PAT ADAMS

BORN
July 8, 1928
Stockton, CA

EDUCATION
1949 BA University of California, Berkeley
Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Epsilon

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York: Then Found
2017 Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT: Gatherum of Quiddities
2011 National Association of Women Artists, 122nd Celebration: Pat Adams Paintings
2008 Zabriskie Gallery, New York: Pat Adams Paintings
2005 Zabriskie Gallery, New York: Pat Adams Paintings 50th Anniversary Survey: 1954-2004
2004 Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT: Small Works by Adams
2003 Zabriskie Gallery, New York: New Paintings
2001 Zabriskie Gallery, New York: Paintings biennially since 1956, Monotypes: 1999, 1994, 1993
2001 Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Performing Arts Center, Burlington, VT
1994 Jaffe/Friede/Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, NH
1989 Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, ME
1988 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, Survey 1979-88
1988 Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1988 New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
1988 American Association for Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
1986 Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA
1986 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1983 Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1982 Columbia Museum of Art and Science, SC
1982 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1980 Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1980 Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France
1979 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Survey 1954-78
1978 Rutgers University Jane Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ
1978 Zabriskie Gallery: 25th Anniversary Survey 1952-78
1977 Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1972 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1967 Windham College, Putney, VT
1966 Middlebury college Art Museum, VT
1959 Kanegis Gallery, Boston, MA
1959 Wheaton College, Wheaton, MA
1954 Korman Gallery, New York, NY
1950 Haggin Museum Art Gallery, Stockton, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 "Abstraction: Masterworks from Bennington College Collection," Bennington, VT
2014 "Vermont Voices," Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2014 "In Residence," Hood Musuem, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2013 "Women Choose Women Again," Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ
2013 “The Annual: 2013,” National Academy Museum, NY
2013 “Bennington Modernism,” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2012 North Bennington Art Park, Bennington, VT
2011 “Putting it Together,” David Findlay Jr Gallery, New York, NY
2011 “Geomancer,” BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT
2010 14th Annual Art Park, Bennington, VT
2010 “Lucky 13,” North Bennington Art Park, Bennington, VT
2009 “A Parellel Presence,” National Association of Women Artists 1889-2009 at Rutgers University, Zimmerli Museum, and VBS Art Gallery, New York, NY
2009 City Arts on Pearl at Theatre Woods Gallery of American Art, Hartford, CT
2009 184th Natioanl Academy Annual Exhibition
2009 “Masterworks,” BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT
2009 “The Mouse House: Art from the Collection of Olga Hirshhorn,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
2007 “182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,” National Academy Museum
2007 “The Abstract Impulse,” (abstract art 1956-2006) National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2006 “From the Collection,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2006 “Vermont Collections,” Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2006 “Print Selection from VSC Press,” Catherine Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro, VT
2006 “BIG/little,” Philoctetes Center, NY
2005 “Art of Achievement: 40th Anniversary,” Vermont Arts Council, T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
2005 “New York/Paris: 1980 Season,” Zabriskie Gallery
2004 “Selections from the Collection,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2004 “Espacio Negativo/Terreno Nyorquino”, Galeria Nacional, Museo de los Niño, San Jose, Costa Rica
2003 “178th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2003 “Challenging Tradition”, National Academy Museum
2003 “The Golden Age of UC Berkeley Art Department, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002 “Vermont Studio Center Press Prints”, Robert Hall Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2000 “Simple Statements” University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2000 “Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England, Recent Acquisitions”, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1999 “Works by Women: 20th Century Art from the Permanent Collection”, Middlebury College Art Museum, VT
1999 “Artists’ Choice: Beyond the Millenium”, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT
1998 “Contemporary Selections from National Academy at Silvermine”, Silvermine Guild Art Center, CT
1998 “The Pulled Image”, Vermont Studio Press, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
1997 “Out there”, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 “Abstract Tendencies”, Rider University, NJ
1996 “Recipients of Honors and Awards In Art”, American Academy of Art and Institute of Art and Letters, NY
1996 Art in Embassies Program: Bern, Switzerland
1995 170th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NY
1995 “Selected Paintings” Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1995 “Faculty Works on Paper”, Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1994 “A View of One’s Own”, Voorhees-Zimmerle Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1994 Art in Embassies Program: Mexico City, Mexico
1993 “Late Modern Drawings, 1960-1970s”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
1993 “Contemporary Monoprints”, Associated American Artists, NY
1992 “Zabriskie 1991-92, New York/Paris”, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France
1991 “Traditional Sources, Contemporary Visions”, Webb/Parsons Gallery in collaboration with the Shelburne Museum, Burlington, VT
1991 “Transformations”, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
1991 “From the Bennington College Collection”, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1990 “Yale Painting Faculty Exhibition 1950-1990” (Honoring Bernard Chaet), Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1990 “Faculty: 1990”, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
1989 “New England Art Now”, traveled throughout New England
1988 “Painters Make Prints”, traveling: Maryland Institute of Art; Hood College, Frederick, Maryland; Frostburg State University, Lincoln, MD
1987 “Artist/Printmaker”, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland College of Art
1987 “Faculty Works”, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
1987 “New England Now: Contemporary Artists from Six States”, traveling: De Cordova Museum, MA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME; List Gallery, Brown University, RI; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; Currier Gallery, NH; Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
