Alex Edward Adkinson
studio@alexadkinson.net | alexadkinson.net | Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
2022 MFA, Studio Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2015 BS, Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Survey to a Sweet Reminder, Cleo Project Space, Savannah, GA
Far Down the Phantom Air, Sawhorse Gallery, Chicago, IL
The River Sweats with Oil and Tar, Gure Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Fouling the Nest, Shed Projects, Cleveland, OH
dandelion bonebath, two-person exhibition, Resource Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Group Exhibition, Sawhorse Gallery, Chicago, IL
2025 Featured Artist, DJO Lollapalooza After Party, Chicago, IL
2024 Objkt.one, spatial computing exhibition, Tech Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Mesh Art Fair, digital exhibition
2023 Mesh Art Fair, international digital exhibition
CMD/CTRL, Heiress Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
2023 Goblin Mode, Moisturizer Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2022 MFA Degree Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL
Foreign Objekt/Posthuman Art Lab, digital exhibition
2021 High Level Structure, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
2020 Futures Present, Present Future, WJB Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Slips, Trips, and Falls, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
Liquidation, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
2019 We’re Not From Here, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
Incessant, Catapult Gallery, Cape Girardeau, MO
PUBLIC
2025 Enroute, public installation, Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCE
2019 Collaborative performance, Den Haag, NL
Room of Eyes Performance Festival, Cafe Babette, Berlin, DE
2017 Confidence to Sing, Collaborative performance, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
RESIDENCIES
2026 Chicago Artist's Coalition
2022–23 Foreign Objekt / Posthuman Art Lab, Artist and Researcher in Residence, online
2019 Sagehen Experimental Forest, US Forest Service and UC–Berkeley, Tahoe National Forest, CA
2016–18 Improvising Ecosystems, University of Minnesota, Hubachek Research Facility and Lake Superior Large Lakes Observatory, MN
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Independent Artist Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)
2022 Andy McLachlin Memorial Award
2019 Adelaide D. Wilson Graduate Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Forthcoming essay, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, “Realism” Issue 2
2023 Second author, “Advances in Plant Imaging Across Scales,” Applications in Plant Sciences, peer-reviewed, Special Issue (doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11547)
SELECTED PRESS
2026 Daniel George, “In Focus: MFA Review: Florida State University”, April 1, Feature
2025 Natalie Jenkens, “House of Worship,” Chicago Reader, July 15. Review.
Susan Gescheidle, “Landscape survey: Alex Adkinson & Maxwell Volkman at GURE,” Chicago Gallery News, June 27. Review.
2024 Alex Vlasov, “Alex Adkinson and Tristan Higginbotham: Fouling the Nest” Midwest Art Quarterly November 7. Review
SELECTED LECTURES, PANELS & PRESENTATIONS
2026 Panelist, Advanced in Digitization in the Field and Collections, iDigBio, Yale
2025 Panelist and Visiting Mentor, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA
2024 Presenter, Advances in Digital Media Conference, Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT
Presenter, Digital Data in Biodiversity Conference, Kansas Universities Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, KS
Presenter, Advances in Digital Media Conference, University of Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
2019 Lecturer, Athenaeum Lecture Series: Plant Sense and Hybrid Communication, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
Co-presenter, Slowness and Uncertainty in Quasi-independent Relations, Fresh Oysters Performance Research, Minneapolis, MN
PROFESSIONAL & TEACHING
2021–current Researcher, iDigBio, Florida State University
2024–current Studio Assistant and Fabricator, Dawit L. Petros, Dartmouth College
2022–24 Lab Manager, Digital Media Fabrication Lab, Florida State University
2020–24 Adjunct Professor, Florida State University
Courses: Digital and 3D Foundations, Digital Fabrication, Sculpture, Digital Art
2023 Studio Assistant, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Florida State University
2021–22 Studio Assistant, Cosmo Whyte, University of California Los Angeles
SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2026 Post-Conceptual Practices Workshop administered by Micah Schippa-Wildfong, Chicago, IL
2025–26 Tenure Review, University of California Los Angeles
2025 Crit Club, Weatherproof Reading Group, Watershed Arts and Ecology Reading Group, Chicago, IL
2024 External Reviewer, University of Georgia
2023–24 COCA Arts Advisory Committee, Tallahassee, FL
2020–21 President, League of Graduate Artists, Florida State University
2019 Future Forest Collaborative, UC Natural Reserve Service, Truckee, CA
2016–17 Curator and Organizer, Why World Artist’s Cooperative, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Deep Listening Workshops with Pauline Oliveros, University of Minnesota
COLLECTIONS
Nevada Museum of Art
Private in Chicago, IL, Tallahassee, FL, Savannah, GA.