— publications
2024 Carrier, MC. (ed) Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud. The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK.
2024 Johnson, L., Pinath, A. & Fray-Smith, W. (eds) Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. Prestel Publishing, Munich, Germany.
2023 Cooke, L. (ed) Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction. University of Chicago Press, USA.
2022 Bonsu, O. African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century. Chronicle Books LLC / Tate, UK.
2022 Folkerts, H et al. Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines. Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, USA.
2021 Underwood, J. L. & Okeke-Agulu, C et al. African Artists: From 1882 to Now. Phaidon Press, UK. Published 17 November 2021.
2019 Martin, C.J. Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, Gregory Miller & Co, New York, USA.
2019 O’Toole, S. Igshaan Adams in Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art, Phaidon Press, UK.
2018 Igshaan Adams: When Dust Settles, blank projects, South Africa.
2019 Boulle, C & Pather, J. Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa. Wits University Press.
2017 Igshaan Adams, blank projects, South Africa.
— selected press
2024 Freeman, L. Igshaan Adams review — fairytale creations must be seen to be believed. The Times [online] (published 23 June 2024.
2024 Smee, S. Why textiles are all the rage in the art world right now. The Washington Post [online] (published 03 May 2024.
2024 Tolsi, N. The Weight of Life. CRAFTS (Issue 298).
2024 Searle, A. Unravel review – a gorgeously excessive tangled knot of a show, full of blood, pain and pleasure. The Guardian [online] (published 14 February 2024)
2024 Woodcock, V. Textile trailblazers receive long-overdue recognition. Financial Times [online] (published 28 January 2024).
2023 Peterson, V. Igshaan Adam’s Lines of Desire. Frieze [online] (published 27 September 2023).
2023 Lima, AL. Igshaan Adams: A Body of Work. African Arts. 56(3) 72-81.
2023 Rotwein, H. Looking for South Africa, But Seeing Nando’s. D Magazine [online] (published 3 July 2023).
2023 Vally, S. The world’s first Islamic art biennale shines a light on Muslim African artists. The Conversation [online] (published 9 March 2023).
2023 Khalil, N. 10 Standout Artists at the Inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale. Artsy [online] (published 2 February 2023).
2023 Al Bustani, H. Islamic Arts Biennale opens, exploring the magnetism of faith at the gateway to Makkah. The National News [online] (published 23 January 2023).
2022 Bourland, I. Igshaan Adams Interweaves the Mundane with the Divine. Frieze [online] (published 22 November 2022).
2022 Hopkins, Z. Critic’s Picks: Igshaan Adams. Artforum. Published December 2022.
2022 Cooke, L. Top Ten: Lynne Cooke’s highlights of 2022. Artforum. December 2022 issue.
2022 O’Toole, S. Material World. Private Edition (Issue 55).
2022 About the Rose: Igshaan Adams and Hendrik Folkerts in Conversation. Art Institute of Chicago. [online] (published 19 July 2022).
2022 Dango, M. Worklines: Michael Dango on the art of Igshaan Adams. Artforum (Summer 2022, Vol. 60, No. 10).
2022 O Toole, S. South African artists taking over Chicago, Bonteheuwel style. Mail and Guardian (published 6 May 2022).
2022 Here Are 9 Exciting Artists Whose Markets Are Poised to Reach the Next Level After Remarkable Outings at the Venice Biennale. Artnet News. [online] (published 5 May 2022).
2022 Mitter, S. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa's Fraught Terrain. The New York Times. (published 28 April 2022).
2022 Higgins, H. The Art Institute Unveils New Exhibits. Loyola Phoenix. [online] (published 20 April 2022).
2022 Hlalethwa, Z. Igshaan Adams asks, 'Would you treat me differently if you knew everything about me?' News24. [online] (published 15 April 2022).
2022 Solomon, T. For His First U.S. Museum Show, Igshaan Adams Creates Tapestries That Reflect on South African History. ARTnews. [online] (published 5 April 2022).
2022 Malik, T. Igshaan Adams on Mapping Desire Lines: in conversation with Tarini Malik. Ocula Magazine. [online] (published 23 March 2022).
