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Education

Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude
in Performing & Media Arts, Music (minor)

Bachelor of Fine Arts
in Fine Arts       
Cornell University 
College of Arts & Sciences                                                                
Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art & Planning   
Ithaca, NY
       

Ithaca, NY                 
Rome, Italy 
2023


2023
2021




Residencies & Fellowships

Artist in Residence

Arts in Nature Installation

Artist in Residence

NaloxBox Harm Reduction Artist Commission

Scenic Design Fellowship

Ceramic Studio Apprenticeship

Artist in Residence

EFA Studio & Administrative Internship
Byrdcliffe Guild

Bear Yuba Land Trust

The Soil Factory     
      
Truth Pharm

The Hangar Theatre

Koshoan Studio

WaNoKaze

Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Woodstock, NY

Nevada City, CA

Ithaca, NY

Binghampton, NY

Ithaca, NY

Fukuchiyama, Japan

Ogawa, Japan

New York, NY
2025

2025

2024

2023

2023

2022

2022

2021




Featured Exhibitions

Take 2

Parasitic Squatters

Nature’s Play

Morning, 
with Paige Pepling

Community Garden of Earthly Delights,
with Danielle Greco

After Nature Had Drawn a Few Breaths

Anthropophotoautotrope, 
with Ruby Rose D’Auisio Trabka
Sera Museum

La Grange du Tokyo
     
Palmer Woods 

Olive Tjaden Gallery


Bibliowicz Gallery Garden


Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Kobe, Japan

Indre, France

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY
2025

2024

2023

2022


2022


2021

2021




Group Exhibitions

Sound Showcase

Chasing the Sun: 
A Performance Festival from Sunrise to Sunset

County Fair

I See You (IC/CU) 2023

Art Crawl: Golden Hour (co-curator)

Liquidation Sale

Art Crawl: Sad Happy Hour (co-curator)

Art Crawl: Soft Launch (co-curator & host)

Anthropu$$yne (lead curator)

Bound Books Unbound

Una Mostra Dei Lavori Degli Studenti

What’s in a Book

Big F@$%#^& Art Show II

BFA Show 2020

PRINTFEST Student Exhibition

Summer’s Play (curator)

Big F@$%#^& Art Show

I See You (IC/CU) 2019
Hirakata Performing & Visual Arts Center  

The Soil Factory


Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory

Ink Shop Printmaking Center

Home Gallery Exhibition

Olive Tjaden Gallery

Home Gallery Exhibition

Home Gallery Exhibition

Olive Tjaden Gallery

Experimental Gallery

Palazzo Santacroce

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Saving the People 

IPCNY

Salem Art Works

Olive Tjaden Gallery

Ink Shop Printmaking Center
Hirakata, Japan

Ithaca, NY


Freeville, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Rome, Italy

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

stp.world

New York, NY

Salem, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY
2024

2023


2023

2023

2023

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2020

2020

2019

2019

2019

2019




Theatrical Designs

Scenography -- “BIOphelia: A Performance-Infused Scholarship Symposium”

Production Manager & Assistant Manager --
“Goodbye, Doctor” 

Scenography -- “A Midsummer Yosemite’s Dream” 


Projections -- “Desdemona”


Mask Maker -- “As You Like It”

Projections -- “Billy Elliot, the Musical”

Scenography -- “The Incredible Book Eating Boy”

Scenography -- “Crisscrossing the Galaxy at Faster than the Speed of Light in Search of a Hug”

Lighting -- “DreamTrain” by Mendi+Keith Obadike and the American Composer’s Orchestra

Scenography & Lighting -- “Baby Rock”


Editor & Designer -- “Cymbeline in the Anthropocene: Once Upon a Time in the Anthropocene”

Projections & Lighting -- “The Pleasures of the Quarrel”

Scenography -- “Reach for the Sky”


Props -- “School House Rock Live Jr.”

