Terry Adkins
Born in Washington, D.C., 1953
Died in New York NY, 2014
Education
M.F.A., University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, 1979
M.S., Illinois State University, Normal IL, 1977
B.S., Fisk University, Nashville TN, 1975
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Terry Adkins: Disclosure, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Zürich, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
2022
Terry Adkins, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
2020
Terry Adkins: Resounding, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis MO
Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar, Frist Art Museum, Nashville TN
2019
Terry Adkins: Native Son (Circus), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis TN
2018
Terry Adkins: Infinity Is Always Less Than One, ICA Miami, Miami FL
Terry Adkins: The Smooth, The Cut and The Assembled, Lévy Gorvy, New York NY
2017
Projects 107: Lone Wolf Receitals Corps, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Terry Adkins: Solitude, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2016
Soldier, Shepherd, Prophet, Martyr: Videos from 1998-2013, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal IL
2013
Nenuphar, Salon 94 Bowery and Salon 94 Freemans, New York NY
Recital, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
2012
Recital, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga NY
The Principalities, Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg
2010
Riddle of the Sphinx, Amistad Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2009
Meteor Stream, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2008
Songs of Hearth and Valor, Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse NY
2007
Belted Bronze, Pageant Soloveev, Philadelphia PA
2005
Black Beethoven, Wheaton College, Norton, MA; travelled to: Bronx River Art Center, Bronx NY
2004
Black Beethoven, Pageant Soloveev, Philadelphia PA
2003
Towering Steep, Friede-Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Sanctuary, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia PA
Darkwater, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Facets, PPOW Gallery, New York NY
2001
Deeper Still, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville FL
Songs of New Heaven (New Earth), Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville TN
Greater Deeps, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
Altar Encore, Zora Neale Hurston Museum of American Art, Eatonville FL
2000
Afterflame, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA; John Brown House, Akron OH
Wild Ashes Mute, Finesilver, San Antonio TX
Powre Above Powres-Passing Freedom, Saratoga Arts Council, Saratoga Springs NY
1999
Firmament RHA Relay Hymn, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA
Deeper Heart, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL
Afterflame, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; travelled to: Krannert Art Museum IL; I-Space, Chicago IL
Powre Above Powres-Passing Freedom, Union College, Schenectady NY
Invisible (Slight Return) Watermark Cargo Gallery, Kingston NY
1998
Later Coltrane, Hamilton College Emerson Gallery, Clinton NY
Muffled Drums, PPOW Gallery, New York NY
Afterflame, University of Akron, Meyers School of Art, Akron, OH Distant Mirrors, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ
1997
Guarded Table, Watermark Cargo Gallery, Kingston NY
Temporary Hours (Jean Toomer), The Sculpture Center, New York NY
Seamless Robe, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT1995-6
Firmament RHA, Whitney Museum of American Art at PM, New York NY
Visionary Recital, Hammonds House, Atlanta GA
1993
Maroon, LedisFlam Gallery, New York NY
Parameters, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk VA
Anthem, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro NC
1992
Perpetual Choir, LedisFlam Gallery, New York NY
1991
Call/Response, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond VA
1990
Inside/Out, Valencia Community College, Orlando FL
Enframe, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami FL
Dyad, LedisFlam Gallery, New York NY
1989
New Ghosts, Galerie Andy Jullien, Zurich, Switzerland
Hammer Ring, Liz Harris Gallery, Boston MA
1987
Hannibal, Galerie Emmerich-Baumann, Zurich, Switzerland
1986
The Sihl, Projekt Binz 39, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2024
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Tabula Rasa, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Spirit in the Land, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami FL
2023
Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner – Spirit Movers, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
I've Seen The Wall: Louis Armstrong on Tour in the GDR 1965, Das Minsk Kunsthaus, Potsdam, Germany
All Hearts Beneath the Sun, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal IL
Eugenics in the Garden, organized by Christopher Scott & Cody Fitzsimmons, Tureen, Dallas TX
Columbia University Triennial, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY
Sonic Presence (or Absence): Sound in Contemporary Art, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA
Terry Adkins, Mattias Faldbakken, Veronica Ryan: [Re] Purpose, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
2022
Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print, International Print Center New York, New York NY
Mettere al mondo il mondo, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2021
Cascadence, Altman Siegel, San Francisco CA
American Verses: Terry Adkins, Mark Bradford and Kerry James Marshall, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria IL
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, conceived by Okwui Enwezor, New Museum, New York NY
Otherwise/Revival, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles CA
