Adam Niklewicz Sculpture

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 Between Infinity and a Sneeze: Works of Adam Niklewicz, Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York, NY
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 Hartford, Hartford, 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

2023 Chcąc pogodzić wszystkich, nie zadowolisz nikogo, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, Poland (brochure)
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

2023 Artist Fellowship Grant from Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
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 (1) (2) (3)