Pat Adams

Born in Stockton, California, she earned a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and studied with Max Beckmann and John Ferren at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. From 1964 to 1993, she was a teacher of painting at Bennington College. From 1977 to 1981, she served on the Board of Directors of the Vermont Arts Council. Her primary residence has been Bennington, Vermont. EducationUniversity of California, BA 1949Phi Beta Kappa, Delta EpsilonGrants, Awards, ResidenciesGalleria d'Arte Moderna, Bordighera, Italy, "Americans in Europe" Purchase Prize, 1952Fulbright to France, 1956Yaddo Foundation Residency, Summer 1954, 1964, 1969, 1970Mac Dowell Colony Residency, Summer 1968, 1972National Council of Arts Award in Painting, 1968National Endowment for the Arts Award in Painting, 1976, 1987American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam Purchase Award, 1983, 1985, 1989College Art Association Distinguished teaching of Art Award, 1984American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Award in Art, 1986Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, 1990Honorary Vice Chairman National Association of Women Artists, 1992National Academy of Design, Associate, 1992; Academician, 1993Dartmouth College, Artist in Residence, Winter 1994Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, 1995American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Award, 1996Selected Solo Exhibitions2001 Zabriskie Gallery, New York: Paintings biennially since 1956Monotypes: 1999, 1994, 1993Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flyn Performing Arts Center, Burlington, Vermont1994 Jaffe/Friede/Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire1989 Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, Maine1988 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Retrospective 1979-88Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.New York Academy of Sciences, New YorkAmerican Academy of Sciences, New York1986 Haggin Museum, Stockton, CaliforniaUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville1983 Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts1982 Columbia Museum of Art and Science, South CarolinaArtemisia Gallery, ChicagoVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond1980 Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, D.C.Galerie Zabriskie, Paris1979 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Retrospective 1954-781978 Rutgers University Art Gallery, New JerseyZabriskie Gallery: 25th Anniversary Survey 1952-781977 Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington1972 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts1967 Windham College, Putney, Vermont1966 Middlebury college Art Museum, Vermont1959 Kanegis Gallery, BostonWheaton College, Wheaton, Massachusetts1954 Korman Gallery, New York1950 Haggin Museum Art Gallery, Stockton, CaliforniaSelected Group Shows2000 "Simple Statements" University of Rhode Island, Kingston"Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England, Recent Acquisitions",De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts1999 "Works by Women: 20th Century Art from the Permanent Collection",Middlebury College Art Museum, Vermont"Artists' Choice: Beyond the Millenium", Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vermont1998 "Contemporary Selections from National Academy at Silvermine", SilvermineGuild Art Center, Connecticut"The Pulled Image", Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont, Vermont Studio Press1997 "Out there", Beth Urdang Gallery"Abstract Tendencies", Rider University, New Jersey1996 "Recipients of Honors and Awards In Art", American Academy of Art and Institute of Art and Letters, New YorkArt in Embassies Program: Bern, Switzerland1995 170th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York"Selected Paintings" Fleming Museum, Burlington University of Vermont"Faculty Works on Paper", Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut1994 "A view of One's Own", Voorhees-Zimmerle Muse3um, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New JerseyArt in Embassies Program: Mexico City, Mexico1993 "Late Modern Drawings, 1960-1970s", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C"Contemporary Monoprints", Associated American Artists, New York1992 "Zabriskie 1991-92, New York/Paris", Galerie Zabriskie, Paris1991 "Traditional Sources, Contemporary Visions", Webb/Parsons Gallery in collaboration with the Shelburne Museum, Burlington, Vermont1991 "Transformations", Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vermont"From the Bennington College Collection", Williams College Museum of Art,Williamstown, Massachusetts1990 "Yale Painting Faculty Exhibition 1950-1990" (Honoring Bernard Chaet),Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York "Faculty: 1990", Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont1989 "New England Art Now", traveled throughout New England1988 "Painters Make Prints", traveling: Maryland Institute of Art; Hood College,Frederick, Maryland; Frostburg State University, Lincoln, Maryland1987 "Artist/Printmaker", Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland College of Art"Faculty Works", Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont"New England Now: Contemporary Artists from Six States", traveling:De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine;List Gallery, Brown University, Rhode Island; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; Currier Gallery, New