Promise, Witness, Remembrance, Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
2020
Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
2019
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; travelling to: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI; Smith College Museum of Art Northmanpton, MA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Not But Nothing Other: African-American Portrayals, 1930s to Today, Binghamton Art Museum, Binghamton NY
Experimenting with Materiality: Terry Adkins, Sonia Gomes, Senga Nengudi, Carol Rama, Lévy Gorvy, Zürich, Switzerland
Black Artists Retreat 2019: Sonic Imagination, Theaster Gates, Park Avenue Armory, New York NY
Louder than Words, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw GA
2018
Sculptures, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY
Lord Duveen, My Pictures Never Look So Marvellous As When You Are Here, Lévy Gorvy, London, England
Wiggle, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
A Brand New Darkness: Various Artists, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
A Cris Ouverts, Rennes Biennial, Rennes, France
2017
Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME
Resonant Spaces: Sound Art at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover NH
Pilchuck Prints, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville KY
2016
Field Studies, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn NY
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Après Beethoven, Musée de la Musique, Paris, France
2015
All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
Human Ecology 101, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York NY
I Like It Like This, S2 x Drake, Sotheby's, New York NY
Under Color of Law, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville PA
Nero su Bianco, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Color Fields, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, MassArt, Boston MA
Immersed, organized by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio TX
2014
Prospect New Orleans: Prospect.3: Notes for Now (P.3), New Orleans LA
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Art or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
2013
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
Art Stage Singapore 2013, Zidoun Gallery, Singapore
2012
Intense Proximity, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
Radical Presence, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston TX
Clifford Owens: Anthology, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
True North, The Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Alpha’s Bet Isn’t Over Yet, The New Museum, New York NY
Magical Visions, University of Delaware Museums, Wilmington DE
2010
The Crude and the Rare, The Cooper Union, New York NY
Artist & Artifact, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Time Equals Distance Over Speed or Nothing, Pageant Soloveev, Philadelphia PA
The Vagabond Can’t Draw - Spazi Aperti, Accademia di Romania In Roma, Rome, Italy Accademia delle Accademie, Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
2009
Sound: Print: Record, University of Delaware Museums, Wilmington DE
2008
Neo-Hoodoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, Menil Collection, Houston, TX; MoMA PS1, Queens NY
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Renaissance Society, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit IL
Thunderbolt Special – The Great Electric Show and Dance, Project Row Houses, Houston TX
Nightwatch Research Project, The Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, Belgium
2007
Ensemble, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Spectral Evidence, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2006
Paper Trail, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Shoebox Sculpture 9, University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI
2005
Inventors, Movers and Makers, Museum Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Double Consciousness - Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston TX
2004
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
2002
Time/Frame, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX
2001
Mind Fields, Wake Forest University Gallery, Winston-Salem NC
Red, Black and Green, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
2000
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, Miami Art Museum, Miami FL
1999
Narratives of Art & identity, De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco CA
Selected Works from The Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
1998
Postcards from Black America, De Beyerd Museum; Frans Hals Museum, The Netherlands
Interpreting, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
May Day – The Rights of Spring, PPOW Gallery, New York NY
African American Art, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ
1997
Seeing Jazz, International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Material Dialogues, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ
1996
Other Bloods, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; The Painted Bride, Philadelphia PA
1995
Required Nuance, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
Other Bloods, Museum Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Material Matters, The Anchorage, Brooklyn NY
It’s Only Rock & Roll, The Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix AZ
Minumentals, Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston NY
1994
Western Artists/African Art, The Museum for African Art, New York NY
The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH
...It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art, New York NY
Points of Interest/Points of Departure, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
1993
