Whitstable, Kent England
Born 1965, London, England
If you look at anything too hard it begins to disintegrate, dissolving to the point where everything can be linked yet nothing is stable. I make art to explore this experience of perception (which feels like it hovers between joy and fear). The gallery installations (from video to drawings) are a series of propositions as to how our culture might be -- How else might we coincide and communicate? What else might we value? -- if reality shifted in the way it feels that it might, at any minute. I develop the structures of these possibilities by placing a "wrong" question into public space (through advertisements, phone calls, a question to a stranger, catalyzing chance, a group of respondents and a process that unfolds with them: reunions of owners of a particular jacket or the children "murdered" in Pasolini's film Salo; a god look-alike contest; strangers asked where The End should take place or lighting technicians asked to set up the light in heaven; a London gallery's entire archive given to a group of Kurdish asylum seekers to edit and hide outside the capital...
1992-94 M.A. in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
1985-88 B.A. (Hons.) in History of Art, University of Manchester
2008 Tate St Ives, UK
2007-2008 Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and various sites across Dublin.
2007 Signal, Malmö, Sweden
2004 Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
2004 Els Hanappe Underground, Athens.
2003 Herbert Read Gallery, UCCA, Canterbury.
2002 Cubitt, London
2002 Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
2001 Franco Noero Galleria,Turin, Italy
1999 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2008 Folkestone Sculpture Triennale, UK
2007-2008 MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2007 "Breaking Step", Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
2005 - 2006 "British Art Show 6." Newcastle, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol, UK
2003 Micro/Macro: British Art 1996-2002, curated by British Council, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Sensation, Royal Academy, London
1995 General Release, British Council selection for Venice Biennale, Scoula San Pasquale,Venice, Italy
Brilliant, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
2008 Then. Essays by Jaki Irvine, Andrew Wilson, CaoimhÃn Mac Giolla Léith.
2007 Adam Chodzko. Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. Published by Skira. Essays by by Lisa Le Feuvre, Alex Farquharson, Mark Godfrey, Andrea Viliani.
2002 Plans and Spells: Adam Chodzko. London, UK: Film and Video Umbrella.
2002 Romanov. UK: Bookworks.
2007 Three year AHRC Creative Arts Fellowship with Film Studies in the School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts, University of Kent
2002 Paul Hamlyn Award
2000 Arts Council Single Screen Film & Video Commission
1997 British School at Rome Award
