L I N D S A Y A D A M S
BIOGRAPHY
Lives and Works in Chicago, IL
1990 Born in Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION
2025 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MFA, Painting and Drawing
New Artist Society Merit Scholar
2012 University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
BA, International Studies: World Politics and Diplomacy
BA, Spanish/LAIS (Latin and Iberian Studies)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
SOIL, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2025
Ceremony, Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, Washington, D.C.
All water has a perfect memory, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
Keep Your Wonder Moving, Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
“…And Ain’t I A Woman.”, Riverhill Art Residency, Upstate Art Weekend, Ulster Park, NY
Two Things Can Be True, Eaton DC, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Confluence, The Peninsula Collection, Chicago, IL
a person chosen, named, or honored…, PATRON, Chicago, IL
Bounty, Sargent’s Daughter, New York, NY
2025
Faktura/Tektonika, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp, Artists Space, New York, NY
Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni, Secrist Beach, Chicago,IL
When the Mountains Dance with the Ocean, Bode Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2024
It Never Entered My Mind, Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In The Know, Show, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Botany of Desire, Swivel Gallery, New York, NY
A Color Story, Cierra Britton Gallery, New York, NY
How Do We Know the World?, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2022
Grow in Haiti, Alpha Arts Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
All Together, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.
2021
Operation Varsity Blues, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2025
Silver Art Projects Residency, World Trade Center, New York, NY
2024
Helen Frakenthaler Award, Helen Frakenthaler Foundation
2023
New Artist Society Merit Scholar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Judith Zielinski Scholar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022
River Hill Art Residency, Ulster Park, NY
Presidential Merit Scholar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
The Gund Museum, Kenyon University, Gambier, OH
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL
PUBLIC TALKS/ LECTURES
2026
Lindsay Adams in Conversation with Sadaf Padder, New York, NY
Visiting Artist Lecturer, American University, Washington, D.C.
Orbiting Alma Thomas, Smart Museum.at EXPO Chicago, Chicago IL
In Living Memory: A conversation of African American Archives, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
2025
Speaker, Women & Power, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, MD
Panelist, Lindsay Adams in Conversation with Wu-Chi Tsung, Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Guest Lecturer, Black Joy and Critical Media, Syracuse University
2022
Panelist, Alpha Artist Alliance Exhibition Panel
2021
Panelist, Art Haus, Operation Varsity Blues Group Show Discussion
Panelist, The Artist’s Perspective: Navigating the Art World, Truth About Me Group Exhibition
Panelist, Women’s History Month: Artist Spotlight, Komuna Foundation
Panelist, Interbrand, Black Creativity Panel
Speaker, NPR, Life Kit Podcast
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Obama Presidential Center, Commissioned Artist, Chicago, IL
Held by Harriet, Commission Project, North Carolina Historic Sites, Edenton, North Carolina
SELECTED PRESS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Guide to the Artwork in the Obama Presidential Center. L’OFFICIEL
Rising Artist Lindsay Adams Captures Black Liberation Through Wild Abstraction. Artsy
The Freedom of Abstraction: Lindsay Adams. Permanent Daydream
Two Alums Bring Color and Creativity to the Obama Presidential Center. SAIC Magazine
Lindsay Adams & Caitlin Berry: in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu.” Everything is Connected
’What Do I Say If People Are Listening?’ Lindsay Adams on Art, Disability, and Advocacy.” AAPD
Lindsay Adams and Claudia M. Watts Collaborate for Ceremony at the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery.” Sugarcane
University of Richmond alum went from studying global systems to creating worlds on canvas. URNow
Art, jazz, and history merge for Lindsay Adams’ new exhibition, ‘Ceremony’. WAMU 88.5 American University Radio
Artist Lindsay Adams’s Paintings Set Liberation in Motion. W Magazine
’I Give Myself and My Painting Permission to Be’: In Conversation With Lindsay Adams.
Elephant Magazine
The Fluid Archive of Memory: Lindsay Adams at PATRON Gallery, Caira Moreira
New Obama Presidential Center Artist Commissions Include Lindsay Adams Painting Inspired by Langston Hughes Poem, Culture Type, 2025
Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams to create large-scale commissions for Obama Presidential Center, The Art Newspaper, 2025
Announcing the 2024-2025 Helen Frankenthaler Fellows, Nowscape, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, 2025
In Lindsay Adams’ Abstract Worlds, Color, Rhythm and Intuition Converge, The Observer, 2025
With ‘Keep Your Wonder Moving,’ Lindsay Adams Paints A Powerful Reflection Of The Present, Essence, 2025
Some Beginning Thoughts on Lindsay Adams’s Floral Paintings, SJC Writes, Dr. Sarah Cervanak, 2024
The Buford Highway Farmers Market, Southern Cultures 30, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 118-120
A Conversation with Lindsay Adams, Art Talks Podcast by Cerebral Women, 2024
Romanticizing What It Means to Be a Painter: with Lindsay Adams, Visionary Projects, 2024
Lindsay Adams’ Intimate Paintings Explore Place, Self, and Memory, National Gallery of Art, 2023
Painting at Peace, OG Magazine, Edition 07: Artistic Activism, 2022
Lindsay Adams is Reframing Black Identity, Soho House, 2022
Painter Lindsay Adams Has More Than ‘Two Things’ to Say, DCist, 2022
Amplifying Black Voices: Lindsay Adams, Facebook, 2021
Lindsay Adams, Featured Alumni, Doorways, Holton Arms School Alumni Magazine, 2021
Lindsay Adams, Featured Alumni, Doorways, Holton Arms School Alumni Magazine, 2020
Voices of Disability: I’m Young, Black, and Disabled – & This is What I Want You to Know, Refinery29, 2020