About
Adrien Howard is an artist, poet and publisher living on the west coast of Scotland. They work both independently and collaboratively to produce writing, books, projects, moving-image and sound works.
Using personal, cultural or historical narratives as a starting point, Adrien’s work considers the body and the ways we relate within dominant structures. Beginning with their own writing, they seek to interrogate the archetypes of ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’ etc within a linguistic tradition, as a way of exposing the formation of specific identities, both individual and collective.
Adrien is also co-founder and director of Rosie’s Disobedient Press, an artist-led publishing press exploring the intersection of art and writing and platforming marginalised practitioners with a focus on queer, feminist and working-class perspectives.
They are currently completing their MFA at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York.
Contact: studio[at]adrienhoward[dot]co[dot]uk
CV
Current / Forthcoming
2023-26 Masters of Fine Art, Bard College, New York
2023-24 Jerwood New Work Fund (with Lisette May Monroe)
April 24 – Interdisciplinary Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
June 24 Glasgow International Festival, with Rosie’s Disobedient Press
Nov-Dec 24 Artist-in-Residence, Canserrat, Spain
Selected Exhibitions and Commissions
2021 Silence’, commissioned for TULCA Festival, Galway, Ireland and featured as part of ‘There is nothing here but flesh and bone’ curated by Eoin Dara
2021‘Teneu’, a radio play for the commissions programme, Online exhibition, Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow (collaborative)
2020 ‘Trans is a dreamscape’, comissioned by LUX Scotland and BBC as part of Now and Next ‘Between Two’, commissioned as part of The Edwin Morgan Second Lift Grants
2018 The Depth of Foundation is According to the Nature of Ground’, artist book produced as part of Talbot Rice Projects, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (Solo)
2017 ‘There is no visible route…’, Intermedia Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, (Solo)
‘Platform 2017’ Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, July – Aug.
2014 Heading Southwest [About Practice #2], Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, N.Y.
‘Beyond the Visible and Back Again’, performed at the opening of Heading Southwest [About Practice #2] Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, N.Y. Klapaucius, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Pretty Vacant, Lakatlan, Budapest, Hungary.
Give & Get/ Have & Take, Something Felix Gallery, Boston, M.A and Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh.
It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore, Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh.
Interactions, Wee Red Lounge, Edinburgh/ Link Gallery Manchester.
Selected Performances / Readings / screenings
2023 Reading as part of ‘I am path’, curated by Kau Alia Ahmed, for The Brooklyn Rail, New York
2022 Reading for Sticky Fingers Summer Party, Bonjour, Glasgow
2022 ‘Teneu’ to be presented at Radiophrenia, Glasgow
2021 ‘Did you know – for radio’, aired as part of Without Reduction, the Happy Hypocrite and Book Works, Resonance Radio, London
2019 ‘and they’ll just play on without you’, screened as part of 12-hour Non-state parade, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2019 Reading as part of ‘To stumble and to slip | Slipping, stumbling | Things we both know | …’ at Auto Italia, London.
2018 ‘When did you get so blue?’, collaborative performance with Sean Patrick Campbell as part of Pine’s Eye event, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, April.
2018 Reading of ‘The Depth of Foundation’, The Center for Research Collections, The University of Edinburgh and Category is Books, Glasgow.
2017 Reading at the launch of ‘Guilding’, a new publication by Jessica Higgins, Good Press, Glasgow.
2015 Alt., Bargain Spot Project Space, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 ‘Beyond the Visible and Back Again’, performed at Speechbuster, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, The Clemente Soto Velez, New York, N.Y.
Publications / Writing
2022 Whilst physical, a body is always infinite – a response to Holy Bodies by Clay AD’, Map Magazine
2022 A room is a place with a limitied horizon’, text comissioned for ‘without time, without distance, without mind’, and exhibition by Bobbi Cameron, An Tobar, Isle of Mull
2021 ‘Silence’, written with K Patrick, comissioned by Nothing Personal Magazine, Issue 1
2021 Sleeper, co-produced and edited with Lisette May Monroe, Rosie’s Disobedient Press
2021 ‘Did you know?’ written with K Patrick, featured in The Happy Hypocrite, Issue 12, published by Book Works, London ‘Peter (8 Poems), Poetry Pamphlet published by Goodpress, Glasgow 2020
2020 ‘M’, comissioned for Old Land New Waters, Freelands Foundation, London
2018 ‘The depth of Foundation’, collection of short stories comissioned by The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Residencies / Awards
2023 Growing Global Networks Award recipient, CHARTS
2023 Creative Scotland Open Project Fund
2023 VACMA, Award for visual arts, Argyll and Bute
2023 Jerwood New Work Fund (with Lisette May Monroe)
2022-23 Residency with Rosie’s Disobedient Press at CCA Annex, Glasgow
2022 Group Residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Creative Scotland Open Project Fund for organisations (with Rosie’s Disobedient Press)
2021 Recipient of Jerwood 1:1 fund, Jerwood Arts, London
2020 Creative Scotland Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development
Cove Park Residency with Lisette May Monroe
2019 Sweat Residency, Scottish Sculpture Workshop
2017 Recipient of A-N Travel Bursary to attend Documenta, Scotland + Venice 2017
TRG3 Residency to Venice – Aug 2014
2014 Artist in Residence with Artists Alliance Inc’s Lower East Side Studio Program, New York, U.S., July – December.
2013 Resident Curator at Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany, September – December
Bibliography
‘2021 Love, Longing and George Michael, Review of TULCA Festival, Frieze Online, 2021
2020 12 HOUR NON-STATE PARADE, Review, Map Magazine, January 2020
2018 Weird Objects, Studio Lunches Podcast, Organised by Christopher Macinnes, CCA , Glasgow
2017 Featured artist in ‘Platform 2017, Emerging Artists at EAF’, Adam Benmakhlouf, The Skinny
2015 Featured artist Refractions, written and curated by Jodi Waynberg for Culturehall, issue 17. Available at http://culturehall.com/feature_issues.html?no=117 2014
2014 Featured writer in Oblio, edited by Elisa Rusca and published by Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, Germany
Projects
‘2020 – current Co-Founder of Rosie’s Disobedient Press with Lisette May Monroe
Gather Creative Workspace Committee Member
2016 Curator and producer of The Horizontal Window, Sam Smith, part of Glasgow International 2016 The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow
“Make me an offer”, Group show, Bargain Spot Project Space, Edinburgh, curator and producer of a group exhibition.
2014 Co-curator of Give & Get/ Have & Take, Something Felix Gallery, Boston, M.A.
2013 Co-curator of As Everything moves, Meinblau Gallery, Berlin
Education
2023-26 Masters of Fine Art, Bard College, New York
First Class BA (Hons) 2013 Intermedia Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.
2020 Post-graduate Diploma in Art Writing, Glasgow School of Art
Teaching and Workshops
2024 The University of Exeter, visiting artist, Postgraduate, with Lisette May Monroe
2024 The University of Edinburgh, Visiting Artist, Undergradute workshop for Fine Art Critical Studies, with Lisette May Monroe
2023 Writing workshop for Rumpus Room, Glasgow
Glasgow Zine Library Writing Workshop
CCA Glasgow, Collaborative Writing Workshop