Adam Fuss was born in 1961 in London, England
Lives and works in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Adam Fuss, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2012
Adam Fuss: New York. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2011
The Space Between Garden and Eve. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Adam Fuss, Retrospective 1986 - 2010. Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
Adam Fuss. Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid
Adam Fuss: Home and the World.Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Home and the world. Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
2010
Adam Fuss: Home and the World. Cheim & Read, New York
2009
For Allegra. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Adam Fuss. Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
Adam Fuss. Arden Gallery, Boston,
2008
Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2006
Ark And Other Works. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Focus: Adam Fuss. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
2005
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Adam Fuss: Mask. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2003
Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2002
Adam Fuss: My Ghost. Xavier Hufkins, Brussels, Belgium
Adam Fuss. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Foster Gallery
travels to: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Works 1985-2002. Fraenkel Gallery. San Francisco, CA
Adam Fuss: My Ghost. Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2001
Adam Fuss: My Ghost. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Adam Fuss - My Ghost. Viewing Room, Yotsuya/Yumiko Chiba Associates, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Adam Fuss. Galerie Karsten Greve , Paris, France
2000
Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
Martin Browne Gallery, Sydney, Australia
My Ghost. Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
1999
My Ghost. Cheim & Read, New York
Details of Love. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Adam Fuss. FotoMuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
traveled to Umea, Sweden
1998
Pinhole Photographs. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Adam Fuss. Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY
Snake Powder. Spore & Mucus Prints, Fraenkel Gallery
1997
Adam Fuss: Fotogramme. Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
My Ghost. Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
1996
Mary and Love Machine. Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pinhole Photographs. Baumgartner Galleries, WA
1995
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
1994
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In Between. Laura Carpenter, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1993
Details of Love. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1992
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1990
Thomas Soloman’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1989
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1988
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1985
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2012
Alchemy, 7Eleven Gallery, New York
Resistance: Subverting the Camera, The Fine Art Society, London
2011
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Jim Schmidt Presents: Abstraction, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis
TRA- Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2010
Shadow Catchers: Camera – Less Photography. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Curated by Martin Barnes
Furthermore (Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Out of the Woods, curated with James Salomon, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2009
Contradictions in Black and White. Hasted Hunt, New York
Picturing Eden. Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, NY
Abstractions by Gallery Artists. Cheim & Read, NY
Picturing Eden The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art , Florida
2008
The Sum of Its Parts. Cheim & Read, New York
Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2007
Empty Nest: The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the Present.
Natheran A. Bernstein & Co. Ltd, New York
I Am As You Will Be. Cheim & Read, New York
Wallflowers. Danziger Projects, New York
Pretty Baby. The Modern Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
2006
Immaterial World. Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
Alchemy, The Terrace Gallery and All Saints’ Church. Harewood House, Leeds, UK
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVIII. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The Missing Peace; Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Fowler Museum of
Cultural History at the University of California Los Angeles
Picturing Eden. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
traveled to University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
2005
It’s A Wrap. Potographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas
Fotografie KONKRET – KONKRETE Fotografie. Wurzburg, Germany
In the Middle of the Night. 150 New Acquisitions since 1996. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Adam Fuss, Thomas Ruff and James Siena.
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Closer to Home. 48th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
2004
Group Show. Hamiltons, London
Fall Group Show: Painting, Photography and Sculpture. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
12 from Cheim & Read. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Birdspace: A Post-Audobon Artist’s Aviary. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
traveling to the Hudson River Museum
2003
Now Showing III. Houldsworth, London
A Simple Plan. James Cohan Gallery, New York
In Your Face. Alan Koppel Gallery
Imaging the Abstract. Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York
Abstraction in Photography. Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Intricacy. ICA, Philadelphia, PA
2002
The Antiquarian Avant-garde. Sarah Morthland Galery, New York
Fiat Lux. Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001. New York
Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture. 25 Broad Street, New York
Childhood – Collection of the National Fund of Modern Art, Paris. Multimedia Art Center, Moscow
Air. James Cohan Gallery, New York
2001
Affecting Invention: The Manipulated Photograph. Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
White Light. University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
traveled to 1926 Exhibition Space (School of Art Institute Chicago)
The Crafted Image: Nineteenth-Century Techniques in Contemporary Photography.
Boston University Art Gallery, MA
Affecting Invention: The Manipulated Photograph. Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
SchattenRisse-Silhouetten and Cutouts. Staedtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Uncommon Threads. Contemporary Artists and Clothing. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Re-Thought and Re-Seen: 21st Century Photographers Using 19th Century Processes
(curated by Elizabeth Kirsch). University of Missouri Kansas City, MO
Some Options in Abstraction (Curated by Klaus Kertess).
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Mirror with a Memory: The American Daguerrotype (curated by Keith Davis).
Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Ten Photographers. Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Beyond Borders. Coninx Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Collection of Sir Elton John. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Abstrakte Fotogrfie (Abstract Photography). Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Innoculated Time. Magnetoscopio P.V. Com Ltda,
Casa de Cultura Solar dos Oitis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2000
Déjà vu: Reworking the Past. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Photography About Photography. Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Now! Modern Photographs from the Permanent Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Fluid Flow. James Graham & Sons, New York
Peter Hay Halpert Gallery, New York, NY
Grace (curated by Bill Hunt). The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Tomorrow Land. Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century.
