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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2019  Animals of the Arroyo Seco site-specific installation, Upper Arroyo Seco Trail, Pasadena, CA

2018  AdachiDingle a collaborative project with Kim Dingle, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

2013  Dog Day Afternoon Shoebox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010  How Much Is That Doggie In The Window? 24-Hour Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2007  Double or Nothing Kristi Engle Gallery and LMAN Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2005  Home For The Holidays (Freedom From Want) COMA (Closet of Modern Art) CSULA, Los Angeles, CA 

2004  Working Girl Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2003  Mufti American Intercontinental University School of Design, Los Angeles, CA

1999  Pret-a-Poulet Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1997  Trolling For Truth: An Indepth Investigation of an Era Mendenhall Art Gallery Whittier College, Whittier, CA

1994  Nancy's Big Secret Charleston Heights Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV

1993  Margaret Adachi New Media Gallery Ventura College, Ventura, CA

          Irony and Transformation Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2023  Seriously? Art & Humor for Challenging Times Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

2018  Mothers, Eggshells, and the People Who Birth Us curated by Kim Abeles, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA

2016  BroadCast 2016 curated by Kim Abeles and Ken Marchionno, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA

2014  Olly Olly Oxen Free curated by Kristi Engle, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA 

2012  Untamed (Parking) Spaces NewTown and Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA

          La Senorita of the River of Our Lady, Queen of Porciuncula Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA

2011  Pet Project Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

2010  Set Theory 1 Roland Reiss Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

          ONT 99 Cents Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA

2009  LAX 99 Cents Terminal 1, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA

2008  Mogility Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA

          Animal Magnetism Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2006  Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

          Earthly Creatures LMAN Gallery, Los Angeles. CA

2004  Double Take The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA

2003  Food Matters, Explorations in Contemporary Art Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2002  Relative Objects POST, Los Angeles, CA

          From  Picasso to Extremo, A Thousand Clowns Give or Take a Few Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

          Animal Instinct Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA

2001  Barnsdall Art Park Targets:  Art Crawl 4 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, El Batey #2, Los Angeles, CA

          Art for Peace The Projective Artist’s Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

          Fresh Gallery 207, West Hollywood, CA

2000  Spazi di Pace Centro Arti Visive “Campo D’Osservazione”  Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy

1999  Hubcap Diamond Star Halo curated by Leonardo Bravo and Christopher Miles, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

          Broadcast curated by Kim Abeles, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA

1998  On Politics Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA

          One Night Stand Farmer’s Daughter Motel, West Hollywood, CA

1997  Splice Side Street Projects, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA

1996  Some of My Best Friends Are Artists curated by Jill D’Agnenica, Spanish Kitchen Studios, Los Angeles, CA

          Detours 2 Side Street Projects, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA

          Connections Galleria Otra Vez, Self-Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, CA

1995  Nature Re(contained) Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

1993  Ham and Eggs, No Baloney Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH

          Primavera Center for the Arts, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ

1991  Cheese Toast University of California, Irvine, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2019  Parlor Pages Zine, Inaugural Issue, April 2019, Los Angeles, CA

          Cardine, Sara, “Rose Bowl area trail provides outdoor gallery space for ‘Animals of the Arroyo Seco’ exhibit” Los Angeles Times,            March 27, 2019

 

2012  Kovari, Natasha, “Rolling the Dice” https://mrchips.net/blog/2012/06/13/rolling-the-dice

 

2010  Torrance Art Museum, Set Theory with Roland Reiss, exhibition catalog, Torrance, CA

 

2008  Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Animal Magnetism, exhibition catalog, Santa Ana, CA 

 

2007  Wilder, Matthew, “Margaret Adachi LMAN Gallery” ARTFORUM.com 

 

2006  Buckley, Annie, “Earthly Creatures’ at LMAN Gallery” Artweek, Vol. 37, Issue 3, April 2006, 19-20

 

          Barnet,Anna K., “New Kids on the Block, A changing of the guard, as contemporary art finally arrives at the Harvard University              Art Museums” The Harvard Crimson 

 

2003  Katonah Museum of Art, Food Matters, Explorations in Contemporary Art exhibition catalog, Katonah, NY

 

2001  Chattopadhyay, Collette, “From Zen to Pop Culture” ART AsiaPacific, Issue 28 (2000), 24-25

 

2000  Higa, Marli (editor),“Gallery: Margaret Adachi”  Dialogue, Vol. 3, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2000, 38-41

 

          Chattopadhyay, Collette, “Margaret Adachi at Robert Berman Gallery” Sculpture, Vol.19, no. 4, May 2000, 64-65.

 

          Centro Arti Visive, “Campo D’Osservazione” Gubbio. Spazi di Pace 2000  exhibition catalog

 

1999  D’Agnenica, Jill, “Margaret Adachi,” Coagula Art Journal, no 43, December 1999, 40

 

1997  Ressler, Susan (editor), Women Artists of the American West, Purdue University,                                                        

 

          Braver, Nancy and Jenny, Jane (editors),Splice, exhibition catalog, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA

 

1996  Elrick, Krista and Gerdes, Kirsten (editors), Parallaxis, catalog, Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)

1993  Wagner, Patrice (editor), Irony and Transformation, exhibition catalog, Creative Arts Center Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

2013-pres.     Teaching Artist, Side Street Projects Alternate Routes, Pasadena, CA

 

2011               Artist in Residence, Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA

 

                       Panelist, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Visual Arts/Design Organizations Grants Review

 

2010/2011      Curator, 24-Hour Gallery, Light Bringer Project, Pasadena, CA

 

2009               Artist in Residence, Wine Warehouse, Commerce, CA

 

2008               Panelist, Diversity, Identity, Power: A Community Discussion

                       Sponsored by California State University Los Angeles and the Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena

 

                       Artist Lecture, Perspectives on Art, Diversity, and World Culture California State LA

2006               Panelist, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Parks and Recreation Artist Pool Selection Jury

 

2005               Curator, Intersection: an Installation Project Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA

 

                       Artist Lecture, Installation Art, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

 

2004               Panelist, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, "Art in Public Spaces"

                       Grants Committee for Studio City Fire Station

 

                       Artist Lecture, Portfolio Preparation and Exhibition Design, Pasadena City College

 

2000               Visiting Artist, Sequoyah School, Pasadena, CA

 

AWARDS and GRANTS

 

2018-19          Individual Artist Grant Arts and Cultural Affairs Division, Pasadena, CA

1996               Art Matters Fellowship The Art Matters Foundation, New York, NY

1995               Honorable Mention WESTAF Sculpture Fellowship

1993               Honorable Mention Matrix International '93

 

 

COLLECTIONS

 

The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Jane Chafin, Pasadena, CA

Robert Berman, Santa Monica, CA

 

 

EDUCATION

 

MFA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

BA Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

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