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