About
Adrienne E. Wheeler
awheelergallery@aol.com
Visual Artist
Artist Educator
Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries
Rutgers University, Newark
Adrienne Wheeler is a multi-media artist, independent curator, arts educator, and advocate for social justice. Wheeler is from a family whose history spans 200 years in Newark, NJ.
Her works blurs the lines between spirituality, ancestry, oral history, and social engagement. The materials with which she works are varied, wood, glass, textiles, still and moving images are explored.
Wheeler is an arts educator at Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries and Shine Portrait Studio.
Wheeler has exhibited locally and internationally including, Cuba and Australia.
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Frankston Art Centre
Ventana International Women's Exhibition
Victoria, Australia
White Dress Narratives
2014
Activate Market Street
Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J.
Twelve Angry Women
2011
The Brecht Forum, New York, N.Y., Moment in Time Festival, 3rd Annual Miriam Makeba Tribute
The Paul Robeson Galleries Orbit I, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J. Lembranca/Resistencia, Memory/Resistance
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y., Dance Africa
Oualie Art, Orange, N.J.,
Window Dressing II
2010
Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, N.Y., Moment in Time Festival, Miriam Makeba Tribute in Film
Park Elementary School Newark, N.J., African-American History Exhibition
2008
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, N.Y., Moment in Time Festival, Orlando “Puntilla” Rios Tribute
Brecht Forum, New York, N.Y., Moment in Time Festival, Orlando “Puntilla” Rios
2007
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, N.Y., Moment in Time Festival, Fela and Fumilayo Kuti Tribute
Group Exhibitions
2019
Between Wisdom and Madness. Works in Sculpture
Index Art Center
Newark, N.J.
2018
Newark Arts Festival
Newark, N.J.
Nice/Nasty
Frankston Art Centre
Frankston, Australia
Pure Power
2017
Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries
Express Newark
Newark, N.J.
GlassBook Project: Brick by Brick, The Ironbound Oral History Collection
Newark Print Shop
Rutgers Express Newark
Newark, N.J.
Process
Pollack Gallery
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, N.J.
2016
University Galleries
William Paterson University
Wayne, N.J.
Collage Effects: Art of the African Diaspora
Open Doors Newark, 2016
#SayHerNameNewark
A.I.R Gallery
New York, N.Y.
TALKBACK USA/UA
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, N.J., ARTREACH XXIV
Living Incubator Performance Space
Gateway Center, Newark, N.J.
Misogyny Is The Root Of All Evil
Women In Media-Newark 7th Annual Women's History Month Film Festival /NJ PAC Celebration of Newark's 350 Celebration
Victoria Hall Lobby, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, N.J.
Ventana Fiesta 2016
Frankston Art Centre
Victoria, Australia
TALKBACK USA/UA
The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series
Douglass Library, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, N.J.
2015
Open Doors Newark, 2015
Index Art Center, Newark, N.J.
Forum in Form
Merton D. Simpson Gallery and Walsh Gallery
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University,
South Orange, N.J.
A River Depends on Its Tributaries
Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J.
Echo
The Academy of Fine Arts
Lynchburg, Virginia
TALKBACK USA/UA
The Gateway Project, Newark, N.J.
GlassBook Project: Provisions
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, N.J., ARTREACH XXIII
Artist Box, Collaborative Initiative,
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Gallery Aferro
2014
Open Doors, Newark, N.J.
Sanctuary
Pierro Gallery, South Orange, N.J.
Thou Art Mom
The Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.,
In-Site: The Creative Process in Plain View
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, N.J., ARTREACH XXII
The Paul Robeson Galleries, Orbit II, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J., Salubrious Justice Organized by Women in Media Newark
Open Doors Newark, Newark, N.J., Dreams Before Sleeping
Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J., Activate Market Street
2013
Open Doors Newark, Newark, N.J., Dreams Before Sleeping
Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J., Activate Market Street
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, N.J., ARTREACH XXI
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, N.Y., PEEKSKILL PROJECT V: The New Hudson River School, Contemporary Artists Address the Regional Landscape Spring/Summer 2013
WBGO Radio, Newark. N.J., Sound Off
2012
Arlington Street Arts, Newark, N.J., Open Doors 11, N’Kisi
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, N.Y., PEEKSKILL PROJECT V: The New Hudson River School Contemporary Artists Address the Regional Landscape
The Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J., What Can’t Be Cured Must Be Endured
The Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J., Threshold of Your Mind
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark N.J., ARTREACH XX
Paterson, N.J., Paterson Art Walk
Gallery 1200, Hoboken, N.J., Extended Roots
Index Art Center, Newark, N.J., Art Cycle
Yema Gallery, Orange, N.J.,
Indigo Mood
The Pen and Brush, New York, N.Y.
