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, she approaches her practice with critical insight into social dynamics and identity. Adams 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 personal and collective histories while foregrounding imagination as a tool for navigating memory, place, and liberation. Her recent work explores the tension between the known and the possible, constructing imagined ecologies where color, texture, and rhythm remain in active dialogue.
Her work has been exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art and 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, she was commissioned by the Obama Presidential Center for Weary Blues, a public installation in dialogue with the poetry of Langston Hughes and is currently an Artist-in-Residence with Silver Art Projects.