NY Series (Etchings) Carmine Red, 2022

Adams applies her painterly sensibility found in her practice to unconventional methods of printmaking that highlight her fluid, rhythmic mark-making.

Marina Adams is a painter based between New York City and Parma, Italy. She received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and her MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts, New York. 

Adams’ work has been the subject numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Past solo exhibitions include To a World Full of Others, at von Bartha in Basel, Switzerland (2024); In the Garden of My Memory at Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China (2023); Mother Tongue at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin Germany, (2023); Flower Power at Von Bartha Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); What Are You Listening To?, LGDR, New York, NY (2022); Wild Is Its Own Way, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2021); Focus: Marina Adams, The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2020) Anemones (2019), Soft Power (2017) Salon 94 Bowery, NYC.  In 2016, Adams presented a solo booth with Karma Gallery and Books at the Independent Art Fair, NYC, concurrent with their publication of her book, Portrait and a Dream.

In 2017, Adams was invited by Larissa Goldston to work at ULAE. She has since applied her painterly sensibility to produce a series of monoprints that incoporate both new technology and traditional printmaking techniques.