EDUCATION:
Boston University, City Planning, 1986-1987
BFA, Architectural Design, Massachusetts College Of Arts, 1986
AA, General Studies, Yakima Community College, 1983
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Journey Through Time, Detroit Contemporary, November, Detroit, Mi
2021 Found & Reconstructed World: Objects & Bronze, Gifts of Art Gallery - University of Michigan Hospital, September 7 – December 3, Ann Arbor, MI
2018 Long Ago and Far Away, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
2018 Reconstructed Blueprints, University of Michigan, June 18 – September 9, Ann Arbor, MI
2017 Constructs (Noun), University of Michigan North Campus, September 8 – December 12, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 Adnan Charara: Recent Works, Carr Center, January 22 – March 21, Detroit, MI
2014 Elements of Whimsy, N'Namdi Gallery, September 12 – October 25, Detroit, MI
2014 New Directions, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, May 2 – June 6, Washington, DC
2012 The Story of the Hammer, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, May 18 – July 7, Birmingham, MI
2011 Adaptability, Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery, March 18 – May 14, Cleveland, OH
2010 The Artist and His Prototypes, Gurari Collections, September 24 – October 24, Boston, MA
2010 Hueman, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, March 5 – April 2, Washington DC
2009 Circles and Cycles, Stars and Lollipops, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, October 23 – December 15, Pendleton, OR
2009 Who Are We?, Ford Community and Performing Arts Center, Padzieski Art Gallery, September 24 – November 7, Dearborn, MI
2009 Without Borders, Maurice Sternberg Galleries, May 1 – June 30, Chicago, IL
2008 Osmosis I & II, Sheehan Gallery, Olin Hall, Whiteman College, October 15 – November 16, Walla Walla, WA
2008 Letters Home, Art Space of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, May 4 – July 19, Kohler, WI
2008 Osmosis I, Northville Art House, May 2 – May 25, Northville, MI
2007 Juxtaposed, Arab American National Museum, March-May 2007, Dearborn, MI
2003 Monotypes, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
1997 Brush of History, Gallery, Lowell, MA
1995 Visual Metaphors, Lowell Gallery, MA
1992 Recent Drawings & Etchings, Whistler House Museum of Arts, Lowell, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Feria De Arte, Directo De Artista, BADA, Campo Marte, CDMX
2024 Stones & Heavy Metal, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2023 Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary and Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
2020 Gallery Al-Quds 100th Show: Art Is Not Optional, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
2019 Halal Metropolis, Stamelos Gallery, Dearborn, MI
2019 I, too, am, Detroit, N’namdi Center For Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2018 Affordable Art Fair, September 27 – September 30, New York, NY
2017 Scenes Comiques | Scenes Tragiques, Galerie Camille, October 20 – December 20, Detroit, MI
2017 Adnan Charara and Michel Erussard: Yuxtaposiciones, sushipointibiza Art Gallery, June 30 – July, Ibiza, Spain
2016 Scenes & Types, Sheehan Gallery, Olin Hall, Whitman College, January 29 – April 14, Walla Walla, WA
2016 Big Sculpture @ The Factory, 333 Midland, September 16 – October 22, Detroit, MI
2015 The New International Society: Exhibition 1, Galerie Torstrasse161, May 1 – May 5, Berlin, Germany
2014-15 New Art 2.0, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, October 30 – February 8, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Neo Pangea: An Exploration of Cultural Hybridity, University of Essex, April 27 – May 22, London, UK
2009 Inside/Outside and Other Oxymorons, Levantine Cultural Center, June 20 – July 31, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Group Exhibition, Maurice Sternberg Galleries, Chicago, IL
2008 Printer’s Trifecta: Three Print Portfolios, Pendleton Center for the Arts, February 29 – March 28, Pendleton, OR
2007 WHY, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, 17 November – 26 January, Detroit, MI
2007 Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 Technology and the Culture of Fear, April 2006. Madison, WI
2005 Reinterpreting the Middle East: Beyond the Historical stereotype, The Corcoran College of Art & design, Washington, DC
2005 Journeys and Distances, Padzieski Art Gallery, Dearborn, MI
2005 Historical Stereotyping, Sission Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
2004 Ashmore Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2004 Works on Paper, Armory, NYC, NY. Boss Fine Arts.
2003 New England Print Fairs, Boston, MA
2003 Diversity in Harmony, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
2002 Woods Gallery, Huntington Woods, MI
2001 Works on Paper, Armory, NYC, NY. Boss Fine Arts,
2000 New England Print Fairs, Boston, Galerie Camille
2000 Works on Paper, Armory, NYC, NY. Boss Fine Arts
2000 The Michigan Modernism Exposition, Southfield, MI
1999 Art Space II, Birmingham, MI
1999 Water, Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1996 Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
1995 Anisworth Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
Osmosis I & II: The Art Of Adnan Charara, by D.M. Forbes in conjunction with the Sheehan Gallery at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 2008
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, May/June issue, pg.3
The Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan, WI, ‘Letters Home’ exhibition at Art space Kohler, June 19, 2008
The Journal Newspaper, Northville, Michigan, “Art Walk to feature ‘humorous’ painter”, by Jennifer Busch, April 24, 2008
The Detroit News , Detroit, MI, Marketplace, “This junk finds a better life”, by Judith Solomon, November 24, 2007,
MetroTimes, Detroit, Michigan, “Tried and True” by Nadia Abou-Karr, April 18, 2007
Online publication, thedetroiter.com, “Interview” by Nick Sousanis, April 5, 2007
Online publication, thedetroiter.com, “Juxtaposed!” by Dolores Slowinski, April 5, 2007
Arte East, January 2006 News by Maymanah Farhad
Al Jadid Summer 2005, By Fayeq Oweis, “Adnan Charara’s Art Inspired by Styles, Symbols of Identity.” Pg. 21
Living Artists 13th Edition, ArtNetwork Press, 2003
Shirley McLellan,” Two Artists share their world view at new exhibit,” The Daily Tribune,
January 11, 2002, Section B, p.3B.
Staff NY Arts Magazine, “ Adnan Charara.” NY ARTS Magazine, Feb..2001. vol. 6 #2, p.77
Rosemary Noon, “Visual Metaphors,” Lowell Office Of Cultural Affairs, Aug/Sep, 1993
Randi Stone, “Artist uses Whimsy as social comments,” The Lowell Sun, April 23, 1992 p.23
TELEVISION:
2012Arab-American Stories, Detroit Public TV, April 2012
2007Why we make creative work, from the people who make it| Work Detroit
2006Adnan Charara, A film by Kathy Zarur, November 2006
2005Artbeat, Detroit Public TV, November 20, 2004
AWARDS / GRANTS:
Arab American Chamber of Commerce
23rd Annual Mayor’s Art Award, Dearborn Community Arts Council
Wayne County Council for the Arts, History and Humanities Recognition Awards
Lowell Office of Cultural Affairs
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
SERVICE POSITIONS / HONORS:
July 2014 Panel Discussion, Concert of Colors
2008-2013 Board Member, Detroit Institute of Arts, Department of the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Williamette University, Salem, OR
Essex University, London, UK
City of Brighton, MI
The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington, DC
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
Detroit Medical Center Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Russian Embassy, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Whistler House Museum Of Arts, Lowell, MA
Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Museum, Providence, RI
South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, MA
Detroit Institute Of Art, Detroit, MI
University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
The Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, DC