Adam Parker Smith

Venus and Amor, 2022, White Carrara marble on stone pedestal, Scupture imensions: 50 x 38 x 33 inches, 127 x 97 x 84 cm.

Contrapposto Pool Float (Nude Kathy), 2022, resin, fiberglass, steel, urethane and marble base, Piece dimensions: 56 x 22 x 17 inches, 142 x 56 x 43 cm.

Contrapposto Pool Float, 2019, resin, fiberglass, steel, and urethane, sculpture Dimensions: 56 x 22 x 17 inches, 142 x 56 x 43 cm. Pedestal Dimensions: 12 x 24 x 14 inches, 31 x 61 x 36 cm

Crushed, 2022, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

Hell Raiser, 2019, resin, steel and urethane, 22 x 26 x 15 inches, 56 x 66 x 38 cm

Mr. Risky, 2019, resin, steel, urethane, jute rope, 22 x 20 x 11 inches, 56 x 51 x 28 cm

Let's Celebrate, 2019, The Hole, New York, NY

Thinking Of You, 2019, resin, fiberglass, urethane, steel, ultra-light, Carrara Marble, 26 x 26 x 67 inches, 66 x 66 x 170 cm

Fearlessly The Idiot Faces The Crowd (Pink), 2019. Resin, fiberglass, urethane, steel, hydra-stone / cement composite, 67 x 12 x 52 inches, 170 x 30.5 x 132 cm

Sabine Pool Float (Lime Green, Hot Pink), 2020, resin, steel, urethane, travertine, 98 x 42 x 31 inches, 249 x 107 x 79 cm

Shibari Heart (Rose Gold), 2021, resin, steel, urethane, jute, 13 x 13 x 8 inches, 33 x 33 x 20 cm.

Doves (Rose), 2023, bronze, steel, marble, 118 x 53 x 69 inches, 300 x 134 x 176 cm.

Sarcophagus, NADA House 2021, The Hole, New York, NY

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Adam Parker Smith’s practice is primarily sculptural, relating to painting, wall relief and appropriation. Following an extended conceptual project that consisted of Smith stealing his colleagues’ work, the artist turned toward a more traditional – perhaps earnest – approach to art-making. Working largely with ‘faux’ materials of all sorts, Smith creates highly composed, brightly colored sculptures and wall pieces that flirt with the surreal. Smith has exhibited work nationally and internationally, and has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, the New York Times and the New Yorker.

adam parker smith

b. 1978, California, USA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

education

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

2008

Tyler School of Art, Temple University, M.F.A. Painting

2003

University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A. Painting

2000
solo and two-person exhibitions

NADA Foreland, The Hole, Catskill, NY

2023

Standing on the Moon, The Watermill Center, New York, NY

2023

Crush, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2022

Flight of Fancy, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

Standing on the Moon, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY

2021

Oneiroi, McEvoy Ranch, Petaluma

2020

Let’s Celebrate, The Hole, NY

2019

Meanwhile, Galería Curro, Guadalajara

2019

Kidnapping Incites Years of Murderous Doom, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY

2017

The Cut (with Eric Shaw), Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA

2016

Oblivious the Greek, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY

2016

Indefinite Free Time (with Robert Chase Heishman), LVL3, Chicago, IL

2014

Seriously, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014

Angelyne, La Montagne Gallery, Boston, MA

2013

Forever 21, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012

Funny Business, Nordine ZIDOUN, Luxembourg

2012

Crush, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011
group exhibitions

NADA Miami, The Hole, Miami, FL

2023

The Armory Show, The Hole, NY

2023

Storage Wars, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Dallas Art Fair, The Hole, Dallas, TX

2023

Into the Vortex, The Pit x The Hole, Palm Springs, CA

2023

Zona Maco, The Hole, CDMX, Mexico

2023

New Construction, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2022

NADA Miami, The Hole, Miami, FL

2022

Art Shanghai 021, The Hole, Shanghai, China

2022

The Armory Show, The Hole, New York, NY

2022

Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022

NADA New York, The Hole, New York, NY

2022

Art Brussels, The Hole, Brussels, Belgium

2022

Zona Maco, The Hole, CDMX, Mexico

2022

Phase Two, The Hole, East Hampton, NY

2021

Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, NY

2021

Balloon Dropping From a Ceiling Fan, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA

