(2023-present) PhD candidate, Southern Illinois University (SIU), Carbondale, IL
(2020-2023) PhD student, Southern Illinois University (SIU), Carbondale, IL
(2016) MFA, Sam Fox School/Washington University, St. Louis, MO
(2014) BFA, Southern Illinois University (SIU), Carbondale, IL
WORK EXPERIENCE
(2020-present) Graduate assistant, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Classes assisted or co-taught: Media and Society (Sociology of Media), New Media Then, African American Cinema, Social Class in Cinema, US History in Cinema
(2017-2020) Instructor, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV. Classes taught: Drawing I, Drawing II, Life/Figure Drawing, 2D Design, 3D Design. Area committees: drawing area, graduate faculty
(2017) Instructor, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO. Classes taught: Painting I
(2016-2017) Art critic, West End Word, St. Louis, MO
(2014-2016) Teaching assistant, Sam Fox School/Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Classes assisted: 2D Design, Introduction to Drawing, Pictures for Communication, Painting Seminar: Place and Space
(2000-2009) Graphic designer and typesetter for Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL
(1997-1998) Gallery assistant, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
(2016) Cité International des Arts Residency and Fellowship (Paris, France)
(2014-2016) Sam Fox School of Art/Washington University Scholarship
(2015) Sam Fox School of Art/Washington University Travel Grant
(2013) Windgate Charitable Foundation Educational Opportunity Scholarship
(2013) Windgate Charitable Foundation Undergraduate Research Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(2022-ongoing) Born Again Labor Museum, Carbondale (March 2022-ongoing), with my partner Tish Turl.
(2018) The Barista Who Disappeared, Artspace 304, Carbondale, IL (June 2018)
(2018) Revolt of the Swivel Chairs, The Cube Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (March 2018)
(2015) Kick the Cat, Project 1612, Peoria, IL (October 2015)
(2014) New Deal Art Now: A Reframing of the Artifacts of Diversity, SIU University Museum, Carbondale, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(2020) The SWARM Show, collaborative installation with Anupam Roy, Tish Markley, and Laura Fair Schulz, to be installed at the Historical Materialism conference, University of Quebec, Montreal, QC (cancelled/postponed indefinitely due to Covid 19, originally scheduled for May, 2020)
(2020) The New Culture, curated by Olga Townsend, Nancy Good and Jorge Lara, Core Contemporary Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (cancelled/postponed indefinitely due to Covid 19, originally scheduled March 2020)
(2017) Exposure 19: Jumbled Time, curated by Terry Shure, exhibit with Stan Chisholm and Lizzy Martinez, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO
(2016) The Hard Times Art Show part II, curated by Adam Turl and Omnia Sol, with the artists Holly McGraw, Omnia Sol, Anna Maria Tucker, Husni Ashiku, Jason Wonnell, Dollar Art House, St. Louis, MO
PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONS
Lincoln Land Community College Writing Center, Springfield, IL: Benito Cereno
Parkview Collection at Indiana Tech Law School, Fort Wayne, IN: Plantation Painting 2 and 3
SELECTED ARTWORK PUBLISHED (PRINT)
(2022) Arrhythm Nation, with Tish Turl, mixed-media painting, cover art for Alexander Billet’s Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis, 1968 Press (November 2022)
(2019) Ares Coffee Riot (Red Mars), mixed-media painting, in Marc Léger’s Vanguardia: Socially Engaged Art and Theory, Manchester University Press (March 1, 2019)
(2018) The Barista Who Could See the Future, photograph of painting and installation, cover of Red Wedge Magazine 5 (Spring 2018)
(2017) I Heart Communist Space Pirates, painting, cover of December magazine volume 28.2 (Fall/Winter 2017)
(2017) Various works in Terry Suhre, Exposure 19: Jumbled Time, show catalog, interview round table with Adam Turl, Stan Chisholm and Lizzy Martinez, Gallery 210, University of Missouri - St. Louis
(2014) The Wind Has Erased the North Star, cover-art for Octavio Quintanilla’s If I Go Missing, Slough Press (February 2014)
(2020) “Tish Markley and Adam Turl Bring Their Art To Core Contemporary March 25th,” Vim Magazine (March 5, 2020)
(2018) Craig Wilson, “Adam Turl presents The Barista Who Disappeared,” Carbondale Nightlife (June 21, 2018), 8.