Hampshire; Fleming Museum, University of Vermont1986 "Recipients of Awards in Art", American Academy of Art and Institute of Artsand Letters, New York1985 "Recent Acquisitions", Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts1984 "Contemporary Artists in Vermont", Fleming Museum, University of Vermont1983 "Selection from the collections", Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut"National Invitational Exhibition", University of Hawaii at Hilo"Recent Works", American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C."Aspects of Color", Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia"Art and Technology: Offset Prints", Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania1982 "20/20: Twenty Artists/Twenty Galleries", Terry Dintenfass and GraceBorgenicht Galleries, New York"Graham Gund Collection: A Private Eye". Boston Museum of Fine Arts1981 "Recent Acquisitions", Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey"Invitation '81", Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts"For Love and Money: Dealers Choose", Pratt Institute, Manhattan CenterGallery, New York1980 "Draw '80", College of Saint Rose Art Gallery, "Painterly Abstraction", Brockton art Museum, Massachusetts"Islamic Allusions", Alternative Museum, New YorkInvitational Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,New York1979 "Faculty Choice", State university of New York at Albany"100 Artists - 100years", Art institute of Chicago, Illinois1978 Artists' Postcards II", Cooper-Hewitt museum, New YorkPerspectives '78: Works by Women", Freedman Gallery, Albright College,Reading, Pennsylvania"New England Connections", Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Massachusetts1977 "New in the Seventies", University o9f Texas Art Museum, Austin"Contemporary Issues: Works by Women on Paper", Women's Caucus on Art,traveling exhibition"New Acquisitions", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.1976 "A Bite form the Big Apple", Indiana University Art Museum, Indianapolis"June Invitational", Noho Gallery, New York" Seven Decades of MacDowell Artists, James Yu Gallery, New York"Artists at Bennington" Visual Arts Faculty 1932-76", Usdan gallery, Bennington College, Vermont1975 "Twenty American Fulbright Artists", Institute of International Education, New York1974 Inaugural Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New YorkInvitational Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1973 "Women Choose Women", New York Cultural Center1972 "Color Forum", University of Texas Art Museum, Austin"American Women Artists", Gedok Kunsthaus, Hamburg"Unmanly Art", Suffolk Museum, New York"118 Artists", Landmark Gallery, New York"6 Women Artists", Kent State University, Ohio1970 "Hirshhorn Select', Baltimore Museum of Art1968 "Betty Parsons Collection", Finch College, New York1967 "18 Americans", Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York1966 "Works on Paper", University of North Carolina, Greensboro1965 "100 American Drawings", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor"Inform and Interpret", American Federation of Art, travelling exhibition1964 "Done and Redone", Zabriskie Gallery, New York1962 "Lyricism in Abstract Art", American Federation of Art, travelling exhibition"Recent Acquisitions", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York1961 Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York"Private Myth", Tanager Gallery, New York"Symbolist Legacy", Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, Texas1960 "Experience I and II", Hirshl and Adler Galleries, New YorkInvitational Exhibition, James Gallery, New York1959 Watercolor Annual, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia1958 "Ten Year Fulbright Painting", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York"The New Landscape in Art and Science", American Federation of Art, travelling exhibition1957 "41 Aquarellistes", Museum of Modern Art, travelling exhibition (France)"College USA", American Federation of Art, travelling exhibition1956 Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkStable Gallery, 5th Annual, New York1954 "The Magic of Black and White", Four Directions Gallery, New York1953 "14 at Korman", Korman Gallery, New York1952 "Americans in Europe", Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bordighera, Italy1950 Painting Sculpture Annual, Oakland Art Museum, California1949 Watercolors, Prints, Drawing Annual, Oakland Art Museum, California1948 Paintings and Sculpture annual, Oakland Art Museum, CaliforniaPublic CollectionsAmon Carter MuseumBennington College, Usdan Gallery, VermontBerkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MassachusettsBrooklyn Museum of Art, New YorkCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Hirshhorn Museum an Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C. Middlebury College Art Museum, VermontMontclair Museum of American Art, New JerseyNational Academy of Design, new YorkNew Britain Museum of American art, ConnecticutPalm Springs Desert Museum, CaliforniaPhiladelphia Museum, PennsylvaniaJ.D. Speed Art MuseumUniversity of Arizona art museum, TucsonUniversity of North Carolina Art Museum, GreensboroUniversity of Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming MuseumUniversity of California Art Museum, BerkeleyWhitney Museum of American Art, New YorkWilliams College Art MuseumCharles A. Wustrum Museum of Fine ArtsYale University Art Museum, New Haven, ConnecticutJane Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University