Mac Adams

Mac Adams (b. 1943 Brynmawr, South Wales) is an Internationally renowned sculptor. He studied at Cardiff College of Art before going on to Rutgers University. He is now a Professor at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, New York. He became a US citizen in 1990 but still keeps in touch with his Welsh roots.

Mac Adams' international reputation has grown over the last 30 years. His innovative use of light and shade in his sculptures play elaborate games with shadows and natural light. Recent public projects have even relied on the Sun's position to make fleeting figurative shadow images only visible at certain times of the day. His work is collected by dozens of large institutions, from the Chase Manhattan Bank and MicroSoft to London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art New York.

Awards won

New York State University Chancellors Research Award for Excellence in Arts and Humanities. 2002.

New York State Fellowship for the Arts (Sculpture), 1988

National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts (Sculpture), 1982

Berlin Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Berliner Kunstlerprogram, 1981

National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts, 1980

National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts, 1976

Awards won

New York State University Chancellors Research Award for Excellence in Arts and Humanities. 2002.

New York State Fellowship for the Arts (Sculpture), 1988

National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts (Sculpture), 1982

Berlin Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Berliner Kunstlerprogram, 1981

National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts, 1980

National Endowment Fellowship for the Arts, 1976

 Public Collections

FRAC Basse-Normandie,Caen.France.

Microsoft. Corporation

D.G. Bank. Frankfurt. Germany

Maison Europeenne de la Photographie. Paris.

Welsh National Museum. U.K.

Goldman,Sachs Investment Co.

Harvard University

FRAC. Fonds Regional d'art Contemporain, the region Limousin, Limogen. France.

FNAC. Fonds National d'art Contemporain. Paris. France

Caisse des depots, Paris France.

Lhoist Collection. Belgium.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Museum of Modern Art. New York.

Los Angeles County Museum. California.

Brooklyn Museum

First National Bank of Chicago

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Jersey City Museum. Jersey City. N.J.

The Jane Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., New Jersey

New Jersey State Council for the Arts

Ludwig Museum, Cologne, West Germany

Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

University of Iowa Museum

Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia

Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, S. Wales, U.K.

Commodities Corporation of New Jersey, Princeton

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

Musee De Toulon, Toulon, France

Morton Neumann Family Collection, Chicago, U.S.A

Public Commissions

IN PROGRESS ‘Life Force’ 250ft Aluminum sculpture. New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Newark. 2005

Wetlands, installed in the concourse of the Secausus, Transfer Railway Station, New Jersey Transportation, USA, 2002

Belvedere: Solar Pavilion, Belvedere for Plymouth Park, Penarth Haven, Cardiff, South Wales, for CBAT, UK, 1999

Meditation, Botanical Gardens Louis Pasteur University, City of Strasbourg, France, 1996

World Patterns and Fables, Public School 20, Queens, New York, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art, USA, 1993/96

The Universal Soldier, New York Korean War Memorial, Battery Park, New York, 1991

Solo Exhibitions (partial list)

Mac Adams &: gb agency, paris (nov-de 2002/03)

Center Photographique. D’lle-de-France. Pontault-Combault 2002.

Serge Aboukrat Gallery. Paris. France 2000

Printemps de Cahors. ‘EXTRAetORDINIRE’ Cahors. France. 1999

'The Silence of Shadows', Newport, South Wales, UK, 2000

Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, USA, 1993

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, USA, 1988-89

DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 1982

Welsh Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979-80

 Bibliography

Soulillou, Jacques, Mac Adams, Fonds Regional D'Art Contemporain-Limousin, second edition, Deuxiemeepoque, 1989-1995

Forsha, Lynda, Mac Adams, Fountainhead Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, California, 1989

Martin, Bernard, Mac Adams, catalogue, Galerie Arlogos, Nantes, France, 1984

Philips, Patricia C, review, Artforum, November 1984

Blistene, Bernard, Mac Adams Mysteries, catalogue, Musee De Toulon, Toulon, France, 1982

 External links

Mac Adams' web site 

Mac Adams biography

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