ADAM STRAUS
Born in Miami Beach, Florida, 1956
Lives in Tallahassee, Florida, 1980 - 1990
Moves to New York City, 1990
Moves to Riverhead, New York, 2003
EDUCATION
1980-82 M.F.A. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1976-78 B.S. Mathematics, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL
1974-6 B.A. Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
AWARDS
1990 Merit Award, 1st Annual Florida State of the Art Exhibition, Sokolsky Center, Miami Beach, FL
1989 Southern Arts Federation/NEA Fellowship
1988 Best of Show, 1988 Florida Competition, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Artists Three Award, Annual Juried Competition at the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Florida Individual Artists Fellowship 1987 One of 10 Best of Show Award, Southeastern Juried Competition, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
First Prize, Holiday Banner Competition, Tallahassee, FL
1983 Best of Show, Florida Regional Competition, Four Arts Center, Tallahassee, FL
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Nohra Haime Gallery, “Tick Tock, Drip Drop…” New York
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Drill Here! Drill There!" New York
2007 ArtChicago, "Inspired by True Events," Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Adam Straus: Short Stories from a Long Island," New York
Adam Straus, Earth Day 2006/ECOARTNET ONLINE EXHIBITION
2005 Butler Art Institute, "In the Shadow of Paradise: Retrospective Exhibition," Trumbull Branch, Howland, OH
ADAA The Art Show, "Adam Straus: Just Too Short of Too Late," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
2004 The Von Liebig Art Center, "Toxic Paradise," Naples, FL
Nohra Haime Gallery, "We've Gotten Up Here and We Can't Get Down," New York
2003 Okaloosa-Walton Art Center, Niceville, FL
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Sublimis Interruptus," New York
2002 Espace Ecureuil, "Paradis Paradoxe," Caisse d’Epargne, Marseille, France
2001 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Quiet Places – Loud Thoughts," New York
2000 Van Every Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
FIAC, "Ten Year Retrospective," Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris, France
MAC, "Oops! We Misplaced Paradise," New York
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Somewhere Between Here and Disaster," New York
1999 University of West Florida, "Adam Straus/Robert Fichter," Pensacola, FL
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Here’s to Progress!" New York
1998 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Happy Ever After in the Land of Nod," New York
1997 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Frontier," New York
1996 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Something for the Whole Family," New York
1995 FIAC, Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris, France
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Not Quite Utopia," New York
1994 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
Jaffe Baker Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Alfred Wild Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
1993 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
1992 Jaffe Baker Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1991 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
1990 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
Ann Jaffe Gallery, Miami, FL
1988 Gallery Ninety-Nine, Miami, FL
1986 University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
1984 C.A.S.H. Gallery, New York
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