Adam Geluda Gildar (b.1984, Portland, OR) is an artist and art enabler living in Denver, Colorado. They/He has particular interest in experiments in art and living in the US west, and more broadly the intersection of aesthetics, place and social practice. Their artwork which spans media and mode, from muted landscape paintings and assemblage to performance, is united by an evolving understanding that fragmentation is as essential a human trait as the desire to make meaning.

 

Geluda Gildar’s recent exhibitions have included participation in the group exhibition hellhole rat race at Black Book Gallery, a solo exhibition at Middle State Coffee, and an upcoming solo exhibition at DXIX projects at Colorado State University (January 2025). 

 

In their support role to other artists Geluda Gildar served as the founding program director at the Frontier Drive-Inn between 2021 - 2023, a remote arts and hospitality project in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Prior to this, Geluda Gildar served as the director of the art non-profit ArtPlant from 2012 - 2019, facilitating artist residencies, symposiums and exhibitions.  From 2012 - 2020 Geluda Gildar ran the commercial gallery Gildar Gallery and prior to this they served as the creative director of the arts and literary publication Illiterate. Selected recent and upcoming curatorial projects include the 2024 exhibition Through an Open Frame by the artist Susan Wick at David B Smith Gallery (Denver, Co) as well as the forthcoming exhibition Unearthing Futures/Desenterrando Futuros at the Harwood Museum (2026. Taos, NM) exploring the use of Adobe as a material within contemporary art.  Geluda Gildar’s interdisciplinary practice continues to develop alongside their own ongoing commitment to service in community, and they offer appreciation to the people, beings and lands past and present that continue to be teachers and guides.