Gina Adams

Gina Adams (CO) spent her early youth in the San Francisco Bay area, and then her adolescent and early adult years in Maine. Adams’s formal education includes a BFA from the Maine College of Art and an MFA from the University of Kansas, where she focused on visual art, curatorial practice, and critical theory.

Adams’s cross-media, hybrid studio work includes the reuse of antique quilts and broken treaties between the United States and Native American tribes, sculpture, ceramics, painting, printmaking, and drawing. Her work is exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and resides in many public and private collections.

The noted international art critic Lucy Lippard wrote the introduction on Adams’s artwork for Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Its Honor Is Here Pledged, which launched her art career and body of work titled Broken Treaty Quilts into a new contemporary art arena in 2015. In 2016 she was a SARF Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and had her exhibition Its Honor Is Hereby Pledged shown at Boulder, Colorado, at Naropa University’s White Cube Gallery, where she is a faculty member in visual arts.

In the summer of 2017, Adams presented and exhibited at the AIW Conference at Goldsmiths, University of London, England, which was followed by an exhibition at the Bemis Center of Contemporary Art titled Monarchs, curated by Risa Puleo. 2018 brings many exciting opportunities for Adams including being Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, which includes a solo exhibition; a John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry residency; and several more.