Selected Biography

EDUCATION
Purchase College (SUNY) , School of Art + Design, NY, MFA, 2006
Artists Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 1996
Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, BFA 1989
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023     Lekkomyślność, BWA Galeria Zamojska, Zamość, Poland (brochure)
2022     Objects in Performance, Studio Theatre in Exile at Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
2019     Quotidian, East Third Street Gallery, New York, NY
2018     For Real (installation), Kurier Plus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017     Best Thing to Hold in Your Hands (2-day performance conducted at the New Haven Armory), ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2016     To Gogol With Love, JUMP, Poltava, Ukraine
2014     Adam Niklewicz / Sculpture (mostly), EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
2012     Walking Around a Tree, video projection, public art project, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Real Art Ways /
              City of HartfordHartford, CT (brochure)
2012     The Charter Oak, water mural, public art project, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Real Art Ways / City of Hartford, Hartford, CT
2011     Locus Communis (commonplace), Black & White Gallery / Project Space, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
2009     The Soup Show, installation, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY (brochure)
2007     The Invisible Solid, installation, Long Island University Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006     The Ballad of the Twin Beekeepers, installation, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (brochure)
2004     New Works, installations, New Space Gallery (at MCC), Manchester, CT
2002     New/Now, installations, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2001     Signs, installations, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022     Art Moves 15 - Art on Billboards, Galeria Rusz, Toruń, Poland (catalogue)
2022     Optimism/Pessimism (with Joe Bun Keo), Something Projects, New Haven, CT
2021     Pandemic 1.01, Articulate Magazine Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021     The Forward Tarot Project, FWD: Gallery / FUNDACJA FWD:, Poznań, Poland
2021     RAVE New York Virtual Art Fair, Redwood Art Group, New York, NY
2020     Climbing the Walls, Hudson Valley MOCA and Studio Theatre in Exile, Peekskill, NY
2020     Cold Heels: COVID -19 Edition, SHIM Art Network, Brooklyn, NY
2020     What to Do While Waiting, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, Poland
2018     944 handen, Hofke van Chantraine, Oud-Turnhout, Belgium (catalogue)
2018     Dlaczego nie wysyłamy artystów na księżyc?, FWD:, Poznań, Poland
2018     CT Contemporary - EBK Gallery, Fred Giampietro Gallery, Melanie Carr Gallery, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
2018     Vote, EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
2017     Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK (catalogue)
2017     (NIE)POTRZEBNE, (NIE)PIĘKNE, (NIE)CENNE, Muzeum Etnograficzne, Toruń, Poland (catalogue)
2017     Alignable Angles, The Schelfhaudt Gallery (at The University of Bridgeport), Bridgeport, CT
2016     Wall Signs, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, Poland (catalogue)
2016     Burn, Babylon, Art-Zavod Platforma / Gogolfest, Kiev, Ukraine
2016     Me Gusta El Sonida, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2016     Word, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
2015     Studnia /Well, Cellar Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2015     Art Moves - Art on Billboards, Galeria Rusz, Torun, Poland (catalogue)
2015     Art for Sale, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2014     Długość Cugli Wyznacza Średnicę Areny, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, Poland (catalogue)
2014     Smack Mellon Hot Pics, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (link)
2014     Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
2013     The Power of Place, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY (catalogue)
2012     Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
2012     Powaga/Der Ernst/Seriousness, Galeria afk (Austriackie Forum Kultury), Warsaw, Poland 
2011     Art Moves - Art on Billboards, Galeria Rusz, Torun, Poland (catalogue)
2011     Jerzy Kosalka / Adam Niklewicz Wystawa Sponsorowana, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, Poland (catalogue)
2010     Post-Gogol: The Silent Absence of the Body, Slag Gallery, New York, NY
            Kissed by Genius, Artifacts Lanier Collections, Darien, CT
2009     Immaterial,  Black & White Gallery, New York, NY 
2008     Catching the Word, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY
            The Inaugural Show, b42 Gallery, Ontario, Canada
            Kraj – Works of Artists of Polish Origin, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, Poland (catalogue)
2007     50 000 Beds Project, The Aldrich Museum / ARTspace / Real Art Ways, CT (catalogue)
2006     Fall/Winter Exhibition, International Sculpture Center, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ (catalogue)
            Poza, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (catalogue)
2005     Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY   
            From the Sound Lab, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2004     All of the Above, Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
            Shifting Affinities, Yale School of Art, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2004     Artists Play House, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
            Web (space) Artist for March 2004, Artists Space, New York, NY
2003     Territories, Galerie fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany and ArtSpace, New Haven, CT (catalogue)
2002     This is Then, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (catalogue)
2002     8 Reflections On Time, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
            Snapshot, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,CT     
2001     Central Connecticut State University Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Samuel T. Chen Art Center Gallery, New Britain, CT
2000     The Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT    
 
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2010    A.R.T. Fund Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Sheffield, Massachusetts
2008    Artist Fellowship Grant from Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
2006    International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, Hamilton, New Jersey
2001    The Grumbacher Award, “Art of the Northeast”, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, Connecticut 
2000    AAUP Faculty Development Grant, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut
1996    Artists Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
 
SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
New Britain Museum of Amercian Art  
New York City Opera 
Smithsonian Institution
Connecticut Artists Collection