Adam Green is a renowned singer-songwriter and artist known globally for his unique and prolific songwriting talent. His songs have been performed by various artists, including The Libertines, Carla Bruni, Kelly Willis, and Will Oldham.
Born in New York, Green started his music career at a young age, releasing his first album at just 17 years old. He was a key figure in the downtown antifolk scene in the late 1990s, forming half of the duo The Moldy Peaches.
The band's music gained belated mainstream success through the Grammy-winning soundtrack of the 2007 Academy Award-winning movie Juno. As a solo artist, Green has released nine albums, many of which have become cult hits. His 2005 album Gemstones went Gold in Europe.
In addition to his music career, Green has also ventured into the world of movies and visual arts. He has staged exhibitions across Europe and America, most recently at the LISTE art fair in Basel. He has also written, produced, directed, and acted in the film The Wrong Ferarri, which was the first feature film shot entirely on an iPhone.
In late 2015, Green completed his second feature film, Adam Green's Aladdin, an immersive fantasy film starring Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, and Francesco Clemente. The film was shot entirely on papier-mache sets and tells the story of a modern-day Aladdin, where the lamp is a 3-D printer, the Princess is a decadent socialite, the planet gets a sex-change, and its population prints out an analogue version of the Internet.
Green has also collaborated with Mich Dulce to create a line of hats inspired by his artwork and the Aladdin movie. The designs incorporate elements from his HOUSEFACE symbolic alphabet, a group of reduced cubist pictographs gleaned from the facial features of popular cartoon characters Garfield, Big Bird, and Elmo.
In January 2016, Green will exhibit the art from Adam Green's Aladdin at the Fondation Beyeler Museum in Basel, Switzerland.
