Bio:
A.D. Herzel is a Korean American Adoptee Artist who has exhibited work for the past twenty years. Her drawings have been exhibited Nationally. She trained as a painter and printmaker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and went on to receive her M.Ed. in Art Education at the Tyler School of Art in 2000. She was awarded the 2023 Works on Paper Fellowship from The Virginia Commission for the Arts and won the Director’s Choice Award for her piece, Grails in the Made in VA 2022 show at VAMOCA. Her digital work has been published in the Manifest International Drawing Annual, INDA 8 and she has won several awards of recognition for her drawings. Her work has been recognized by curators from the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Kimbell Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has been represented by galleries in Fort Worth, TX, Nashville, TN and Philadelphia, PA. Her most recent project, Seeds From The East: The Korean Adoptee Portrait Project was shown at The Philip Jaisohn House in Pennsylvania, and at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in Roanoke, VA.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhititions:
2025 A.D. Herzel: Lotus Roots, Hylton Performing Arts Center, Manassas, VA.
2022 Seeds from the East- Korean Adoptee Portrait Project, Phillip Jaison House, PA.
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, VA.
2018 Gold and Desire- Cerulean Arts Collaborative, Philadelphia, PA.
2016 Plumbago, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN.
2013 Abstraction, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX.
Invitational Museum & Gallery Exhibitions
2024 All She Surveys, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA. 2024
Selections From Artomatic, The Athenium, Alexandria, VA.
2021 Amplify, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA.
250 +1 Years Botetourt, Historical Society of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA.
2018 Solo Showdown & Invitational, Art7, Fort Worth, TX. Curated by Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art
2013 Fine Lines, 76102 Gallery, Arlington, TX, Curated by Rebecca Lawton, Curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Juried Group Shows:
2026 17th Annual Drawing Discourse, UNC Asheville, Ashville, NC. Juror Katharine Stout
Interior Wild, Atlantic Gallery, NYC, NY, Juror: Etty Yaniv
2025 Blacksburg Region Arts Biennial, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2025 Roanoke Biennial, Roanoke, VA .
2024 Radford Art Show 2024, Radford University Art Museum Tyler Gallery, Radford, VA.
61st Annual Juried Competition Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA.
2023 No Synthetic Colors, Pafa Alumni Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA. Juror: Hallie Ringle, Phila ICA.
Abstract, New York Center For Photographic Art, NYC4PA, online- Juror: Darren Klompching, 1st Place Award.
Korean Adoptees Artist Exhibition of the 2023 Daedong Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea (Juried by KADU Korean Adoptees Diaspora Art and Culture)
Sequence, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC Jurors: Maleke Glee, Director of Art + Programming STABLE, Lauren Leving, Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Roddy Schrock, Executive Director, Eyebeam.
2022 Made in VA 2022, VAMOCA, Virginia Beach, VA. Juror Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) – Awarded Director’s Choice.
2020 Circle, CICA Museum, Korea
2019 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Summer Alumni Exhibition, Downriver in the Multiverse, Philadelphia, PA.
New River Biennial, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Juror: Emily Smith – Mixed Media Award winner.
10th Annual Drawing Discourse, Ashville, NC. Juror: Claire Gillman, Chief Curator at the Drawing Center, New York.
Roanoke Biennial, Roanoke, VA. Juror: Elizabeth Gross
Hope & Possibility, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2017 Solo Showdown, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Juror: Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art
Roanoke Biennial : Juror: Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo & Beth Rudin DeWoody
Artist Research Partnership Exhibit, Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA.
Healing Arts, Carilion School of Medicine Orthopedic Wing, Roanoke, VA.
2015 Roanoke Biennial, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.
2013 INDA8, Manifest Drawing Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH.
Between the Lines, Torpedo Gallery, Alexandria, VA. Juror: Linn Meyers
2012 897 Square, 76102 Gallery, Arlington, TX. Juror: Marty Walker
500Expo 2012, Dallas, TX. Juror: Aaron Parazette
Oxide at Banter, Denton, TX
Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2011 897 Square, Inaugural Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX. Juror: Charles Wylie
New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX. Juror: Marcie Inman
Photography & Digital Art, Texas Visual Arts Association Art, Dallas, TX. Juror: G. Castenada Pruitt
6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Plano Art Association 125, Plano, TX. Jurors: M. Okeefe & E. Cervantes
Flood of Emotion, Artist’s healing Japan fundraiser, Allied Stone, Dallas, TX.
