Selected Resume

Educational Vitae

Everyone knows that the biographical information is actually written by the artist. Here is my standard boilerplate bio:

A lifelong Buffalo resident, Bruce Adams was originally trained in art education, but has since bridged the fine art and art education worlds as a painter, installation artist, teacher, arts advocate, and more recently, critical and creative writer. Although Adams is known primarily as a painter of figurative works, he avoids adopting a single personal painting style. Rather, he assumes different styles - often historical ones - as a strategy for exploring contemporary issues through contextually redefined art conventions.

Adams has extensively exhibited his work, examples of which are included in numerous museum and private collections. Adams' installations and performances are staged in public venues such as Buffalo's First Night, The Urban Art Project, and The Artists and Models Affair.

Adams considers his true education as an artist to have resulted from his involvement with the art community beginning in the early 1980s as the director of peopleart bflo, a small regional alternative space. Since then he worked in various capacities with Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, including as a board member, and board president from 2003 - 05. In 2000 the National Art Education Association named him New York State Art Educator of the Year.