Derrick Adams (b. 1970) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from Columbia University, and he is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio program. He has received multiple notable awards including the Gordon Parks Fellowship Award in 2018 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2009; he was also an honored finalist for the William H. Johnson Prize in 2011. Derrick Adams has been exhibiting extensively since 2001, including exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and more. His work is included in many permanent public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Additional Artworks
From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College
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Robert Lazzarini
Untitled (Self-Portrait), 2006
Graphite on paper
14 x 14 in (35.56 x 35.56 cm)
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William R. Ferris
Pete Seeger, San Francisco, Calif., 1990
Gelatin silver print
9 x 13.5 in (22.86 x 34.29 cm)
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Jim Richardson
Connie & Einer Schon at their wedding dance at The Hall, 1985
Gelatin silver print
64 x 10.875 in (162.56 x 27.62 cm)
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Stephen Endres
Untitled IV, 1978
Lithograph on paper
22.1875 x 29.875 in (56.36 x 75.88 cm)
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A.R. Ammons
Untitled, 1977
Watercolor and ink on Arches paper
24 x 18 in (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
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Neil G. Welliver
Brown Trout, 1976
Hand-colored etching on paper
19.5 x 29.25 in (49.53 x 74.3 cm)
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Jed Robert Fielding
Peru #65, from RISD Portfolio, 1975
Gelatin silver print mounted to drawing board
5.75 x 8.5 in (14.61 x 21.59 cm)
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Joyce Tenneson
Untitled (from "Still Life"), 1995-2000
Color instant print (Polaroid)
29.875 x 22 in (75.88 x 55.88 cm)
About the artist
Derrick Adams
American
b. 1970