YURA ADAMS
Education
BFA San Francisco Art Institute 1975
MFA San Francisco Art Institute 1980
Teaching Experience
Rhode Island School of Design, Painting Department, Providence, RI, 2004 to present
Columbia Greene Community College, Fine Art Department, Hudson, NY, 2000 to present 1980
Grants
Twin Counties Cultural Fund:
Collage, Art and Technology Workshop, CGCC, 2003
Shakespeare on the Hudson set design, 2001
NEA Individual Artist Grant: New Genres 1985
Public Access Synthesizer Studio (PASS): New Works, New York, NY 1984
NEA Intermedia Grant: collaboration with Fusion Dance Company, Miami, FL 1979
Exhibitions
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, solo, 2006
Merrimack College, "Objects", Middleton, MA, 4 person, 2005
Artwalk, Friends of the Hudson, Hudson, NY, 2001 & 2005
New Marborough Meeting House, New Marlborough, MA, group, 2003 - 2005
Foundation Gallery, Faculty Show, Columbia Greene Community College, 2000-2006
IS183, Faculty Show, West Stockbridge, MA, group, 1999 - 2005
ADD Gallery, "Fundamental Change", Hudson, NY, group, 2004
Northpointe Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, solo, 2003
Columbia County Council on the Arts, "Ten", Hudson, NY, group, 2003
TSL, "Small Works", Hudson, NY, group, 2002
IS183, "Painted Words and Artists Books", West Stockbridge, MA, group, 2002
Inkberry, Massachusettes Book Arts, North Adams, MA"Books by Artists", group, 2002
Foundation Gallery, "Computer Graphics", CGCC, group, 2001
IS183, "Artists of the Housatonic", West Stockbridge, MA, group, 2000
Berkshire Museum, "Millenium Clock", Invitational, Pittsfield, MA, group, 1999
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Photographs, Hudson, NY, group, 1987
Nora Haime Gallery, "Art Sounds", New York, NY, Polygram Records, group, 1986
City Gallery, Intermedia Installation, New York, NY, 6 artists, group, 1986
John Michael Kohler Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, group, 1985
San Paulo Biennial: "Science Fiction Show", San Paulo, Brazil, group, 1985
Camerawork Gallery, "Arranged Image", San Francisco, CA , group, 1985
New Museum, window installation, New York, NY, solo, 1984
Chicago Book Arts, window installation, New York, NY, solo, 1983
FOTO Gallery, photography and installation New York, NY, solo, 1983
Sioux City Art Museum, Sioux City, IA, solo, 1983
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, solo, 1983
Just Above Midtown, "Photography; New Approaches", New York, NY, group, 1983
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, "Emerging California Artists", group, 1983
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Set-Up Photography", group, 1983
Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, "New Photographics", Ellensburg, WA, group, 1983
FOTO Gallery, New York, NY. solo, 1982
FOTO Gallery, New York, NY, solo, 1978
Visiting Artist
IS 183, Artist talk, West Stockbridge, MA, 2006
Humbolt State, Lecture, workshop and performance, Arcata, CA, 1986
Guggenheim Museum, "Learning to Read" workshop, New York, NY
Maryland Istitute of Art, "Intermedia Photography", Baltimore, MD, 1985
SUNY Purchase, "Synaesthesia Symposium", Purchase, NY
Staten Island Children's Museum, "Audio Art Symposium", Staten Island, NY
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Workshop and performance, Baltimore, MD, 1984
School of Visual Arts, lecture, New York, NY, 1984
Artist talks: Cal Arts, Valencia, CA and San Francisco Art Institute, , San Francisco, CA, 1983
University of CA, lecture to graduate students, San Diego, CA, 1982
Artist talks: CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Mills College, Oakland, CA and Indian Valley College, Artist talk, Novato, CA , 1981
Miami-Dade Community College, Artist talk, Miami, FL, 1980
US Olympics, "US Eye", Erie, PA, group showThe Farm, "Posed Farmalism" with Jim Pomeroy, San Francisco, CA, 1980
Performance Artist: 1979-1986
Humbolt State, Arcata, CA "Marvel's Paradise"
New Music America Festival, Hartford, CT "Marvel's Paradise"
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Maryland "Orbit on the Hour"
School of Visual Arts, NYC, NY "Extra Modern Excerpts"
Experimental Intermedia Center, NYC, NY "Alien Stream"
LACE, Los Angeles, CA "Orbit on the Hour"
Franklin Furnace: NYC, NY "Orbit on the Hour"
LAICA, Los Angeles, CA "Femme Futura"
SUSHI, San Diego, CA "Femme Futura"
San Francisco Art Institute, "Femme Futura" with guests Jim Pomeroy,George Manupelli and Paul DiMarinisHallwalls, Buffalo, NY, "Femme Futura"
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
80 Langton, SF, CA "I-OH-WAH (beautiful land)
Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Jetwave: SF, CA "Maid without Tears"
Fort Mason, SF, CA "Harmony Hall"
Corporate Collections
Chase Manhattan Bank: Permanent Art Collection
Seagram Seven: Bicentennial Photographic Collection
Bioliography
"The Breaking Point": by Sue Shellenbarger Henry Holt and Co. Chapter on the Artist 2005
Artful Mind: Artist Chronicle, 2004
Berkshire Eagle: "Working Across the Boundaries", 2000
Polygram Records: "Art Sounds", Artist compilation, double album, 1986
ANAN Magazine: "Four New York Artists", Tokyo, Japan, 1984
Brutus Magazine: "New York Cultural Elite", Tokyo, Japan, 1983
High Performance Magazine: "Artist Chronicle", Los Angeles, CA, 1980 and 1983
New Observations Magazine: Science Fiction issue, New York, NY, 1982
Another Room: interview, Oakland, CA, 1982