Adam Helms

BIOGRAPHY
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ADAM HELMS
1974 Born in  Tucson, AZ 
  Lives and works in New York 
   
Training  
2004 MFA, Yale University, School of Art
1997 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
   
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Adam Helms: Blind Lion, , Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 Without Name, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2009 Under Western Eyes, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Adam Helms, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
2007 Adam Helms: Untitled Portrait, World Class Boxing, Miami
  Hinterland,  Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
  Rising Down, Sister, Los Angeles
2005 Brother’s Keeper, Sister, Los Angeles
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2011 NY: New Perspectives, with the contribution of Linda Yablonsky, Brand New Gallery, Milan
  Installation of works by Gallery Artists, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
  Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  Printer’s Proof, Axelle I Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
  Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, Performance, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
2010 A.D.D. Attention Deficit Disorder, Center of Contemporary Art at Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, Italy
  Mystic Visage, World Class Boxing, , curated by Desiree Cronk, Miami
  Natural Renditions,, Marlborough Gallery, New York
  Haunted: Contemporary, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, Traveled to Bilbao, Spain
  Made in Tucson/Born in Tucson/Live in Tucson , Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ
  Skin Fruit, The Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2009 Evading Customs, Brown Gallery, London
  Mirror Me, Dispatch, New York
2008 Beyond a Memorably Fancy: An exhibition about printmaking, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
  Untraceable, Feldman Gallery, PNCA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
  Warlord, Smith-Stewart, New York
2007 Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, White Columns, New York
  Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, curated by Robert, Ballroom Marfa, Nickas,Marfa, TX
  Welcome to My World, curated by Amy Davila and Matthew Day Jackson, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London
  Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Kunsthalle and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
  Last Attraction Next Exit, curated by Neville Wakefield, Max Wigram Gallery, London
  Phantasmania, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  Just Kick it Till it Breaks, The Kitchen, New York
  (the) Melvins @ (the) Mandrake, Mandrake, Los Angeles
  Omission, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
2006 View (Eleven): Upstate, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
  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,Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
  Sticks and Stones, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
  Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
  Delicate Demons and Heavenly Delights, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York
  Greater New York 2005, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
2004 Cable Twentieth Anniversary Show, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
  Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
  Bungle in the Jungle, Sister, Los Angeles
  Relentless Proselytizers, Feigen Contemporary, New York
  Grotto 2, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Crosstown Traffic,John Slade Ely House - Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
  UCLA, 2003 Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
  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,Brooklyn, GV/AS, NY
  War: Artists’ Bulletin Board,Postmasters, New York 
   
Awards  
2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
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