Marina Adams has developed a dynamic practice of clear and powerful abstract language that centers around exploring the possibilities of form and movement while displaying the structural power of color. The curator Helga Christoffersen said that her work “demands silence, enabling us to think and dream and create space.” Rather than a purely optical matter, the artist understands painting as the manifestation of intangibles such as temperament, sensibility, intellect, and research. Her work draws inspiration from the natural world, music, textiles, architecture, and poetry and engages in a persistent dialogue with art historical predecessors such as Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Alma Thomas, Willem de Kooning, and Hilma af Klint.
 
Adams is based in Bridgehampton, New York City, and the hills outside of Parma, Italy. She earned degrees from Tyler School of Art at Temple University (Philadelphia), and Columbia University (New York). She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016) and the Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2018). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, TX), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, NY), and Longlati Foundation (Shanghai). 
 
Past solo exhibitions include Cosmic Repair, Timothy Taylor, New York (2025); The Art of Living Slowly and Mother Tongue, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (2025, 2023); Marina Adams, Devals x Salon 94, Paris (2024); To a World Full of Others and Flower Power, Von Bartha, Basel and Copenhagen (2024, 2022); In the Garden of My Memory, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai (2023); What Are You Listening To?, LGDR, New York (2022); Wild Is Its Own Way, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2021); Focus: Marina Adams, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2020); and Anemones and Soft Power, Salon 94, New York (2019, 2017).

Adams has collaborated with poets Norma Cole, Charles Bernstein, Vincent Katz, Leslie Scalapino and Christian Prigent and has published prints with TwoPalms NY, ULAE, Niels Borch Jensen Copenhagen and VanDeb Editions.

For Adams' full CV, see pdf attachment in top right corner.