2022 Barrell, O. Skarrelbaan: A recent exhibition by Igshaan Adams. Art Formes. [online] (published 19 March 2022).
2022 Installation view: Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust. Contemporary And. [online] (published 11 March 2022).
2022 Thurman, C. On the make with Igshaan Adams' 'skarrelbaan'. Business Day Wanted Magazine. (published 4 March 2022).
2022 Moloi, N. The “biennialization” of the art world | South Africans in Venice. Bubblegumclub. [online] (published March 2022).
2022 Moloi, N. ‘skarrelbaan’ | grit and beauty in the works of Igshaan Adams. Bubblegumclub. [online] (published 14 February 2022).
2022 Myers, L. Igshaan Adams brings cloud-like sculptures and woven pathways to Kunsthalle Zurich. Designboom. [online] (published 11 February 2022).
2022 Zheng, E. Cape Town Art Week 2022: Exhibitions to See. Ocula Magazine. [online] (published 9 February 2022).
2021 Kuijers, I. Desire Lines: Igshaan Adams’ ‘Kicking Dust’ at Hayward Gallery’. ArtThrob. [online] (published 29 July 2021).
2021 Balfour, R. J. & Postma, L. The Dis/entanglements of Knowledge: Transversing Matter, Subjectivity and Identity in VS Naipaul and Igshaan Adams. Neohelicon.
2021 Ghosh, R. Igshaan Adams Rewrites the Countours of Domestic Life in HIs Linoleum-Inspired Art. Elephant Art. [online] (published 22 July 2021).
2021 Noor, T. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now. The New York Times. [online] (published 14 July 2021).
2021 Cassell, D.L. & Packard, C. Your Concise New York Art Guide for July 2021. Hyperallergic. [online] (published 13 July 2021).
2021 Provenzi, R. Igshaan Adams. Sculpture Magazine. [online] (published 6 July 2021).
2021 Burlington, G. In Intricate Weavings, Igshaan Adams Maps South Africa’s Tangled Histories. Hyperallergic. [online] (published 27 June 2021).
2021 Behringer, D. Surprising Materials and Literal Pathways: The Tapestries of Igshaan Adams. Design Milk. [online] (published 29 June 2021).
2021 Mason, F. Matthew Barney. London Review of Books. [online] (published 17 June 2021).
2021 Corrigall, M. The term ‘emerging’ might not be serving artists. Maverick Life. [online] (published 9 June 2021).
2021 The Monocle Minute: Points of View. Monocle [online] (published 4 June 2021).
2021 Adebayo, B. Igshaan Adams. Nataal. [online] (published 20 May 2021).
2021 Cumming, L. Matthew Barney: Redoubt; Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust – review. The Guardian [online] (published 16 May 2021).
2020 Kabov, V. Syncretic Hands: African philosophy, abstraction and materiality in the work of Igshaan Adams, Ibrahim Mahama and Moffat Takadiwa. [online].
2021 Gurney, K. Kicking Dust: Communal pathways as works of art. [in review] [online] (published 23 January 2021).
2020 Chemaly, T. Igshaan Adams: Personal Devotion. TL Magazine [online] (published 22 May 2020).
2020 Shinners, K. Casting Spells: The Stellenbosch Triennale. ArtThrob [online] (published 24 February 2020).
2020 Nelson, E J. The Importance of Ritual: A Conversation with Igshaan Adams. Burnaway [online] (published 21 February 2020).
2020 Moloi, N. Against erasure and forgetting: Sabelo Mlangeni and Igshaan Adams at blank projects, Artthrob [online] (published 11 February 2020).
2020 Maota, R. Artist Profile: Meet Igshaan Adams, A Mixed Media Artist. Zkhiphani [online] (published 28 January 2020).
2019 Sebambo, K. Igshaan Adams: a Journey Inward, Art Momentum, South Africa (published 7 March 2019).
2019 Allie, N. When the dust settles a conflict of identities remains, Business Day, South Africa (published 23 January 2019).
2019 Hemmings, J. Igshaan Adams: Material Traces, Norwegian Crafts, Norway (published 23 January 2019).
2018 Tsotsi, T. Igshaan Adams: When Dust Settles “Collective Limitations”, Contemporary And [online] (published 31 October 2018).