2021

Can’t Wait to Meet You, Primary Projects, Miami, FL

2021

Un Negocio de Afecto y Adversión (Inebriate of Air Am I), Curro Gallery, Guadalajara

2020

Vortex, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

2020

From New York to Brussels; Los Angeles to Shanghai, Spurs Gallery, Beijing

2020

Second Smile, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY

2020

The Smiths, Marlborough, London

2019

Post Analog Studio, The Hole, New York, NY

2019

Dallas Art Fair, The Hole, Dallas, TX

2019

ALAC, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Zona Maco, The Hole, Mexico City, Mexico

2019

“Gold Standard ” 10 Year Anniversary Exhibiton, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA

2019

EXPO Chicago, The Hole, Chicago, IL

2018

CODE Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

ALAC, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2018

UNTITLED Art Fair, The Hole, Miami Beach, FL

2018

Contemporary Istanbul, The Hole, Istanbul, Turkey

2018

Uncanny Memories, Sophia Contemporary Gallery, London

2018

We Never Know How High We Are, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA

2018

Out Of Our Closet, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA

2018

Uncanny Memories, Sophia Contemporary, London

2018

ALAC, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Default, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Bargain Basement, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY (Curated)

2016

Sugar Talk, LVL3, Chicago, IL

2016

Objects and Everyday Goods, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

2016

Not a Photo, The Hole, New York, NY

2015

A Rare Earth Magnet, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

2015

BOGO, Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY

2015

Making an Entrance, Robert Blumenthal Gallery/ LVL3, New York, NY

2015

Colors, Louis B. James, New York, NY

2015

Soft Core, Invisible Exports, New York, NY

2015

Not a Painting, The Hole, New York, NY

2015

What it Was (curated), Nurture Art, New York, NY

2015

Makers Mark, Regina Rex, New York, NY

2015

Green, Spring Break, New York, NY

2015

Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism, Denny Gallery, New York, NY

2014

Cemeterium, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL

2014

Alpenliebe, Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-höhe, Austria

2014

Grey Area, Bergdorf Goodman window, New York, NY

2014

AB, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy

2013

Cut and Paste, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado

2013

Thanks (curated), Lu Magnus, New York, NY

2013

Young Curators, New Ideas IV, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, NY

2012

This Side of Paradise, Andrew Freedman House, New York, NY

2012

Shift Mindsets, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

2011

Al Ghaib, Aesthetics of the Disappearance, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE, and STUX, New York

2011

Growing Pains, Charles de Jonghe, Brussels, Belgium

2010

The West at Sunset, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

2010

Skowhegan at 92YTribeca, 92YTribeca, New York, NY

2010

Unveil, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

2010

Armed and Dangerous: The Art of the Arsenal, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

2010
select press

Taylor Dafoe, artnetnews, “With All Art Fairs Postponed, One New York Dealer Decided to Erect a Fair Booth Inside Her Gallery to Lure Buyers- and, So Far, It’s Working!”

2020

Amy Verner, “Botter,” VOGUE, January 16

2020

“Let’s Celebrate: Adam Parker Smith Returns to The Hole NYC,” Juxtapoz Magazine, October 25

2019

Jessica Klingelsfuss, “Keeping Up With The Smiths: A London Gallery Unites Artists With The Same Surname,” Wallpaper, July 19

2019

“The Smiths,” Time Out London, July 3

2019

Devon Van Housten Maldonado, “All the Art You Need to See at This Year’s Massive EXPO CHICAGO,” OBSERVER, September 28

2018

“Artist Adam Parker Smith’s Midas touch turns objects into statues,” Interview Magazine, April 25

2018

Adam Lehrer, “That’s a Damn Fine Painting: An Interview With Artist Adam Parker Smith,”AUTRE, June 23.

