Adam Handler

BIOGRAPHY

Adam Handler's is a visual artist working with acrylic paint, oil sticks, pencils and markers. His work replaces art's staid conventions of portraying reality by adopting a child-like style, questioning our perceptions and assumptions of our surroundings. His intense colours and flat drawings illustrate notes from daily life with humour, distorting the proportions and form of his subjects.

Adam Handler's work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions over the years, including Twinkling Unknowns, Cohle Gallery, Paris (2021); D’Stassi Art, London (2020); Under Softer Summer Skies, Artual Gallery, Beirut (2019); New Girls, Janet Lehr Fine Art, New York (2019); Rarity Gallery, Greece (2019); Between Nightmares and Fairy Tales, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, New York (2019); Angels Around Here, Ober Gallery, Connecticut (2019); Things we dream about, The Lane Contemporary, New York (2018); Smiling Eyes, One River School of Arts and Design, New York (2018) and Love Sick, Brega Artist Space, Seoul (2018) among many others. 

His work has also been included in several group exhibitions, such as Blue- Taichung, FNG Art, Taiwan (2021); Look Forward, Look Back, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, New York (2021); Girls and Ghosts, Morton Contemporary, Pennsylvania (2021); Swab Art Fair, Granada Gallery, Barcelona (2020); Beyond the Walls, Cohle Gallery, Paris (2020); Échafaudage, Galerie COA, Montreal (2020); Blessing in Disguise, Saint Maison Gallery, Tokyo (2020); LC Gallery, Brussels (2019); Texas Contemporary, Janet Lehr Fine Art, Texas (2019) and Top Ten, Maison 10, New York (2018) among others.

Adam Handler studied Life Drawing in Italy and went on to graduate from Purchase College in NY with a major in Art History.

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