Adam Parker Smith
Adam Parker Smith
b. 1978, California, USA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Adam Parker Smith’s practice is primarily sculptural, relating to painting, wall relief and appropriation. Following an extended conceptual project that consisted of Smith stealing his colleagues’ work, the artist turned toward a more traditional – perhaps earnest – approach to art-making. Working largely with ‘faux’ materials of all sorts, Smith creates highly composed, brightly colored sculptures and wall pieces that flirt with the surreal. Smith has exhibited work nationally and internationally, and has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, the New York Times and the New Yorker.
Education
2008
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2003
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, M.F.A. Painting
2000
University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A. Painting
Select Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2022
Crush, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Flight of Fancy, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Standing on the Moon, The Hole, New York, NY
2020
Oneiroi, McEvoy Ranch, Petaluma, CA
2019
Meanwhile, Galería Curro, Guadalajara, Mexico
2017
Kidnapping Incites Years of Murderous Doom, The Hole, New York, NY
2016
The Cut (with Eric Shaw), Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA
Oblivious the Greek, The Hole, New York, NY
2014
Indefinite Free Time (with Robert Chase Heishman), LVL3, Chicago, IL
Seriously, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Angelyne, La Montagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2012
Forever 21, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Funny Business, Nordine ZIDOUN, Luxembourg
2011
Crush, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2022
New Construction, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
NADA Miami, The Hole, Miami, FL
Art Shanghai 021, The Hole, Shanghai, China
The Armory Show, The Hole, New York, NY
Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
NADA New York, The Hole, New York, NY
Art Brussels, The Hole, Brussels, Belgium
Zona Maco, The Hole, CDMX, Mexico
2021
Phase Two, The Hole, East Hampton, NY
Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, NY
Balloon Dropping From a Ceiling Fan, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
Can’t Wait to Meet You, Primary Projects, Miami, FL
Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
NADA New York, The Hole, New York, NY
2020
Un Negocio de Afecto y Adversión (Inebriate of Air Am I), Curro Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
Vortex, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
From New York to Brussels; Los Angeles to Shanghai, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China
Second Smile, The Hole, New York, NY
Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dallas Art Fair, The Hole, Dallas, TX
Art Brussels, The Hole, Brussels, Belgium
The Armory Show, The Hole, New York, NY
2019
The Smiths, Marlborough, London, UK
Post Analog Studio, The Hole, New York, NY
Art Brussels, The Hole, Brussels, Belgium
Dallas Art Fair, The Hole, Dallas, TX
ALAC, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
Zona Maco, The Hole, Mexico City, Mexico
Carry On, The Hole, Basel, Switzerland
Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Gold Standard ” 10 Year Anniversary Exhibiton , Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco , CA
2018
EXPO Chicago, The Hole, Chicago, IL
CODE Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
ALAC, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
UNTITLED Miami, The Hole, Miami Beach, FL
Contemporary Istanbul, The Hole, Istanbul, Turkey
Uncanny Memories, Sophia Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
We Never Know How High We Are, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA
Out Of Our Closet, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
Uncanny Memories, Sophia Contemporary, London, UK
2017
ALAC, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Default, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Bargain Basement, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY (Curated)
Sugar Talk, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Objects and Everyday Goods, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Not a Photo, The Hole, New York, NY
A Rare Earth Magnet, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
BOGO, Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY
Making an Entrance, Robert Blumenthal Gallery/ LVL3, New York, NY
Colors, Louis B. James, New York, NY
Soft Core, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
Not a Painting, The Hole, New York, NY
What it Was (curated), Nurture Art, New York, NY
Makers Mark, Regina Rex, New York, NY
Green, Spring Break, New York, NY
2014
Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
Cemeterium, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Alpenliebe, Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-höhe, Austria
Grey Area, Bergdorf Goodman window, New York, NY
2013
AB, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
Cut and Paste, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Thanks (curated), Lu Magnus, New York, NY
2012
Young Curators, New Ideas IV, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, NY
This Side of Paradise, Andrew Freedman House, New York, NY
2011
Shift Mindsets, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Al Ghaib, Aesthetics of the Disappearance, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE, and STUX, New York
2010
Growing Pains, Charles de Jonghe, Brussels, Belgium
The West at Sunset, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca, 92YTribeca, New York, NY
Unveil, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Armed and Dangerous: The Art of the Arsenal, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Select Press
2020
Taylor Dafoe, artnetnews, “With All Art Fairs Postponed, One New York Dealer Decided to Erect a Fair Booth Inside Her Gallery to Lure Buyers- and, So Far, It’s Working!”
Amy Verner, “Botter,” VOGUE, January 16
2019
“Let’s Celebrate: Adam Parker Smith Returns to The Hole NYC,” Juxtapoz Magazine, October 25
Jessica Klingelsfuss, “Keeping Up With The Smiths: A London Gallery Unites Artists With The Same Surname,” Wallpaper, July 19
“The Smiths,” Time Out London, July 3
2018
Devon Van Housten Maldonado, “All the Art You Need to See at This Year’s Massive EXPO CHICAGO,” OBSERVER, September 28
“Artist Adam Parker Smith’s Midas touch turns objects into statues,” Interview Magazine, April 25
2016
Picks, “Oblivious the Greek, Adam Parker Smith at The Hole, NYC,” NYAQ, June 22.
