Jamie Adams

Jamie Adams was born and raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For undergraduate studies he attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1983. In 2000, he earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. 

Adams’ work can be found in the permanent collections of the Woodmere Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the MOMA Library, MOMA Wales, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo, Brazil), the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pennsylvania Capitol Building, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, and Washington University in St. Louis. 

Awards and residencies include the Violette deMazia Scholarship (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa.) the Cité Internationale des Arts residency (Paris, France) and the Ragdale Foundation (Chicago, Ill.). 

His work has been cited internationally in publications such as “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” (Robert Zeller, Phaidon, 2024), “The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture” (Margaret McCann, Skira Rizzoli, 2014), and “Fragonard, Regards croisés” (Jean-pierre Cuzin, Dimitri Salmon / Département des Peintures, Musée du Louvre, 2007). Other publications include Art in America, Bulletin du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France), Blisss Magazine, Novembre Magazine, the Huffington Post, Just Magazine, and Hi-Fructose Magazine.