Jamie Adams

JAMIE ADAMS

Jamie Adams (born 1961) is an American painter. He was born and raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For his undergraduate studies he attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he obtained a BFA with honors in 1983. In 2000, he earned an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

His work is represented in the permanent public collections of Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo, Brazil), Museum of Modern Art Library (New York), MOMA (Wales), Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Medrad Corporation, and the Pennsylvania Capitol Building (Senate, House of Representatives, Governor's office). Academic institutions include Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Michigan Medical School, and Washington University in Saint Louis.

His work has been cited internationally in publications such as Art in America, Bulletin du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France), and the book Fragonard, Regards croisés, co-authored by Louvre curators Dimitri Salmon and Jean-Pierre Cuzin (Département des Peintures, Musée du Louvre).