deidre adams | c.v.
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Entanglement, Walker Fine Art, Denver
2024 AWAE (A Women Artists Expo), Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale
2023 Internal Mapping, Walker Fine Art, Denver
2023 Woman Artists and Poets, Lone Tree Colorado Art Center
2022 Modus Operandi, Walker Fine Art, Denver
2021 Reconnect: MSU Denver Alumni show, Metropolitan State University Center for Visual Art, Denver
2020 Synesthetic Ciphers, Walker Fine Art, Denver
2020 Pink Progression: Collaborations, The Arvada Center, Arvada, Colorado
2019 All Colorado Show, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2019 Layered & Stitched, Houston Quilt Festival, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio
2018 A Conscious Surrender, Walker Fine Art, Denver
2018 Chasing 360, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2018 Things That Matter, Chandler (Arizona) Vision Gallery and St. George (Utah) Art Museum
2017 Healing Arts Series, Littleton Adventist Hospital, Littleton, Colorado, solo exhibition
2017 Experimental Surroundings, Walker Fine Art, Denver
2016 Colorado Women in Abstraction, invited artist, Center for Visual Art, Denver
2016 A New Spin, invited artist, Art Gym Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 Fiber Innovations II, Featured Artist, Parker (Colo.) Arts, Culture and Events (PACE) Center
2016 Metaphors & Mysteries, Point Gallery, Denver, solo exhibition
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
2015 What Lies Beneath, Point Gallery, Denver, solo exhibition
2014 Tracings, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, California, solo exhibition
2014 Contemporary Takes on Traditional Patterns, Denver Art Museum
2014 Form Not Function, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, Indiana – Award of Excellence
2013 Foxtrot, Space Gallery, Denver
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 2011, Athens, Ohio
2010 Plane of Persistence, BFA Thesis exhibition, Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
2010 Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries, Oceanside, California
2009 New Works, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado, solo exhibition
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 Deidre Adams: Passages, Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado, solo exhibition
2008 Spaces and Places: Explorations in Mixed Media Textiles, Art in Public Places Program, Aurora, Colorado
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 – Best in Show award
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
2006 All Colorado Show, Curtis Center for the Arts, 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 2005, 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
2003 Western Material: Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver Center for Visual Art
Commissions
2011 Anythink Library, Bennett, Colorado: Horizon XVIII: Plainsong (Life on the Eastern Plains)
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 VIIInstallations & Collections
collections
Westin Hotel, Avon, Vail Valley, Colorado, Thinking of Another Time
Office Evolution, Why ask Why?
Platte Valley Medical Center, My Secret
Real Capital Solutions, Consilience
National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky, Composition VII
Gordon & Rees Law Firm, Epigraph I: Dark Field
Denver West, Pseudocode & A Moment of Dazzling Balance
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, 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
The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas: Passages V
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
Publications
2016 Westword, “Deidre Adams Makes Her Mark With Metaphors & Mysteries at Point Gallery,” review by Michael Paglia, Aug. 23, 2016
2016 Abstract & Geometric by Martha Sielman, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2016
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, Maeve Tynan ed., Passages V used as cover artwork
2009 Quilting Art by Spike Gillespie, published by Voyageur Press, 2009
2009 Machine Quilting Unlimited, Vol. XIV, No. 6, “In the Art Studio with Deidre Adams,” Nov. 2009
Education
2010 BFA, emphasis in painting, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1997 AS, Graphic Design, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado
1990 BS, Computer Information Systems & Management Science, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, Colorado