Edward Albee’s Other Eye, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville NY
In the Ring, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island NY
1992
Egyptomania, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville NY
The Endowed Chair, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York NY
Southern Black Aesthetic, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
Present Tense, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI
1991
Cadences: Icon and Abstraction in Context, The New Museum, New York NY
New Generations: New York, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
Dommenikos Theotokopoulos: A Dialogue, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York NY
1990
The Blues Aesthetic, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
Taking Shape, The Memorial Arch, Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY
From Earth to Archetype, LedisFlam, New York NY
1989
Selections, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA
Object Makers, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC
Pillar to Post, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York NY
1987
Espirit, Salama-caro Gallery, London, England
ArtBasel 87, Galerie Emmerich Baumann, Basel, Switzerland
Kulturhaus Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
Sihlquai Kunsler, Projekt Binz 39, Zurich, Switzerland
1986
In the Tropics, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx NY
Soundwave NYC, City Gallery NY
1984
Studio Artists, P.S.1 Institute for Art & Urban Resources, The Clocktower, New York NY
From the Studio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
African American Artists, The High Museum, Atlanta, GADarkness, William Paterson College, Wayne NJ
1983
Juss’ Jazz, Kenkeleba House, New York NY
1980
Dimensions & Directions, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS
Alternatives by Black Artists, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
Three Views, Hardart Gallery, Washington DC
Selected Performance Recitals
2013
Postlude (Corpus Specere) & At Osiris, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
Liquid Gardens, Regenstein Recital Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
2012
Facets, Arthur Zankel Music Center, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY
Last Trumpet, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2011
The Portent, Amistad Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Paradiso XXVII, Romanian Academy in Rome, Italy
2009
Hiving Bee, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Freedom Suite, New Museum, New York, NY
Invocation for Bessie Smith, P.S. 1 MOMA, Queens, NY
2008
Thunderbolt Special, Eldorado Ballroom, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Songs of Hearth and Valor, Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2005
Solemnis, Wheaton College, Beard Gallery, Norton, MA
2004
Pinewood Air, Pageant, Philadelphia, PA
2003
Recovery Blues, Faulkner Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Titan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2001
The Still, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Voodoo, Zora Neale Hurston Museum of American Art, Eatonville, FL
Solid Clouds, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2000
Facets, The New World Symphony of Miami, Miami, FL
Testament, Summit County Historical Society, John Brown House, Akron, OH
1999
Azure, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Taperlight, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1998
Ohnedaruth, John Coltrane Song Cycle, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
1997
Temporary Hours, Jean Toomer Song Cycle, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1996
Last Trumpet, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
De Jacht Zwarte Piet, Museum Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1991
Telefonia, Hall of Science, New York, NY
1990
Lithium AZ, Rigiblick Theatre, Zurich
1988
Alto Age, The Institute for Contemporary Art, London
1987
Mirliton, Kulturzentrum Rote Fabrik, Zurich
1985
Trance, P.S. 1, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, New York, NY
1983
New Music America Festival (with Harmolodica), Washington, D.C.
1982
Churinga, University of Cincinnati, School of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH
1981
Fault, (with Sherman Fleming) Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C
Public Collections
Art Bridges Foundation, Bentonville AR
Centre for Curatorial Studies & Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk VA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Glenstone Museum, Potomac MD
High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX
Julius Baer Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
Pérez Art Museum, Miami FL
Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark NJ
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence KS
Studio Museum Harlem, New York NY
Syracuse University Museum of Art, Syracuse NY
Tate Collection, London, England
Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
The New School, New York NY
The University of Texas, Austin TX
University Art Collection, New School, New York NY
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Grants and Awards
2014
Monument Lab, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (grant and site specific installation in the City Hall Courtyard) Philadelphia, PA
2009
Jesse Howard, Jr. / Jacob H. Lazarus – Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
2008
United States Artists James Baldwin Fellow
1997
Perspectives in African-American Art Award, Seagram Americas, New York, NY
1995
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, New York, NY
1994
Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
1989
SECCA 7 Fellowship, Winston-Salem, NC
1986
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
