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Grants, Awards and Fellowships

2011   -Hot Picks 2011, Smack Mellon
           -Wassaic Project Artist Honorarium, funded by the Dutchess County Arts Board, New York. Material grant to make a large-scale installation

2010    -Vierter Stock Projektraum Berlin,DE 2 month residency Funded by US Embassy in Berlin(May and June)

2009    -The Art Prize, Young Masters and AXA Insurance
            -IAAB, six month residency, Basel, Switzerland (1.1.09-6.30.09)

2008    -Artist Projects, Rhode Island School of Design, Material grant and student labor to make a large-scale installation.
            -Oxbow Fellowship re-granted from The Joan Mitchell Foundation
            -City Sol, Material Grant
            -D.U.M.B.O. Improvement District Material Grant

Exhibitions 

2012    -Forever Almost (solo) Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY
            -Remember When Tomorrow Came (solo) Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO
            -so far, so close (solo) Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

2011     -we spend our lives as we spend our days, (solo) Gallerie Christoffer Egelund Copenhagen, Denmark

            -Art Prize 2011 Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

            -A Strange Attraction to the Beautiful and the Dreadful, Hendershot Gallery New York, NY curated by Maureen Sullivan
            -Everybody Wants Some Heaven (solo project) Art First, Santa Maria Della Vita, Bologna, IT curated by Julia Draganovic

2010    -The Price of Happiness, (solo) Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing China (catalogue)
            -One in a Million, (solo) Vierter Stock Projektraum Berlin, DE
            -Future Perfect (solo) The Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA curated by Michael Howell
            -this is it, (solo) Volta 6 New York, Cynthia Corbett Gallery (catalogue)
            -Exhibitionism The Art of Display, East Wing IX, the Courtauld Institute London, England

2009    -Fly By's, Gallerie Christoffer Egelund Copenhagen, Denmark
            -Summer Festival, The Wassaic Project Wassaic, NY
            -Young Masters, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
            -Will it Happen, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, NY
            -Special Project, Volta Show 5 Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
            -Runnin' on a Dream, Scope Art Fair Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
            -Word Up, Broadway Gallery, NY, NY
            -Talent Preview 09, White Box Gallery NY, NY

2008    -Money Mania, Roving Installation in South Beach pools during Art Basel Miami
            -In other Words, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
            -Ghost of a Dream, Space at Alice Rhode Island, Providence, RI
            -Suckers and Biters, Chashama Gallery, NY, NY (catalogue)
            -This is not New York, This is Berlin, Salon Mastul e.V., Berlin, Germany

Artist Lectures

2011    -Festival Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, IT

2010    -Albright College, Reading, PA

2008    -Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
            -Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI

Bibliography

2011    -The Wassaic Project: Our Favorite Art Village Voice Online, NY, NY, August 8, 2011
            -Collectors Call ARTFORUM online, May 6, 2011
            -Giant Sculptures Made From Lottery Tickets Wired UK, August 5, 2011
            -The Pit Mixed Greens Blog, July 29, 2011

2010    -Luck of the Draw City Weekend Beijing, China October 28-November 10
            -Husband-and-wife 'found' art team's exhibition weighs The Price of Happiness Global Times Beijing, China, October 12, 2010
            -The Art of Discarded Lottery Tickets Cool Hunting, August 5, 2010
            -Dream Ticket World of Interiors, July 2010
            -The American Dream as illusion at the Freedman Gallery The Reading Eagle, March 28, 2010
            -Medium Voltage ARTINFO, March 2011
            -VOLTA NY: Ghost of a Dream Whitewall Magazine, March 5, 2010
            -Ghost of a Dream and The Art of Discarded Lottery Tickets Yatzer.com, August 4th, 2010

2009    -Award-winning artist master Raphael and Durer, The Independent, London England, November 13th
            -Young Masters, Art of England, Issue 63
            -Premier Art Scene Magazine, Scope Basel 2009
            -Satchi.com, Top 10 Artists at Art Basel, Volta and Scope

2008    -Time Out New York, December 18- 31
            -Chief Magazine Issue 13
            -For Biennial fans, Providence Journal March 6th
            -Intersection Magazine Spring Issue
            -Lottery Tickets become Dream Car, Providence Journal March 18th

Education

Adam Eckstrom

2005    -Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Painting with Honors                                                                                   
1999    -University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, BFA Sculpture and Photography

Lauren Was

2004    -Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Sculpture with Honors

1999    -School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Concentration in Sculpture