Explore Derrick Adams’ dynamic career during deFINE ART featured lecture

Join visionary artist Derrick Adams for a richly illustrated lecture about his recent practice and interests. Adams mines history and popular culture to celebrate and reflect on African-American visual culture in multifarious and dynamic ways. In his talk, he shares insights into his process, development and career achievements.

Adams is a multidisciplinary artist working in different media including performance, video, sound, 2-D and 3-D. His practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring self-image and forward projection. 

A recipient of a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and 2014 S.J. Weiler Award, Adams earned an M.F.A. from Columbia University, New York, a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn and is a Skowhegan and Marie Walsh Sharpe alumnus. His exhibition and performance highlights include: "Greater New York '05," MoMA PS1; "Open House: Working In Brooklyn '04," Brooklyn Museum of Art; "Radical Presence & The Shadows Took Shape," Studio Museum in Harlem; "The Channel," Brooklyn Academy of Music. His work is also in permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

This event is free and open to the public and is part of SCAD deFINE ART 2019, held Feb. 26–28 at university locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia.