/images_adams_1/details_0408_05.pdf |archive-date=April 2, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*1990 "Passages de l'image", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
*1990 "Passages de l'image", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
*1990 "Rhetorical Image", [[The New Museum]], New York
*1990 "Rhetorical Image", [[The New Museum]], New York
*1990 "The Ready Made Boomerang", Sydney Biennale, Australia
*1990 "The Ready Made Boomerang", Sydney Biennale, Australia
*1991 "Road to Victory", PROJECT Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York<ref>http://www.moma.org/docs/press_archives/6878/releases/MOMA_1991_0007_7.pdf?2010</ref>
*1991 "Road to Victory", PROJECT Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York<ref>{{Cite web |title=Releases |url=http://www.moma.org/docs/press_archives/6878/releases/MOMA_1991_0007_7.pdf?2010 |website=www.moma.org}}</ref>
*1991 "The Solar Anus", Musée Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France.
*1991 "The Solar Anus", Musée Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France.
*1992 "Post Human", FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; traveled to: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Post_human.html?id=bKFPAAAAMAAJ|title=Post human|first1=Jeffrey|last1=Deitch|first2=Dan|last2=Friedman|first3=FAE musée d'art|last3=contemporain|date=March 24, 1992|publisher=FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain|accessdate=March 24, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*1992 "Post Human", FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; traveled to: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bKFPAAAAMAAJ|title=Post human|first1=Jeffrey|last1=Deitch|first2=Dan|last2=Friedman|first3=FAE musée d'art|last3=contemporain|date=March 24, 1992|publisher=FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain|isbn=9780963303707|accessdate=March 24, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*1993 "Der Müll, ( ) Unde Der Tod", [[Portikus]], Frankfurt am Main
*1993 "Der Müll, ( ) Unde Der Tod", [[Portikus]], Frankfurt am Main
*1994 "Selling History" (retrospective), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
*1994 "Selling History" (retrospective), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
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*2004 "Ambulates/Cultura Portátil: Actitudes y Prototipos en el Espacio público", Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo of Sevilla, Spain
*2004 "Ambulates/Cultura Portátil: Actitudes y Prototipos en el Espacio público", Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo of Sevilla, Spain
*2004 "Freeload", Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.me.com/markusbaumgartner/Studios/Freeload.html|title=iCloud.com|website=web.me.com|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2004 "Freeload", Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.me.com/markusbaumgartner/Studios/Freeload.html|title=iCloud.com|website=web.me.com|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2005 "Make Down", Kent Fine Art, New York City<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/arts/art-in-review-dennis-adams.html|title=Art in Review; Dennis Adams|first=Ken|last=Johnson|date=September 16, 2005|publisher=|accessdate=March 24, 2018|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
*2005 "Make Down", Kent Fine Art, New York City<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/arts/art-in-review-dennis-adams.html|title=Art in Review; Dennis Adams|first=Ken|last=Johnson|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 16, 2005|publisher=|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2005 "Regarding Terror: The RAF- Exhibition", Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
*2005 "Regarding Terror: The RAF- Exhibition", Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
*2007 "Filles rebelles". Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
*2007 "Filles rebelles". Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
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*2008 "Revolutions 1968", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
*2008 "Revolutions 1968", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
*2008 ''Double Feature'', [[Kent Fine Art]], New York
*2008 ''Double Feature'', [[Kent Fine Art]], New York
*2009 "Evento 2009: Collective Intimacy", Bordeaux, France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bordeaux.fr/ebx/ShowBinary/BEA+Repository/flip/fr/groupePiecesJointes/1486/39/pieceJointeSpec/71120/file/evento_dp_sept09_UK.pdf|title=- Bordeaux|website=Site officiel de la ville de Bordeaux|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2009 "Evento 2009: Collective Intimacy", Bordeaux, France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bordeaux.fr/ebx/ShowBinary/BEA+Repository/flip/fr/groupePiecesJointes/1486/39/pieceJointeSpec/71120/file/evento_dp_sept09_UK.pdf|title=- Bordeaux|website=Site officiel de la ville de Bordeaux|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*2009 "Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the Colonial City", The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles<ref>http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/algiers/algiers_brochure.pdf</ref>
*2009 "Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the Colonial City", The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles<ref>{{Cite web |title=Algiers Brochure |url=http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/algiers/algiers_brochure.pdf |website=www.getty.edu}}</ref>
*2010 "How Wine Became Modern", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/406|title=How Wine Became Modern|website=SFMOMA|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2010 "How Wine Became Modern", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/406|title=How Wine Became Modern|website=SFMOMA|accessdate=March 24, 2018|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423144033/https://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/406|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2010 "La Memoria del Otro"; Museo Internacional de Chile, traveled to Centro de Arte Contempráneo Wifredo Lam, Havana<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museointernacionaldechile.cl/blog/2010/04/18/la-memoria-del-otro/|title=La memoria del OTRO - Museo Internacional de Chile|website=www.museointernacionaldechile.cl|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2010 "La Memoria del Otro"; Museo Internacional de Chile, traveled to Centro de Arte Contempráneo Wifredo Lam, Havana<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museointernacionaldechile.cl/blog/2010/04/18/la-memoria-del-otro/|title=La memoria del OTRO - Museo Internacional de Chile|website=www.museointernacionaldechile.cl|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2011 "Uncanny Familiarity: Images of Terror", [[C/O Berlin]]<ref>http://www.co-berlin.info/program/exhibitions/2011/the-uncanny-familiar--images-of-terror.html</ref>
*2011 "Uncanny Familiarity: Images of Terror", [[C/O Berlin]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.co-berlin.info/program/exhibitions/2011/the-uncanny-familiar--images-of-terror.html |title=Photoexhibition Berlin 2011 . The Uncanny Familiar . Images of Terror |access-date=September 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924083841/http://www.co-berlin.info/program/exhibitions/2011/the-uncanny-familiar--images-of-terror.html |archive-date=September 24, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*2012 "Malraux's Shoes", [[Kent Fine Art]], New York<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentfineart.net/exhibitions/dennis-adams|title=Dennis Adams: Malraux's Shoes at Kent Fine Art|publisher=|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*2012 "Malraux's Shoes", [[Kent Fine Art]], New York<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentfineart.net/exhibitions/dennis-adams|title=Dennis Adams: Malraux's Shoes at Kent Fine Art|publisher=|accessdate=March 24, 2018|archive-date=September 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920011337/http://www.kentfineart.net/exhibitions/dennis-adams|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2015 "Looking Back / The 9the White Columns Annual", [[White Columns]], New York
*2015 "Looking Back / The 9the White Columns Annual", [[White Columns]], New York


