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Adam Lenz is a producer, curator, educator and multidisciplinary artist based in Hartford, Connecticut. His interests in art are centered in the overlap between sound, performance, and the visual arts. Currently, Adam is the Public Engagement and Programs Manager at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the United States. In this role, he oversees public programs and performances with a focus on the museum's special exhibitions, permanent collection, and rich institutional history. He comes to the Wadsworth with over a decade of experience organizing music and arts programs.

Adam's production and curatorial practice incorporates performances, interactive programming, and a range of lectures and artist conversations

He has organized recent performance-based projects that include a four-day festival with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble; a concert with Natural Information Society; a performance installation of Alvin Lucier's (Hartford) Memory Space with Joan La Barbara, The Daxophone Consort, Tongue Depressor, Ron Kuivila, Emerson Jenisch, and Sam Boston; an electroacoustic commissioning project and performance with trombonist Haim Avitsur; and many chamber music concerts including an ongoing series of Music in the Galleries performances. Adam also served as production manager for Naama Tsabar's Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 6), a group composition and performance project within Tsabar's site-specific MATRIX exhibition. Recent lectures and artist conversations have featured a wide array of artists and scholars including Yvonne Rainer, Emily Coates, Janine Antoni, Pipilotti Rist, Laurie Anderson, Stephanie Syjuco, Byron Kim, Matt Paweski, Justine Kurland, Martino Stierli, Jack Lowery, Andrea Lawlor, Talia Chetrit, Kyle Dunn, Nancy Hall-Duncan, Adrienne L. Childs, and many more. During the 2020-2021 academic year, Adam served as curator of the Institute of Contemporary American Music (ICAM) at the University of Hartford where he organized artist talks with Helga Davis, Tania León, Carlos Soto, Audra Wolowiec, Charmaine Lee & Zach Rowden, Matmos, Guillermo Galindo, and Sarah Hennies.

As an artist, Adam has collaborated on performance-based work with artists, directors, and musicians including Robert Wilson, Dr. GoraParasit (Gintare Minelgaite), Dimitris Papaioannou, Zach Rowden, Baboo Liao, Miki Orihara, and Robert Black. These projects and other solo ventures have been presented in more than a dozen countries at internationally recognized venues including The Watermill Center, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Teatrul Național Craiova, Cankarjev Dom, Platonov Arts Festival, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Print Screen Festival, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Boston University Art Galleries, Mengi Gallery, Ammerman Biennial Symposium on Art and Technology, Festival Cultural de Zacatecas, SEAMUS, and NYCEMF.

Adam holds a BM in Composition and a MA in Music Research from Western Michigan University and an AD in Music Composition from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. From 2016-2021, Adam taught electronic music, sound design, and sound art at the University of Hartford. Here he also served as director of Hartt Studio D, The Hartt School’s electronic composition laboratory, and was a recipient of the University’s 2021 Gordon Clark Ramsey Award for Creative Excellence in Teaching. At the Wadsworth, he is a member of the Learning & Engagement team, organizes educational programming for adults and university audiences, and oversees the museum's internship program. 

Photograph by Lindsay Morris, courtesy of The Watermill Center.

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Adam performing in Matthew Thurber's work Pete’s Love of Maps, Discover Watermill Day, 2019. Photograph by Chloe Bellemère,

courtesy of The Watermill Center.

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