Sep 9, 2016
MET Fridays Presents: Derrick Adams: Finding Derrick 6 to 8
(two-hour performance in front of Sol Lewitt's Wall Drawing #370)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY

Jun 10 - Jul 17, 2016
ON
(installation and performance)
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY
Through large-scale, boldly colored mixed media collages, performance, sound pieces, and illuminated sculptures, ON continues Adams’s investigation of consumerism and the dramatization of black figures in entertainment and popular culture. MORE

Feb 4 - May 14, 2016
Crossroad: A Social Sculpture
(installation and performance)
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha NE
Using a radio station attached to a life-size, interactive game board, Crossroad: A Social Sculpture calls for visitors to move across to the beat of the music. The installation includes selections from jazz, blues, rock, classical, R&B, rap, and pop. Adams hopes to to temporarily dissolve cultural boundaries of knowledge that may separate one person from another. MORE

Mar 28, 2015
The Entertainer: Static | Distortion | Interference
(performance)
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL
The Entertainer is an original performance that incorporates a musical interpretation of white, gray, and black noise composed by Philippe Treuille and a projection by Ramon Silva with Adams’ live performance. MORE

Oct 10, 2014
The Entertainer: Static | Distortion | Interference
(performance)
Logan Center Gallery, Chicago IL
Adams performs a musical interpretation of white, gray, and black noise composed by Philippe Treuille with video projection by Ramon Silva. Using live sound and video, The Entertainer uses graphic imagery inspired by Russian Constructivism and propaganda to comment on media bombardment. MORE

Sep 19 - 22, 2012
The Channel
(performance)
BAM Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn NY
A lively, seriocomic performance, presented in the style of educational programs like Sesame Street, exploring the relationship of American popular culture, commerce, and the development of self-image. MORE

May 14 - 15, 2010
Go Stand Next to the Mountain
(performance)
The Kitchen, New York NY
Go Stand Next to the Mountain incorporates masquerade, dance, sound, video projection and sculptural installation to examine the universal relationship between men and monuments. In incorporating the format of education television, Adams uses learning as both subject and object by aiming to educate those who are not in the field of art.