亚当‧卓斯高1965年生于伦敦，于曼彻斯特大学主修艺术史，其后在伦敦金匠学院获艺术硕士学位，现于英格兰南部肯特郡韦斯特堡生活及工作。
卓斯高的作品力图探索事物内在的意义，突出它们反复无常而荒诞不经的本质。作品取材于生活，媒介涵盖绘画、雕塑、表演及电影，充分利用周围环境，且常邀观者参与。作品每每带随机性，结果难以预测。
《夜班》(2004)是费里斯艺术博览会授权卓斯高创作的。卓斯高为年度博览会现场制作一幅以另类场地地图为主题的海报。开展前的几个清晨，他让七种动物在场地自由活动，其中包括公鹿、蛇和蝎子等。牠们在展场的迷阵中随意走动，组成了夜间巡游。牠们走动的路线被记录在展场地图上，为日间的访客提供了另类参观路径。
卓斯高的其他作品有2006年的《M—路径》。参观者须在展场门外将鞋子脱下，在参观期间换上一双用过的旧鞋。卓斯高希望观者能转换看事物的观点，从而体现古格言中「穿别人的鞋子走路」的说法。他的最新作品是韦斯特堡双年展2010中的《幽灵》。卓斯高设计了一艘小舟，邀请一名观众躺在舟里，从韦斯特堡划至曾用作墓地的「死人岛」去。过程均用录像拍摄，为每位乘客的独特经验作记录。
除韦斯特堡双年展外，卓斯高广泛参与国际性个展及联展。2008年泰特圣艾富思美术馆首次展出他的重要作品。2002年获「哈姆林基金奖」及「纽约当代艺术基金奖」。2007年，卓斯高获坎特伯雷肯特大学电影系人文研究会研究奖学金。
Adam Chodzko was born in London in 1965. He attended University of Manchester to study art history and later attended Goldsmiths College, London to pursue an MA in Fine Art. He now lives and works in Whitstable, Kent in the south of England.
Chodzko’s work examines systems of meanings, highlighting their fundamentally arbitrary and absurd nature. Working in a range of mediums from drawing to sculpture, performance to film, he draws on the environment that surrounds him, often engaging and involving the viewer. His works often display an element of chance where outcomes are unknown and unpredictable.
Nightshift was a piece commissioned by Frieze Art Fair in 2004, whereby Chodzko was asked to make a poster proposing an alternative mapping for the annual art fair site. During the early hours of the mornings in the lead up to the opening, seven animals were left to freely roam the site, including a stag, a snake and a scorpion. Choosing their own paths through the maze of stands in the hall, they collectively formed a nocturnal parade. Their paths were then recorded and plotted onto a Frieze map to serve as route suggestions for daylight visitors.
Other works by the artist include M-Path (2006), which involves gallery visitors having to swap their shoes at the door for a pair of second-hand shoes for the duration of their visit, thus changing perception and taking literally the old adage ‘walking in someone else shoes’. His most recent work Ghost was shown at the 2010 Whitstable Biennale. Chodzko designed a kayak that was paddled from Whitstable to the nearby Deadman’s Island, a former burial site, with a member of the public lying in the back. The journey was recorded using a video camera providing a document for each passenger’s unique experience.
As well as the Whitstable Biennale, Chodzko has exhibited extensively in both solo and group international exhibitions including his first major survey of work shown in the UK, at Tate St Ives in 2008. In 2002, he received awards from the Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, and in 2007 was awarded an AHRC Research Fellowship in the Film Department at the University of Kent, Canterbury.