Adam Carr (Chester, UK, 1981) is a curator and writer.[1] He was recently a guest curator for Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy. Previously he has worked for Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, (2005 as a guest curator and 2006 as an advisor and writer for Beck's Futures). 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 of the exhibition THE STORE. He is editor in chief of Archive Journal, published by Archive Books. He is currently authoring Secrets, a book exhibition published by Mousse (Milan).
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He has curated a number of exhibitions to date including, CHECKLIST (Milan, 2011); Exhibition, Exhibition (Rivoli, 2010); SATURDAY (Berlin, 2010); Gallery, Galerie, Galleria (Turin, 2010);[2] In Print (e-flux, New York, 2010); Out Of Sight (Mexico City, and Naples, 2008); Library (Berlin, 2008); THE STORE (Vilnius, 2008 & Turin, 2009); WithOut (Paris 2007/08); The Moment You Realise You Are Lost (Berlin, 2007); Some Time Waiting (Paris, 2007); The Show Will Be Open When The Show Will Be Closed (London, and Paris, 2006); Just For One Day (Paris, 2006); En Route: Via Another Route (Trans-Siberian train: Moscow to Beijing, 2005);[3][4] Post Notes (London, and Minneapolis, 2005); and Between Projects: A Solo Exhibition by Mungo Thomson (Paris, 2007). Upcoming exhibitions he is currently organising for 2012 include An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art for Francesca Minini, Milan.
In addition to his role as editor in chief of Archive Journal,[5] he is a regular, contributing writer for Flash Art[6] and Mousse Magazine.[7] He has written texts for numerous other art publications including Afterall, Aprior, 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, 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.