SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Works on Paper: A Survey, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2025 Cosmic Repair, Timothy Taylor, New York, NY
The Art of Living Slowly, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2024 Marina Adams, Devals x Salon 94, Paris, France
To a World Full of Others, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
2023 In the Garden of My Memory, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Mother Tongue, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2022 Flower Power, Von Bartha, Copenhagen, Denmark
What Are You Listening To?, LGDR, New York, NY
2021 Wild Is Its Own Way, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Deep Breathing, Von Bartha, S-chanf, Switzerland
Works on Paper (2016-2021), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY
2020 FOCUS: Marina Adams, The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
2019 The Secret of Greek Grammar, Larsen Warner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Anemones, Salon 94, New York, NY
SongLines, Madoo Conservancy, Sagaponack, NY
2017 Soft Power, Salon 94, New York, NY
2016 Marina Adams, Marc Jancou at Giovanella Kunstglaserei, Gstaad, Switzerland
Karma, The Independent, New York, NY
2015 Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY
2013 Coming Thru Strange, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY
2008 CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
1997 The Nature of Line, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
1996 Soaring, 49 Murray, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Abstract Expressionism: The East End, 1940 to Today, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Breakthroughs: Prints from ULAE, David Zwirner, New York, NY (Online)
2025 Towards the Light: Artists for the Ali Fourney Center, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Summer Highlights, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
2024 Light as Space: Marina Adams, Joanne Greenbaum, Anne Truitt, Maruani Mercier, Knokke, Belgium
The Shape of Color, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Hovering on the Edge, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
2023 50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Artists Choose Parrish: Part II, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2022 Regarding Kimber, curated by Jay Gorney, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Structuring Light: Marina Adams, Paul Mogensen & Joanna Pousette-Dart, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2021 An outline taking shape to become a profile, Von Bartha, Copenhagen, Denmark
Affinities for Abstraction: Artists on Eastern Long Island 1950 to 2020, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Shapes, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2020 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
The Backward Glance Can Be A Glimpse Into The Future, 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Good Pictures, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
(Nothing But) Flowers, Karma, New York, NY
Spotlight, Larsen Warner, Falsterbo, Sweden
Painting the Essential: New York, 1980-Present, curated by Chris Martin, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
(online exhibition)
Marina Adams, Virginia Overton and Mamma Andersson, BORCH Editions Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 Focus window space, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, Sweden
Sky Above Clouds, Darrow Contemporary, Aspen, CO
2018 Invitational, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
Carry the Bend, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
American Abstract Painting, Albert Baronian Gallery, Knokke Heist, Belgium
2017 Aspects of Abstraction, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY
Marina Adams, Dream Lover, 39 Great Jones, New York, NY
Artemisia, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
A Space for Thought, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Vanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Say Yes, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Quicktime, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Drawing Island, Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Women’s History Month Invitational, VanDeb Editions, Queens, NY
2016 Girls & Boys Can Still Draw, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
Innervisions: New Prints 2016/Summer, International Print Center, New York, NY
Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Salon Zürcher, New York, NY
2015 The Thing Itself, curated by John Yau, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
#TBT, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
On Paper, curated by Mary McDonnell, Weathervane, Brooklyn, NY
Between the Eyes, curated by Laurel Sucsy, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
Flora & Fauna II, Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY
Edith Schloss, A Retrospective and friends, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
NATION III CIRCLE THE WAGONS!!!, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Almost Delancey: Marina Adams, David Rhodes, Rebecca Smith, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
Hionas at Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
Color, Shape & Form, Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY
The Last Brucennial, BHQF, 837 Washington Street, New York, NY
2013 Come Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1, curated by Phong Bui, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Wit, curated by Joanne Freeman, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Women’s History Month, VanDeb Editions, New York, NY