Adam Lehrer, “5 Can’t Miss Art Shows Of The Week Of June 6” Forbes, June 7.
2015
“A Rare Earth Magnet,”The New Yorker, August 10.
“Soft Core,” The New Yorker, July 27.
Cait Munro, “14 of the Best Summer Gallery Group Shows in New York,”ARTnetNews, July 6.
“Highlights From Spring/Break Show at Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York,” Purple, March 11.
Glen Roven, “Eating Art,” The Huffington Post, March 6.
Kate Messinger, “ 20 Art Shows to See This Spring in NYC,”Paper, March 4.
Brian Boucher, “When Is Artist-on-Artist Theft Okay?,”ARTnetNEWS, February 3.
2014
Eviana Hartman, “The Art of Compromise,” Dwell, August 26.
Laura Jaye Cramer, “Seriously: Works by Adam Parker Smith at Ever Gold Gallery,” SF Weekly, May 8.
Kimberly Chun, “Adam Parker Smith: High and low cultural mix at Ever Gold,” San Fransisco Chronicle, May 7.
Nathalie Danilovich, “Superheroes, Stars, and Strange New Installations at SF’s Art Galleries,” 7X7SF, April 29.
Allyson Shiffman, “Adam Parker Smith at Brooklyn Artists Ball,” Bedford and Bowery, April 2nd.
Rebecca Bates, “Art and Fashion Intersect In Bergdorf Goodman’s Windows,” Architectural Digest, Febuary 21.
2013
Cate McQuaid, “A Much Larger Gambit,” The Boston Globe, May 28.
Mateo Finale, “Critics’ Picks,” The Boston Globe, May 8.
Lauren Scott Miller, “Theft and Building Community,” TheHuffington Post, May 7.
Jenni Crain, “Adam Parker Smith Stole 77 Artworks and Lived to Tell About It,” Whitewall Magazine, April 22.
Mark Dendy, “Thievery is Part of The Process in Putting Together One Artist’s Exhibit,” The Examiner, March 29.
Melena Ryzik, “Sticky Fingers Make the Show,” The New York Times, March 28.
Paul D’agostino, “Art Picks From Print,” The L Magazine, March 28.
Brian Boucher, “Steal This Artwork: Adam Parker Smith Filches a Show,” Art in America March 13.
Kristin Iversen, “Storefront Bushwick: Art, Open to the Street,” Brooklyn Magazine, March 8.
“The Aprroval Matrix,” New York Magazine, Febuary 11.
Paul D’Agostino, “Brooklyn Art in 2013: What to Watch,” The L Magazine, January 2.
Alexander Bigman, “Forever 21,” SFAQ December 1.
2012
Kimberly Chun, “Adam Parker Smith at Ever Gold,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 14.
Ben Valentine, “Ferris Bueller, Vodkamellons, and Other Youthful Follies,” Hyperallergic.com, November 14.
“Hot Picks,” Modern Painters, September.
Chloe Wyma, “Bright Young Things,” ARTINFO, July 10.
Hrag Vartanian, “9 Artist to Watch from the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios,” Hyperallergic.com, June 12.
Tina Orlandini, “Reinventing the Pop-up Gallery With Sights on Community,” The Huffington Post, May 5.
“Four Shows To See During Bushwick Open Studios,” NY Arts Magazine, May 31.
Jaime Rojo and Steven Harrington, “Poor House for the Rich Revitalized by the Arts,” The Huffington Post, March 27.
Paul D’ Agostino, “Phantasmagoria and Phalli at Ghost Face,” The L Magazine, March 21.
2011
Benjamin Sutton, “Ten Must-Sees at This Weekend’s DUMBO Arts Festival,” The L Magazine, September 21.
Nie Yiting, “Critics pick, Guangdong Times Museum,” Artforum.com, August.
David Everitt Howe, “The West at Sunset,” Art Review, March.
2010
Deirdre Hering, “See Something Among Works That Say Nothing,” The L Magazine, June 23.
Manya Scheps, “Value City,” Philadelphia Weekly, May.
Rachel Wolff, “New Artist Profile,” Whitewall Magazine Issue 17, Spring.
Jonathan Wallis, “Unveil” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid,” City Paper Philadelphia, January 19.
2009
Ian Bourland, “Critics pick, The Austerity Cookbook,” Artforum.com, September/ October.
Stacey Dewolfe, “Guns N’ Antlers,” Montreal Mirror, June/July.
“Urbis Delivers Hot Stuff From New York,” Art World April / May,
Roberta Smith, “Humble Fabric Takes Center Stage,” The New York Times, April 30.
Karen Rosenberg, “Toplessness and Taxidermy in Art Fairs Surrounding Armory,” The New York Times, March 7.
2008
Benjamin Genocchio, “In Peekskill, 2 Shows of Raw Works,” The New York Times, September 26.
Michael Harvey, “Review of Exhibitions,” Art in America, May.
Sarah Schmerler, “Change of Art,” New York Post, March 29.
2007
R.C. Baker, “Recommendations by R.C. Baker,” Village Voice, December 18.
Awards
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting