ADAM HELMS
BIOGRAPHY
1974 Born in Tucson, AZ
Lives and works in Arizona
EDUCATION
2004 MFA, Yale University, School of Art
1997 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 East Hampton NY, Halsey Mckay Gallery, Adam Helms + Bruce Conner, May, 2022
2022 East Hampton, NY, Halsey Mckay Gallery (viewing room), How To Be Anxious, February 26 – April 20, 2022
2017 Amsterdam, Grimm Gallery, Hauntology (not really now not any more), March 11–April 15, 2017
2014 San Antonio, Artpace, Weight of Culture, November 13, 2014 – January 11, 2015
New York, Boesky East, Uncanny Valley, September 7 – October 5, 2014
2013 Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, Pathos Formula, September 6 – October 29, 2013
2011 Amsterdam, Grimm Gallery, Blind Lion, May 28 – July 9, 2011
London, Frieze Art Fair, October 13 – 16, 2011
2010 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Without Name, October 28 – December 18, 2010
2009 Los Angeles, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Under Western Eyes, November 21 – December 19, 2009
2008 Denver, Museum of Contemporary Art, Adam Helms, August 12, 2008 – January 18, 2009
2007 Miami, World Class Boxing, Untitled Portrait, December 2007 – February, 2008
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Hinterland, September 8 – October 6, 2007
Los Angeles, Sister, Rising Down, January 27 – February 24, 2007
2005 Los Angeles, Sister, Brother’s Keeper, April 2 – 27, 2005
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Tucson, AZ, Everybody Gallery, The Sky Was The Ocean That Day, organized by Bob Nickas, April 27 - May 25
2023 New York, NY, Public Access, Melvins: Never Say You’re Sorry, organized by Bob Nickas, June 29 - July 29
2023 Amherst, Massachusetts, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Masculine Identities: Filling in the Blanks, March 23 - May 14, 2023
2023 Cologne, Germany, Gaa Gallery, Water Bound, January 20 - March 18, 2023
2023 Tucson, AZ, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona Biennial 2023 curated by Taína Caragol, April 1 – September 17, 2023
2022 Provincetown, MA, Gaa Gallery, Lichtung, April 1 – July 3, 2022
2017 Stockholm, SE, Carl Kostyál Gallery, “Call Me”, 19 May – June 20, 2017
2016 East Hampton, NY, Halsey McKay Gallery, November’s Bone, November 19 – January 16, 2017
Rotterdam, NL, Garage Rotterdam, Territorial Drift, curated by Yasmijn Jarram, March 4 – May 1, 2016
2015 New York, No Longer Empty, Old Bronx Borough Courthouse, When You Cut Into the Present the Future Leaks Out, April 23 – July 19, 2015
West Palm Beach, FL, Norton Museum, The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, February 8 - May 3, 2015
2014 Copenhagen, DK, V1 Gallery, Ghost Current, Ryan Wallace, November 1 – November 22, 2014
Los Angeles, Martos Gallery, Scripted Spaces, October 9 – November 8, 2014
East Hampton, NY, Halsey McKay Gallery, Water Works with Karl Haendal, August 7 – 24, 2014
Mexico City, FiFi Projects, Deceptor, February 5 – March 28, 2014
2013 Boston, Boston University, Sherman Gallery, Highpoint Editions: Decade One, October 27 – December 13, 2013
Athens, Deste Foundation, The System of Objects, May 15 – November 30, 2013
Berlin, Wentrup Gallery, Traces of Life, curated by Ariel Roger-Paris, April 26 - May 31, 2013
2012 New York, C24 Gallery, Campaign, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, January 12 – February 25, 2012
Hydra, Greece, Deste Foundation Project Space: Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Animal Spirits, June 22 – September 23, 2012
2011 Amsterdam, Grimm Gallery, Matthew Day Jackson - Heel Gezellig, curated by Matthew Day Jackson, October 6 – November 20, 2011
Milan, Brand New Gallery, NY: New Perspectives, September 22 – October 29, 2011
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes from the MFAH Collection, June 10 – September 27, 2011
New York, Axelle I Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, Printer’s Proof, January 18 – February 19, 2011
2010 Trevi, Italy, Center of Contemporary Art at Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, A.D.D. Attention Deficit Disorder, July 17 – September 19, 2010
Miami, World Class Boxing, Mystic Visage, curated by Desiree Cronk, June 12 – July 31, 2010
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Natural Renditions, June 3 – July 9, 2010
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, March 26 – September 6, 2010. Traveled to Bilbao,
Spain, Guggenheim Museum, November 9, 2010 – March 13, 2011
Tucson, AZ, Museum of Contemporary Art, Made in Tucson/Born in Tucson/Live in Tucson, March 6 – May 22, 2010
New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Skin Fruit, The Dakis Joannou Collection, (curated by Jeff Koons), March 3 – June 20, 2010
2009 London, Brown Gallery, Evading Customs, September 3 – October 3, 2009
