Adam Neese: Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of North Texas, Denton, TX, MFA, Photography
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, Studio Art
Single and Duo Exhibitions
2020 People who Photograph the Maroon Bells, FrontierSpace, Missoula MT (forthcoming)
2017 People who Photograph the Maroon Bells, Tarrant County College, Hurst, TX
2016 good news bad news great news, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2015 Texas Bigfoot, Lillian Bradshaw Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Terra Incognita, Ro2 Art at the Magnolia Theater, Dallas, TX
2015 A Known World, Southern Light Gallery at Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX
2013 A Known World, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 A Known World, Cora Stafford Gallery at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013 A Known World, the Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2013 Borderlands*, Texas Woman’s University, Union Gallery, Denton, TX
(with Ashley Kauschinger)
2012 Snaps: Polaroids from the Archive of Adam Neese, Cora Stafford Gallery at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2011 What Sees*, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, North Gallery, Denton, TX (with Morehshin Allahyari)
2010 Between Two Cities, Play/Pause/Replay, Grapevine, TX
Group Exhibitions
2020 2020 Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography
2019 CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2019 Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography
2018 The Visual Metric, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA
2017 CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2017 Art Aspen, Aspen, CO
2017 Selections from the Back Room, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2017 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2016 place/holder, UT Dallas Visual Arts Main Gallery, Richardson, TX
2016You are Here, Texas Photographers Respond to the Texas Landscape,
DuchesneAcademy, Houston and Wright Gallery, Texas A&M University,
Houston, TX
2016 Continuance, UNT on the Square, Denton, TX
2015 Provincial Field Notes, Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
2015 Educators’ Exhibit, SPE South Central Conference, Norman, OK
2015 The Smaller Exotics of Texas, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2015 Ticka Arts at O2 Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2015 Yeah, It’s Salon Style, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2014 College of Visual Arts and Design Faculty Exhibition, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX
2014 Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William & Mary, Andrews Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
2014 SPE South Central Members Exhibition, Middle Tennessee State
University, Murfreesboro, TN
2014 Ain’t-Bad: The American South at Art Now, Morris Museum of Art
Education Gallery, Augusta, GA
2014 From the Faraway Nearby, Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX
2014 CHAOS, Ro2 Art Downtown, Dallas, TX
2014 Five Photographers Presented by Ro2 Art, Addison Arts Center, Addison, TX
2014 9/50 Southeast Arts Presenters Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Arts
Center, Atlanta, GA (curated by editors of Ain’t-Bad Magazine)
2014 We Put This _____ On Everything and You Should Too, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX (curated by Kathy Lovas)
2013 College of Visual Arts and Design Faculty Exhibition, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX
2013 PhotoBOMB, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2013 Redbird Editions at De Fotohall, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Of Memory, Bone & Myth, The Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
(juried by Olivia Parker)
2013 Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
(juried by Paul Manoguerra)
2012 Alliance Art Show, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
(juried by Leslie Murrell)
2012 PB&K, Kettle Arts, Dallas, TX
2012 The Unreal, The Kiernan Gallery (Online Annex, Juried by Ken Rosenthal)
2012 Summer Graduate Show, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX (curated by Victoria DeCuir and Tracee Robertson)
2012 Scripts and Systems, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY (curated by
Charlie Campbell)
2012 Voertman Student Art Competition, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX (juried by Clint Willour)
2012 Movement, Michael David Rose Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Decoys and Human Rust, The Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2011 Vision: Reflections in Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (juried by Sylvia De Swaan)
2011 Fresh Meat: 500X College Expo, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (juried by Cris
Worley and Erick Swenson)
2011 Camera, Action, The Metronome Collective, Fort Worth, TX (curated by Paul Leicht)
