China Adams

BIO

EDUCATION:

BFA, UCLA 1995

MFA, UNLV 2000

EXHIBITION RECORD:

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2018 Massage-Generated Energy Drawings, Porch Gallery, Ojai

2017 A Certain Period of Time Drawings, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

2013 Activated Garbage, BOXO, Joshua Tree, California

2009 White Flags and Silent Chimes, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles

2008 Flights of Fancy, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles

2004 Seventeen Names, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

2001 Paintings Without Paint, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas

2001 Premonition Scrolls, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

2000 Blood Consumption, Ace Gallery, Mexico City

1998 Ms. American Woman, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

1997 Paintings Without Paint and Mail Drawings, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

1996 The Official Stitch and Hide Procedure, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

1994 Notarized, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

1993 Contract of Sale, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021 Pre (Again), Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, New York

2021 Five Facets, FOCA, Los Angeles,

2019 Towers & Walls, Porch Gallery, Ojai

2018 Nature Worship, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles

2018 Towers & Walls, Porch Gallery, Ojai

2017 Joshua Treenial, Boxo House, Joshua Tree

2017 Forms of Identity: Women Artists In The 90s, Orange County Museum of Art 2016

12 X 12, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, New York

2016 Seismic Formations, Porch Gallery, Ojai, California

2016 Urbanature, Williamson Gallery, Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena California 2015

Consumed, University Art Museum, Cal State Long Beach Long Beach, California 2012

Featherweight, West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, California

2012 Linementa, Beacon Arts, Los Angeles, California

2011 The Loop Show, The Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles

2010 Psychic Outlaws, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles

2009 Under the Knife, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

2007 Four Handed Lift, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York

2006 Lladres de Cossos, Metronom Gallery, Barcelona

2005 ARCO (with Hilario Galguera), Madrid

2003 Comer O No Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Centro De Arte Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

2002 Ace Gallery, New York

2001 Recent Acquisitions, The Berkeley Art Museum

2000 A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum

of Art, Newport Beach, California

2000 Defining the Sublime, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California

1998 Galleria Milleventi, Milan, Arte Della Americana, Galleria Milleventi, Milan

Curatorial Projects:

2018 Defining Detritus, Arena 1, Santa Monica

2014 The LA Wood Show, Arena 1, Santa Monica

2012 The Small Loop Show, FOCA, Los Angeles

2011 The Loop Show, The Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles

Exhibition Reviews & Publications:

(Full list available on request)

2019 Staff, Writer. Art & Life With China Adams, Voyage LA, March

2017 Harvey, Doug. 10 LA Artists Whose Work You Probably Don’t Know- But Should, Artsy, October

2017 Staff Writer. Goings On About Town, The New Yorker

2016 Dambrot, Shana. Gallery Reviews, Fabrik

2016 Dambrot, Shana High Art for the High Desert, Palm Springs Life, December

2012 Buckly. Annie On Seeing: Divination, on-line art exhibit and essay.

2012 Knight, Christopher. The Loop Show at Beacon Arts Building, LA Times, December

2011 Steffen, Patrick. Artist China Adams Takes On Curating, Flash Art, November

2011 Adams, Lisa. The Loop Show: Our Material Problem In The Hands Of Artists, November

2010 Swenson, Kristen. China Adams, Art In America, March

2009 Hebron, Micol. China Adams, Artforum, December

2008 Ollman, Leah. Not An Ordinary Craft Project, Los Angeles Times, June 20th, 2008

2008 Harvey, Doug. Keeping Up With China (Adams), LA weekly, Volume 30, No. 28, P. 56

2008 Cassagrande, Reggie. China Adams Has proof, Lipstick Tracez, June 2008

2008 Ollman, Leah. Not An Ordinary Craft Project, Los Angeles Times, June 2008

2008 Harvey, Doug. Keeping Up with China (Adams), La Weekly, May 2008

2007 Harvey, Doug. SKIN, “Surface tensions: The Skin of Art” October 2007

2005 Multiple reviews in Spanish publications, details available on request.

2003 Weintraub, Linda. IN THE MAKING, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2003

2003 Consorcio Salamanca. COMER O NO COMER, Distributed by Centro de Arte de Salamanca,

2002 Jimenez, Carlos. CARTA, (Madrid, Spain), February 2002

2002 Adams, Victoria. ARTWEEK, “Premonition Scrolls” review, February 2002

2001 LAS VEGAS CITY LIFE, “The Font of Play, The Play of Fonts,” December 6-12, 2001

2001 Cooper, Bernard. LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE, “Art: The Uses of the Ghoulish,” Feb. 2001

2000 Harvey, Doug. LA WEEKLY, “Yuck!,” September 1, 2000

2000 Garcia-Fenech, Giovanni. ARTNET.COM, “Blood Ties?,” July 19, 2000

1999 Ise, Claudine. LOS ANGELES TIMES, “The Mask of Beauty,” January 1, 1999, F32

1996 Haden-Guest, Anthony. TRUE COLORS, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1996, PP. 310-311

1996 Koplos, Janet. ART IN AMERICA, “China Adams at Ace,” July, 1996

1996 Roth, Charlene. ARTWEEK, “China Adams at Ace,” February 1996, P.21

1994 Cutajar, Mario. ARTWEEK, “No Compromise,” July 7, 1994, P. 29

1994 Kandel, Susan. LOS ANGELES TIMES, “Art Reviews,” July 7, 1994.

1994 ZYZZYVA. Front and back covers. Volume NO.10, NO. 4, Winter 1994.