12613 ½ Venice Blvd.
Mar Vista CA 90066 USA
t 310.915.1930
Adam Braly Janes
Born in 1976 in Hurst, Texas
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Solo exhibitions
2017
Memory Song 001, c.nichols project, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Memory Song, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2012
Hunter Gatherer, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2011
Objects in Play, Martha Otero, Los Angeles, USA
2010
Middleman (gold digger and the cosmic connection), Cueto Project, New York, USA
Carpenter’s carpenter (plan your escape), WPA, Los Angeles, USA
West coast USA: Adam Janes, Cultuurcentrum, Kortrijk, Belgium
Altar alter mini storage, The Company, Los Angeles, USA
2009
Candle Chantry (psycho killer qu'est-ce que c'est?), Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2008
Delicate balance country buffet, Tim Van Laere gallery, Anvers, Belgium
Solo Show, Galerie GP & N Vallois, ArtBrussels, Brussels, Belgium
Don’t sweat the small stuff @ 50%, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007
The Unbeatable Handy Poor los Manos, Project Room, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2006
The Squirrelly Business of Outbuilding Incommunicado, Solo Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2005
Comfyheadchoppingblockheadwasher, Project Room, Bucketrider Gallery, Chicago, USA
2004
Of gods and monsters, Diannepruess, Los Angeles, USA
Group exhibitions
2014
Vernacular Alchemists, curators: Antoine Marchand & Etienne Bernard, Passerelle – Centre d'art contemporain, Brest, France
Portrait de 3/4, curator: Alain Bublex, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
HERE, THERE, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2013
Exquisite Corpse, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2012
No Person May Carry a Fish Into a Bar, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Venice Beach Biennial, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, USA**
2011
From the Recent Past, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, USA
2010
Legal Tender, Martha Otero, Los Angeles, USA
Jerry/Jury-Rigged, curator: Jan Tumlir,The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, USA
De Stijl Life, Chinese Art Objects Gallery , Los Angeles, USA
Jouvences, curator: Pierre Sterckx, Château d'Ardelay, Les Herbiers, France*
2008
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, curator: Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
From and about place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel*
Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Size, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Fresh, silent auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Do not stack, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA_Panic our older brother_ ALM, Munich, Germany
2005
Ausfarchitecture/ in Outhouse, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, USAbigmouthviciouscycl, drawings, Bucketrider Gallery, Chicago, USA
Mika Caden-Narami, Paths of Moons and Planets, Los Angeles, USA
2004
Groupshow, Diannepruess, Los Angeles, USA
Public collections
MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Publications and Catalogs
2013
Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process, Sarah Trigg, Princeton Architectural Press
2008
From and about place: Art from Los Angeles, Ed. The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, pp. 72-70 (ill.)
2004
New American Painting, Pacific Coast Edition, Book #49
Press
2015
« Adam Janes », The Drawer : Le Banquet, volume 8, spring, pp. 5 + 123-127 (ill.)
2014
Adam Janes and Dennis Hollingsworth, « East of the sun : an indeterminate approach to
architecture », Paris, LA, n°12, autumn, pp. 4-13 (ill.)
Owen Jones, « Colère sociale, vote à droite », Le Monde diplomatique, n°727,
October, p. 13 (ill.)
2011
Sharon Mizota, « Art review: Adam Janes at Martha Otero », Los Angeles Times, 16 June
(ill.)
Pierre Sterckx, « Que vaut vraiment une oeuvre d’art », Beaux-Arts magazine, n°319,
January, p. 99 (ill.)
2010
Sophie de Santis, « Adam Janes », Figaroscope, 5 January (ill.)
2009
Agathe Cancellieri, « Adam Janes, Candle Chantry (psycho killer qu’est-ce c’est) »,
www.paris-art.com, December (ill.)
2008
Alma Ruiz, « Interview with Adam Janes », cat.exp. From and About Place : Art from Los
Angeles, ed. The Center of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, September-November, pp. 72-70
(ill.)
n.s., « Jeunes pousses et grosses pointures », Le Journal des Arts, supplément Art Brussels, 11 April, pp. 1-2 (ill.)
Peter Frank, « Ambition Accomplished », LA weekly, vol. 30 n°17, 12-20 March (ill.)