Solo & Two-person Exhibitions

2016 Metaphors & Mysteries, Point Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2015 Deidre Adams & Kim Gentile: What Lies Beneath, Point Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2014 Tracings, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, California
2010 Plane of Persistence, BFA Thesis show, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
2009 Featured artist, Lincoln Center Gallery, Ft. Collins, Colorado
2008 Deidre Adams: Passages, Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2008 Spaces and Places: Explorations in Mixed Media Textiles, Art in Public Places Program,
Aurora, Colorado

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Things That Matter, Vision Gallery, Chandler, Arizona
2018 A Conscious Surrender, Walker Fine Art, Denver, Colorado
2017 Experimental Surroundings, Walker Fine Art, Denver, Colorado
2017 75 – A Celebration of Works in Fiber, invited artist, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado
2016 Colorado Women in Abstraction, invited artist, Center for Visual Art, Denver
2016 A New Spin, invitational, Art Gym Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 Fiber Innovations II, featured artist, Parker (Colo.) Arts, Culture and Events (PACE) Center
2015 Vault: Denver MSU Alumni Exhibition, Center for Visual Art, Denver
2015 Contemporary Abstractions, Unicom Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2015 Quilt National 2015, Athens, Ohio, and traveling
2014 Contemporary Takes on Traditional Patterns, Denver Art Museum
2014 Contemporary Fiber, Colorado Invitational, Helikon Gallery, Denver
2014 Form Not Function, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, Indiana – Award of Excellence
2013 Foxtrot featuring Emilie Mitcham & Deidre Adams, Space Gallery, Denver
2013 Create – Discovering the Artist Within, Lakewood (Colo.) Cultural Center
2013 Quilt National 2013, Athens, Ohio
2012 Seasonal Palette, IQF Houston, and traveling
2012 Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2012, Taichung Municipal City Huludun Cultural Center, Taichung City, Taiwan
2012 SAQA Showcase, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2011 Quilt National ’11, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
2010 Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries, Oceanside, California
2009 Sublime Surfaces, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado
2009 Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio
2009 Mixed Media Fiber Art, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
2008 12 Voices, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, and travelling
2008 Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania
2008 Distinctive Directions, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska
2008 Threadlines, Missouri State University Art & Design Gallery –
awarded Best in Show by Juror Jason Pollen
2008 Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions, Oceanside, California
2007 A Sense of Place, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
2007 Hanging by a Thread, Museum of the American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky
2007 Fiber Directions, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
2007 Fiber R(E)volution, Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2006 All Colorado Show, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2006 Contemporary Elements: Colorado Artists Redefine Fiber Art,
The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
2006 Transformations, Birmingham, England
2006 27th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
2005 Quilt National ’05, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
2005 Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas
2005 Form not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Albany, Indiana
2004 Altered Color, Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 Quilt Visions 2004: Celebrating the Art of the Quilt, Oceanside, California
2004 Contemporary Directions in Fiber, Reed Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2004 Fine Focus, traveling exhibition, 2004-2005
2003 Elements, Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado; and Exhibits USA traveling show, 2005-2009
2003 Western Material: Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
2001 State of the Craft: Contemporary Interpretations of Tradition, Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Madison, New Jersey

Commissions

2011 Anythink Bennett, Bennett, Colorado: Horizon XVIII: Plainsong
2007 Louisville Library, Louisville, Colorado: Between the Lines
2007 Lone Tree Library, Lone Tree, Colorado: Chronicles I, Chronicles II, Chronicles IV, Chronicles V, Chronicles VI, Chronicles VII

Installations & Collections

Platte Valley Medical Center: My Secret

Gordon & Rees Law Firm: Epigraph I: Dark Field

Denver West: Pseudocode, A Moment of Dazzling Balance

Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, Mansfield, Texas: Composition VI

Metropolitan State University of Denver (Colo.) Hospitality Learning Center: Reliably Uncertain & Mining Chaos

Terrance Carroll, Greenberg Traurig, former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives: All the Answers

Ritz Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe: Iterations #2: Aquamarine, Horizon IV, Horizon XI

EnCana Corp., Denver, Colorado: Iterations #1

Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Stapleton, Highlands Ranch, Franklin, and Aurora locations:
Colorways I, II, & III; IV; Common Boundaries I & II; Reverie I, IV ; V

Kaiser Permanente Regional Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia: Composition III

Quilts, Inc., Houston, Texas: Horizon VIII, Horizon IX ; Horizon X

PEI, Boulder, Colorado: Cerescape No. 3

University of Nebraska, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska

The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas: Passages V

Publications, etc.

2016 Art Quilting Studio, “Layers & Letters,” Summer 2016
2015 Radical Philosophy: an Introduction by Chad Kautzer, Composition VIII used as cover artwork
2013 Quilt National 2013: The Best of Contemporary Quilts, published by Lark Books
2013 Fabric Surface Design, by Cheryl Rezendes, published by Storey Publishing, LLC
2011 Patchwork Professional – Das Magazin für Fortgeschrittene & Profis, “Abstrakte Mixed Media Kunst von Deidre Adams,” Jan. 2011
2011 Quilt National 2011: The Best of Contemporary Quilts, published by Lark Books
2010 Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries, published by Visions Publications
2010 1000 Artisan Textiles by Sandra Salamony & Gina M. Brown, published by Quayside Publishing
2010 500 Art Quilts, juried by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, published by Lark Books
2009 Passages: Movements and Moments in Text and Theory, ed. Maeve Tynan, Maria Beville and Marita Ryan; published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Passages V – cover image
2009 Quilting Art by Spike Gillespie, published by Voyageur Press
2009 Machine Quilting Unlimited, Vol. XIV, No. 6, “In the Art Studio with Deidre Adams,”
November 2009
2009 SAQA Journal v.19, no. 4, Fall 2009, “Featured Artist: Jo Fitsell” (author)
2008 Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions, published by Visions Publications
2008 12 Voices: An in-depth look at 12 artists working in the quilt medium, published by Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc.
2007 SAQA Journal v.17, no.4, Fall 2007, “Living up to the Digital Deal” (author)
2006 Quilting Arts Magazine, issue 24, Winter 2006, profiled artist
2006 Uncommon Threads, DIY Network, episodes DUCT-155 “Scratching the Surface” and DUCT-122 “Changing the Face of Quilts”
2005 Quilt National 2005: The Best in Contemporary Quilts, published by Lark Books
2004 Quilt Visions 2004, published by Visions Publications
2002 Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Issue #345 (v.33, No.7), “The Meetin’ Place” feature article, September 2002

Education

2010 BFA, emphasis in painting, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1997 AS, Graphic Design, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado
1990 BS, Computer Information Systems & Management Science, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado

Representation

Walker Fine Art – Denver, Colorado
Bluestone Fine Art Gallery – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania