Adam Frelin

afrelin@hotmail.com
www.adamfrelin.com

Education

2002
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1998-2001
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (MFA)

1992-1997
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA (BFA)

1996
Art Center of Lorenzo De' Medici, International Student Exchange, Florence, Italy

1994-1995
Hunter College, National Student Exchange, New York, NY

Awards

2007
Public Art Network Award, Americans for the Arts

2006
Alpert Ucross Residency Prize, Alpert Award in the Arts

Sleipnir Grant, Nordic Council of Ministers

2004-2005
US/Japan Creative Artists Program Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

2004
Great Rivers Biennial Visual Arts Award, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis

2002
Public Art Project Grant, Gunk Foundation

2000-2001
Professional Development Fellowship for Artists, College Art Association

1999
Russell Grant, University of California, San Diego

1998-2000
San Diego Fellowship, University of California, San Diego

1997
Association of PA State College and University Faculties Photography Fellowship,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

Jen Pomplun Memorial Sculpture Award, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

Selected Exhibitions (*solo shows/projects marked by asterisk)

2008  
*Winners, Factions, and Thieves     Samson Projects, Boston, MA

Ukranian Citizens and Strangers     Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA, and Echo
Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA

Evergreen Outdoor Sculpture Biennial     Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Baltimore, MD

2007
*The Faction, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and the Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine

*White Line for Tokyo, International House of Japan, Tokyo

Six Degrees of Separation     City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

2006
Glitch, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

*Recent Projects, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

*Minor Anomalies, Found and Created, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art, Las Cruces, NM

Reckless Behavior, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

The Drop, Exit Art, New York, NY

Dwelling: Memory, Architecture, and Place, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA

2005
Free Trade, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Traffic, Exit Art, New York, NY

B-flat, (collaborative project with Shun-Ichi Ogawa), Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2004
*Spotlight/White Heat/Airborne, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

*Pulse, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Best of Aurora Picture Show Volume 2 Tour, BallRoom Marfa, Marfa TX, Wiggle Room, San Antonio, TX, The Orange Show's Cinema al Fresco, Houston, TX, Motion Media Arts, Austin, TX, Machine, Los Angeles, CA, Mini Cine, Shreveport, LA

*Window Replacements, Park Proposals, and Water Rerouting Initiatives, Miller Gallery,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2003
Show 21, Champion Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY

A River Half Empty, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Passing Water, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada

Platform, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada

Taste 0-20, Praterstrasse Gallery, Vienna, Austria

Video Mundi, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

*Eviscerating, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Saint Louis, MO

2002
Function, Artists Space, New York, NY

305.21 Miles: The Distance Between Us (Part One), Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL

305.21 Miles: The Distance Between Us (Part Two), Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, MO

Group Show of St. Louis Artists, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2001
*Water Rerouting Initiatives & Hypothetical Proposals, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO

*Water Rerouting Initiatives, Visual Arts Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA

*Sushi Fountain, Sushi Art and Performance Space, San Diego, CA

2000  
Search for Art, Milan, Italy

Art InTents, Hahamonga Watershed Park, Los Angeles, CA

*Hijacked Drinking Fountain, Visual Arts Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA

1999
Carlsbad Sculpture Garden Show, City of Carlsbad Sculpture Garden, Carlsbad, CA

A Group Sculpture Show, Debra Owen Gallery, San Diego, CA

College Art Association MFA Juried Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

*The Great Go-Between, Visual Arts Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA

Residencies

2007
Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY

Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan

2006  
Helsinki International Artists Program, Helsinki, Finland

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2005
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

Center for Land Use Interpretation Desert Research Station, Hinkley, CA

Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY

2003
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2002
Atlantic Center for the Art: with Dennis Oppenheim, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2001
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Professional Experience

2006-present
Assistant Professor of Sculpture
SUNY University at Albany, Albany, NY

2003-2004
Assistant Professor
Webster University, St. Louis, MO

2002-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor
Webster University, St. Louis, MO

2001-2002
Visiting Artist
Webster University, St. Louis, MO

1997-2001
Teacher's Assistant (instructor of record)
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1994-1995
Education Intern
Guggenheim Museum's Learning Through Art Program, New York, NY

1992
Museum Intern
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.

Bibliography

Laura Dillon, "White Line (Tokyo)"
Sculpture, June 2007, 16-17

David Bonetti, "50 International Emerging Artists"
Contemporary Magazine, 2006 Annual Issue

Jan Castro, "Adam Frelin: Changing the Courses of Nature"
Sculpture, May 2005, 20-21

David Bonetti, "Great Rivers: Exhibit Gets Contemporary in the Flow"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 11, 2004

Jan Castro, "Three Rivers Biennial"
Sculpture, January/February 2005

Alice Winn, "Font and Flora"
Pulp, January 22, 2004

Mary Thomas, "Exhibits alter view of daily life"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 22, 2004, B-2

Thomas Hirschmann, "Urine Deep"
NowToronto, July 17-23, 2003, vol. 22, no. 46

Twylene Moyer, "Adam Frelin: Eviscerating"
Sculpture, April 2003, 18

Jeff Hughes, "Destroy and Reclaim: Artists and Disaster Sites,"
New Art Examiner, May-June 2002, 66-73

Adam Frelin, "Follow-A-Fellow: Update on Adam Frelin,"
CAA News, May-June 2002

Conferences & Lectures

Massachusetts College of Art, 2008, Boston, MA
Visiting Lecturer

Snow College, 2008, Ephraim, UT
Visiting Lecturer

York University, 2008, Toronto, ON
Visiting Lecturer

Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, 2008, Toronto, ON
Visiting Lecturer

Outpost for Contemporary Art, 2007, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Lecturer

Contemporary Center for the Arts, 2007, Kiev, Ukraine
Visiting Lecturer

International House of Japan, 2007, Tokyo, Japan
Visiting Lecturer

Auburn University, 2006, Auburn, AL
Visiting Lecturer

Massachusetts College of Art, 2006, Boston, MA
Visiting Lecturer

Brown University, 2005, Providence, RI
Visiting Lecturer

ArchiReview Exhchange, 2005, Osaka, Japan
"Rerouting Initiatives: Two Lecture by Adam Frelin," main presenter

College Art Association, 2005, Atlanta, GA
"Temporary Action: Contemporary Public Art Practices," panel co-chair

Rutgers University, 2004, New Brunswick, NJ
Visiting Lecturer

Carnegie Mellon University, 2004, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting Lecturer

Southeastern College Art Conference, 2002, Mobile, AL
"The Next Generation: SECAC’s Newest Artist-Educators," panel presenter

College Art Association Conference, 2001, Chicago, IL
"Professional Development Fellow Presentations," panel presenter