Adam McEwen's artwork employs a range of unusual materials - from chewed-up chewing gum to text messages passed on to him from friends to industrial graphite - to repurpose familiar things and to re-make language and artefacts in new contexts, with surprising and often humorous impact. Perhaps best known for his obituaries of people still living and for his dead-end store sign paintings (such as "Sorry We're Sorry"), McEwen's work is characterised by both a morbid sense of humour and a melancholic ambiguity.
Adam McEwen was born in Great Britain in 1965. He lives and works in New York.