2018 Wood, G. Artist Igshaan Adams stitches together the sacred and ordinary, Wanted Magazine, South Africa (published 20 August 2018).
2018 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner Igshaan Adams challenges stilted ways of thinking with provocative work, Sunday Times, South Africa (published 5 August 2018).
2018 Drysdale, C. Uncanny Nostalgia: Igshaan Adams ‘When Dust Settles’, ArtThrob [online] (published 10 July 2018)
2018 Maroga, K. A Subtle Benediction: Igshaan Adams ‘Al Latîf’, ArtThrob [online] (published 23 February 2018).
2018 Igshaan Adams’ ‘Al Latîf’ at blank projects, Cape Town, BLOUIN ARTINFO [online] (published 17 February 2018).
2019 Dodd, A. Metamorphic Material: Anatsui, Adams, Marx. De Arte. 54(3): 41–58.
2017 Igshaan Adams puts soul into his art, Cape Argus, South Africa (published 3 November 2017).
2016 Interview with Igshaan Adams, adjective [online] (published 16 September 2016).
2016 Pinto, G. Igshaan Adams is disarming us with quiet activism, Between10and5 [online] (published September 2016).
2016 Barnitz, M and Goyke, L. Representations of queerness in documentary films and art, Freie Universität Berlin student wiki [online] (published 29 January 2016).
2015 Islamic Tradition meets Post-Apartheid Identity in Igshaan Adams Intricat Tapestries, Artsy Magazine [online] (published 15 June 2015).
2015 Pollak, L. Faith and Ambiguity: Igshaan Adams’ Parda, ArtThrob [online] (published 9 March 2015).
2015 O’Toole, S. Critics picks: Igshaan Adams, Artforum International (published January 2015).
2015 Ball, J. Inkblots and their indices: rethreading perceptions in the work of Igshaan Adams, Image & Text, South Africa (issue 25) (published 2015).
2014 Kinsman, H. Tracing Emerging Artistic Practice in South Africa, Another Africa [online] (published 22 September 2014).
2012 Matthews, A. Young African Artists – Igshaan Adams, Business Day, Wanted Magazine, South Africa (published September 2012).
2024 Carrier, MC. (ed) Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud. The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK.
2024 Johnson, L., Pinath, A. & Fray-Smith, W. (eds) Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. Prestel Publishing, Munich, Germany.
2023 Cooke, L. (ed) Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction. University of Chicago Press, USA.
2022 Bonsu, O. African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century. Chronicle Books LLC / Tate, UK.
2022 Folkerts, H et al. Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines. Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, USA.
2021 Underwood, J. L. & Okeke-Agulu, C et al. African Artists: From 1882 to Now. Phaidon Press, UK. Published 17 November 2021.
2019 Martin, C.J. Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, Gregory Miller & Co, New York, USA.
2019 O’Toole, S. Igshaan Adams in Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art, Phaidon Press, UK.
2018 Igshaan Adams: When Dust Settles, blank projects, South Africa.
2019 Boulle, C & Pather, J. Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa. Wits University Press.
2017 Igshaan Adams, blank projects, South Africa.
— selected press
2024 Freeman, L. Igshaan Adams review — fairytale creations must be seen to be believed. The Times [online] (published 23 June 2024.
2024 Smee, S. Why textiles are all the rage in the art world right now. The Washington Post [online] (published 03 May 2024.
2024 Tolsi, N. The Weight of Life. CRAFTS (Issue 298).
2024 Searle, A. Unravel review – a gorgeously excessive tangled knot of a show, full of blood, pain and pleasure. The Guardian [online] (published 14 February 2024)
2024 Woodcock, V. Textile trailblazers receive long-overdue recognition. Financial Times [online] (published 28 January 2024).
2023 Peterson, V. Igshaan Adam’s Lines of Desire. Frieze [online] (published 27 September 2023).
2023 Lima, AL. Igshaan Adams: A Body of Work. African Arts. 56(3) 72-81.
2023 Rotwein, H. Looking for South Africa, But Seeing Nando’s. D Magazine [online] (published 3 July 2023).
2023 Vally, S. The world’s first Islamic art biennale shines a light on Muslim African artists. The Conversation [online] (published 9 March 2023).
