August 3 – September 7, 2024
Steve Turner is pleased to present Hot Throb, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by New York-based Adam Linn that depict contorted bodies and familiar objects such as stiletto shoes, locks and animal appendages as throbbing lifeforms. With Linn’s cartoon-inspired, bulging, distorted and candy-colored imagery, he animates the nonhuman. Navigating the space between recognizability and ambiguity Linn addresses themes of sex, power, gender and representation while charting out a future for queer figuration.
Adam Linn (b. 1995 Pittsburgh) received a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (2017) and an MFA in Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase (2024). He has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2023); Marvin Gardens, New York (2023) and JPS Gallery, Hong Kong (2022) and has presented work in group exhibitions at Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT (2024); Plato Gallery, New York (2024); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2022) and Martha’s Contemporary, Austin (2022). He lives and works in New York.
Born 1995, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in New York
Education
2024
MFA Visual Arts, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, New York
2017
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Hot Throb, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2023
Solo Viewing Room with Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, New York
Edge Crush, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2022
Curtain Call, JPS Gallery, Tokyo
2019
Sugar In The Tank, Imagebox Gallery, Pittsburgh
Group Exhibitions
2024
Dewdrops in the Garden, Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont
Pressing Matter, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, New York
Double Vision, Plato Gallery, New York
2023
Full Bleed: Fall MFA Group Exhibition SUNY Purchase, Purchase, New York
Nothing to Hide, The Curators Room, Barcelona
Future Fair, New York (with Andrea Festa)
OyG 10 Year Anniversary Fundraiser, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn
Wild Things, Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont
2022
Figuring, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Honey in the Hive, Shin Haus of Shin Gallery, New York Art Central, Hong Kong (with HKCEC)
Eve Presents II, Eve Leibe Gallery, London
Himerica, Eve Leibe Gallery, London
Ortega Y Gasset Flatile Exhibition, Brooklyn
2021
Art for Change, PERSAD Benefit Acution, Pittsburgh
Not Just Another Anthropecentric Love Story, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
Borough Baroque, 5-50 Gallery, Queens
2020
Sit…Play Dead, Super Duchess Gallery, New York
Seeking Truth, Distillery Group X Exhibition, Brewhouse Association, Pittsburgh
2019
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 107th Annual Group Exhibition, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Witness, G I CW Gallery, Pittsburgh
Soak Rinse Repeat, Dual Exhibition with Bridget Quirk, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Print Group New 2019 New Members Exhibit, PullProof Studio, Pittsburgh
2018
The End, Framehouse and Jask Gallery, Pittsburgh
Fragmented Realities, Nonfinito Gallery, New York
Sight Lines, Butler St. Lofts, Pittsburgh
2017
Circles Without Breaks, Local Project, Long Island City, New York
Radiant Hall, Framehouse and Jask Gallery
Some Day My Prints Will Come: Senior Printmaking Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Residencies
2024
Macedonia Institute, Chatham, New York (upcoming)
Millay Arts, Austerlitz, New York (upcoming)
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Residency, New York (upcoming)
2020
Distillery Residency at the Brewhouse Association, Pittsburgh
2017
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Bibliography
2022
Gorny, Liz. “Why a pink pussycat sits at the heart of Adam Linn’s deeply tonal, coloured pencil practice,” It’s Nice That, April
“Aritist Of The Week,” LVL3, September
2021
The Coastal Post: Remote Visits Part VII
2020
“Anniversary Edition 20,” ArtMaze Mag, Issue 20
