Adam Bateman is an artist, writer and curator who is a native of Ephraim, Utah. He received his MFA in Sculpure at Pratt Institute and has exhibited his work nationally and internationally recently receiving the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. His conceptually based sculptures, images and paintings have been exhibitied in galleries in both NY and Los Angeles as well as institutions such as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, BYU’s Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Fine Art in Utah and the Akureyri Art Museum in Iceland. He has curated projects in Los Angeles and New York City as well as for venues in Utah including UMOCA and especially CUAC, a non-profit space in Salt Lake City that he has operated for nine years.