2016

Picks, “Oblivious the Greek, Adam Parker Smith at The Hole, NYC,” NYAQ, June 22.

2016

Adam Lehrer, “5 Can’t Miss Art Shows Of The Week Of June 6” Forbes, June 7.

2016

John Chiaverina, “Rodents, Sitcoms, and Seven Minutes In Heaven:At The Spring/Break Art Show,”ArtNews, March 2.

2016

Scott IndRisek, “Death Metal, Cocaine, Mouse Strippers: Inside Art Los Angeles Contemporary,”BLOUINARTINFO, January 29.

2016

Roberta Smith, “In ‘A Rare Earth Magnet’ at Derek Eller, a Focus on Repurposed Materials” The New York Times, August 13.

2015

“A Rare Earth Magnet,”The New Yorker, August 10.

2015

Matthew Sedacca, “How Thomas Barrow’s ‘Millennial Notes’ Predicted Material Decline,” VICE, The Creators Project, August 4.

2015

“Soft Core,” The New Yorker, July 27.

2015

Cait Munro, “14 of the Best Summer Gallery Group Shows in New York,”ARTnetNews, July 6.

2015

“Highlights From Spring/Break Show at Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York,” Purple, March 11.

2015

Glen Roven, “Eating Art,” The Huffington Post, March 6.

2015

Allison Meier, “ Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station,”Hyperallergic, March 4.

2015

Kate Messinger, “ 20 Art Shows to See This Spring in NYC,”Paper, March 4.

2015

Brian Boucher, “When Is Artist-on-Artist Theft Okay?,”ARTnetNEWS, February 3.

2015

Eviana Hartman, “The Art of Compromise,” Dwell, August 26.

2014

Laura Jaye Cramer, “Seriously: Works by Adam Parker Smith at Ever Gold Gallery,” SF Weekly, May 8.

2014

Kimberly Chun, “Adam Parker Smith: High and low cultural mix at Ever Gold,” San Fransisco Chronicle, May 7.

2014

Nathalie Danilovich, “Superheroes, Stars, and Strange New Installations at SF’s Art Galleries,” 7X7SF, April 29.

2014

Allyson Shiffman, “Adam Parker Smith at Brooklyn Artists Ball,” Bedford and Bowery, April 2nd.

2014

Rebecca Bates, “Art and Fashion Intersect In Bergdorf Goodman’s Windows,” Architectural Digest, Febuary 21.

2014

Cate McQuaid, “A Much Larger Gambit,” The Boston Globe, May 28.

2013

Mateo Finale, “Critics’ Picks,” The Boston Globe, May 8.

2013

Lauren Scott Miller, “Theft and Building Community,” TheHuffington Post, May 7.

2013

Jenni Crain, “Adam Parker Smith Stole 77 Artworks and Lived to Tell About It,” Whitewall Magazine, April 22.

2013

Mark Dendy, “Thievery is Part of The Process in Putting Together One Artist’s Exhibit,” The Examiner, March 29.

2013

Melena Ryzik, “Sticky Fingers Make the Show,” The New York Times, March 28.

2013

Paul D’agostino, “Art Picks From Print,” The L Magazine, March 28.

2013

Brian Boucher, “Steal This Artwork: Adam Parker Smith Filches a Show,” Art in America March 13.

2013

Kristin Iversen, “Storefront Bushwick: Art, Open to the Street,” Brooklyn Magazine, March 8.

2013

“The Aprroval Matrix,” New York Magazine, Febuary 11.

2013

Paul D’Agostino, “Brooklyn Art in 2013: What to Watch,” The L Magazine, January 2.

2013

Alexander Bigman, “Forever 21,” SFAQ December 1.

2013

Kimberly Chun, “Adam Parker Smith at Ever Gold,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 14.

2012

Ben Valentine, “Ferris Bueller, Vodkamellons, and Other Youthful Follies,” Hyperallergic.com, November 14.

2012

“Hot Picks,” Modern Painters, September.

2012

Chloe Wyma, “Bright Young Things,” ARTINFO, July 10.

2012

Hrag Vartanian, “9 Artist to Watch from the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios,” Hyperallergic.com, June 12.