2011
The Pen and Brush, New York, N.Y.
Valley Arts District, Orange, N.J., The Sculpture Garden
Yema Gallery, Orange, N.J., Embracing the Orisha
Park Elementary School, Newark, N.J.,
Four Women Artists from Newark
MoCada (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts), Brooklyn, N.Y., Re-Imagining Haiti: Le Projet Nouveau
2010
QbaVa Gallery, Union City, N.J. La Virgen De Todos (Our Virgin)
QbaVa Gallery, Union City, N.J. Pura Cuba Show, Una Sola Isla
Ironworks Gallery, Valley Arts District, Orange, N.J.
Open Doors Newark 2010, Newark, N.J., Catfish Friday Women’s Art Collective, Mujer/Woman
Perth Amboy Gallery Center For The Arts, Perth Amboy, N.J., The Many Faces of Eve
2009
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, N.Y., Moment in Time Festival, Miriam Makeba Tribute
Open Doors Newark 2009, Catfish Friday Women’s Art Collective, Newark, N.J.
2008
Arlington Street Arts, Newark, N.J., Egun Arts
Arlington Street Arts, Newark, N.J., Three Days in May (In collaboration with Bisa Washington)
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J. Tribal Roots in the Garden State, 2008 New Jersey Arts Annual (In collaboration with Zethray Peniston)
Collaborative Projects
2018
Pure Power
In collaboration with Tania Ferrier and Negin Sharifzadeh
Frankston Art Centre
Victoria, Australia
2017
GlassBook Project: Brick by Brick
Teaching Artist in collaboration with Paula Neves, the Honors Living and Learning Community students, Tim Raphael, The Newest Americans Project, the Center for Migration and the Global City, at Rutgers University-Newark, and Nick Kline. The GlassBook Project is a social practice work by artist Nick Kline, a collaborative project that has been ongoing since 2009, this is the 11th collection of books each addressing responses to trauma.
2014-present day
These Sacred Texts
In collaboration with Paula Neves
2014-2015
GlassBook Project: Provisions,
(in collaboration with Nick Kline)
Rutgers University
Newark, N.J.
Teaching Artist Residencies
2018
Ventana International Women's Exhibitions Ventana Festival
Frankston Art Centre
Victoria, Australia
2017
Shine Portrait Studio
Express Newark
Rutgers University
Newark, N.J.
2016-2017
Artist-in-Residence
GlassBook Project, 11th Iteration, Brick by Brick
Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.
2014-2015
Artist-in-Residence
GlassBook Project, 10th Iteration, Provisions
Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.
Murals
2015-2016
Newark Downtown District Inaugural Mural
Gateways to Newark, Portraits, 42 Dresses
Amtrak Retaining Wall, McCarter Highway
Newark, N.J.
Commissions
2017
Jonathan Rose Companies with Newark Arts
Public Art Installations
Nell Painter Collection
2016
Public Art Tribute to Dr. Clement A. Price,
The American Assembly, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Independent Curatorial Projects:
2018
COMPASSION: Is It the Radicalism of Our Time
Gallery at 14 Maple
Morris Arts and the Dodge Foundation
Transitions, Co-Curator with Gladys Barker Grauer
Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries
Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.
2017
Speaking Her Mind: Then and Now
Gladys Barker Grauer
Gallery Aferro
Newark, N.J.
Women In The World, Co-Curator with
Gladys Barker Grauer
Newark Public Library, Main Branch
Newark, N.J.
Women In The World, Co- Curator with
Gladys Barker Grauer
NJPAC Victoria Hall
Newark, N.J.
Women In The World, Co-Curator with
Gladys Barker Grauer
Monmouth University Center For The Arts
West Long Branch, N.J.
Women In The World, Co-Curator with
Gladys Barker Grauer
Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries
Rutgers University
Newark, N.J.
Seed Grant Curatorial Residency
Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries
Office of the Chancellor
Rutgers University
Newark, N.J.