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
===Written by Adams===
===By Adams===
*Adams, Dennis. "Questionnaire." Zone 1–2, 1986, pp.&nbsp;423, 455.
*"Questionnaire." Zone 1–2, 1986, pp.&nbsp;423, 455.
*Adams, Dennis. "Sky Writing." Historias: VII Edición del Festival Internacional de Fotografia y Artes Visuales PhotoEspaña. Catalogue. Madrid: 2004, pp.&nbsp;63–66, 168–170.
*"Sky Writing." Historias: VII Edición del Festival Internacional de Fotografia y Artes Visuales PhotoEspaña. Catalogue. Madrid: 2004, pp.&nbsp;63–66, 168–170.
*Adams, Dennis. "Double Feature." New York: [[Kent Fine Art]], 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentfineart.net/publications|title=Shop|website=Kent Fine Art|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
*"Double Feature." New York: [[Kent Fine Art]], 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentfineart.net/publications|title=Shop|website=Kent Fine Art|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>


===Written about Adams===
===On Adams===
====Catalogs====
*"The Architecture of Amnesia". New York: [[Kent Fine Art]], 1990. Essay by Mary Anne Staniszewski. (catalog)
*"The Architecture of Amnesia". New York: [[Kent Fine Art]], 1990. Essay by Mary Anne Staniszewski.
*"Port of View". Marseille: L'observatoire, 1992. (catalog).
*"Port of View" (catalog) Marseille: L'observatoire, 1992.
*"Dennis Adams". Pamplona: Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, 2004. (catalog)
*"Dennis Adams". Pamplona: Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, 2004.
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*"Double Feature". New York: Kent Gallery. 2008. (artist book)

====Artist's book====
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*"Double Feature". New York: Kent Gallery. 2008.


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Artists from Des Moines, Iowa]]
[[Category:Artists from Des Moines, Iowa]]
[[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty]]
[[Category:MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty]]
[[Category:Cooper Union faculty]]
[[Category:Cooper Union faculty]]

Latest revision as of 03:56, 18 June 2024

For the South African boxer of the 1950s and '60s, see Dennis Adams (boxer).

Dennis Adams
Dennis Adams, Malraux's Shoes, 2012
Born
Dennis Adams

1948
Iowa, United States
Known forPhotography, public sculpture, installation, film

Dennis Adams (born 1948) is an American artist. He has made urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture.

