Adam Ball

Adam Ball (London 1977) is known to be one of the most interesting painters on the English artistic panorama.

We find him present in the prestige collections, like The Goss-Micheal Foundation or in the collection of Ross Perot, his paintings deal with the main themes connected to the representation of nature through various techniques, from the dividing of the images in optical patterns, to the frottage. to the creation of the works through hand-made rips. In his works there is a rereading from a contemporary point of view of the Arts and Crafts movement, especially in those pictures which propose the repetition, almost serigraphic, of floral themes like in the tapestries of William Morris, but with a style that recalls the sour colours of the Sixties or the neo-conceptual approach typically YBA.

Education

  • 1996-2000

    • Fine Art, BA Hons, Newcastle University
  • 1995-1996

    • Foundation Course, Byam Shaw School of Art

Awards

  • 2007
    • Jerwood Drawing Prize shortlist
  • 2000
    • ICA Beck’s Futures Prize for Film and Video
  • 1996
    • Byam Shaw Painting Prize

Solo exhibitions

  • 2009
    • Adam Ball, Warehouse Gallery, Italy
    • Taman Negara, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2007
    • Graffiti Love, Goss Gallery, Dallas, USA
  • 2006
    • Dirty Pattern, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
    • When we were young, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2005
    • All that Glitters, MDG Fine Arts, London, W1 (catalogue)
  • 2002
    • The Tree, 32 x 22ft installation, Golden Square, London

Group exhibitions

  • 2009
    • Taman Negara, with L’Wren Scott, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
    • Art Madrid, Spain
    • ArteFiera Bologna, Italy
    • Scope London, Warehouse Gallery, London
  • 2008
    • Promised Land, Warehouse Gallery, Italy
    • Scope London, Warehouse Gallery, London
    • Jerwood Drawing Prize, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (catalogue)
  • 2007
    • Scope Miami, Miami USA
    • 2 by 2 amfAR, Museum of Modern Art, Dallas, Tx, USA (catalogue)
    • Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London (catalogue)
  • 2006
    • Frieze Art Fair, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Regent’s Park, London
  • 2004
    • Art London, London
  • 2003
    • Encounters, Brighton Museum
  • 2002
    • Tree Love, Air Gallery, London, W1
  • 2000
    • Becks Futures Film and Video, Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow
    • Becks Futures Film and Video, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London
    • Synaethesia, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Selected Bibliography

The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Magazine, The Independent Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The Evening Standard Magazine, Esquire, WWD, Elle Decor, La Repubblica, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Modern Painters, Art and Auction, Galleries, Art Review, The Art Newspaper and BBC TV, ITV, Channel 5 and BBC London Radio.