2016
Seed Grant Curatorial Residency
Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries
Office of the Chancellor
Rutgers University
Newark, N.J.
2015
Open Doors Newark, 2015
Seed Grant Curatorial Residency
Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries
Office of the Chancellor
Rutgers University
Newark, N.J.
2013
African Burial Ground, New York, N.Y., Co-curator with MalickKane, 10th Anniversary Re-interment, 2003-2013
Nell Painter Gallery, Newark, N.J.
Gladys Grauer, A Solo Show
2012
Mi Madre, Veinte Dibujos de Los Ninos Japoneses de El Concurso Internacional de Dibujo Infantil, Tokio, Japon, 1960, Biblioteca Publica Ruben Martinez Villena, Havana, Cuba
Books for Art’s Sake, Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.
Okasaan, My Mother, A Collection of Japanese Children’s Drawings, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, N.J.
Tipi Narratives, works on canvas and paper by Toni Thomas, Passaic County Community College
2011
“64/169”, A Resolution, An Exhibition, Open Doors Newark, an exhibition honoring the United Nations Resolution 64/169 declaring the year 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent, in collaboration with The Newark Arts Council.
Diaspora,Yema Gallery, Orange, N.J.,
(In collaboration with Toni Thomas)
“64/169”, A Resolution, An Exhibition, First Installment, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, N.J.
2010
Okasaan, My Mother, Museum of Children’s Art, Oakland, Ca.,courtesy, Adrienne Wheeler Gallery
2009
Okasaan, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, N.Y.
2008
Works by 20th Century African-American and Latin-American Artists, Adrienne Wheeler Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2007
Recent Works, by Danny Simmons, Adrienne Wheeler Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2006
Drawings by Robert Blackburn, Adrienne Wheeler Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2005
Sculpture by Irene Wheeler, Adrienne Wheeler Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Cultural Exchange Programs
2018
Ventana International Women's Exhibitions Ventana Festival
Frankston Art Centre
Victoria, Australia
2014
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Artistic Exchange Between Eight Afro Descendant Artists from Cuba, Nevis, and The United States
2012
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Professional, Volunteer and Board Memberships:
Gallery Aferro, Board Member
The Feminist Art Project
Rutgers University Paul Robeson Gallery Advisory Board
Catfish Friday Women’s Art Collective, Advisory Board
The Pen and Brush Gallery, Inc.
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Acquisitions Committee Member
The Herbert and Irene Wheeler Foundation
Long Range Planning Committee,
The Newark Museum
Past President, Newark Museum Volunteer Organization
Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rutgers University
Gateway Projects
Matthew Gosser
Yema Gallery
Bisa Washington
Kamili Mtume
Ujima Majied
Gladys Barker Grauer
Nick Kline
Nell Painter
Tania Ferrier
Private Collections
Press
https://www.ida-downtown.org/eweb/docs/2016_Awards/Newark_Downtown_District_2016_Award_Submission.pdf
Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/isa-freeling/newarks-art-scene-speaks-_b_8012216.html?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006
http://princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?Itemid=6&key=3-16-16-tfap
Afrig Mag, Slavery Remembrance
Le Memorial de Gorée
La Porte Du Retour pg. 11
http://l.facebook.com/l/1AQEOGF_x/notwhatitis.com/2015/11/09/forum-in-form/
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8012216
MutualArt.com
Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project
Activate Market Street, Star Ledger Review
WAAND
Women Artists Archives National Directory
What Cannot Be Cured Must Be Endured, Exhibition Catalogue, pages; 25, 26, 88, 89
Art With A Message: Group Exhibit Carries Forward UN Resolution, Montclair, NJ Patch
Keeper of The Flame, Newark, NJ Patch
Re-Imagining Haiti/The Network Journal
Haiti-The Local-Fort-Greene/Blog-NYTimes.com
Re-Imagining Haiti Project
Vimeo Friends of MVMC
Adrienne Wheeler is a multi-media artist, independent curator, arts educator, and advocate for social justice. Wheeler is from a family whose history spans 200 years in Newark, NJ.
Her works blurs the lines between spirituality, ancestry, oral history, and social engagement. The materials with which she works are varied, wood, glass, textiles, still and moving images are explored.
Wheeler is an arts educator at Rutgers Paul Robeson Galleries and Shine Portrait Studio.
Wheeler has exhibited locally and internationally including, Cuba and Australia.