2012 Color Walks Away: Marina Adams, Howard Hodgkin, Suzanne McClelland, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich,
Switzerland
MIC: CHECK, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pillow Talk, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Draw the Line, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
These are a few of my favorite…, curated by Jerelyn Hanrahan, The End, Brooklyn, NY
Winter Break, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Seek & Hide, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY
Body Language, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2007 Sex in the City, co-organized with CAMH curator Dean Daderko, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
2006 I Feel You, curated by Dean Daderko, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Mimosa, Sala Uno Galleria, Rome, Italy
2003 Americani a Roma, A.A.M. Arte Architettura Moderna, Rome, Italy
Sottovetro, Galleria Esedra, Rome, Italy
Homage to Nina Simone, Everyone’s Gone to the Moon, radioartemobile, Tese delle Vergini garden, Venice Biennale,
Italy
2002 WTC Living in the Shadows, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit, Meridian International Center, Washington D.C.; Traveled to
National Arts Club, New York, NY; SunTrust Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Allied
Museum, Berlin, Germany
Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY
All Drawing, curated by Sharon Horvath, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI USA
2000 Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
FAD 262 Mott St., New York, NY
1999 The Stroke, Exit Art, New York, NY
1998 Crossing Lines, Art in General, New York, NY
1997 Visual Arts Faculty: Past and Present, Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy
1996 Deliberate Hand, The Banyan Tree - Project Room, New York, NY
1995 Lines of Force, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
The Joy of Painting, organized by Alix Lambert, HERE Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Vertical Slice, Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT
Painting Self Evident: Evolutions in Abstraction, curated by Katherine Porter, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
1990 Here and Now, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, VT
Prints by Painters, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Four Person Invitational, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1986 A Celebration of the Arts Apprenticeship Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
1985 Spirited: A Group Show, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Affirmations of Life, curated by Al Loving, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
1983 Turn It Over, curated by Rosann Berry, Painting show in the loft of Sandro Chia, sponsored by White Columns, New
York, NY
GRANTS & AWARDS
2018 American Academy of Arts & Letters, Award of Merit Medal for Painting
2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Rennie Collection, Vancouver, BC, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Marina Adams: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2026
2025 Marina Adams: My Tree Book, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2025
2024 Marina Adams: To a World Full of the Others, text by Mareike Dittmer, von Bartha, Basel, 2024
50 Paintings, by Margaret Andera and Michelle Grabner, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2024
2023 Marina Adams: Mother Tongue, Text by Allie Biswas & Julianne Cordray, Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2023
2022 Marina Adams: Flower Power, Text by Helga Christoffersen, Von Bartha, 2022
Marina Adams: What Are You Listening To?, Text by Raymond Foye, LGDR & American Art Catalogues, 2022
2019 Marina Adams, Monograph, Anemones, Salon 94 & Pacific, 2019
2017 New Alphabet, Accordion-style book of 8 Color Etchings, VanDeb Editions, 2017
2016 Portrait and a Dream, Karma Books, 2016
2015 Actualities, book collaboration with poet Norma Cole, Litmus Press 2015
Cover, Portrait of a Lesser Subject, E. Tracy Grinnell, Elis Press, 2015
2013 At Once Yet Separate: Poet-Artist Collaboration and the Work of Leslie Scalapino, Panel Discussion, St. Mark’s Poetry
Project, 2013
2012 Taormina, A collaborative screenprint with poet Vincent Katz, Kayrock Screenprinting, 2012
Cover, A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, André Maurois, Turtle Point Press, 2012
2010 Bomb Magazine, First Proof, #114, New Alphabet, Winter, 2010
Vue Sur Mer, limited edition book collaboration with Christian Prigent, Gervais Jaussaud publisher, 2010
2009 Cover, If I’m Asleep, Norma Cole, Mermaid Tenement Press, 2009
2006 In Our Own Backyard, collaboration with Norma Cole, Tolling Elves, 2006
2003 Conjunctions, Issue 40, 2003
2001 The Tango, book collaboration with poet Leslie Scalapino, Granary Books, 2001
1998 Cover, Line of Flight, short stories, Bruce Comens, shuffaloff press, 1998
1995 Cover, Moira, Norma Cole, O Books, 1995
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Magazine, March 18
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LGDR," The New York Times, June 15
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PODCASTS & OTHER MEDIA
2021 "On the Spot with Marina Adams," The Brooklyn Rail, March 6
2020 Green, Tyler. "No. 476: Siddhartha Mitter, Marina Adams," The Modern Arts Notes Podcast, December 18
Lasry, Evelyn. "Pt. 5: The Painter & The Critic, Marina Adams and Barry Schwabsky," Between Two Palms podcast,
August 29
Pack, Pia. "Episode 49: Marina Adams," What Artists Listen To podcast, July 6
2017 "Jessica Bell Brown, Jennifer Samet, John Yau and David Cohen," artcritical, The Review Panel podcast, February 21