2023 Khalil, N. 10 Standout Artists at the Inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale. Artsy [online] (published 2 February 2023).
2023 Al Bustani, H. Islamic Arts Biennale opens, exploring the magnetism of faith at the gateway to Makkah. The National News [online] (published 23 January 2023).
2022 Bourland, I. Igshaan Adams Interweaves the Mundane with the Divine. Frieze [online] (published 22 November 2022).
2022 Hopkins, Z. Critic’s Picks: Igshaan Adams. Artforum. Published December 2022.
2022 Cooke, L. Top Ten: Lynne Cooke’s highlights of 2022. Artforum. December 2022 issue.
2022 O’Toole, S. Material World. Private Edition (Issue 55).
2022 About the Rose: Igshaan Adams and Hendrik Folkerts in Conversation. Art Institute of Chicago. [online] (published 19 July 2022).
2022 Dango, M. Worklines: Michael Dango on the art of Igshaan Adams. Artforum (Summer 2022, Vol. 60, No. 10).
2022 O Toole, S. South African artists taking over Chicago, Bonteheuwel style. Mail and Guardian (published 6 May 2022).
2022 Here Are 9 Exciting Artists Whose Markets Are Poised to Reach the Next Level After Remarkable Outings at the Venice Biennale. Artnet News. [online] (published 5 May 2022).
2022 Mitter, S. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa's Fraught Terrain. The New York Times. (published 28 April 2022).
2022 Higgins, H. The Art Institute Unveils New Exhibits. Loyola Phoenix. [online] (published 20 April 2022).
2022 Hlalethwa, Z. Igshaan Adams asks, 'Would you treat me differently if you knew everything about me?' News24. [online] (published 15 April 2022).
2022 Solomon, T. For His First U.S. Museum Show, Igshaan Adams Creates Tapestries That Reflect on South African History. ARTnews. [online] (published 5 April 2022).
2022 Malik, T. Igshaan Adams on Mapping Desire Lines: in conversation with Tarini Malik. Ocula Magazine. [online] (published 23 March 2022).
2022 Barrell, O. Skarrelbaan: A recent exhibition by Igshaan Adams. Art Formes. [online] (published 19 March 2022).
2022 Installation view: Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust. Contemporary And. [online] (published 11 March 2022).
2022 Thurman, C. On the make with Igshaan Adams' 'skarrelbaan'. Business Day Wanted Magazine. (published 4 March 2022).
2022 Moloi, N. The “biennialization” of the art world | South Africans in Venice. Bubblegumclub. [online] (published March 2022).
2022 Moloi, N. ‘skarrelbaan’ | grit and beauty in the works of Igshaan Adams. Bubblegumclub. [online] (published 14 February 2022).
2022 Myers, L. Igshaan Adams brings cloud-like sculptures and woven pathways to Kunsthalle Zurich. Designboom. [online] (published 11 February 2022).
2022 Zheng, E. Cape Town Art Week 2022: Exhibitions to See. Ocula Magazine. [online] (published 9 February 2022).
2021 Kuijers, I. Desire Lines: Igshaan Adams’ ‘Kicking Dust’ at Hayward Gallery’. ArtThrob. [online] (published 29 July 2021).
2021 Balfour, R. J. & Postma, L. The Dis/entanglements of Knowledge: Transversing Matter, Subjectivity and Identity in VS Naipaul and Igshaan Adams. Neohelicon.
2021 Ghosh, R. Igshaan Adams Rewrites the Countours of Domestic Life in HIs Linoleum-Inspired Art. Elephant Art. [online] (published 22 July 2021).
2021 Noor, T. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now. The New York Times. [online] (published 14 July 2021).
2021 Cassell, D.L. & Packard, C. Your Concise New York Art Guide for July 2021. Hyperallergic. [online] (published 13 July 2021).
2021 Provenzi, R. Igshaan Adams. Sculpture Magazine. [online] (published 6 July 2021).
2021 Burlington, G. In Intricate Weavings, Igshaan Adams Maps South Africa’s Tangled Histories. Hyperallergic. [online] (published 27 June 2021).
2021 Behringer, D. Surprising Materials and Literal Pathways: The Tapestries of Igshaan Adams. Design Milk. [online] (published 29 June 2021).
