David Adamo is a sculptor avant la lettre due to his engagement with form and materiality. His sculptures of chipped away wood for example, express this interest in the materiality of the object very well. These sculptures are often surrounded by the wooden fragments that were chopped off, thereby referring to the creation process of the sculptures. In his humorous small-scale sculptures Adamo plays with the expectations of the audience. These sculptures appear to be everyday objects, but by further examining them it becomes clear that the objects are removed from their traditional context due to the use of impossible materials.
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Born 1979 in Rochester, New York, USA
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY USA
rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
David Adamo and Margarita Myrogianni, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece
Symphonic Poem, curated by Ugo Rondinone, 39 Great Jones, New York USA
Termite Mounds, Whitespace, The Mordes Collection, West Palm Beach, FL, US
David Adamo & Rallou Panagiotou, Ibid, London, United Kingdom
Untitled (Music for Strings), Ibid, Los Angeles, CA USA
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY USA
M.A.C - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru
Ibid., Los Angeles, CA USA
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY USA
David Adamo, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Capri, Düsseldorf, Germany
UNTITLED, New York, NY USA
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY USA
Mendes Wood Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
David Adamo, MD 72, Berlin, Germany
IBID PROJECTS, London, UK
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
David Adamo, N. Dash, Sommer Contemporary, Tel Aviv, Israel
Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
All in Good Time, Chapter III: David Adamo and Ettore Favini, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, Italy
UNTITLED, New York, NY USA
Fruit & Flower Deli, Stockholm, Sweden
Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
IBID PROJECTS, London, UK
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
N.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy
Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Gent, Belgium
On se bat toujours quelque part (w/ Michael Portnoy), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Fruit and Flower Deli, Berlin, Germany
Untitled (The Rite of Spring), IBID PROJECTS, London, UK
Untitled (Louli), Fruit and Flower Deli, New York, NY USA
Strange Attractors, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art, Vol. 3: Lost In Space, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Sausage Party, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Breakfast Club, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Downtown Painting, Peter Freeman Gallery, New York, NY USA,
Greenery, Dispari and Dispari, Berlin, Germany
Carte Blanche, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Present, Musée van Buuren, Bruxelles, Belgium
Objects Like Us, co-curated group exhibition with Amy Smith-Stewart, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Strange Attractors, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 1 Life on Earth, Organized by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Arts, Los Angeles, LA USA Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL USA
Ground Control, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, FL USA
Material Issue, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY USA
Che il vero possa confutare il falso, Santa Maria della Scala, Palazzo Pubblico, Accademia dei Fisiocritici, Siena, Italy
Holiday, Ibid., London, UK
Pièces-Meublés, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
something old, something new, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Freedom Culture, curated by Graham Collins, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY USA
Material, Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany
CLUB OF MATINEE IDOLZ, CO2 Gallery, Torino, Italy
It Rained Again, BUREAU, New York, NY USA
Some school are cages and some schools are wings, Museo de Arte de Rio, Rio de Janeiro ( 26 August, 2014 - 11 January 2015)
Dreierlei, Fuerstenberg Zeitgenoessisch, Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, Germany
Vor Ort, Kunstprojekt Sennestadt, Sennestadt, Germany
SLOW FUTURE, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Game Changer, BmoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO USA
On the Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell Gallery, London, UK
Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict, Veneklasen Werner Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SOUVENIR, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Berlin Status (2), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Nature of Speed, organized by IBID Projects and Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, China
Material World, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO USA
Rien Faire Et Laisser Rire, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodophe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Song of myself, Unosunove, Rome, Italy
Filmscreenings 2013, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Downtown: A View of the Lower East Side, James Cohan Gallery, Shangai, China
It Ain’t Fair, OHWOW, Miami Beach, FL USA
Hools, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Raisons d’Être, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY USA
5 Videos, Project 88, Mumbai, India
Straight Up, Family Business, New York, NY USA
Sint-Jan, curated by Jan Hoet and Hans Martens, Sint Baafskathedraal, Ghent, Belgium
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Magazzino, Rome, Italy
S.H.O.W.T.I.M.E., Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six sharpening my ax, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
No Sense of Place : David Adamo, Einat Amir, Keren Cytter, Brendan Fernandes, Carole Douillard, Dora Garcia, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Earls-fort Terrace, Dublin, Ireland
Hypothesis for an exhibition, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Against the Way Things Go, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY USA
Based in Berlin - Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
My Beautiful Mongo, Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo, Italy
Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
The Confidence Man, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Text/Werke, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Psycho Painting, Carlson Gallery, London, UK
David Adamo, Heather Cook, Brendan Fowler, Rashid Johnson, Phil Wagner, Untitled, New York, NY USA
Pyschosculptures, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Greater New York, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Connie Butler and Neville Wakefield, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY USA
Tussen Taal en Beeld/Verzamelde Verhalen #02, curated by Joost De Clerck, Kunstenfestival, Watou, Belgium
Whitney Biennale 2010, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion Murayari, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA
A Basic Human Impulse, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone, Italy
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY USA
This place you see has no size at all…, curated by Jennifer Teets, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Broken Tales, curated by Rainer Ganahl, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China
Thessaloniki Biennale 2, Thessaloniki, Greece
Art in the City, Egmont Parc, Brussels, Belgium
The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY USA