Adams has mounted multiple public installations, and his work has been featured in notable group exhibitions, including: Giants: Art from the Dean Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (2024); The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2023); Packaged Black: Derrick Adams & Barbara Earl Thomas, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2022); Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair, Kent State University Museum (2021–2022); and Performa, New York (2015, 2013, 2005). His art is in the collections of many institutions, including: The Brooklyn Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Birmingham Museum of Art. “When I arrived in New York in 2006 I was homeless, but I found my way to Tyler house, right here in the East Village, on 9th Street,” Bartley said, referencing the proximity of the hotel, which has had multiple uses and served in 1940s as a flophouse for returning World War II soldiers, when the now-ritzy Bowery was known as "Skid Row.”
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