I am from the waves
I am from the waves, from the forest, open skies and mountain peaks; I am from the sidewalks, subways, soirées and coffee shops. Midwest, West Coast, East Coast, Europe. I was raised between Portland, Oregon and Kansas City and studied in Boston and Salzburg. Born in the Colorado mountains, I have made the mountains of Austria my home. “A person who does not act and think creatively ceases to be an image of God” (unknown)—I create because I am from the Creator.
The characters I paint
live and love unapologetically, passionately, and with the strength of vulnerability.
They challenge and embolden us
to live freely and to
shine.
An art world maverick, Adrienne Egger has a boundary-pushing attitude. Fusing her resilient energy with adventurous light-heartedness, she opens doors and breaks down barriers with charisma, confidence and warmth.
Best known for her crowd-stopping figurative paintings, Adrienne’s prize-winning style – like many aspects of her life – defies easy categorization. Harnessing aspects of narrative, impressionism and expressionism, her innately curious nature seeks new means and experiments with a variety of materials in order to capture feelings, culture and humanity. For there, between her easy smile and light touch, lies the true gift of the artist.
Through a life spanning nearly 5 decades spent equally on two continents, she has come to understand that we are all the same, wanting to be understood. This is reflected in the international scope of her collector base, private & corporate, found everywhere from Hong Kong, San Francisco, Aspen, New York, London, Ibiza, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna, and München, to a charity auction at a polo tournament in St Moritz, the living room of Austrian rock’n’roller Andreas Gabalier, or even your neighbor down the street.
The imagination knows no borders,
nor does the heart.
Or how else should a business/psychology student from the Rocky Mountains end up an award-winning artist in the Alps?
An art world maverick, Adrienne Egger has a boundary-pushing attitude. Fusing her resilient energy with adventurous light-heartedness, she opens doors and breaks down barriers with charisma, confidence and warmth.
Best known for her crowd-stopping figurative paintings, Adrienne’s prize-winning style – like many aspects of her life – defies easy categorization. Harnessing aspects of narrative, impressionism and expressionism, her innately curious nature seeks new means and experiments with a variety of materials in order to capture feelings, culture and humanity. For there, between her easy smile and light touch, lies the true gift of the artist.
Through a life spanning nearly 5 decades spent equally on two continents, she has come to understand that we are all the same, wanting to be understood. This is reflected in the international scope of her collector base, private & corporate, found everywhere from Hong Kong, San Francisco, Aspen, New York, London, Ibiza, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna, and München, to a charity auction at a polo tournament in St Moritz, the living room of Austrian rock’n’roller Andreas Gabalier, or even your neighbor down the street.
From award-winning luxury lifestyle magazines, respected curatorial publications, to multiple-page spreads in the local bank magazine, Adrienne’s thoughts and approachable style of reflection are popularly well-documented. She illuminates that what becomes seen in the light of reflection is not always beautiful. Witnessing the crushing frustrations of her artistic single mother as an impoverished 8-year-old girl as she did is neither beautiful nor inspiring.
This is the essence of Adrienne’s work: she holds out her hand to us and challenges us to take our vulnerabilities, our messes as well as our victories, and turn them into something we can love. With deep empathy beyond words and conventions, her exquisite talent and honest elegance transform intangible feelings into visual storyscapes, a simple painting exercise into a personal revelation, or an event into a living fantasy.
Be it through her artwork, workshops, design, handbag collection or events, Adrienne elevates everyone her work touches, revealing the extraordinary in ourselves in order to comfort us, lift us up, and laugh with us.
From award-winning luxury lifestyle magazines, respected curatorial publications, to multiple-page spreads in the local bank magazine, Adrienne’s thoughts and approachable style of reflection are popularly well-documented. She illuminates that what becomes seen in the light of reflection is not always beautiful. Witnessing the crushing frustrations of her artistic single mother as an impoverished 8-year-old girl as she did is neither beautiful nor inspiring. ​
AWARDS
2022 Finalist, It's Art Call, The Cult House London
2018/9 Artist of the Year Finalist, Circle Foundation of the Arts
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2015 Artinfo Artist of the Year, Jury selection by Daler-Rowney UK, 2015
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2014 2. Place, “Scapes” Art-Competition.net
2015 Winning Artist ARTPROTAGONIST, Arteficiolinea
2014/5 ARTslant Multiple Showcase Winner
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2014 Special Recognition, Upstream People Gallery
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2011 Special Recognition, Light Space & Time Gallery
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Habitat Contemporary Art, Leedy-Voulkos Center, Kansas City USA
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Artoui – Home of Unique Art, Munich Germany
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Saatchi Art - featured artist interview “Inside the Studio”
EDUCATION
University of Salzburg, Psychology 2002-2005
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Summer Academy Salzburg, Large Format Analog Photography with Lynne Cohen 2002
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Boston University, School of Management, Merit Scholarship Recipient 1995-1997
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions / Installations
2024 As Near As I Am Far: USA Debut Exhibition, Habitat Contemporary Art, Leedy-Voulkos Center, Kansas City, USA
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2024 UNARTIG, Avantgarde Baroque Ball and Showcase Exhibition, Mozarthaus St Gilgen AT
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2023 COSMO CHERRY BOMB SUGAR LIPS, St Peter Stiftskulinarium, Salzburg AT
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2022 Wolferl & Nannerl sind unARTig, Mozarthaus St Gilgen AT
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2022 Himmelsfunken - Keine irdische Macht (Messages from Heaven - No Earthly Power), Ambiente am Riesnerhof, Mondsee AT
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2022 FEMMOBILITY - What do dreams know of boundaries? Dynamic Woman past, present and future. Presented by the Wiener Linien, Remise Transportation Museum, Vienna AT
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2020 CANCELLED (Covid-19) Installation “Tramwaytag 2020”,
Wiener Linien, Vienna
2019 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Dom Gallery, Wiener Neustadt AT
2019 Wine & Design Riesnerhof, Mondsee AT
2018 Polo Cup, St. Moritz CH
2018 Polo Cup, Ascona CH
2017 Myth, Mythology & Fairytale, ArtMonopol Gallery,
Schloss Walpersdorf AT
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2017 Philipp Senn Architecture, St. Moritz CH
2016/17 5* Thermenhotel Ronacher, Bad Kleinkirchheim AT
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2016 Heile Welt--A Perfectly Imperfect World, Vital Hotel Villa Seilern,
Bad Ischl AT
2015 Scalaria Eventhotel, St. Wolfgang on Wolfgangsee AT
2014 +blitzblau Architekten, Hallein by Salzburg AT
Group Exhibitions
2024 Statement Art – The Young Rebels of Neoexpressionism, Artoui, Munich DE
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2023 Ensemble 02, Art Can Collective Group Show, Paris FR
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2022 Take A Chance on Me - Vienna Calling III, Art Can Collective Group Show,, Vienna AT
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2018 Modern Woman Modern Culture, ArtMonopol, Salzburg AT
2018 Vienna Calling I, Art Can Collective Group Show, Gallery ArtPool, Vienna AT
2016 What Is the Point?, Art Can Collective Group Show, Strand Gallery, London UK
2015 ArtProtagonist, Arteficiolinea, Villa Contarini, Padova IT
2015 Hope Culture, Schleyerhalle, Stuttgart DE
2015 Prebiennale, ArT Studio Gallery, Venedig IT
2015 “Grand Salon”, Bad Säckingen DE