Adrian began curating exhibitions during his Fine Art degree and found the curatorial process an enjoyable intellectual challenge that also allowed him to employ his natural organisational skills. Graduating with a first class degree Adrian chose to complete his studies with a Masters in Visual Arts Administration, Curating and Commissioning at the Royal College of Art, London led by Teresa Gleadowe.
A list of selected exhibitions and projects follows:
ArtScience Museum exhibitions:
2219: Futures Imagined (co-curator)
23 Nov 2019 – 5 April 2020
https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhibitions/2219-futures-imagined.html
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object (curator)
16 Nov 2018 – 14 April 2019
https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/minimalism.html
Previous independent projects:
wang jian : nothingness was not
PIFO Gallery, Beijing 15 Oct – 18 Dec 2016
http://pifo.cn/exhibitions/10/overview/
Exorcism: Curating Each Other
Connecting Space, Hong Kong 2016
http://www.connectingspaces.ch/curating-each-other/
Government Art Collection exhibitions:
Revealed: Government Art Collection
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery 17 November 2012 — 24 February 2013
Ulster Museum, Belfast 15 march — 9 June 2013
Government Art Collection: Commissions Now and Then
Whitechapel Gallery, London 21 June — 2 Sept 2012
This included commissioning a new work of art by artist Mel Brimfield and an interactive presentation of Government Art Collections commissions from 1949 to 2012.
Government Art Collection: 12 from No10 selected by staff from No10 Downing Street
Whitechapel Gallery, London 9 March — 10 June 2012
Video documentary by Jared Schiller. Courtesy UK Government Art Collection
Government Art Collection: Travelling Light selected by Prof Simon Schama
Whitechapel Gallery, London 16 Dec Sept 2011 — 26 Feb 2012
Government Art Collection: Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain selected by artist Cornelia Parker
Whitechapel Gallery, London 16 Sept — 4 Dec 2011
Government Art Collection: At Work
Whitechapel Gallery, London 3 June — 4 Sept 2011
Tate Liverpool
Co-curator
Liverpool Biennial International 2004 and 2002
Curator:
Weeping Woman in Focus (display)
Michel Majerus: The LA Paintings
Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance
Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present (with Dr. Christoph Grunenberg)
Rebecca Horn (display)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Rut Blees Luxemburg: Phantom
Tate Modern
Live Culture (initial development)
Bankside Browser
Mark Dion: Tate Thames Dig
Jean Vigo: A Propos de Nice (display)
Barnett Newman (with Dr Jeremy Lewison)
Gina Pane (display)
Surrealism: Desire Unbound (with Dr Jennifer Mundy)
Juan Munoz: Unilever Turbine Hall Commission, 2001 (with Susan May)
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis
(with Donna De Salvo, Dr Reiko Tomii and Paulo Venanncio Filho)
Performing Bodies (with Helena Blaker)