Adam Carr

Adam Carr (Chester, UK, 1981) is a curator and writer. In May 2012 he was appointed Curator/Head of Exhibitions at MOSTYN, Wales' leading and largest institution for contemporary visual arts. Previously he has worked for Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy as a guest curator, among numerous others. From 2006 to 2007 he was an adjunct curator for Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, and later in 2007 he became a visiting professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway. He was one of the curators of Artissima art fair, Turin, organizing a section of Present Future and curating the exhibition THE STORE.

Exhibitions
He has curated a number of exhibitions to date including, Women's Art Society: Part 1 (MOSTYN, 2013), MAPPA, Page 2 (Nomas Foundation, Rome, in and for AB by Gabriele de Santis); Y O U (MOSTYN, 2013); Keith Arnatt & You (MOSTYN, 2013); Gallery 6: Alek O. (MOSTYN, 2013); Dear Portrait (MOSTYN, 2013)' Annette Kelm (MOSTYN, 2013); Franco Vaccari (MOSTYN, 2013); Gallery 6: Becca Voelcker (MOSTYN, 2013); Chester (Rome, 2013); We Will Disappear You (Frutta, Rome, 2013); Without (Again) (Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, 2013); Detective (Andreas Huber, Vienna, 2013). An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art (Francesca Minini, Milan, 2012); CHECKLIST (Mousse, Milan, 2011); Exhibition, Exhibition (Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Turin 2010); SATURDAY (Sunday Fair, Berlin, 2010); Gallery, Galerie, Galleria (Norma Mangione, Turin, 2010); In Print (e-flux, New York, 2010); Out Of Sight (Proyectos Monclova Mexico City, and t293 Naples, 2008); Library (Berlin, 2008); THE STORE (Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, 2008 & Artissima, Turin, 2009); WithOut (Yvon Lambert, Paris 2007/08); The Moment You Realise  You Are Lost (Johann Konig, Berlin, 2007); Some Time Waiting (Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2007); The Show Will Be Open When The Show Will Be Closed (STORE, London, and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2006); One Day (Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2006); En Route: Via Another Route (Trans-Siberian train: Moscow to Beijing, 2005); Post Notes (ICA, London, and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, 2005); and Between Projects: A Solo Exhibition by Mungo Thomson (Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2007).

He has developed and curating MOSTYN's new programme, which opened in April 2013, including his exhibitions Y O U, Dear Portrait, Return Journey, Take Care: The Art of Condition and a series of shows based on MOSTYN's history and its building, among numerous others. For MOSTYN, he also initiated the Gallery6 space, a gallery solely dedicated to showing the work of emergent artists who have never previously had a solo exhibition in a UK public institution.

Elsewhere he is working on a large exhibition based on and inspired by Fischli & Weiss' work The Way Things Go, and is curating an exhibition for Johnen Galerie (Berlin) to open in 2014.

Publications
He is a regular, contributing writer for Flash Art, Mousse Magazine. and Cura He has written texts for numerous other art publications including Afterall, Aprior, Cura., CIEL VARIABLE, File Magazine, Flash Art (Italia), Janus Magazine, Kaleidoscope, Neue Review, W [Art], Spike Art Quarterly, UOVO and Newspaper Jan Mot.

Monographic texts he has written include those on the work of Jonathan Monk, Robert Barry (artist), Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Tris Vonna-Michell, Angela Bulloch, Jason Dodge, Dexter Sinister, Rodney Graham, Mandla Reuter, Gintaras Didziapetris, Hannah Rickards, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Tobias Rehberger, Danh Vo, Dan Rees, Simon Fujiwara, and Mungo Thomson.

He is currently authoring Secrets published by Cura.