About

[edit]

Adams was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Through his urban interventions and museum installations, Adams has focused on the conception of photography as a medium that has crucially transformed the representation of history as a primary means for the open reconstruction of imagery resonating within the realm of social context. His first decade of activity is best documented in the monograph entitled Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia (1989). Beginning in 1998, Adams began to explore the medium of video and social engagement with projects such as OUTTAKE (1999), Makedown (2004), Spill (2009) and most recently Malraux's Shoes (2012).[1]

Work

[edit]

Adams is a visual artist that has produced inversions of street architecture, urban interventions, performance videos, and works of art that form a discourse with historical and sociopolitical undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture. Since 1980, he has realized over fifty urban projects in cities worldwide from Antwerp to Zagreb. His work has been the subject of over seventy-five solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MHKA, Antwerp; The Kitchen, New York; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam; The Barcelona Pavilion, Fundacio Mies Van Der Rohe, Barcelona; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Portikus, Frankfurt; and The Queens Museum of Art, New York. Numerous works can be viewed in public collections in the United States, France, Spain, Germany and Belgium.

Adams has produced site-specific interventions, often in highly visible locations such as bus shelters, and urban public settings that focus on the phenomenon of collective amnesia in the late twentieth century. A survey of ten years of site-specific works was published in a monograph entitled Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia (1989) written by Maryanne Staniszewski. The publication was followed by two mid-career surveys organized by the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston. Following the events of September 11 near his Tribeca studio, Adams created a poetic series of fourteen Ektachrome photographs portraying the detritus filled sky over lower Manhattan. The series was entitled AIRBORNE' which after being shown in New York in 2002 was subsequently featured in the Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal) 2003 and PhotoEspana (Madrid) 2004.

Beginning in 1998 and continuing today, Adams began to explore the possibilities of video with his OUTTAKE, exhibited in Bremen, Berlin and with Kent in New York. Adams presented a 17:23-second segment (416 film stills) from Bambule, a 1969 un-broadcast German documentary on delinquent girls directed by Ulrike Meinhof. These photographic stills were re-recorded as they were distributed in the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin, as "handbills," or "flyers," associated with political propaganda and advertising. Adams continued realizing a number of single channel videos including "Takedown", "Spill", "Curtain Call", "Black Belmondo" and prominently a performative installation entitled 'MAKE DOWN (2005). Here, Adams addresses the complexity of layers of representation contained in one except from The Battle of Algiers, particularly in the context of the ongoing transformations of the historical conflict between Islamic and Western cultures. Instead of presuming to unravel these meanings, Adams chooses instead to locate himself between the frames of the image in a re-enactment of the process of disguise.

Adams has been a faculty member or Visiting Professor at numerous institutions including the Parsons School of Design; École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; and the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program in the School of Architecture at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He currently lectures at Cooper Union, New York.

Artist books

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  • Adams, Dennis, and Mary A. Staniszewski. The Architecture of Amnesia. New York, N.Y: Kent Fine Art, 1990.[2]
  • Adams, Dennis. Dennis Adams: Double Feature. New York, N.Y: Kent Fine Art, 2008.[3]
  • Recovered 10 on 10 – Adams on Garanger, produced and published in 1993 by Les Maîtres de Forme Contemporains (mfc-michèle didier), Bruxelles. Limited edition of 6 numbered and signed copies and 3 artist's proofs. Voir mfc

