Terry Adkins

Terry Adkins: Curator's Talk, Pulitzer Arts Foundation 

Join curators Katie Delmez of the Frist Art Museum, Jamaal Sheats of Fisk University Galleries, and Stephanie Weissberg of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation for a virtual happy hour conversation on Terry Adkins. Discover how the hidden histories behind notable figures like George Washington Carver, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Bessie Smith inspired Adkins and his art. Learn about these little-known stories through the works featured in the exhibitions Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar and Terry Adkins: Resounding.

This free program will be presented on Zoom; registration is required here. 

Thursday, 24 September, 5:30pm CT

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Terry Adkins: Live Conversation, Pulitzer Arts Foundation 

Join curators Katie Delmez of the Frist Art Museum, Jamaal Sheats of Fisk University Galleries, and Stephanie Weissberg of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation for a virtual happy hour conversation on Terry Adkins. Learn about and listen to the music that formed Adkins’s creative vision and helped inspire the works featured in the exhibitions Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar and Terry Adkins: Resounding.

This event is free and will be broadcast via Zoom. Registration is required.

Thursday, 21 May, 5:30pm CT (11:30pm BST)

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Terry Adkins: Radical Broadcast - Lone Wolf Recital Corps, Pulitzer Arts Foundation 

Founded in 1986 by Terry Adkins, the Lone Wolf Recital Corps is a rotating collective of multidisciplinary artists and musicians who activate his signature “recitals,” ensembles of sculptures, environments, and performances in homage to under-represented historical figures. This performance features Adkins’s masked alter-ego Blanche Bruce and is organized by Corps members Clifford Owens and Kamau Amu Patton. Together, they will present a joint meditation on two of the Corps’s earliest scores from 1987, Second Mind and Alto Age. Owens will perform live in his apartment in New York, and Patton will be working simultaneously with prerecorded sound and video from his studio in Chicago.

The global audience is invited to join Radical Broadcast, Performa’s live performance space, via Performa’s website.

Friday, 1 May 2020

9:00pm

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Terry Adkins: Resounding, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis

This exhibition traces Terry Adkins’ development over his more than three-decade career with nearly fifty works across a variety of media including sound, sculpture, video, and printmaking. The exhibition features rarely exhibited examples of Adkins’s early practice alongside some of his most celebrated works, bringing together selections from several acclaimed installations for the first time since their historic debut. In addition, the exhibition includes a range of items that the artist collected, including books, musical instruments, and objects from diverse artistic traditions.

Pulitzer Arts Foundation

3716 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108

Exhibition dates: 13 March - 2 August 2020

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Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar, Frist Art Museum, Nashville 

These concurrent presentations of sculptures, prints, installations, and video by Terry Adkins are exhibited forty-five years after Adkins’s graduation from Fisk. The exhibition pays special attention to the influence that his time in Nashville had on the late internationally acclaimed artist. ⁣

Frist Art Museum 

Exhibition dates: 20 February - 31 May 2020

Fisk University Galleries

Exhibition dates: 20 February - 12 September 2020 

Frist Art Museum
919 Broadway
Nashville, TN

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Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze LA 2020

Drawing(s)
Thomas Dane Gallery 
Stand: C08

Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Walead Beshty, Lynda Benglis, Cecily Brown, Anya Gallaccio, Arturo Herrera, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Michael Landy, Bob Law, Glenn Ligon, Lari Pittman, Amy Sillman, Caragh Thuring and Akram Zaatari.

Preview: 13 February 2020
Public days: 14-16 February 2020

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Art Basel - Stand: R18

Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, John Gerrard, Anthea Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Barbara Kasten, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Caragh Thuring, Kelley Walker, and Akram Zaatari. 

Preview: 11-12 June 2019 
Public days: 13-16 June 2019

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Terry Adkins: Renditions I - III, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Renditions I - III is a three-part exhibition highlightling Native Son (Circus), a sound-based kinetic sculpture by Terry Adkins. 

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1934 Poplar Avenue

Memphis

TN 38104

On view through 26th May 2019.

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Frieze LA - Stand: C8

Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Bruce Conner, Anya Gallaccio, John Gerrard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Luisa Lambri, Michael Landy and Marisa Merz. 

Preview: 14 February 

Public days: 15-17 February 

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Terry Adkins: À Cris Ouverts, 6th edition of Les Ateliers de Rennes - Contemporary Art Biennale

29 September - 2 December 2018

Rennes, France

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Terry Adkins: Infinity Is Always Less Than One

17 May - 23 September, 2018

Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

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