Terry Adkins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Terry Adkins
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1953(1953-05-09)
Age	71
Date Of Death	February 8, 2014, New York, NY
Birthplace	Washington
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Terry Adkins Biography

Terry Adkins is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on May 9, 1953 in Washington, United States.

Terry Roger Adkins (May 9, 1953 – February 8, 2014) was an American artist. He was Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Washington, D.C.

Adkins had work in many exhibitions over the years. Early on, Adkins’s art went international with work featured at Project Binz 39 in Zurich in 1986, and at Salama-Caro Gallery in London in 1987. In 1995 Adkins showed work at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in New York, and in 1997 at the International Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Adkins also had a show in 1999 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania. In 2006 his work “Darkwater”, a celebration of W.E.B. Dubois, was featured at Gallery 51 at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) in the Berkshires. A short time later, Adkins was included in the 2008 NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York, which explored ritual and spirituality in art and was organized in collaboration with Houston’s Menil Collection. Adkins went international again in 2009, displaying work in Gallery of the American Academy at American Academy in Rome, Italy. In 2012 The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (tang) at Skidmore College in New York hosted a retrospective of Adkins’s work in a show called “Recital”, including sculpture, video, and photography that honors a number of iconic historical figures and the lesser- known parts of their personal histories. The following year Adkins was featured in the 2013 exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. His art was also included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum in New York City, the same year his solo show “Nenuphar” opened at Salon 94 gallery. Next, at the 2015 Venice Biennale, a sculpture he created from found musical instruments was included in All The World’s Futures, an exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor that centered on social practice in art.

Terry Adkins Net Worth

Terry Adkins is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Terry Adkins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Adkins was born in Washington, D.C. on May 9, 1953, into a musical household. His father, Robert H. Adkins, a chemistry and science teacher and Korean War veteran, sang and played the organ; his mother, Doris Jackson, a nurse, was an amateur clarinetist and pianist. Adkins’ grandfather was the Rev. Andrew Adkins, pastor of the historic Albert Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. His aunt Alexandra Alexander was a mathematician and NSA code breaker. His uncle Dr. Rutherford Adkins, a former Tuskegee Airman with the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group, flew 14 combat missions and eventually became Fisk University’s 11th president.

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At the University of Pennsylvania, Adkins was teacher and mentor to numerous contemporary visual artists including Sandford Biggers, Demetrius Oliver, Nsenga Knight, Jamal Cyrus, and Jacolby Satterwhite. His work was memorialized by George Lewis in his work A Recital for Terry Adkins in 2016, performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse.

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