Meet the Artists

Lindsay Adams (b. 1990, Washington, D.C.) is a writer and painter whose work spans traditional mediums, rooted in abstraction, gesture, and layered mark-making. Drawing from her background in international studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology, Adams approaches her practice with critical insight into the complexities of social dynamics and identity. She holds B.A.s in International Studies and Spanish from the University of Richmond and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Embracing her intersectional identity, Adams’s work reflects both personal and collective histories, while foregrounding imagination as a tool for navigating memory, place, and liberation. Her current body of work explores the balance between the known and the possible, constructing imagined ecologies where color, texture, and rhythm engage in continuous dialogue. She alternates between abstraction and representation, layering gesture and wash to build paintings that function as portals—fluid, expansive, and deeply embodied.

Her work has been shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., and is held in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Northwestern Law School. She is the recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Award (2024) and the New Artist Society Merit Award (2023). Recent solo exhibitions include Keep Your Wonder Moving at Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, and All water has a perfect memory at Patron Gallery, Chicago. In 2025, Adams was commissioned by the Obama Presidential Center for a public installation titled Weary Blues, reimagining one of her gem-colored abstract paintings in conversation with the poetry of Langston Hughes.