About the Artist

Lauren Frances Adams holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. Adams' work engages political and social histories through iconic images and architectural ornament. She has exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; The Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA; Nymans House National Trust, Sussex, United Kingdom, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA; Conner Contemporary, Washington, DC; and CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in New York, among other residencies in Paris and England.

Adams is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant award. And in 2014 was a Sondheim Artscape Prize finalist, where she exhibited at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. Recent solo exhibitions include EXPO Chicago 2012, Chicago, IL and at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO. Her work is currently on view at American University's Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. She is a member of Ortega y Gasset Projects in New York, NY.