A Juried Exhibition for Artists in Texas, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. Juror: Marty Walker
Under 200, LuminArt Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2008 Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition; Choice Abstractions, Main Line Art Center, Phila, PA. Juror: Seuyun Locks.
Collections:
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Virginia Commonwealth Healthcare (Adult Outpatient Pavillion)
Grants:
Works on Paper Artist Fellowship 2023, Virginia Commission for the Arts
Sustainable Arts Foundation 2021
Awards:
Honorable Mention, Radford Art Show 2024
1st Prize, Abstract, NYC4PA, 2023
Director’s Choice Award, Made in VA 2022, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
Award of Honorable Distinction: Mixed Media – New River Biennial 2019
Honorable Mention & Invitation to exhibit in 2018 - Awarded by Jennifer Cassler Price
2nd Place – Roanoke Biennial 2017 – Awarded by Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo & Beth Rudin DeWoody
3rd Place- 897 Square 2012- Awarded by Marty Walker, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX.
ART7 Solo Showdown – Awarded by Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art
Honorable Mention- Photography & Digital Art, TVAA
The Betsy Meyer Memorial Award - Awarded by Sueyun Locks, Director and Owner of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Residencies:
Vermont Studio Residency- Printmaking 2014, Grant and work stipend, June 2014
Publications:
17th Annual International Contemporary Drawing Discourse Catalog
KADU Daedong Art Festival Official Book, Editor Park Chan Ho, 2023
Constellation of Wings, Kathryne Lim, 2023 ( Book cover)
INDA8, Manifest Drawing Catalogue, 2014, Cincinnati, OH.
10th Annual International Contemporary Drawing Discourse Catalog
Bio:
A.D. Herzel is a Korean American Adoptee Artist who has exhibited work for the past twenty years. Her drawings have been exhibited Nationally. She trained as a painter and printmaker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and went on to receive her M.Ed. in Art Education at the Tyler School of Art in 2000. She was awarded the 2023 Works on Paper Fellowship from The Virginia Commission for the Arts and won the Director’s Choice Award for her piece, Grails in the Made in VA 2022 show at VAMOCA. Her digital work has been published in the Manifest International Drawing Annual, INDA 8 and she has won several awards of recognition for her drawings. Her work has been recognized by curators from the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Kimbell Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has been represented by galleries in Fort Worth, TX, Nashville, TN and Philadelphia, PA. Her most recent project, Seeds From The East: The Korean Adoptee Portrait Project was shown at The Philip Jaisohn House in Pennsylvania, and at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in Roanoke, VA.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhititions:
2025 A.D. Herzel: Lotus Roots, Hylton Performing Arts Center, Manassas, VA.
2022 Seeds from the East- Korean Adoptee Portrait Project, Phillip Jaison House, PA.
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, VA.
2018 Gold and Desire- Cerulean Arts Collaborative, Philadelphia, PA.
2016 Plumbago, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN.
2013 Abstraction, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX.
Invitational Museum & Gallery Exhibitions
2024 All She Surveys, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA. 2024
Selections From Artomatic, The Athenium, Alexandria, VA.
2021 Amplify, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA.
250 +1 Years Botetourt, Historical Society of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA.
2018 Solo Showdown & Invitational, Art7, Fort Worth, TX. Curated by Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art
2013 Fine Lines, 76102 Gallery, Arlington, TX, Curated by Rebecca Lawton, Curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Juried Group Shows:
2026 17th Annual Drawing Discourse, UNC Asheville, Ashville, NC. Juror Katharine Stout
Interior Wild, Atlantic Gallery, NYC, NY, Juror: Etty Yaniv
2025 Blacksburg Region Arts Biennial, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2025 Roanoke Biennial, Roanoke, VA .