Scenography -- “Asiamnesia”
 

Scenography -- “L’Histoire du Soldat”
Atrium/Film Forum
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts 

Psykout! at the A.R.T.
Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theater

Curry Village Amphitheatre
Wallace Dutra Amphitheatre

Kiplinger Theater,
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

The Cherry Arts

Mainstage, The Hangar Theater

KIDDSTUFF stage, The Hangar Theater

KIDDSTUFF stage, The Hangar Theater


Tishman Auditorium at The New School


Black Box, 
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

Montana State University


Bailey Hall

Black Box, 
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

Fort Salem Theater

Black Box, 
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

Hubbard Hall
The Salem Courthouse
Ithaca, NY


New York, NY


Yosemite Valley, CA
Merced, CA

Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY


New York, NY


Ithaca, NY


Bozeman, MT


Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY


Salem, NY

Ithaca, NY


Cambridge, NY
Salem, NY
2024


2024


2024


2023


2023

2023

2023

2023


2023


2022


2022


2022

2021


2021

2021


2017




Lectures & Instruction

BIOphelia: A Performance-Infused Scholarship Symposium (panelist)

PMA 3800: Acting II (guest instructor)

Arts & the Environment Panel (panelist)

ART 4100: Senior Seminar (guest lecturer)

ART 2301/3399: Introduction to Print Media/Print Media Special Topics (guest critic)

ART 2201: Introduction to Painting
(teaching assistant/peer mentor)

The Future of Salem through Film and Photography (camp director)

MFA Printmaking Training Assistant
Cornell University 
Dept. of Performing & Media Arts
     
Cornell University

UC Merced

Cornell University

Cornell University


Cornell University


Salem Courthouse Community Center


Cornell University
Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY

Merced, CA

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY


Salem, NY


Ithaca, NY
2024


2024

2024

2023

2023


2022


2020


2019




Publications

Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet


Sustainable Materials Guidebook

Extraordinary Journeys, The Class of 2023

AMO Zine, Editions 1-5

What is that Outside of Schwartz!?

Mamaism, in Volume 2: Dadaism
Elements in Shakespeare Performance, 
by Elizabeth Freestone & Katie Brokaw

The Society of British Theatre Designers 

Cornell University Arts & Sciences

Cornell University Art Major’s Organization

Cornell Daily Sun, by Stephen Yang

The New Twenties Magazine
Featured Artist


Contributor

Featured Scholar

Contributor, Editor

Review

Contributor
2025


2025

2023

2020-23

2021

2020




Selected Experiences


Koebi-tai Production Volunteer

Bamboo Grove and Foothill Remediation Volunteer

Art Handler, Registrar, Graphic & 3D Design

Project Lead Facilitator for “Let Freedom Ring” by Paul Ramirez Jonas in “Beyond Granite: Growing Together”

Print Studio Monitor


Art Studio Monitor (assitant manager for galleries, painting, drawing & sculpture studios)

Student Representative to the Dean’s Council 
& Art Department Chair

Ceramic Studio & Kiln Manager

Art Setouchi Triennale

Satoyama Club

Ippodo Gallery

Monument Lab and
The Trust for the National Mall

Cornell AAP


Cornell AAP


Cornell AAP


Cornell AAP

Takamatsu, Japan

Shimamoto, Japan

New York, NY

Washington, DC


Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY
2022/25

2024-25

2024

2023


2019 -
2023

2021 -
2023

2021 - 
2023

2022 - 
2023




Awards

Dept. of Art Distinguished Achievement Award
& College Banner Bearer

Distinction in All Subjects, summa cum laude
& Dean’s List All Semesters

Cornell Rural Humanities Microgrant

Summer Research Travel Grant

Edith Adams and Walter King Stone Memorial Prize

/art (“Backslash Art”) Microgrant

David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts

CCA Individual Student Grant

Serve in Place Community Grant

Ezra Colin Cornell Award in Digital Media

Contribution Project Award
Cornell AAP
     

Cornell Arts & Sciences


Andrew Mellon Foundation

Experience Cornell

Cornell AAP

Cornell Tech

Cornell AAP

Cornell Council for the Arts

Cornell Einhorn Center

Cornell AAP

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY


Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

New York, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca, NY
2023


2023


2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2021

2021

2020

2019





what I saw lying in the snow looking up at the trees outside my childhood home




©2025 Adam Washiyama Shulman