Adam Putnam | |
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Born | 1973 |
Nationality | American |
Education | BFA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY MFA Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT |
Known for | Photography |
Adam Putnam (born 1973, New York) is an American visual artist working primarily with photography, drawing, and performance art. [1] [2] Putnam is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. [3]
Adam Putnam holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York (1995), and an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven (2000). [4] In 2008, Putnam exhibited the video piece The Way Out (2005) at the Whitney Biennial. [5]
In 2020, the photo book Portholes: Photographs by Adam Putnam, with text by Lauren O'Neill-Butler in conversation with Adam Putnam was published by Penumbra Foundation. [6]
Putnam's solo exhibition Holes in New York at PPow gallery expanded on the artist's practice by exhibiting photography, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance pieces to comment on image-making in relation to nature and environmental issues. [7]
Putnam's work has been featured in international contemporary art exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial 2008, New York; Busan Biennale 2008, South Korea; and the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia. His work was also on view at MoMA PS1, Queens, and Artists Spaces, in New York's Tribeca neighborhood. [8] Adam Putnam's work is included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, and the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina. [8]
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