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Adam Liam Rose (b. Jerusalem, 1990) is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and printmaking, his practice examines how images and built environments produce belief, particularly the promise of safety. Through surface manipulation, pattern, scale shifts, and spatial illusions, Rose interrogates how architecture and visual design are deployed by powerful actors to manage fear, soothe, distract, or control; all while exposing their own instability beneath the surface.
Rose was a fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts' AIM Program, The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program, and the Art & Law Program. He was awarded artist residencies at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (Brooklyn, NY), Fire Island Artist Residency (Fire Island, NY), Triangle Arts Association (Brooklyn, NY), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), Ox-Bow School of Art (Saugatuck, MI), A-Z West: Institute of Investigative Living (Joshua Tree, CA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and the Chicago Artists Coalition's HATCH Residency (Chicago, IL). Rose is a 2024 MyMa Grant recipient (August), and his publication 'Between the Bars' (Genderfail Press, 2021) is held in the permanent collections of MoMa Library, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, PRATT Institute, and The Frick Fine Arts Library in Pittsburgh. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ('12) and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (‘17). Rose joined as co-director at artist-run gallery Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2019.
Rose was a fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts' AIM Program, The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program, and the Art & Law Program. He was awarded artist residencies at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (Brooklyn, NY), Fire Island Artist Residency (Fire Island, NY), Triangle Arts Association (Brooklyn, NY), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), Ox-Bow School of Art (Saugatuck, MI), A-Z West: Institute of Investigative Living (Joshua Tree, CA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and the Chicago Artists Coalition's HATCH Residency (Chicago, IL). Rose is a 2024 MyMa Grant recipient (August), and his publication 'Between the Bars' (Genderfail Press, 2021) is held in the permanent collections of MoMa Library, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, PRATT Institute, and The Frick Fine Arts Library in Pittsburgh. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ('12) and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (‘17). Rose joined as co-director at artist-run gallery Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2019.
