Adam Frelin
Adam Frelin, Assistant Professor of Sculpture, has shown widely at such venues as Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,Ridgefield, CT; The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Frelin has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Gateway Foundation; the Alpert Awardin the Arts; the Sleipnir Foundation; and College Art Association, and completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL; and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Frelin divided his undergraduate education between Indiana Universityof Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA; Hunter College, New York, NY; and the Art Center of Lorenzo De’ Medici, Florence, Italy. In 2001 he received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego, CA. From 2001-2004 he held the position of Assistant Professor at Webster University, St. Louis, MO. In 2004 he was awarded a US/Japan Creative Artists Award for independent research in Japan, and in 2006 an invitation to attend the Helsinki International Artists Program in Helsinki, Finland. Recently, Frelin completed White Line (Tokyo), a commissioned outdoor project for the International House of Japan in Tokyo, and his first book of photography, Trees Hit By Cars. He is currently working on a commissioned video project funded by the Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, that will be shot in Kiev, Ukraine, and is preparing for an upcoming solo exhibition at Samson Projects, Boston, MA.
