Adam Brent
Education
2001 MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1995 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2018 Slag Contemporary Hyper Prismatic Mesh, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Thompson Giroux, Heroic Faces, Chatham, NY
2016 Slag Contemporary, No Rain, No Rainbows, Brooklyn NY
2016 Volta NY, Pier 92, Slag Gallery presents Adam Brent (Booth C3), New York, NY
2014 Joyce Goldstein, Each One’s a Victory, Chatham, NY
2014 Auxiliary Projects, Good Hill Drift, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Artspace New Haven, Thread New Haven, CT
2011 Infusion Gallery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Make Your Self at Home, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Humanities Gallery, Beyond The Kitchen, The Ceiling Soared, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Wave Hill, Sun Porch, The Ballad of Crook Horn Rd, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2007 The Korn Gallery, Adam Brent: Recent Sculpture, Drew University, NJ
2006 Gathering of Tribes Gallery, Replanting The Community Garden, Adam Brent and William Myers, New York, NY, (Michael Tong, Curator)
2004 Art Lot, Cooked Green, Brooklyn NY
Collaborative Projects
2015 Artscape, BroLab, Anchor Project, Misty Mountain Royals, Baltimore, MD
2015 30 Rock, BroLab, Home Improvement, Brooklyn, NY (Leslie Heller and Deborah Brown, Curators)
2014 Governors Island, BroLab, Spontaneous Interventions, New York, NY (Cathy Lang Ho, Curator)
2014 Nurture Art, BroLab, Multiplicity, New York, NY (Marco Antonini, Curator)
2014 Mattatuck Museum, BroLab, Solo Exhibition, Bevel and Rub, Waterbury, CT
2014 El Museo Del Barrio, BroLab, Museum Starter Kit, Open with Care, New York, NY (Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Curator)
2014 Collective Design Fair 2, BroLab, Interior Faire, Collective Conversation, New York, NY
2014 Freight + Volume, BroLab, Dead Lift, Solo Exhibition, New York, NY
2013 UNTITLED Art Fair, Special Projects, BroLab, Moses Transpo, Miami, FL (Omar Lopez- Chahoud, curator).
2013 Chicago Cultural Center, BroLab, Spontaneous Interventions Chicago, IL
2013 Korean Art Fair, BroLab, Seoul Korea (Heng-Gil Han, curator)
2013 Gallery Aferro, BroLab, Stack and Rack, Newark, NJ
2013 Center for Book Arts, BroLab, Brother Can You Spare a Stack, NY, NY
2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, BroLab, Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, August 2012- Venice, Italy, Pavilion at Giardini (USA) 13th International Architecture Exhibition Common Ground 29th August -25th November 2012
2012 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, BroLab, The Making Of Humps and Bumps, Queens, NY
2012 NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program Presents, BroLab, Summer Streets, New York, NY (commission)
2012 Mott Haven Public Library, BroLab, Piazza Gratissima, Bronx, NY
2012 Newark Open Doors, Newark Arts Council, BroLab, Stack & Rack, Newark, NJ
2012 Bogart Salon, BroLab, Adrift, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Flux Factory, BroLab, Congress of the Collectives, Queens, NY
2011 Bushwick SITE Fest, BroLab, Habeas Corpus, Brooklyn, NY (Jeanne Brasile, curator)
2011 3rd Ward Bushwick SITE Fest, BroLab, Hub Show, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Urban Festival, BroLab, Grid Scenes, NY, NY
2011 New Museum, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New York, NY
2010 Art in Odd Places, Pump 14, NY, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Wave Hill, Call and Response, Bronx, NY
2016 DNA Gallery, DNA Residency Exhibition, Provincetown, MA
2016 Thompson Giroux, Blue Sky, Chatham, NY
2016 Kansas City Art Institute, #F*nked! In conjunction with the 50th Anniversary NCECA conference, Kansas City, MO, (Susie Silbert and Anna Walker, Curators)
2016 Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Glyndor Gallery, Memento Mori, Bronx, NY
2016 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Partnership with NYCDOT, Jamaica Flux, Workspaces and Windows, Queens, NY
2015 Art Market Hamptons, Special Projects Commission, Habitats, Bridge Hampton, NY, (Chantel Foretich Curator),
2015 Thompson Giroux, Fusionera, Chatham, NY
2015 Edward Hopper House, Behind Doors and Through Windows: Reflections on Contemporary Domestic Life, Nyack, NY
2015 Mattatuck Museum, Favorites from the Museum Collection, Waterbury, CT
2015 Thompson Giroux, En Masse, Chatham, NY
2014 DNA Gallery, DNA Residency Exhibition, Provincetown, MA
2014 Jamaica Center For Arts and Learning, HQ For Planning, Queens, NY
2014 Thompson Giroux, Friend of a Friend, Chatham, NY
2013 Gallery Bergen, The Imperative of Teaching, Bergen Community College, NJ (Alieen Wilson and Tara Kopp, Curators)
2012 Skylight Gallery, Amplify Action: Sustainability through the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Big and Small Casual, Small Sculpture, LIC, NY, (Kate Teale, Curator)
2011 Rush Arts Gallery, Curate NYC, Chelsea, NY
2011 Pingry School, Scapes, Martinsville, NJ
2011 BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Neo Nomads: What Travels With You, Brooklyn, NY, (Baseera Khan, Aileen Wilson and Anne Laure Fayard, Curators [w/catalog])
2010 Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, Projects ’10, Islip, NY (W/catalog)
2009 Flux Factory, House Broken, Inaugural Exhibition Queens, NY (W/catalog)
2009 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Living and Dreaming: Aim 29, Bronx, NY (Micaela Giovannotti, Curator [w/ catalog])
2009 Aldrich Museum, Art Daze, Ridgefield, CT
2009 Apexart, I can’t get no satisfaction: Contemporary Views on The Everyday, NY, NY (w/catalog)
2008 Hungarian Cultural Center, Flux Factory Auction, Soho, NY
2007 Flux Factory, New York, New York, New York, Queens, NY, (Melanie Cohn, Curator)
2007 Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Noah’s Ark, Long Branch, NJ
2007 Emergency Arts Gallery, Adam Brent, Kathryn Linch, and Melissa Marks, Chelsea, NY
2007 English Kills Art Gallery, Wood, Bushwick, NY
2006 Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge 7, Newark, NJ
2006 Margaret Thatcher Projects, Certain People I know, NY, NY, (Tommy Everett, Curator)
2005 Branchville Gallery, Equally Vulnerable, Ridgefield, CT, (Jessica Hough, Curator)
2005 Branchville Gallery, NORM(L), Ridgefield, CT
2004 Artist Space, Strangely Familiar, New York, NY, (Titia Hulst, Curator)
2004 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Connections II, The Yard @ Casa Lin, Miami, FL
2004 Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, Art of the Neighborhood, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Visciglia Gallery, Borderlands, Caldwell, NJ
Commissions
2016 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica Center BID, Adam Brent, Through Peaks and Valleys, Queens, NY (w/ catalogue)
2015 Artscape (Anchor Project), BroLab, Misty Mountain Royals, Baltimore, MD
2013 Bronx Museum, Quarter Horse, (BronxLab Lobby Design and Installation) Bronx, NY
2012 NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program Presents, Summer Streets, BroLab, New York, NY
2011 NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program, Sponsored by Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, BroLab, Humps, and Bumps, Queens NY
Service to the Profession
2013-present Urban Art Advisory Group, NYCDOT, NY, NY
2016 Wave Hill Sunroom Committee
2015-Present National Screening Committee (NSC) for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in the field of Sculpture/Installation Art
2010-2012 Juror, Wave Hill Sun Room Project
Lectures and Presentations
2014 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Adam Brent, Queens, NY
2014 Freight + Volume, Hybrid Dynamics, Panel Discussion, New York, NY
2014 Social Adjacencies, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2014 Auxiliary Projects, Adam Brent, Artist Talk, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Brooklyn Arts Council, Traci Talasco, Adam Brent, Kristen Nelsen, Brooklyn, NY
2014 El Museo del Barrio Source Material, New York, NY
2014 Zimmeri Museum, BroLab (Adam Brent and Ryan Roa) @ Slide Jam, Princeton, NJ
2014 Collective Design Fair 2, Collective Conversations, New York, NY
Dressing The Future: Fashion and 3D Printing, (Moderator)
2013 Bronx Museum, 1040 Lounge Artist Spotlight with BroLab, Bronx, NY
2013 Untitled Art Fair, Integral Spaces hosted by BroLab, Miami FL