New York, Dispatch, Mirror Me, July 30 – August 23, 2009
2008 New York, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Beyond a Memorably Fancy: An exhibition about printmaking, October 30 – December 20, 2008
New York, Smith-Stewart, Warlord, June 14 – July 26, 2008
Portland, OR, Feldman Gallery, PNCA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Untraceable, March 1 – March 28, 2008
2007 New York, White Columns, Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, November 16 – December 21, 2007
Marfa, TX, Ballroom Marfa, Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, curated by Robert Nickas, September 22, 2007 – February 3, 2008
London, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., Welcome to My World, curated by Amy Davila and Matthew Day Jackson, July 13 – September 1, 2007
Vienna, Kunsthalle and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, June 29 - October 4, 2007
London, Max Wigram Gallery, Last Attraction Next Exit, curated by Neville Wakefield, June 2 – July 21, 2007
Kansas City, MO, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Phantasmania, June 1 – August 19, 2007
New York, The Kitchen, Just Kick it Till it Breaks, March 8 – April 28, 2007
Los Angeles, Mandrake, (the) Melvins @ (the) Mandrake, February 17 – March 24, 2007
New York, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Omission, January 9 – February 10, 2007
2006 New York, Mary Boone Gallery, View (Eleven): Upstate, October 5 – 28, 2006
Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian, August 11 – November 19, 2006
Brussels, Belgium, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Collection 2005/06, April 21 – May 27, 2006
Aspen, CO, Aspen Art Museum, Having New Eyes, February 7 – April 16, 2006
2005 Marfa, TX, Ballroom Marfa, You Are Here, August 8, 2005 – February 27, 2006
New York, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Sticks and Stones, June 28 – August 12, 2005
New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Bridge Freezes Before Road, June 23 – August 19, 2005
New York, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, Delicate Demons and Heavenly Delights, June 10 – July 29, 2005
Queens, NY, PS1/MoMA, Greater New York 2005, March 13 – September 26, 2005
2004 New York, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Cable Twentieth Anniversary Show, September 10 – October 16, 2004
New York, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Some Exhaust, August 13 – September 25, 2004
Los Angeles, Sister, Bungle in the Jungle, August 7 – September 4, 2004
New York, Feigen Contemporary, Relentless Proselytizers, July 1 – August 14, 2004
Brooklyn, NY, Jessica Murray Projects, Grotto 2, June 25 – August 1, 2004
2003 New Haven, CT, John Slade Ely House - Center for Contemporary Art, Crosstown Traffic, 2003
Los Angeles, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, 2003 Wight Biennial, October 10 – November 7, 2003
Miami, Ambrosino Gallery, Gilligan’s Island, 2003
2002 Brooklyn, NY, Weather Records, New Homes for America (Under Construction), 2002
2000 Brooklyn, NY, Bellwether Gallery, Flat File, 2000
1999 Brooklyn, NY, GV/AS, First Inaugural Show, 1999
New York, Postmasters, War: Artists’ Bulletin Board, 1999
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Provan, Alexander. “The Interpretation of Arbitrary Forms”, Halsey McKay Gallery–Viewing Room, February 26, 2022.
2017 Hodson, Lottie. “Adam Helms Merges Art With Psychology”, Glamcult, March 17, 2017.
2014 Roffino, Sara. "Adam Helms Uncanny Valley," The Brooklyn Rail, November 5, 2014.
Indrisek, Scott. "5 Must-See Gallery Shows," Artinfo.com, September 11, 2014.
Yablonsky, Linda. “There Goes the Neighborhood,” Artforum, September 10, 2014.
Binlot, Ann. "Artist Adam Helms on His Inaugural Boesky East Exhibition," Forbes, September 10, 2014.
“Adam Helms,” The New Yorker, September 2014.
Indrisek, Scott. “18 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York This September,” Artinfo.com, August 14, 2014.
Indrisek, Scott. “Studio Tracks: Adam Helms’s Playlist”, Artinfo.com, August 13, 2014.
2013 Alessi, Andrea. “The Photo and the Filing Cabinet”, Artslant.com, October 4, 2013.
Griffin, Jonathan. “Adam Helms”, Vitamin D2, Phaidon, pp. 270 - 273.
Nikas, Bob and Smith, William S., GRIMM Gallery and Marianne Boesky Gallery,
Monograph, Snoeck Verlagsgellschaft mbH: March 2013.
2012 Chayka, Kyle. Alanna Martinez, Chloe Wyma, “12 NYC Art Picks, from Shirin Neshat’s Political Portraits to Richard Prince’s Duet With Mike Kelley,” Artinfo, January 11, 2012.
2011 Britt, Douglas.”MFAH’s new exhibit looks at changing landscapes,” Houston Chronicle, July 15, 2011.
Amir, Yaelle. “Adam Helms,” Art in America, February 2011, pp. 104 – 105.
2010 “Goings on About Town: Adam Helms,” The New Yorker, December 6, 2010.