2024 Radford Art Show 2024, Radford University Art Museum Tyler Gallery, Radford, VA.
61st Annual Juried Competition Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA.
2023 No Synthetic Colors, Pafa Alumni Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA. Juror: Hallie Ringle, Phila ICA.
Abstract, New York Center For Photographic Art, NYC4PA, online- Juror: Darren Klompching, 1st Place Award.
Korean Adoptees Artist Exhibition of the 2023 Daedong Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea (Juried by KADU Korean Adoptees Diaspora Art and Culture)
Sequence, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC Jurors: Maleke Glee, Director of Art + Programming STABLE, Lauren Leving, Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Roddy Schrock, Executive Director, Eyebeam.
2022 Made in VA 2022, VAMOCA, Virginia Beach, VA. Juror Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) – Awarded Director’s Choice.
2020 Circle, CICA Museum, Korea
2019 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Summer Alumni Exhibition, Downriver in the Multiverse, Philadelphia, PA.
New River Biennial, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Juror: Emily Smith – Mixed Media Award winner.
10th Annual Drawing Discourse, Ashville, NC. Juror: Claire Gillman, Chief Curator at the Drawing Center, New York.
Roanoke Biennial, Roanoke, VA. Juror: Elizabeth Gross
Hope & Possibility, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2017 Solo Showdown, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Juror: Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art
Roanoke Biennial : Juror: Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo & Beth Rudin DeWoody
Artist Research Partnership Exhibit, Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA.
Healing Arts, Carilion School of Medicine Orthopedic Wing, Roanoke, VA.
2015 Roanoke Biennial, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.
2013 INDA8, Manifest Drawing Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH.
Between the Lines, Torpedo Gallery, Alexandria, VA. Juror: Linn Meyers
2012 897 Square, 76102 Gallery, Arlington, TX. Juror: Marty Walker
500Expo 2012, Dallas, TX. Juror: Aaron Parazette
Oxide at Banter, Denton, TX
Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2011 897 Square, Inaugural Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX. Juror: Charles Wylie
New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX. Juror: Marcie Inman
Photography & Digital Art, Texas Visual Arts Association Art, Dallas, TX. Juror: G. Castenada Pruitt
6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Plano Art Association 125, Plano, TX. Jurors: M. Okeefe & E. Cervantes
Flood of Emotion, Artist’s healing Japan fundraiser, Allied Stone, Dallas, TX.
A Juried Exhibition for Artists in Texas, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. Juror: Marty Walker
Under 200, LuminArt Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2008 Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition; Choice Abstractions, Main Line Art Center, Phila, PA. Juror: Seuyun Locks.
Collections:
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Virginia Commonwealth Healthcare (Adult Outpatient Pavillion)
Grants:
Works on Paper Artist Fellowship 2023, Virginia Commission for the Arts
Sustainable Arts Foundation 2021
Awards:
Honorable Mention, Radford Art Show 2024
1st Prize, Abstract, NYC4PA, 2023
Director’s Choice Award, Made in VA 2022, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
Award of Honorable Distinction: Mixed Media – New River Biennial 2019
Honorable Mention & Invitation to exhibit in 2018 - Awarded by Jennifer Cassler Price
2nd Place – Roanoke Biennial 2017 – Awarded by Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo & Beth Rudin DeWoody
3rd Place- 897 Square 2012- Awarded by Marty Walker, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX.
ART7 Solo Showdown – Awarded by Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art
Honorable Mention- Photography & Digital Art, TVAA
The Betsy Meyer Memorial Award - Awarded by Sueyun Locks, Director and Owner of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Residencies:
Vermont Studio Residency- Printmaking 2014, Grant and work stipend, June 2014
Publications:
17th Annual International Contemporary Drawing Discourse Catalog
KADU Daedong Art Festival Official Book, Editor Park Chan Ho, 2023
Constellation of Wings, Kathryne Lim, 2023 ( Book cover)
INDA8, Manifest Drawing Catalogue, 2014, Cincinnati, OH.
10th Annual International Contemporary Drawing Discourse Catalog