Dennis Adams

Who is Dennis Adams?

Dennis Adams is an American artist internationally recognized for his urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture. Over the last three decades, he has realized over fifty urban projects in cities worldwide from Antwerp to Zagreb. His work has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe.

Since 2001 Adams has been a Professor at the Cooper Union in New York City. From 1997-2001, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program and Professor in the school of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also taught at Parsons School of Design, New York; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich.

His work is in many international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art,Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Walker Art Center.