(2018) Leslie Ventura, “A flat dimension comes alive in ‘The Revolt of the Swivel Chairs,’” Las Vegas Weekly (March 23, 2018)
(2016) James Diaz, “Interview with Artist Adam Turl,” Anti-Heroin Chic (October 6, 2016)
(2016) Liam Otten, “Red Mars and the Fictional Artist,” The Source (June 29, 2016)
(2016) Project 1612, “Post-1612 with Adam Turl” (interview), Post-1612 (May 5, 2016)
(2015) Dawn-Michelle Baude, “Concrete Messages from Fictional Artists” Las Vegas Weekly (September 16, 2015)
(2015) Jenessa Kenway, “13 Baristas Pours It on Hot and Heavy,” Vegas Seven (Sept. 1, 2015)
SELECTED WRITING (PRINT)
(2023) “Commune vs. Cathedral vs. Bazaar,” Imago #2 (May 2023), 40-54
(2021) “Rest of Us,” review of Richard Hamilton’s Rest of Us, Locust Review #6 (October, 2021), 9-10
(2021) “Their Weird vs. Ours: Critical Irrealism and Fascist Occultism,” Imago #1 (August, 2021), 34-49
(2019) “On Howard Barry: Against Apocalyptic Time,” in Howard Barry Inertia, show catalog, (Gallery 210, St. Louis: University of Missouri, September, 2019)
(2018) “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” Red Wedge 6 (Fall 2018), 43-69
(2016) “All is Concealed,” review of Kelley Walker’s Direct Drive, West End Word (October 5, 2016)
SELECTED WRITING (ONLINE)
(2022) "Being with the Prophets,” Adam Turl, Imagojournal.com (November 11, 2022)
(2019) “We Are All Outsider Artists Now,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (May 2019)
(2019) “Outsider Art is a Lie,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (February, 2019)
(2018) “No More Art Districts,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (December, 2018)
(2017) “Welcome to the Last Days,” review of China Miéville’s Last Days of New Paris,
(2017) RedWedgeMagazine.com (January 30, 2017)
(2016) “The Democratic Image,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (April, 2016)
(2016) Against the Weak Avant-Garde,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (April, 2016)
(2015) “The Art Space as Epic Theater,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (April 26, 2015) “Interrupting Disbelief: Narrative Conceptualism,” RedWedgeMagazine.com
(2014) “Entartete Kunst: Degenerate Art and Nazi Germany,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (September 2, 2014)
(2014) “A Thousand Lost Worlds: Notes on Gothic Marxism,” RedWedgeMagazine.com (June 24, 2014, reposted in 2015)
SELECTED CONDUCTED INTERVIEWS (PRINT)
(2020) “Free World Spectre,” interview with artist Adam Ray Adkins, Locust Review (Fall, 2020), insert
(2020) “Between the Lines,” interview with artist Johnny Hammond, Locust Review (Spring, 2020), 14-15
(2020) “Library Science and Celebrity Cheeses,” interview with author Mark Miller (Spring, 2020), 22-24
SELECTED CONDUCTED INTERVIEWS (ONLINE)
(2019) “Broken Cogs in the Machine,” interview with artist Anupam Roy, RedWedgeMagazine.com (May 7, 2019)
(2016) “Movies in a Rust Belt River Town,” interview with Consumer Grade Film Collective, RedWedgeMagazine.com (September 15, 2016)
(2014) “Art (as Social Organism) vs. Gentrification,” interview with censored Chicago artist Amie Sell, RedWedgeMagazine.com (old site) (September 2, 2014)
(2014) A People’s Art History of the United States,” interview with artist and author Nicolas Lampert on his book, A People’s Art History of the United States, RedWedgeMagazine.com (old site) (June 1, 2014)
SELECTED LECTURES/PAPERS PRESENTED
(2022) “The Poverty of Theory,” Historical Materialism London, SOAS University of London, London, UK (December, 2022)
(2021) “Toward a Brechtian Cybernetics,” Historical Materialism Online (November, 2021)
(2020) “Their Weird and Ours: Critical Irrealism vs. Fascist Occultism,” Historical Materialism Online (November, 2020).
(2019) “Born Again Labor Museum,” Historical Materialism London, SOAS University of London, London, UK (November, 2019)
(2019) “Class, Outsider/Folk Art and the Weak Avant-Garde,” Historical Materialism New York, NY, (April 13, 2019)
(2018) “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” Historical Materialism London, SOAS University of London, London, UK (November, 2018).
(2018) “Gentrification and the Weak Avant-Garde,” Left Coast Forum, Los Angeles TradeTechnical College, Los Angeles, CA (August 26, 2018)
(2018) “Evicted Art: Totality and Cognitive Mapping,” Historical Materialism Montreal, University of Quebec-Montreal, Montreal, QC (May 17, 2018)
(2017) “Fascist, Neoliberal and Socialist Aesthetic Leveling,” Historical Materialism London, SOAS University of London, London, UK (November 10, 2017)
(2016) “The Democratic Image: Aesthetic Leveling and Differentiated Totality,” Historical Materialism London, SOAS University of London, London, UK (Nov. 12, 2016)
(2016) “Against the Weak Avant-Garde,” Historical Materialism Toronto, York University, Toronto, ON (May 15, 2016)
(2015) “For Art as Epic Theater,” artist lecture at Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (October 8, 2015) and Project 1612, Peoria, IL (October 25, 2015).
(2014) “Angel of History,” as part of “The Many Deaths of Art,” panel discussion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), sponsored by SAIC Student Government and Platypus Affiliated Society, featuring Benji Gerdes, Ruslana Lichtzier and Adam Turl (2014).
(2013) “Ernst Fischer and the Necessity of Art,” presented at the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago (Center for Economic Research and Social Change) (2013).
SELECTED OTHER POSITIONS
(2020-present) Co-host, Locust Radio monthly podcast
(2019-present) Editor, Locust Review
(2019-present) Locust Arts and Letters Collective
(2019-2020) Chair, Agit-Prop Sub-Committee, Las Vegas Democratic Socialists of America
(2018-2020) Art and design editor, RedWedgeMagazine.com and Red Wedge Magazine
(2016-2018) Co-chief-editor, RedWedgeMagazine.com and Red Wedge Magazine
(2013-2020) Editorial collective, RedWedgeMagazine.com and Red Wedge Magazine
