Abraham Adams /
Time Farm
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BORN Virginia, US, 1985
RESIDES London, UK
EDUCATION
2023 Royal College of Art, MA student, Photography
2020 Brown University, MFA, Literary Arts
2009 Hampshire College, BA, Poetics and Rhetoric
PROFESSIONAL WORK
2020–21 Rhode Island School of Design, Lecturer
2019–20 Brown University, Graduate Teaching Assistant
2013–19 Artforum, Copy Editor, regular contributor
2012–14 Zone Books, Associate Editor
2011–15 Ugly Duckling Presse, Editor
BOOKS
2022 Ambulance Chasers, MIT Press, with a text by David Joselit
2018 Nothing in MoMA, Punctum Books
2016 Before, Inpatient Press
EDITED VOLUME
2016 Intersubjectivity Vol. 1 (co-editor), Sternberg Press
SELECTED ESSAYS & REVIEWS
2022 “Collectivity,” Der Greif
2020 “Katarina Burin,” Artforum
“Jonathan Berger,” Artforum
2019 “Emily Jacir,” Artforum
2018 “Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966–1976,” artforum.com
“The Return of a Lost Cause,” Bodega Gallery
“Anne Libby,” artforum.com
2017 “Derek Walcott (1930–2017), artforum.com
“Lewis Freedman,” Poetry Project Newsletter
2016 “Max Ritvo (1990–2016),” artforum.com
“Say ‘Ah,’” Triple Canopy
“Norwegian Process Art and Conceptual Art in the 1970s and ’80s,” artforum.com
2015 “Claudia Andujar,” artforum.com
“Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014),” artforum.com
“Still There: A Visit to the Mansion of Frederic Edwin Church,” harpers.com
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Pure Class,” St. John on Bethnal Green Church, London
2021 “I Think People Are Going For the Walls,” Royal College of Art, London
2015 “Mount Inquiry,” Apt. 302, Marseille
“Turning Inward,” Artists Space, New York
“Bloomsday,” Knockdown Center, New York
2014 “No Games Inside the Labyrinth,” Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Phil Smith Student Photographic Award, First Place
2021 T. S. Eliot House Residency
2019 finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities Residency
Joukowsky Summer Research Award
Brown Arts Initiative Student Grant
T. S. Eliot House Residency
2018 finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
TALKS & LECTURES
2020 “Time Farm,” MIT School of Architecture and Planning
“A Conversation About Trees,” MIT School of Architecture and Planning
“Cognitive Justice,” RISD, Theory and History of Art and Design
2019 “Andrew Ross and Hayley Silverman,” Brown
“Rereading Dane Zajc,” Days of Poetry and Wine, Slovenia
2018 “Heritage and Debt,” Brown
2016 “Transverse Séance” (invited reader), Dominique Lévy Gallery
2015 “Time Farm” (speaker), CUNY Graduate Center
“In Conversation: David Joselit and Reza Negarestani” (moderator), Artists Space
Reading, The Poetry Project
PRESS
2022 Bomb Magazine, interview
Asphalte Magazine, interview
2021 The Art Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, interview
2019 Pin-Up Magazine, “Nothing in MoMA: Abraham Adams’s Exaltation of Absence”
2016 Minus Plato, “The Title of the Future”
Queen Mob’s Teahouse, interview
CITED IN
2020 Paul Stephens, Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art and Literature (MIT Press)
2014 Namwali Serpell, Seven Modes of Uncertainty (Harvard University Press)
RESIDES London, UK
EDUCATION
2023 Royal College of Art, MA student, Photography
2020 Brown University, MFA, Literary Arts
2009 Hampshire College, BA, Poetics and Rhetoric
PROFESSIONAL WORK
2020–21 Rhode Island School of Design, Lecturer
2019–20 Brown University, Graduate Teaching Assistant
2013–19 Artforum, Copy Editor, regular contributor
2012–14 Zone Books, Associate Editor
2011–15 Ugly Duckling Presse, Editor
BOOKS
2022 Ambulance Chasers, MIT Press, with a text by David Joselit
2018 Nothing in MoMA, Punctum Books
2016 Before, Inpatient Press
EDITED VOLUME
2016 Intersubjectivity Vol. 1 (co-editor), Sternberg Press
SELECTED ESSAYS & REVIEWS
2022 “Collectivity,” Der Greif
2020 “Katarina Burin,” Artforum
“Jonathan Berger,” Artforum
2019 “Emily Jacir,” Artforum
2018 “Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966–1976,” artforum.com
“The Return of a Lost Cause,” Bodega Gallery
“Anne Libby,” artforum.com
2017 “Derek Walcott (1930–2017), artforum.com
“Lewis Freedman,” Poetry Project Newsletter
2016 “Max Ritvo (1990–2016),” artforum.com
“Say ‘Ah,’” Triple Canopy
“Norwegian Process Art and Conceptual Art in the 1970s and ’80s,” artforum.com
2015 “Claudia Andujar,” artforum.com
“Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014),” artforum.com
“Still There: A Visit to the Mansion of Frederic Edwin Church,” harpers.com
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Pure Class,” St. John on Bethnal Green Church, London
2021 “I Think People Are Going For the Walls,” Royal College of Art, London
2015 “Mount Inquiry,” Apt. 302, Marseille
“Turning Inward,” Artists Space, New York
“Bloomsday,” Knockdown Center, New York
2014 “No Games Inside the Labyrinth,” Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Phil Smith Student Photographic Award, First Place
2021 T. S. Eliot House Residency
2019 finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities Residency
Joukowsky Summer Research Award
Brown Arts Initiative Student Grant
T. S. Eliot House Residency
2018 finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
TALKS & LECTURES
2020 “Time Farm,” MIT School of Architecture and Planning
“A Conversation About Trees,” MIT School of Architecture and Planning
“Cognitive Justice,” RISD, Theory and History of Art and Design
2019 “Andrew Ross and Hayley Silverman,” Brown
“Rereading Dane Zajc,” Days of Poetry and Wine, Slovenia
2018 “Heritage and Debt,” Brown
2016 “Transverse Séance” (invited reader), Dominique Lévy Gallery
2015 “Time Farm” (speaker), CUNY Graduate Center
“In Conversation: David Joselit and Reza Negarestani” (moderator), Artists Space
Reading, The Poetry Project
PRESS
2022 Bomb Magazine, interview
Asphalte Magazine, interview
2021 The Art Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, interview
2019 Pin-Up Magazine, “Nothing in MoMA: Abraham Adams’s Exaltation of Absence”
2016 Minus Plato, “The Title of the Future”
Queen Mob’s Teahouse, interview
CITED IN
2020 Paul Stephens, Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art and Literature (MIT Press)
2014 Namwali Serpell, Seven Modes of Uncertainty (Harvard University Press)