Adam Siegel

Chicago artist Adam Siegel is nationally recognized for the breadth of his work as an abstract painter and photographer. Known for his large-scale works, Siegel presents a soulful refinement to the contemporary category. Influenced deeply by his time in Japan, the artist merges two distinct sensibilities—East and West—with compositions that showcase an elusive and elegant balance of both.

While Siegel has spent the last 39 years traveling, collecting, and creating a powerful body of work influenced by the visual poetry and elegant simplicity of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, he is also an artist of the modern day. Employing new technology and drawing from his collected imagery, Siegel creates paintings and collages that lend emotional resonance to both eras. His compositions bridge new to old, high to low, reverie to the achingly simple.

Siegel’s pedigree is as layered as his canvases. The Chicago-born artist was raised in an artistic family. His father Arthur Siegel was a world-renowned photographer and author; his mother Irene Siegel is a multi media artist. As a young child, his earliest influences were Bauhaus masters such as László Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who were often guests at his parents’ di...

Oberlin College: United States
Waseda University: Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017: "Wabi Sabi: Portraits in Evolution," Golden Triangle, Chicago, Illinois

2016: River North Design District Gallery Walk featured artist, Golden Triangle, Chicago, Illinois

2009: The FlatIron Art Show (Winter), Chicago, Illinois

1991- 2008: Around the Coyote Fall Festival, Chicago, Illinois

2008: The Flat Iron Show (Fall), Chicago, Illinois

2007: ARTROPOLIS, The Artist Project, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois

1998: Spertus Museum, September 11 to January 4, Chicago, Illinois

1996: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York

1995: Art Chicago at Navy Pier, Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1994: Art Chicago at Navy Pier, Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1993: Art Chicago at Navy Pier, Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

From 1984 to 1991, Siegel traveled internationally to pursue an active and independent paint study, and compiled a formidable personal resource library.

1984: Huron Orleans Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1982: Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1982: Kansas City Gallery of Art, Missouri University, Missouri

1982: Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1981: One Illinois Center Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

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