Exhibitions

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  • 1984 Solo Exhibit, the Kitchen, New York
  • 1987 "Skulptur Projekte Münster", Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
  • 1987 "Building Against Image" (retrospective), The Alternative Museum, New York
  • 1988 Solo Exhibit, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
  • 1988 "Bezugspunkte 38/88", Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
  • 1989 "Magiciens de la terre", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris[4]
  • 1989 "Image World: Art and Media Culture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • 1989 "Images Critiques: Adams, Jaar, Jammes, Wall", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
  • 1989 "Tenir l'image à distance", Musée D'art Contemporain, Montréal
  • 1990 Architecture of Amnesia, Kent Fine Art, New York
  • 1990 "WORKS: Dennis Adams", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.[5]
  • 1990 "Passages de l'image", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • 1990 "Rhetorical Image", The New Museum, New York
  • 1990 "The Ready Made Boomerang", Sydney Biennale, Australia
  • 1991 "Road to Victory", PROJECT Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York[6]
  • 1991 "The Solar Anus", Musée Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France.
  • 1992 "Post Human", FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; traveled to: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg[7]
  • 1993 "Der Müll, ( ) Unde Der Tod", Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1994 "Selling History" (retrospective), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • 1994 "Transactions" (retrospective), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
  • 1995 "Light Constructions", Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1995 "10 thru 20" (solo exhibition), Stroom HCBK, The Hague
  • 1996 "Ederle", Queens Museum of Art, New York
  • 1999 "Panorama 2000", Organized by Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
  • 2001 "Hortus Conclusus", Witte de With, Rotterdam
  • 2001 Solo Exhibit, Contemporary Museum Baltimore in collaboration with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
  • 2002 "Video topiques/Tours et Retours de l'Art Vidéo", Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
  • 2003 "Warum", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 2004 "Ambulates/Cultura Portátil: Actitudes y Prototipos en el Espacio público", Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo of Sevilla, Spain
  • 2004 "Freeload", Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona[8]
  • 2005 "Make Down", Kent Fine Art, New York City[9]
  • 2005 "Regarding Terror: The RAF- Exhibition", Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 2007 "Filles rebelles". Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
  • 2008 "Blickmaschinen", Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany[10]
  • 2008 "Revolutions 1968", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
  • 2008 Double Feature, Kent Fine Art, New York
  • 2009 "Evento 2009: Collective Intimacy", Bordeaux, France[11]
  • 2009 "Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the Colonial City", The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles[12]
  • 2010 "How Wine Became Modern", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[13]
  • 2010 "La Memoria del Otro"; Museo Internacional de Chile, traveled to Centro de Arte Contempráneo Wifredo Lam, Havana[14]
  • 2011 "Uncanny Familiarity: Images of Terror", C/O Berlin[15]
  • 2012 "Malraux's Shoes", Kent Fine Art, New York[16]
  • 2015 "Looking Back / The 9the White Columns Annual", White Columns, New York

Bibliography

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By Adams

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  • "Questionnaire." Zone 1–2, 1986, pp. 423, 455.
  • "Sky Writing." Historias: VII Edición del Festival Internacional de Fotografia y Artes Visuales PhotoEspaña. Catalogue. Madrid: 2004, pp. 63–66, 168–170.
  • "Double Feature." New York: Kent Fine Art, 2008.[17]

On Adams

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Catalogs

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  • "The Architecture of Amnesia". New York: Kent Fine Art, 1990. Essay by Mary Anne Staniszewski.
  • "Port of View" (catalog) Marseille: L'observatoire, 1992.
  • "Dennis Adams". Pamplona: Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, 2004.

Artist's book

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  • "Double Feature". New York: Kent Gallery. 2008.

References

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  1. ^ "[1] Archived October 27, 2017, at the Wayback Machine". Kent Fine Art.
  2. ^ Adams, Dennis, and Mary A. Staniszewski. The Architecture of Amnesia. New York, N.Y: Kent Fine Art, 1990.
  3. ^ Adams, Dennis. Dennis Adams: Double Feature. New York, N.Y: Kent Fine Art, 2008.
  4. ^ "Dennis Adams » the Cooper Union". Archived from the original on October 12, 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Releases" (PDF). www.moma.org.
  7. ^ Deitch, Jeffrey; Friedman, Dan; contemporain, FAE musée d'art (March 24, 1992). Post human. FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain. ISBN 9780963303707. Retrieved March 24, 2018 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "iCloud.com". web.me.com. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  9. ^ Johnson, Ken (September 16, 2005). "Art in Review; Dennis Adams". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  10. ^ "Pillanatgépek". pillanatgepek.c3.hu. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  11. ^ "- Bordeaux" (PDF). Site officiel de la ville de Bordeaux. Retrieved March 24, 2018.[permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ "Algiers Brochure" (PDF). www.getty.edu.
  13. ^ "How Wine Became Modern". SFMOMA. Archived from the original on April 23, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  14. ^ "La memoria del OTRO - Museo Internacional de Chile". www.museointernacionaldechile.cl. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  15. ^ "Photoexhibition Berlin 2011 . The Uncanny Familiar . Images of Terror". Archived from the original on September 24, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
  16. ^ "Dennis Adams: Malraux's Shoes at Kent Fine Art". Archived from the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  17. ^ "Shop". Kent Fine Art. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
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  • [2] Artist's Archive at Kent Fine Art
  • [3] Dennis Adams: Malraux's Shoes 2012
  • [4] "Dennis Adams Video Archive 1998 - 2009"
  • [5] "Dennis Adams: Airborne 2002"
  • "dennis adams", Interview by Peter Dorshenko with Dennis Adams Journal of Contemporary Art
  • [6] Tributaries 1995 Public Commission in NYC
  • [7] Publications on Dennis Adams
  • [8] Dennis Adams Biography
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