Adnan Charara

BORN: 1962

RESIDENCE: Dearborn, MI

EDUCATION

BFA, Architectural Design, Massachusetts College Of Arts, 1986
AA, General Studies, Yakima Community College, 1983

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Printer’s Trifecta: Three Print Portfolios , February 29 – March 28 , Pendeleton Center for the Arts , Pendleton , OR
2007 WHY , 17 November – 26 January , U Michigan School of Art & Design , Detroit, MI
2007 Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland ME
2006 Technology and the culture of Fear, April 2006. Madison, Wisconsin
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, Galerie Camille,
2003 Diversity in Harmony, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
2002 Woods Gallery, Huntington Woods, Michigan,
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 SOLO EXHIBATIONS

2008 Letters Home, Art Space of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center , May 4 – July 19, Kohler, WI
2008 Osmosis , 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 BIBLIOGRAPHYS

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

2005 Artbeat, Detroit Public TV, November 20, 2004
2006 Adnan Charara, A film by Kathy Zarur, November 2006

AWARDS / GRANTS

Lowell Office of Cultural Affairs
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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, D.C.