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Adam Stephen Novak is an artist currently living in Philadelphia who has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Exhibitions include “Vision Valley” at the Brand Art Center in Glendale, CA; “Alter Ego” at SCAD in Savannah, GA; and “Vanishing Points” at James Cohan Gallery in New York, NY. His work has been written about in Hyperallergic and the Brooklyn Rail. In addition, Novak has curated several exhibitions including “Kill All Zombies” at The Property Gallery in Los Angeles in 2015 and taught at Whittier College. Novak has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Novak was awarded a Pollock Krasner grant in 2018.
Adam Stephen Novak
b.1978
Lives and works in Philadelphia
Education:
Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) 2001
San Francisco Art Institute (MFA) 2009
Awards:
Pollock Krasner Grant 2018
Nominee for the Headlands Center of the Arts Graduate Award 2009
Residencies:
Vermont Studio Center 2007
Exhibitions:
Rhombus Space, Online show 2021 “Bounty”
Studio Archive Project, Online show 2021 “Known Unknowns”
Los Angles LGBT Center Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA 2018 “Identity and Desire”
The Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA 2018 “Vision Valley-The Glendale Biennial” Organized by the Pit LA
HILDE, Houston, TX 2018 “Metaxis Uber Pool”
Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA 2018 “Alter Ego”
Soso Grotto, Los Angeles, CA 2018 “Combat Shock”
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 2017 “Anger Management”
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY 2017 “Vanishing Points”
356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA 2017 “Amplify Compassion”
C2c, San Francisco, CA, 2017 “me/you”
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 2016 “After Pop Life”
Tiger Strikes Asteriod Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2016 “Fragmented Gaze”
City Limits, Oakland, CA 2016 “Fougere”
The Property Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015 “I think I see…”
LA Art Book Fair at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 2015 “Box of Books”
The Property Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014 “4 Painters”
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA 2013 “Wall Painting”
Temescal Contemporary, Oakland, CA 2009 “Silent Eaters”
Herbst Pavilion Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 2009 “Vernissage”
Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 “Phantom Limb”
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI 2001 “Group Show”
Curatorial:
The Property Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015 “Kill All Zombies”
Press: http://artforum.com/index.php?pn=picks&id=55943&view=print%3C/a%3E
Publications:
Ortega Y Gasset- December 2013 Gazette
Press:
“Vanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell” Tim Barry, Brooklyn Rail, 2017
http://brooklynrail.org/2017/04/artseen/Vanishing-Points-curated-by-Andrianna-Campbell
“ Fragmented Figures Channel the “Struggle of Being in a Body” Clarity Haynes, Hyperallergic, 2016: http://hyperallergic.com/314718/fragmented-figures-channel-the-struggle-of-being-in-a-body/
Teaching Experience:
Lecturer, Drawing 1, Whittier College, Whittier, CA- 2018-2019
Teaching Assistant, Pre-college- Drawing, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI-1999
Teaching Assistant, Continuing Education-Color Theory, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI-1999
Teaching Assistant, Painting 2, San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA -2008
Visiting Artist- Graduate level, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA – 2016, 2020