2021 Mason, F. Matthew Barney. London Review of Books. [online] (published 17 June 2021).
2021 Corrigall, M. The term ‘emerging’ might not be serving artists. Maverick Life. [online] (published 9 June 2021).
2021 The Monocle Minute: Points of View. Monocle [online] (published 4 June 2021).
2021 Adebayo, B. Igshaan Adams. Nataal. [online] (published 20 May 2021).
2021 Cumming, L. Matthew Barney: Redoubt; Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust – review. The Guardian [online] (published 16 May 2021).
2020 Kabov, V. Syncretic Hands: African philosophy, abstraction and materiality in the work of Igshaan Adams, Ibrahim Mahama and Moffat Takadiwa. [online].
2021 Gurney, K. Kicking Dust: Communal pathways as works of art. [in review] [online] (published 23 January 2021).
2020 Chemaly, T. Igshaan Adams: Personal Devotion. TL Magazine [online] (published 22 May 2020).
2020 Shinners, K. Casting Spells: The Stellenbosch Triennale. ArtThrob [online] (published 24 February 2020).
2020 Nelson, E J. The Importance of Ritual: A Conversation with Igshaan Adams. Burnaway [online] (published 21 February 2020).
2020 Moloi, N. Against erasure and forgetting: Sabelo Mlangeni and Igshaan Adams at blank projects, Artthrob [online] (published 11 February 2020).
2020 Maota, R. Artist Profile: Meet Igshaan Adams, A Mixed Media Artist. Zkhiphani [online] (published 28 January 2020).
2019 Sebambo, K. Igshaan Adams: a Journey Inward, Art Momentum, South Africa (published 7 March 2019).
2019 Allie, N. When the dust settles a conflict of identities remains, Business Day, South Africa (published 23 January 2019).
2019 Hemmings, J. Igshaan Adams: Material Traces, Norwegian Crafts, Norway (published 23 January 2019).
2018 Tsotsi, T. Igshaan Adams: When Dust Settles “Collective Limitations”, Contemporary And [online] (published 31 October 2018).
2018 Wood, G. Artist Igshaan Adams stitches together the sacred and ordinary, Wanted Magazine, South Africa (published 20 August 2018).
2018 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner Igshaan Adams challenges stilted ways of thinking with provocative work, Sunday Times, South Africa (published 5 August 2018).
2018 Drysdale, C. Uncanny Nostalgia: Igshaan Adams ‘When Dust Settles’, ArtThrob [online] (published 10 July 2018)
2018 Maroga, K. A Subtle Benediction: Igshaan Adams ‘Al Latîf’, ArtThrob [online] (published 23 February 2018).
2018 Igshaan Adams’ ‘Al Latîf’ at blank projects, Cape Town, BLOUIN ARTINFO [online] (published 17 February 2018).
2019 Dodd, A. Metamorphic Material: Anatsui, Adams, Marx. De Arte. 54(3): 41–58.
2017 Igshaan Adams puts soul into his art, Cape Argus, South Africa (published 3 November 2017).
2016 Interview with Igshaan Adams, adjective [online] (published 16 September 2016).
2016 Pinto, G. Igshaan Adams is disarming us with quiet activism, Between10and5 [online] (published September 2016).
2016 Barnitz, M and Goyke, L. Representations of queerness in documentary films and art, Freie Universität Berlin student wiki [online] (published 29 January 2016).
2015 Islamic Tradition meets Post-Apartheid Identity in Igshaan Adams Intricat Tapestries, Artsy Magazine [online] (published 15 June 2015).
2015 Pollak, L. Faith and Ambiguity: Igshaan Adams’ Parda, ArtThrob [online] (published 9 March 2015).
2015 O’Toole, S. Critics picks: Igshaan Adams, Artforum International (published January 2015).
2015 Ball, J. Inkblots and their indices: rethreading perceptions in the work of Igshaan Adams, Image & Text, South Africa (issue 25) (published 2015).
2014 Kinsman, H. Tracing Emerging Artistic Practice in South Africa, Another Africa [online] (published 22 September 2014).
2012 Matthews, A. Young African Artists – Igshaan Adams, Business Day, Wanted Magazine, South Africa (published September 2012).
