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 |