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 |