1986 “Recipients of Awards in Art”, American Academy of Art and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1985 “Recent Acquisitions”, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1984 “Contemporary Artists in Vermont”, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
1983 “Selection from the collections”, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
1983 “National Invitational Exhibition”, University of Hawaii at Hilo
1983 “Recent Works”, American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.
1983 “Aspects of Color”, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1983 “Art and Technology: Offset Prints”, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
1982 “20/20: Twenty Artists/Twenty Galleries”, Terry Dintenfass and Grace Borgenicht Galleries, New York, NY
1982 “Graham Gund Collection: A Private Eye”. Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1981 “Recent Acquisitions”, Montclair Art Museum, NJ
1981 “Invitation ‘81”, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1981 “For Love and Money: Dealers Choose”, Pratt Institute, Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY
1980 “Draw ‘80”, College of Saint Rose Art Gallery,
1980 “Painterly Abstraction”, Brockton Art Museum, MA
1980 “Islamic Allusions”, Alternative Museum, NY
1980 "Invitational Exhibition", American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1979 “Faculty Choice”, State university of New York at Albany
1979 “100 Artists – 100 Years”, Art institute of Chicago, IL
1978 "Artists’ Postcards II”, Cooper-Hewitt museum, NY
1978 "Perspectives ’78: Works by Women”, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
1978 “New England Connections”, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, MA
1977 “New in the Seventies”, University o9f Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX
1977 “Contemporary Issues: Works by Women on Paper”, Women’s Caucus on Art, traveling exhibition
1977 “New Acquisitions”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.
1976 “A Bite from the Big Apple”, Indiana University Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN
1976 “June Invitational”, Noho Gallery, NY
1976 “ Seven Decades of MacDowell Artists, James Yu Gallery, NY
1976 “Artists at Bennington” Visual Arts Faculty 1932-76”, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
1975 “Twenty American Fulbright Artists”, Institute of International Education, New York, NY
1974 “Inaugural Exhibition’, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1974 Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NY
1974 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1973 “Women Choose Women”, New York Cultural Center
1972 “Color Forum”, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX
1972 “American Women Artists”, Gedok Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
1972 “Unmanly Art”, Suffolk Museum, New York, NY
1972 “118 Artists”, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1972 “6 Women Artists”, Kent State University, OH
1970 “Hirshhorn Select’, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1968 “Betty Parsons Collection”, Finch College, NY
1967 “18 Americans”, Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY
1966 “Works on Paper”, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1965 “100 American Drawings”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1965 “Inform and Interpret”, American Federation of Art, traveling exhibition
1964 “Done and Redone”, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY 1962 “Lyricism in Abstract Art”, American Federation of Art, traveling exhibition
1962 “Recent Acquisitions”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1961 "Painting Annual", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1961 “Private Myth”, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1961 “Symbolist Legacy”, Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, TX
1960 “Experience I and II”, Hirshl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY
1960 "Invitational Exhibition", James Gallery, New York, NY
1959 Watercolor Annual, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA
1958 “Ten Year Fulbright Painting”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1958 “The New Landscape in Art and Science”, American Federation of Art, traveling exhibition
1957 “41 Aquarellistes”, Museum of Modern Art, traveling exhibition (France)
1957 “College USA”, American Federation of Art, traveling exhibition
1956 "Painting Annual", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1956 "5th Annual", Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1954 “The Magic of Black and White”, Four Directions Gallery, New York, NY
1953 “14 at Korman”, Korman Gallery, New York, NY
1952 “Americans in Europe”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bordighera, Italy
1950 Painting Sculpture Annual, Oakland Art Museum, CA
1949 Watercolors, Prints, Drawing Annual, Oakland Art Museum, CA
1948 Paintings and Sculpture annual, Oakland Art Museum, CA

GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2003 National Academy Museum, Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award
1996 American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Award
1995 National Academy Museum, Andrew Carnegie Award for Painting 1995 Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
1994 Dartmouth College, Artist in Residence
1992 National Academy of Design, as Associate; and as Academician, 1993
1992 Honorary Vice Chairman National Association of Women Artists
1990 Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
1986 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Award in Art
1984 College Art Association Distinguished teaching of Art Award
1983 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam Purchase Award, and 1985, 1989
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Award in Painting, and 1987
1968 National Council of Arts Award in Painting
1968 Mac Dowell Colony Residency, and 1972
1956 Fulbright to France
1954 Yaddo Foundation Residency, Summer, and 1964, 1969, 1970
1952 Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bordighera, Italy, “Americans in Europe” Purchase Prize

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bennington College, Usdan Gallery, VT
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Galeria d'arte Moderna, Bordhighera, Italy
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C.
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN
Middlebury College Art Museum, VT
Montclair Museum of American Art, NJ
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
New Britain Museum of American art, CT
Philadelphia Museum, PA
J.D. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
University of North Carolina Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
University of Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
Charles A. Wustrum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
Jane Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Arkansas Art Center, Little Roch, AR
The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
Kent State University, Kent, OH
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI