Columbia University, New York NY. MFA 2003 
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY. BFA 1996 

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2019, Captiva FL 

The Fountainhead Residency, 2010, Miami FL 

Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (f/k/a: Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation), 2003–2004, New York NY Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2002, Skowhegan ME

Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship, 2018, Pleasantville NY 

Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2016, New York NY 

S.J. Weiler Fund, 2014, New York NY 

Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 2009, New York NY 

Agnes Martin Fellowship, 2001–2003

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 

The Dean Collection, Valhalla, California

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY 

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY 

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY 

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA 

Agnes Gund, New York NY 

Pizzuti Collection, Columbus OH 

Progressive Insurance, Mayfield OH 

JP Morgan Chase, New York NY 

Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond WA 

Estee Lauder Collection, New York NY 

Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint MI 

University of Maryland, College Park MD 

Ford Foundation, New York NY 

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin OH 

UBS Art Collection 

RISD, Providence RI 

21C Museum Hotel 

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY 

Hall Art Foundation, Southport CT 

Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College NY 

Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME 

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD 

Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

2024 Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY 
The Sky Isn’t The Limit, It’s Only The View 

Blues People Installation, Newark Express, Newark NJ 
The Holdout II 

The Highline Moynihan Connector Billboard, New York NY 
Sing It Like You Mean It 

2023 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD 
Dew Drop Inn 

National Mall, Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, Washington DC 
America’s Playground: DC 

Art at Amtrak, Penn Station, New York NY 
The City is My Refuge 

2022 IFPDA Print Fair, New York NY
Eye Candy 

The Walls Off Washington, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, St. Louis MO 
Lift As You Climb 

Rockefeller Center, New York NY
Funtime Unicorns 

2021 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin 
On Site: Derrick Adams: Our Time Together 

The Modern Window, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY 

Joyride I and Joyride II  2020 RxART, Pediatric Emergency Dept, NYC Health + Hospitals, Harlem, New York NY 
How I Spend My Summer Break 

2019 Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts & Design, LIRR Nostrand Ave Station, Brooklyn NY Around the Way 

2018 Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Rosemont IL 
Fashion Show (outdoor mural) and Fashion Accessories (2019) (lighting installation) 

2017 Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA 
Your Own Channel 

2026

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Derrick Adams: View Master

2025

Davies St. Gagosian, London, UK
Derrick Adams: Situation Comedy

2024

Parish Museum, Watermill, New York
Derrick Adams: Fresh Paint

Project For Empty Space (PES) Futures, New York, NY 
Derrick Adams: Future People… Take Off 

AmorePacific x Gagosian, Seoul, South Korea 
Derrick Adams: The Strip 

2023

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Derrick Adams: Sanctuary 

Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA
Come as You Are 

The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY 
I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You 

2022

LGDR HK, Hong Kong 
Sweet Spot 

2021

Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH 
LOOKS 

Salon 94, New York, NY 
Style Variations 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Last Resort 

The Momentary, Bentonville, AR
Sanctuary 

2020

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg FL 
Buoyant 

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY 
Buoyant 

Luxembourg & Dayan, London United Kingdom 
Transformers 

SCAD FASH, Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta GA 
Patrick Kelly, The Journey 

2019

Baltimore City Hall Gallery, Baltimore MD 
Where I'm From — Derrick Adams 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
The Ins and Outs: Figures in the Urban Landscape 

Vigo Gallery, Focus at Frieze, New York NY 
Beauty World 

Mary Boone Gallery, New York NY
New Icons 

Luxembourg & Dayan, New York NY
Interior Life 
Curator: Francesco Bonami 

2018

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris France 
People Person 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver CO 
Transmission 

Museum of Arts and Design, New York NY 
Sanctuary 

New York Live Arts, Ford Foundation, New York NY 
The Journey Continues

2017

Primary, Miami FL 
Black White and Brown 

Tilton Gallery, New York NY 
Figures in the Urban Landscape 

UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles CA Repose 

Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago IL
Future People 

Studio Museum in Harlem: inHarlem series at Countee Cullen Library, New York NY 
Patrick Kelly, The Journey 

California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA 
Network

Tilton Gallery at Independent Art Fair, New York NY 
Deconstruction Worker Portraits 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
Tell Me Something Good 

2016

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Art Basel, Miami Beach FL 
Kabinett: Derrick Adams  

Vigo Gallery, London United Kingdom
Float 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 
Finding Derrick 6 to 8 (performance) 

Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY 
ON (installation and performance) 

Project for Empty Space, Newark NJ
Culture Club 

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 
Crossroad: A Social Sculpture (installation and performance) 

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris France 
Black and White and In Color 

2015

PERFORMA 15, New York NY
Pablo Fanque’s Circus Royal/SIDESHOW (performance) 

Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark NJ
The Holdout (installation and performance) 

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL 
The Entertainer: Static | Distortion | Interference (performance) 

2014

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York NY 
LIVE and IN COLOR 

Logan Center, Chicago IL 
The Entertainer: Static | Distortion | Interference (performance) 

T Magazine at Villa Necchi-Campiglio, Milan Italy 
Derrick Adams (solo video installation) 
Curator: Francesco Bonami 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
Borough 

2013

Hales Gallery, London United Kingdom 
Aestheticized Reductions of Self-Representation 

PERFORMA ‘13 (Salon 94) New York NY 
Once Upon a Time. (performance) (commissioned by the Calder Foundation) 

PERFORMA ‘13, Performa Hub, New York NY 
The Institute of Me (performance) 

80WSE Gallery, New York University, New York NY 
DISPLAY: Cloaked In The Proprieties Of The Culture Game 

Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris France 
Becoming One With Your Environment 

2012

BAM Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn NY 
The Channel (performance) 

Proposition Gallery, New York NY
Hillman U.: A Dream Deferred, A Dream Fulfilled 

Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA 
The World According to Derrick (curated by Nuit Banai) 

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY 
Communicating with Shadows (performance) (organized by Thomas Lax) 

Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington VT 
Man As His Element 

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York NY
Deconstruction Worker 

2010

Third Streaming, New York NY
Feed Them With A Long Spoon (installation and performance)

The Kitchen, New York NY 
Go Stand Next to the Mountain (performance) (curated by Rashida Bumbray) 

Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York NY 
Welcome to Monument City 

2009

Collette Blanchard Gallery, NADA, Miami Beach FL 
Introduction to Bizarro Wiz (installation and performance) 

2006

Momenta Arts, Brooklyn NY
Sometimes I Just Don’t Feel Like Myself (installation and performance) 

2005

PERFORMA 05, Participant Inc, New York NY 
Anew (performance)

Marvelli Gallery, New York NY
I'm Sorry, I'm Lost 

PARTICIPANT INC, New York NY 
I'm Smoke; You’re Mirror (installation and performance) 

2004

Triple Candie, New York NY
Me and My Imaginary Friends (installation and performance) 

2003

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York NY
The Big Getaway

2025

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY 
Breaking The Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
Carnival, Curated by Joe Coleman

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU
Just Playin' Around

2024

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY 
Giants Art from the Dean Collection 

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France 
Pop Forever Tom Wesselmann &... 

2021

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas: Packaged Black 

Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
The Eyes Have It 

FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
and I will wear you in my heart of heart 

Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH 
TEXTURES: the history and art ofBlack hair 

2020

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
Drawing 2020 

Nottingham Contemporary, London UK
Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio 

South Etna Montauk, Montauk NY
Mass Ornament
Painting is Painting's Favorite Food: Art History as Muse
Curator: Alison M. Gingeras 

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA 
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle 

New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 
Collectouples 

Luxembourg & Dayan, New York NY 
Sounds Lasting and Leaving (performance and audio recording) 

2019

Moore Building, Miami Design District, Miami Beach, FL 
The Extreme Present, presented by Larry Gagosian 

Bass Museum, Miami Beach FL 
Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights 

Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte NC 
Painting Is Its Own Country 

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati OH 
Organized by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services 
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. 