2013 Untitled Art Fair, Curating Social Practices hosted by BroLab, Miami FL
2013 Untitled Art Fair, Art Futures hosted by BroLab, Miami FL
2013 Wesleyan University, New York Arts Program, Artist Talk, New York, NY
2013 Gallery Affero, BroLab Artist Panel, Newark, NJ
2011 Tactical Urbanism Salon, Organized by Do-Tank & Flux Factory, BroLab Collective, Queens, NY
2011 Collaborative Presentation, Jamaica Center for the Arts, BroLab Collective, Jamaica, NY
2011 Conversation with Mary Miss and Adam Brent, Laboratory Lecture Series, Parsons The New School For Design
2010 Judicial Review w/ Bryan Zanisnik, Panelists Include: Steven Lam, Artist and Associate Dean at The Cooper Union, Adam Brent, Artist and Assistant Professor at Parsons School The New School For Design, Franklin Boyd, Lawyer, Jonathan Melber, Author & Lawyer, Winkleman Gallery, NY, NY
2008 Sun Room Artist Talk, Wave Hill, Bronx NY
2007 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Maryland Institute, College of Art
2007 Visiting Artist and Lecturer: Senior Thesis, Drew University, Fine Arts Department
Honors & Residencies
2016 DNA Resident Artist, Provincetown, MA
2016 Faculty Research and Innovation in Education Funds from the Provost's Office for Food and Design
Fabio Parasecoli, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Food Studies, SPE; co-applicant Adam Brent, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Parsons; Rachel Knopf, Assistant Director, Student Health Services. In conjunction with the newly opened New School Food Pantry, Student Success, and
2016 TEDC, "Urban Food Security in Context: The Lived Experience of Hunger at The New School" creates a transformative educational experience grounded in the tenets of social justice that focuses on issues of food security at different levels.
2014 DNA Resident Artist, Provincetown, MA
2013 Grantee, Puffin Grant, BroLab Collective
2013 School Based Fund, Parsons The New School For Design
2012 Grantee, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, BroLab Collective
2012 Faculty Research and Innovation in Education Funds from the Provosts Office for Living Arts City along with New School colleagues Brian McGrath, Jaskiran Dhillon, Radhika Subramaniam, Victoria Marshall, and Jonathan Bach
2011 Grantee, Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs as administered from the Brooklyn Arts Council
2010 School Based Fund, Parsons New School of Design
2009 Artist in the Market Place Grantee, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Wave Hill Sun Room Competition, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2008 Artists Space, Artists Space's Irving Sandler Artist File Web Space Artist
2007 Nominee, 2007 Visual Artist Grant Award, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2005 Immediate needs Grantee, New York Foundation for Contemporary Art
2005 Emerge 7 Fellowship, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2001 Nomination, Emerging Visual Artist, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Selected Collections
Jack Shear (Director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation), Private Collection, Chatham, NY
David Howe Collection, New York, NY
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Todd Oldam, Designer, New York, NY
Mary Lou Colahan, Islip Museum, Islip, NY
Flux Factory, Queens, NY
The Private Collection of Lin Lougheed, Miami, Florida & NY, NY
The New School Collection, New York, NY
The Private Collection of Katherine Parker, Bridge Hampton, NY
Publications
2014 Parsons School of Design, New York Meet Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh Meet New York, Edited by Victoria Marshall, Essay, Mine The Net, by Adam Brent
2013 Freight + Volume / Volume Editions, Freight + Volume Magazine Issue 5 x Winter 2013-14
This Publication contains interviews conducted by BroLab (written by Adam Brent and Travis LeRoy Southworth) with Ant Farm (Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier), James Hyde, and Mary Mattingly, with an essay written by Alan Reid
2013 Seton Hall University, “BroLab, Some Work Until Now”, Seton Hall University Press
This publication features the socially conscious practice of the artist collective BroLab, from 2010-2012.
Essays by Heng-Gil Han, Jeanne Brasile and an interview with Sergio Bessa
Edited by Jonathan Goodman and Benjamin Evans
2010 Included in, Taking AIM!: The Business of Being an Artist Today, Oxford University Press, edited by Marysol Nieves
Press
D’Agostino, Paul, “Talking Nourishment,” Brooklyn Magazine, October 17th, 2016
Shen, Danni, “Small Collisions: An Interview with Adam Brent,” Wave Hill Blog, June, 29th, 2016
D’Agostino, Paul, “Armory Week: A Pile of Great,” Brooklyn Magazine, March 11th, 2016
Moller, Sabrina, “10 Emerging Artists to Watch at Volta”, Art and Signature, March 6th, 2016
Kessler, Charles, “Greenpoint Open Studios Plus,” Left Bank Art Blog, October 10th, 2014
“Artist Collective BroLab’s Uplifting Public Art”, Artsy Editorial, Feb 19. 2014
McKnight, Jenna M. “Biennale Bulletin: Here We Come Venice!”, Architzer, August 21st, 2012
“Zeiger, Mimi, “Get Local” Architect the Magazine of the American Institute of Architects, August 13th, 2012
“Spontaneous Interventions #1 to #16”, Architect the Magazine of the American Institute of Architects, August 9th, 2012
Pinto, Fausto
Giovanniy, “A European –Style Plaza Opens in Mott Haven, Mott Haven Herald, July 17th, 2012
Chinese, Vera, “BroLab art project in Jamaica,” NY Daily News, April, 19th, 2012
Bockmann, Rich, “Jamaica Art Peeks Curiosity,” Times Ledger, May 10th, 2012
Samuels Tanyanika, “New ‘piazza’ Coming to Mott Haven Library,” NY Daily News, March 29th, 2012
Costella, AnnMarie. “Sit on it! New art will serve purpose” Queens Chronicle, Mar 29
Samuels, Tanyanika, “Art group builds ‘Thrust of Sorrows’ catapult to relieve burdens in the new show,” NY Daily News, September 20th, 2011
Danielle Balbi, “Public Displays of Performance,” The New School Free Press, Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
“Inside Casa Lin’s Quirky Art Jungle,” Ocean Drive Magazine, September Issue, 2011
Cohen, David, “In the Spirit of a World Fair, but Greener: The New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City”, Art Critical May, 3rd, 2011
Rapkins, Rochana, “Last Chance to See Neo- Nomads”, The New York Times The Local, February 24th, 2011
Lorraine, Marian, Why are these men carrying water L-magazine blog, October 20th 2010
Tran, Pauline, “Finding Art in Odd Places,” New York Press, Oct 1st, 2010
Varlese, Erica, “Parsons Adam Brent Explores Relationships Among Nature, Architecture and Humanity,” The Acorn September 14th, 2007
Graeber, Laurel, “Spare Times,” The New York Times, October 3rd, 2008
Cohen, David and Walty, Jenny “The Seed Project” Artworld Digest, March 2007
Cotter, Holland, “Replanting the Community Garden” The New York Times, December 29th, 2006
Pareles, Marissa. “Close-Up on the Columbia Street Waterfront District” The Village Voice, July 1, 2004