Gopnik, Blake. “New York art galleries focus on politically oriented collections,” The Washington Post, November 18, 2010.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Artifacts – Moths and Mercenaries,” The New York Times Style Magazine, November 4, 2010.
Heinrich, Will. “Autumn’s Real Ghouls: Adam Helms and Mika Rottenberg Bring Out the Undead,” The New York Observer, November 2, 2010.
“Adam Helms Explores Masking and Identity in New Show at Marianne Boesky Gallery, ArtDaily, October 31, 2010.
Gartenfeld, Alex. “In Prism Adam Helms and Kon Trubkovich,” Fantom Photographic Quarterly, Autumn 2010, pp. 46 – 51.
Gartenfeld, Alex. “Guerillas in the Midst,” interviewmagazine.com, September 20, 2010.
Donovan, Bill. “Adam Helms Studio Visit,” Beautiful/Decay, August 30, 2010.
2009 Miller, Jocelyn. “Black Hole Son,” New York Press, November 18, 2009.
2008 Chandler, Mary Voelz. “In the Galleries: Adam Helms,” Rocky Mountain News, September 5, 2008.
Lanctot, Nicole. “Previews Denver: Adam Helms,” ArtForum, May 2008.
Hou, Christian. “All Quiet on the Western Front,” NY Arts Magazine, Jan – Feb 2008.
Zellen, Jody. “Adam Helms,” ArtUS, Issue 21, March 2008.
2007 Singer, Debra and Matthew Lyons. Just Kick It Till It Breaks. (New York: The Kitchen. 2007), pp. 2, 11 and 48.
Bryant, Eric. "Paint it Bleak," ARTnews, December, 2007, illus. p. 130.
Tompkins, David. “Artists in Residence: Fall 2006-Summer 2007,” Chinati Foundation Newsletter, vol. 12, pp. 77 – 78.
Biddle, Stephen. “A Tough Sell: Rethinking US Strategy in Iraq,” The Berlin Journal, Fall 2007, pp. 28 – 31.
Sholis, Brian. “Adam Helms,” Artforum, November 2007, pp. 364-365.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Adam Helms,” The New York Times, September 21, 2007.
“Adam Helms,” Time Out New York, September 6 – 12, 2007, p. 132.
Genocchio, Benjamin, “The Week Ahead: September 2 – 8,” The New York Times, September 2, 2007.
"Adam Helms Exhibition to Open in New York," Artdaily.org, August 18, 2007.
Knight, Christopher. “A room of glorious doom,” Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2007.
Cole, Lori. “Omission,” Artforum.com. February, 2007.
Nickas, Bob. “First Take: Bob Nickas on Adam Helms,” ArtForum, January, 2007, pp. 210 – 211.
2006 Miller, Sara Nicole. “Warfare in the Suburbs,” The Minnesota Daily, August 9, 2006.
Chong, Doryun. “Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian,” in an exhibition brochure for the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, August 11 – November 19, 2006.
2005 Bae, James. “You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa,” Artlies, Fall, 2005, pp. 106 – 107.
Dailey, Meghan. “Contemporary Drawings,” Art + Auction, November, 2005.
Bollen, Christopher. “Finely Drawn,” Vman, Fall/Winter, 2005.
Raven, Lucy. “On the Cover: Adam Helms,” Bomb, Fall, 2005, pp. 2, 4, 23, and cover.
Cotter, Holland. “Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable,” New York Times, July 8, 2005.
2005
Heartney, Eleanor. “Report from New York 1 – Return to the Real?,” Art in America, June/July, 2005.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough.” New York Magazine, March 7, 2005.
Anathema Magazine, 2005.
Wakefield, Neville. Bridge Freezes Before Road. (New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2005).
Smith-Stewart, Amy. Greater New York 2005. (New York: PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 2005).
2004 “Palimpsest 2004,” Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, 2004.
2003 Yoshitake, Mika. The Wright Biennial Catalogue, Entropic Impulses: Three Critiques on
the Ideology of Order. (Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, 2003).
MONOGRAPHS
2013 Adam Helms, Monograph, Snoeck Verlagsgellschaft mbH: March 2013. Essays by Nikas, Bob
and Smith, William S. 224 pages.
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2014 San Antonio, TX, Artpace, International Artists in Residence
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
VISITING CRITIC and TEACHING
2016 New York University Steinhardt School of Art - Guest Critic Spring Semester, MFA Fine Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - Guest Lecturer and Critic, BFA and MFA Fine Art
2014 Yale University School of Art - Guest Thesis Critic, MFA Painting
2011 Rhode Island School of Design - Guest Critic, MFA Painting
2010 OCAD University, Ontario, CA - Guest Lecturer and Critic, BFA Fine Art
2009 School Of Visual Art, New York - Guest Critic - MFA Fine Art
2007 Rhode Island School of Design - Guest Lecturer and Critic, MFA Printmaking
Pacific Northwest College of Art and Design - Guest Lecturer and Critic, MFA Painting
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum Of Modern Art, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