Wave Hill, Bronx NY 
Figuring the Floral 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA 
Edward Hopper and the American Hotel 

The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco CA 
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum of Art 

2018

Museo Jumex, Mexico City Mexico 
Scripted Reality: The Life and Art of Television 

Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville NY 
American Family 

Deitch Gallery, New York NY 
Punch!

Museum of Arts and Design, New York NY
MAD Collects: The Future of Craft, Part 1 

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London United Kingdom
Talisman in the Age of Difference 
Curator: Yinka Shonibare 

Pizzuti Collection, Columbus OH
Go Figure

21c Museum Hotel, Oklahoma City OK
Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art 

2017

SCAD, Savannah GA 
Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence 

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL 
Third Space: Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art

Art Basel Film, Miami Beach FL 
Best Dressed Chicken in Town (curated by David Gryn) 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL 
40 Years, Part 2: Gender. Race. Identity. 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL 
40 Years, Part 1: Minimal. Conceptual. 

The Print Center, Philadelphia PA 
Experiments in Print: Derrick Adams, Matthew Day Jackson, Dread Scott & Kate Shepherd 

Yale School of Art, 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven CT 
Black Pulp 

2015

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 
Young, Gifted and Black 
Curator: Hank Willis Thomas 

Pizzuti Collection, Columbus OH
Us Is Them 

2014

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art 

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston TX
Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part II: Hard Edges/Soft Curves 

2013

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
Radical Presence 

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
The Shadows Took Shape 

The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection 

The James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Reloading the Canon: African Traditions in Contemporary Art 

2012

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston TX
Radical Presence; Black Performance In Contemporary Art 

Centro Experimental De Los Artes Visuales, Havana Cuba
Sonando en Color, Havana Biennial 

Contemporary Wing, Washington DC
Next Generation: Selections by Artists in the 30 Americans Collection 

MoMA PS1, Long Island City NY
Sunday Sessions (performance: The Entertainer: Static | Distortion | Interference) 
Organized by Clifford Owens 

2011

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
The Bearden Project 

2006

MoCADA, Brooklyn NY
The Pulse of New Brooklyn 

2005

MoMA PS1, Long Island City NY
Greater New York 2005 

2004

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn 

2003

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
Veni Vidi Video 

Kenny Schachter Contemporary, New York NY
Club in the Shadow, curated by Jutta Koether and Kim Gordon 

Massimo Audiello, New York NY
Adams, Cerrillo, Perkins

Juan A. Ramírez. “Derrick Adams Wants His Art to Be Fun” The New York Times June 9, 2025

Leah Dolan. “In Derrick Adams’ paintings, Black history collides joyfully with the present” CNN Style February 19, 2025

Elisa Carollo. “Derrick Adams Launches Scout Art Fair to Spotlight Baltimore Talent” The Observer May 5, 2025

Joseph Furness. “Show, Don't Tell: Artist Derrick Adams Asks You to Be Curious” Esquire Feb 28 2025

Sophie Lee. “Derrick Adams’s Latest Work of Art Is Entirely Wearable” Cultured Mag Jan 17 2025

Salena Berry. “Derrick Adams Blends Humour and Alarm” Frieze Mar 4 2025

Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle. “The Market Momentum Of Contemporary Artist Derrick Adams” Forbes Dec 13 2024

Ted Loos. “Derrick Adams Is Joyous, Political and In Conversation With the World” The New York Times Aug 29 2024

Elisa Carollo. “Derrick Adams Debuts in Korea With Gagosian at Amorepacific’s Headquarters” Sep 4 2025 Observer

Andrew Jacobson. “Derrick Adams brings Baltimore together with interactive art exhibit | GUEST COMMENTARY” Baltimore Sun Aug 7 2024

Lee Hyo-Won. “Gagosian Presents Derrick Adams’ First Seoul Exhibition at Amorepacific’s Headquarters” WWD Sep 4 2024

Carlie Porterfield. “Gagosian stages gallery’s first Seoul exhibition” The Newspaper Sep 3 2024

Andrew Russeth. “Gagosian Will Make Seoul Debut With Derrick Adams Show” Artnet News June 26 2024

Amanda Gluibizzi. “Derrick Adams with Amanda Gluibizzi” The Brooklyn Rail Mar 2023

Blake Gopnik. “On Our National Mall, New Monuments Tell New Stories” The New York Times Aug 18 2023

Maximiliano Duron “Gagosian to Represent Derrick Adams, Artist Known for Vibrant Depictions of Black Joy” ArtNews Mar 2 2023

Max Berlinger. “The Artist Derrick Adams Has Created a Haven for Black Creatives In Baltimore” Artnet News Dec 14 2023

Jane Ursula Harris. “Derrick Adams Gives Black Joy the Cinematic Treatment” Frieze Magazine Mar 22 2023

Lydia Woolever. “Derrick Adams to Launch a Visionary Archive in Waverly” Baltimore Magazine Apr 11 2022 

Jewels Dodson. “Derrick Adams on His New Community-Focused Collaboration with Tiffany & Co.” Artsy Jul 27 2022

Grace Ebert. “Through Blocks of Geometric Color, Artist Derrick Adams Celebrates the Joy of Self-Expression” Collosall Apr 22 2022

Emann Odufu. “Investigate with Derrick Adams” Office Magazine Aug 19 2022

“Artist Derrick Adams Wins $1.25 Million From the Mellon Foundation to Start a Database Documenting the Black Culture of Baltimore” Artnet News April 11 2022

“Derrick Adams Creates Cultured's Next Anniversary Cover Ahead of his Debut Exhibition in Asia” Cultured Magazine Oct 28 2022

Duron, Maximiliano. “Derrick Adams Creates Scenes of Black Joy Through Formalism” ArtNews Dec 10 2021 

Mun-Delsalle, Y-Jean. “With his radical depictions of Black Joy, Derrick Adams is an artist to watch” Forbes Jul 8 2021 Kazanjian, Dodie. “Derrick Adams’s Art Celebrates Black Life at its Most Exultant” Vogue Apr 1 2021 

Pricco, Evan. “Derrick Adams Finds Strength in Style Variations” Juxtapoz Mar 23 2021 

Giovanni, Nikki and Derrick Adams. “On Revolution and Repose” Bon Appetit Magazine Dec 1 2020 

Kelly, Dylan. “Fashion: These Swim Trunks are Emblems of Black Excellence” Paper Nov 20 2020 

Kaufman, David C. “Artist Derrick Adams Transforms Hospital Rooms Into a Canvas of Color and Whimsy” Architectural Digest Sep 17 2020 Ellington, Tameka (Editor), Joseph L. Underwood (Editor). “Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair” KSU Museum/Hirmer Publishers Aug 2020 Scott, Chadd. “Derrick Adams’ Radical Depictions Of Black Leisure On View At Hudson River Museum” Forbes Aug 14 2020 Goldstein, Caroline. “Artist Derrick Adams Created an Immersive Tribute to Black Joy and Leisure for” Artnet.com Jun 29 2020 Valentine, Victoria L. “Floaters: Series of Leisurely Pool Images by Derrick Adams is About Black Radical Joy” Culturetype.com Jun 13 2020 Moore, Charles. “Star Artist Derrick Adams

Explains the Radical Power of Making Work About Black People Just Being, Living” May 10 2020 Sheets, Hilarie M. “Lost, and Now Found, Art From the Civil Rights Era” New York Times Mar 12 2020 Rosen, Miss. “The artist reimagines Kelly's Princess Diana-approved designs as innovative sculptural works” Document Journal Mar 11 2020 Staff writers. “SCAD Exhibit by Derrick Adams Born From Archives of Patrick Kelly” WWD March 10 2020 | Bowen, Jared. “How Painter Jacob Lawrence Reframed Early American History with ‘Struggle’” PBS News Hour Mar 4 2020 Wilson, Michael. “Party Politics” Gray Magazine Mar 2 2020 | McFadin, Ryan. 

“New SCAD Exhibition Highlights The Work Of Patrick Kelly” [Lois Reitzes interview] WABE (NPR) Feb 28 2020 Kliest, Nicole. “Patrick Kelly Dressed Everyone from Princess Diana to Grace Jones in the ‘80s…” Fashionista Feb 28 2020 Valentine, Victoria L. “The Year Ahead in African American Art: What to See and Do in 2020” Culture Type Feb 26 2020 

Rea, Naomi. “See How Rising-Star Painter Derrick Adams Explores Black Feminine Identity...” 

Artnet News Feb 14, 2020 Gavin, Francesca. “Derrick Adams’ transformative art at Luxembourg & Dayan” Financial Times Feb 10 2020 

Malby, Poppy. “Derrick Adams on the Empowerment of Black Femininity” GQ UK Feb 8 2020 

MTA. “LIRR completes Nostrand Avenue Station modernization” Mass Transit Magazine Feb 4 2020 

Moore, Charles. “Star Artist Derrick Adams Explains the Radical Power of Making Work About Black People ‘Just Being...’” Artnet News Feb 5 2020 Volpert, Megan. “Fashion, fine art commingle in SCAD’s “The Journey,” curated by Alexandra Sachs” ARTSATL Feb 3 2020 Rosman, Katherine. “Jay-Z Takes on the Super Bowl” New York Times Feb 1 2020 

Baron, Rachel Lindy. “Newly Modernized LIRR Nostrand Avenue Station Opened Today” BKLYNER. Jan 31 2020 

Saccoccia, Susan. “Inspired by Jacob Lawrence PEM Exhibit Includes Contemporary, Local Reflections” Bay State Banner Jan 30 2020 Westall, Mark. “Transformers will present striking new large-scale examples from the Beauty World series” Fad Magazine Dec 16 2019 Herriman, Kat. “Derrick Adams Can Make Art Out of Anything (Even Rubber Gloves)” T Magazine Nov 5 2020 

Dodson, Jewels. “Derrick Adams: Be Who You Want to Be” Juxtapoz Magazine Fall 2019 

Wooden, Isaiah. “Reppin’ Blackness: Five Beats on the Art of Derrick Adams” Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research Vol.49 #3 Fall 2019 Rao, Sameer. “This Baltimore native’s art is internationally recognized. Here’s why his first solo show is at City Hall” Baltimore Sun Oct 10 2019 Valentine, Victoria L. “Cover Subject: Countering Historic Narratives, Derrick Adams Makes the Images He Wants to See in...” Culture Type Sep 21 2019 Musiwa, Elaine. “The Iconoclasts: Swizz Beatz & Jordan Casteel, Hank Willis Thomas & Derrick Adams” Departures Magazine Sep 2019 Kenney, Nancy. “In Highly Personal Portraits, an Artist Speaks Up for His Native Baltimore” The Art Newspaper Aug 12 2020 Cascone, Sarah. “Artist Derrick Adams on How One of His Paintings Became a Central Plot Point in the TV Show ‘Empire’” Artnet News Apr 30 2019 Choi, Connie, Thelma Golden, Kellie Jones. “Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem” Rizzoli Jan 2019 Sargent, Antwaun. “The Artist and the Fashion Designer Celebrating Black Trailblazers” New York Times Nov 6 2018 Rockett, Darcel. “Designer Patrick Kelly shines bold and bright at Fashion Outlet, thanks to artist Derrick Adams” Chicago Tribune Oct 1 2018 Boyd, Kealey. “Derrick Adams’s Transmissions on Art and Black Identity'' Hyperallergic Aug 24, 2018 

Mendelsohn, Meredith. “How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’” New York Times 01/19/18 Gordon, Lydia. “Playtime: Notes on Leisure” Peabody Essex Museum Spring 2018 

Uszerowicz, Monica. “Transforming the View: Derrick Adams Interviewed” Bomb Magazine Jan 5 2018 

Cooper Cafritz, Peggy and Picard, Charmaine. “Fired Up! Ready to Go!” Rizzoli Electa 2017 

Estape, Taylor. “Artist Derrick Adams on Surveying His Career and Supporting Young Creatives.” Miami New Times Dec 12, 2017 Rosen, Miss. “Art: The Legends of Art Basel in Miami Beach.” Mandatory.com Dec 11, 2017 

Heriot-Darragh, Kiron. “Culture: DERRICK ADAMS @ART BASEL + MIAMI ART WEEK.” Air.Jordan.com Dec 9, 2017 Zhong, Fan. “The 4th Prospect New Orleans Triennial Is Full of Black Art, But Does It Make Enough Noise?” W Mag. Nov 24 2017 Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. “Critics Pick: Derrick Adams, The Studio Museum in Harlem via Countee Cullen Library.” Artforum May ‘17 Sargent, Antwaun. “Patrick Kelly Was the Jackie Robinson of High Fashion.” Vice Sep 25, 2017 

Scruggs, Danielle A. Art Review: “For Derrick Adams, Black Imagination is the Future.” Chicago Reader Jun 20, 1017 Halperin, Julia. Exhibitions: “Attention Art World Insiders: Prospect New Orleans Isn’t Just for You Anymore.” ArtNet News May 23, Wagley, Catherine. Arts: “More for less and one of a kind.” L.A. Weekly Apr 12 2017 

Kim, Hyunjee Nicole. “Derrick Adams: Network at CAAM.” Daily Serving Mar 28 2017 

Valentine, Victoria. “March Exhibitions: Kerry James Marshall & Theaster Gates Open at Major Museums...Derrick Adams...” Culture Type Mar 18, 2017 Stromberg, Matt. “Three Powerfully Political Shows Open at the California African American Museum.” Hyperallergic Mar 7 2017 McGarry, Kevin. “Sectors: Curiosities Abound.” Art|Basel Miami Beach p. 84 Dec 2016 

Boucher, Brian. “Art Fairs: Artists Aren’t Afraid to Get Political at Art Basel Miami Beach.” artnet news Nov 30 2016 Staff writers. “Art: Derrick Adams.” Interview Magazine Dec/Jan 2016 

Embuscado, Rain, Eileen Kinsella. “People: 10 Disruptors Who Are Completely Changing the Art World.” artnet news Oct 24, 2016 Tonguette, Peter. “The ‘Wow’ Factor: Primary Colors Compel Close Examination of Works by Two Artists.” The Columbus Dispatch Sep 18 2016 Michael Anderson. “Derrick Adams, Fred Tomaselli and Michael Anderson in Conversation at Jack Tilton Gallery” White Hot Magazine August 2016 Ang, Kristiano. “A Brooklyn Artist Finds Inspiration Close to Home” The Wall Street Journal July 5, 2016 

Glover, Tehsuan. Arts & Entertainment: “If You Haven’t Seen Derrick Adams’ Culture Club Exhibition...See It...Now” The Newark Times Jun 17 2016 Frank, Priscilla. Entertainment: “Artist Explores The Vibrant, Complex History Of Blackness On Television” Huffington Post Jun 16 2016 The Editors of ARTnews. “Pictures at an Exhibition: Derrick Adams at Pioneer Works” Artnews Jun 15 2016 

Mufson, Beckett. “Busted TVs Conjure Broken African American Stereotypes” Vice: The Creators Project Jun 14 2016 Baumgardner, Julie. Art: “An Art Show Inspired by Infomercials — and One Famous TV Psychic” New York Times T Magazine Jun 8 2016 Thackara, Tess. “Editorial: At Pioneer Works, Derrick Adams Takes Characters out of the TV Screen and into Real Life” Artsy Jun 8 2016 Parham, Jason. “Derrick Adams Would Like To Take You On A Detour” The Fader Jun 2016 

Binlot, Ann. “Artist Derrick Adams Sends A Taste of Summertime To New Jersey's Penn Station” Forbes May 29 2016 Cascone, Sarah. “The Week in Art: Derrick Adams, Culture Club” Artnet News May 21 2016 

Weiss, Haley. “Art: Derrick Adams’ Cultural Collage” Interview Magazine May 4 2016 

Bruney, Gabrielle. “Collages Contrast Black TV Representation and Reality” The Creators Project Jan 31 2016 

Sargent, Antwaun. “Britain’s First Black Circus Gets a Live Radio Art Tribute” The Creators Project Nov 30 2015 

Fayemi Shakur. “Derrick Adams Brings A Practical Edge to Conceptual Art.” International Review of African American Art Apr 2015

Wright, Peter 'Souleo'. “On the ‘A’ w/Souleo: Derrick Adams Merges Radio and Art with a Focus on Community” Huffington Post Mar 2015 Ovstebo, Solveig. “News: Chicago’s Best 2014.” Art in America. Dec 23 2014 

Schriber, Abbe. “Critics’ Picks: Derrick Adams.” Artforum Oct 14 2014 

Smith, Roberta. Art in Review: “Derrick Adams: Live and in Color.” The New York Times. Oct 10 2014 

Oliver, Valerie Cassel, Bill Arning, Dean Daderko. “Outside the Lines” Contemporary Art Museum Houston 2014 Yerman, Marcia G. “Arts & Culture: A Conversation with Derrick Adams.” Huffington Post Oct 10 2014 

T Magazine. “About Last Night: T’s Toast to Salone” T Magazine Apr 8 2014 

Cotter, Holland. “Art Review: Going Beyond Blackness, Into the Starry Skies: The Shadows Took Shape...” The New York Times Nov 14 2013 Augustsson, Sola. “Performa 13: Once Upon a Time… by Derrick Adams” Whitewall Magazine Nov 8 2013 

Martiny, Erik. “Derrick Adams ‘Becoming One With Your Environment’ In Paris.” Whitewall Magazine. May 10, 2013. Gonzales-Day, Ken; Jeffreen Hayes, Sheri Parks. “Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham” The Art Gallery University of Maryland 2013 Williams, Gregory. “Derrick Adams” Artforum Nov 2012 

Owens, Clifford. “Anthology” MoMA PS1 2012 

Ossei-Mensah, Larry. “Derrick Adams” Whitewall Magazine Issue 27, Fall 2012 

McQuaid,Cate. “Off-the-Wall Social Expectations” The Boston Globe Aug 14 2012 

Metzelaar, Jonathan. “Spotlite: Deconstructing Derrick.” PMC Magazine. March 2012. 

McAdams, Shane. “Inside Out: Derrick Adams” ArtVoices Magazine Feb 2012 

Finch, Charlie. “Bricktop” Artnet.com Feb 2010 

Cotter, Holland. “United Black Girls” New York Times Mar 30 2007 

Yun, Michelle, Klaus Biesenbach. “Greater New York 2005” PS1 Contemporary Art Center 2005 

Berwick, Carly. “Where the Scenes Are – Greater New York’s new art geography” New York Magazine Mar 7 2005 Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Charles Gaines” New York Times Apr 30 2004 

Cotter, Holland. “Art Guide: Last Chance” New York Times Oct 3 2003 

Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: From Mouse Ears to Poetic Pop...” New York Times Feb 2 2002 

Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: National Black Fine Arts Show” New York Times Feb 2 2001

Cultured Magazine On Artists’ Time Pg. 100-101 2025

Pop Forever, Fondation Louis Vuitton Derrick Adams, Attraction and Provocation, Pg.184-191 2024

Contemporary Art Underground MTA Arts & Design New York Monacelli Pg.186-187 2024 

Vitamin C, Collage in Contemporary Art Pg. 20-21 2023

The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Pg. 52-53 2023

Reimagining New Perspectives, Monacelli, UBS Art Collection Pg. 24-25 2022

Art From The Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Pg. 182-187 2024

Conversations with Artists Volume IV, Heidi Zuckerman, Pg. 11-23 2017

Luxembourg & Dayan Salon 94, Derrick Adams Transformers 2020

Luxembourg & Dayan Salon 94, Derrick Adams We Came to Party and Plan 2020

Elevated Art on the Highline 2024

RxArt Between The Lines Greatest Hits Coloring Book 2023

RxArt Coloring Book - Between the Lines Vol. 8 

RxArt Coloring Book - Between the Lines Vol. 7

Tilton Derrick Adams Live and in Color