2011 PhotoPlace Open 2011, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (online
annex, juried by Alison Nordstrom)
2011 A Summer Sampler: CVAD Highlights, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, North Gallery, Denton, TX
2011 Earthwurx, University of North Texas, Union Gallery, Denton, TX
(second place award winner)
2010 Perspective Range, The Rose Marine Theater, Fort Worth, TX
2010 Spring Salon: Photography, The Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2010 Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, Cora Stafford Gallery at The University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2010 Habitats, Meow Wolf Artist’s Collective, Santa Fe, NM
2009 The Secret Admirer’s Show, Siragusa Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 ouRArt show, Siragusa Gallery, Chicago, IL
Screenings
2010 Radical Semantics, “Dividing Light”, Pentagon Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Electric Lights, “Dividing light”, The Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
2009 Meadow Cinema, “Active/Passing”, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
Awards and Honors
2014 Adjunct Assistance Grant, Society for Photographic Education, South
Central Region
2013 Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2013 Overall Winner, Redbird Editions Open Call, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Radius Books Workshop Scholarship, Santa Fe, NM
2012 John D. Murchison Sr. Art Scholarship, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, Denton, TX
2009 Best Photo Page Design, F News Magazine, Student Society for News
Design, Orlando, FL
2007 Merit Scholarship Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
2007 Humanities Division Award of Excellence, Tarrant County College, Hurst, TX
2003 Texas Techie of the Year, International Thespian Society Conference,
New Braunfels, TX
2002 Betty Buckley Award, Best Lighting Design, West Side Story, Fort Worth,
TX
Publications
2015 Arteles Creative Center Catalogue
2014 Papersafe, 01 Sage, edited by Trevor Powers, published by CatLABS
2013 Semigloss Magazine, Inaugural Issue, Cover image
2013 The Artist Catalogue, Vol. 1, winter issue
2011 PhotoPlace Open Exhibition Catalogue, PhotoPlace Gallery
Vision: Reflections in Photography Catalogue, PhotoPlace Gallery
Collections
Harwood International, Dallas, TX
UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery’s Special Collections, Baltimore, MD
Target Corporate Headquarters, Denton, TX
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Full CV
University of North Texas, Denton, TX, MFA, Photography
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, Studio Art
Single and Duo Exhibitions
2020 People who Photograph the Maroon Bells, FrontierSpace, Missoula MT (forthcoming)
2017 People who Photograph the Maroon Bells, Tarrant County College, Hurst, TX
2016 good news bad news great news, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2015 Texas Bigfoot, Lillian Bradshaw Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Terra Incognita, Ro2 Art at the Magnolia Theater, Dallas, TX
2015 A Known World, Southern Light Gallery at Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX
2013 A Known World, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 A Known World, Cora Stafford Gallery at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013 A Known World, the Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2013 Borderlands*, Texas Woman’s University, Union Gallery, Denton, TX
(with Ashley Kauschinger)
2012 Snaps: Polaroids from the Archive of Adam Neese, Cora Stafford Gallery at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2011 What Sees*, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, North Gallery, Denton, TX (with Morehshin Allahyari)
2010 Between Two Cities, Play/Pause/Replay, Grapevine, TX
Group Exhibitions
2020 2020 Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography
2019 CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2019 Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography
2018 The Visual Metric, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA
2017 CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2017 Art Aspen, Aspen, CO
2017 Selections from the Back Room, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2017 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2016 place/holder, UT Dallas Visual Arts Main Gallery, Richardson, TX
2016You are Here, Texas Photographers Respond to the Texas Landscape,
DuchesneAcademy, Houston and Wright Gallery, Texas A&M University,
Houston, TX
2016 Continuance, UNT on the Square, Denton, TX
2015 Provincial Field Notes, Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
2015 Educators’ Exhibit, SPE South Central Conference, Norman, OK
2015 The Smaller Exotics of Texas, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2015 Ticka Arts at O2 Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2015 Yeah, It’s Salon Style, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2014 College of Visual Arts and Design Faculty Exhibition, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX
2014 Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William & Mary, Andrews Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
2014 SPE South Central Members Exhibition, Middle Tennessee State
University, Murfreesboro, TN
2014 Ain’t-Bad: The American South at Art Now, Morris Museum of Art
Education Gallery, Augusta, GA
2014 From the Faraway Nearby, Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX
2014 CHAOS, Ro2 Art Downtown, Dallas, TX
2014 Five Photographers Presented by Ro2 Art, Addison Arts Center, Addison, TX
2014 9/50 Southeast Arts Presenters Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Arts
Center, Atlanta, GA (curated by editors of Ain’t-Bad Magazine)
2014 We Put This _____ On Everything and You Should Too, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX (curated by Kathy Lovas)
2013 College of Visual Arts and Design Faculty Exhibition, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX
2013 PhotoBOMB, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2013 Redbird Editions at De Fotohall, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Of Memory, Bone & Myth, The Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
(juried by Olivia Parker)
2013 Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
(juried by Paul Manoguerra)
2012 Alliance Art Show, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
(juried by Leslie Murrell)
2012 PB&K, Kettle Arts, Dallas, TX
2012 The Unreal, The Kiernan Gallery (Online Annex, Juried by Ken Rosenthal)
2012 Summer Graduate Show, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX (curated by Victoria DeCuir and Tracee Robertson)
2012 Scripts and Systems, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY (curated by
Charlie Campbell)
2012 Voertman Student Art Competition, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Main Gallery, Denton, TX (juried by Clint Willour)
2012 Movement, Michael David Rose Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Decoys and Human Rust, The Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2011 Vision: Reflections in Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (juried by Sylvia De Swaan)
2011 Fresh Meat: 500X College Expo, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (juried by Cris
Worley and Erick Swenson)
2011 Camera, Action, The Metronome Collective, Fort Worth, TX (curated by Paul Leicht)
2011 PhotoPlace Open 2011, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (online
annex, juried by Alison Nordstrom)
2011 A Summer Sampler: CVAD Highlights, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, North Gallery, Denton, TX
2011 Earthwurx, University of North Texas, Union Gallery, Denton, TX
(second place award winner)
2010 Perspective Range, The Rose Marine Theater, Fort Worth, TX
2010 Spring Salon: Photography, The Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2010 Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, Cora Stafford Gallery at The University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2010 Habitats, Meow Wolf Artist’s Collective, Santa Fe, NM
2009 The Secret Admirer’s Show, Siragusa Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 ouRArt show, Siragusa Gallery, Chicago, IL
Screenings
2010 Radical Semantics, “Dividing Light”, Pentagon Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Electric Lights, “Dividing light”, The Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
2009 Meadow Cinema, “Active/Passing”, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
Awards and Honors
2014 Adjunct Assistance Grant, Society for Photographic Education, South
Central Region
2013 Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2013 Overall Winner, Redbird Editions Open Call, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Radius Books Workshop Scholarship, Santa Fe, NM
2012 John D. Murchison Sr. Art Scholarship, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, Denton, TX
2009 Best Photo Page Design, F News Magazine, Student Society for News
Design, Orlando, FL
2007 Merit Scholarship Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
2007 Humanities Division Award of Excellence, Tarrant County College, Hurst, TX
2003 Texas Techie of the Year, International Thespian Society Conference,
New Braunfels, TX
2002 Betty Buckley Award, Best Lighting Design, West Side Story, Fort Worth,
TX
Publications
2015 Arteles Creative Center Catalogue
2014 Papersafe, 01 Sage, edited by Trevor Powers, published by CatLABS
2013 Semigloss Magazine, Inaugural Issue, Cover image
2013 The Artist Catalogue, Vol. 1, winter issue
2011 PhotoPlace Open Exhibition Catalogue, PhotoPlace Gallery
Vision: Reflections in Photography Catalogue, PhotoPlace Gallery
Collections
Harwood International, Dallas, TX
UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery’s Special Collections, Baltimore, MD
Target Corporate Headquarters, Denton, TX
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Full CV