2012

Tina Orlandini, “Reinventing the Pop-up Gallery With Sights on Community,” The Huffington Post, May 5.

2012

“Four Shows To See During Bushwick Open Studios,” NY Arts Magazine, May 31.

2012

Jaime Rojo and Steven Harrington, “Poor House for the Rich Revitalized by the Arts,” The Huffington Post, March 27.

2012

Paul D’ Agostino, “Phantasmagoria and Phalli at Ghost Face,” The L Magazine, March 21.

2012

Benjamin Sutton, “Ten Must-Sees at This Weekend’s DUMBO Arts Festival,” The L Magazine, September 21.

2011

Nie Yiting, “Critics pick, Guangdong Times Museum,” Artforum.com, August.

2011

David Everitt Howe, “The West at Sunset,” Art Review, March.

2011

Deirdre Hering, “See Something Among Works That Say Nothing,” The L Magazine, June 23.

2010

Manya Scheps, “Value City,” Philadelphia Weekly, May.

2010

Rachel Wolff, “New Artist Profile,” Whitewall Magazine Issue 17, Spring.

2010

Jonathan Wallis, “Unveil” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid,” City Paper Philadelphia, January 19.

2010

Ian Bourland, “Critics pick, The Austerity Cookbook,” Artforum.com, September/ October.

2009

Stacey Dewolfe, “Guns N’ Antlers,” Montreal Mirror, June/July.

2009

“Urbis Delivers Hot Stuff From New York,” Art World April / May,

2009

Roberta Smith, “Humble Fabric Takes Center Stage,” The New York Times, April 30.

2009

Karen Rosenberg, “Toplessness and Taxidermy in Art Fairs Surrounding Armory,” The New York Times, March 7.

2009

Benjamin Genocchio, “In Peekskill, 2 Shows of Raw Works,” The New York Times, September 26.

2008

Michael Harvey, “Review of Exhibitions,” Art in America, May.

2008

Sarah Schmerler, “Change of Art,” New York Post, March 29.

2008

R.C. Baker, “Recommendations by R.C. Baker,” Village Voice, December 18.

2007
awards

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting

Venus and Amor, 2022, White Carrara marble on stone pedestal, Scupture imensions: 50 x 38 x 33 inches, 127 x 97 x 84 cm.

Contrapposto Pool Float (Nude Kathy), 2022, resin, fiberglass, steel, urethane and marble base, Piece dimensions: 56 x 22 x 17 inches, 142 x 56 x 43 cm.

Contrapposto Pool Float, 2019, resin, fiberglass, steel, and urethane, sculpture Dimensions: 56 x 22 x 17 inches, 142 x 56 x 43 cm. Pedestal Dimensions: 12 x 24 x 14 inches, 31 x 61 x 36 cm

Crushed, 2022, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

Hell Raiser, 2019, resin, steel and urethane, 22 x 26 x 15 inches, 56 x 66 x 38 cm

Mr. Risky, 2019, resin, steel, urethane, jute rope, 22 x 20 x 11 inches, 56 x 51 x 28 cm

Let's Celebrate, 2019, The Hole, New York, NY

Thinking Of You, 2019, resin, fiberglass, urethane, steel, ultra-light, Carrara Marble, 26 x 26 x 67 inches, 66 x 66 x 170 cm

Fearlessly The Idiot Faces The Crowd (Pink), 2019. Resin, fiberglass, urethane, steel, hydra-stone / cement composite, 67 x 12 x 52 inches, 170 x 30.5 x 132 cm

Sabine Pool Float (Lime Green, Hot Pink), 2020, resin, steel, urethane, travertine, 98 x 42 x 31 inches, 249 x 107 x 79 cm

Shibari Heart (Rose Gold), 2021, resin, steel, urethane, jute, 13 x 13 x 8 inches, 33 x 33 x 20 cm.

Doves (Rose), 2023, bronze, steel, marble, 118 x 53 x 69 inches, 300 x 134 x 176 cm.

Sarcophagus, NADA House 2021, The Hole, New York, NY

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