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1999
This is not a Photograph. Pace University Gallery, New York
traveling to University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, CA
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The Big Picture: Large-Format Photography. Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Through the Looking Glass: Visions of Childhood. Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Evoking Myths, Evolving Dreams. Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Still Life: 1900-1998. Marlborough Gallery, New York
In Site 98 - Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography.
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Color. Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Adam Fuss. Glenn Horowitz Book Seller, East Hampton, NY
Artists Who Happen to be Photographers. Nina Freudenheim, Inc., Buffalo, NY
First Annual San Francisco International Art Exposition. Cheim & Read Booth, San Francisco, CA
1997
Lynda Benglis, Adam Fuss, David Salle & Serge Spitzer. Cheim & Read, NY
The Quiet in the Land: Everday Life, Contemporary Art & the Shakers.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Fotomässan, Svenska Mässan. The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre, Göteburg, Sweden
Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
1996
Prospect 96 (Curated by Peter Weiermair) Frankfurt, Germany
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kingdom of Flora. Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Light - Time - Focus, Museum of Contemporary Photography. Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Up North, Down South, Back East and Out West. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Into the Deep Surface. PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles, CA
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art & the Shakers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1995
Bloom. Cristinerose Gallery, NY
In the Garden. Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, IL
Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography. ICI, NY, British Museum, Greenwich,
CT and Pritchard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths-Cameraless Photography.
The National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, England
Nature Studies: Gregory Credson, Adam Fuss, Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Flowers, 20th Century Photographs. Ltd, New York
Seeing Things. Andre Emmerich, NY
Fact, Fiction, and Truth: Contemporary Portraits. Lehman College of Art Gallery, NY
Visions. Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Crossing Borders: The Myst. Apex Art, New York
Possibilities of Extension. Aspex Visual Arts Trust, Portsmouth, England
Silhouettes. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Stockholm Smart Show, Sweden
Abstract Photographs. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Balitmore, MD
Tibet House Benefit Exhibition. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Human/Nature Benefit Exhibition. New Museum, New York
Art Show at the Navy, Chicago, IL
1994
Experimental Vision: The Evolution of the Photogram Since 1919. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Light Fantastic. Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
The Abstract Urge. Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
Shooting Blind. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CO
James Danziger Gallery, New York
Color Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
The Riddle of the Sphinx: The Ages of Man Guillaume Gallozzi. New York
Flora Metafisica: The Not-So-Still-Life of Plants Gramercy International. Chateau Marmont, LA, CA
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
A Garden. Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Nature Studies. Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
1993
Group Photography Exhibition. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Image First: Eight Photographers for the 90’s. Laura Carpenter Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Blooming: The Art of Nature. Renee Fotouhi Fine Art East, East Hampton, NY
A Lure. Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Language of Flowers. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Group Show. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
In Camera. Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Photograms & Photographs; Photographic works by Adam Fuss & Gary Schneider
(curated by Victoria Espy Burns). Thomas Blackman Associates, Chicago, IL
Foreign Ferns: Botanical Studies from Talbot to the Present. Julie Saul Gallery, New York
1992
Abstraction in the ‘90’s. Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Healing. Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
Travelled to the Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Material Matter: Photography and Sculpture from the Collection.
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY
Skulpturen-Fragmente. The Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
Adam Fuss, Pierre et Gilles. Robert Mapplethorpe, Esta Novo, Tokyo
Summer Group Show. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
The Language of Flowers. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1991
Portraits on Paper. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Photography 1980-1990. Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
The Interrupted Life. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Annual International Exhibition.
Casa de la Cultura and the Centro de Arte Regenta, Santa Cruz de Tenerite, Canary Islands
Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum, New York
Circle. Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
Photography From 1980 to 1990. Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, CO
Contemporary Abstract Photography. Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fact or Fantasy. Coup de Grace Gallery, New York
1990
Javier Baldeon and Adam Fuss. Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
Fucares Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1989
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography (curated by Jimmy De Sana).
Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
travelled to Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Marta Cervera Gallery, New York
Creative Camera. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
International Camera. Simon Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
Photography: Recent Acquisitions. Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Pinhole Photography. Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Canada
Prospect Photographie (curated by Peter Weiermair). Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980’s. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Abstraction in Photography. Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Contemporary Photographers. University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Hot Shots: Photographers Who Have Received Major Recognition in 1989.
The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Grundberg, Andy and Saltz, Jerry.
Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
travelled to Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1988
Damon Brandt Gallery, New York
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, NY
Travelled to Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA
1987
Adam Fuss, Mark Morrisroe, The Starn Twins. Massimo Audiello Gallery, NY
1986
Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1985
Alternative Museum, New York
Ledel Gallery, New York
Simon Cerigo Gallery, New York
AWARDS
Sixteenth Annual ICP Infinity Award for Art, 2000
COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Albright-Knox, NY
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Camera Works, Inc.
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Hallmark Photographic Collection
The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Israel Museum, Israel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
U.S. Trust Company, New York, NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Vienna Moderner Kunst Museum
Mr. Paul Walter, New York, NY
Mr. Thomas Walther, New York, NY/Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT