NY Series (Etchings) Bistre, 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 in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York City and Parma, Italy. She earned degrees from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Columbia University, New York, NY.

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.

Past solo exhibitions include Cosmic Repair, Timothy Taylor, New York, NY (2025); The Art of Living Slowly, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (2025); Devals x Salon 94, Paris, France (2024); To a World Full of Others, von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland (2024); In the Garden of My Memory, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China (2023); Mother Tongue, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany; (2023); Flower Power, Von Bartha, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); What Are You Listening To?, LGDR, New York, NY (2022); Wild Is Its Own Way, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2021); Deep Breathing, Von Bartha, S-Chanf, Switzerland (2021); FOCUS: Marina Adams, The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2020); Soft Power and Anemones, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY(2017; 2019); and The Secret of Greek Grammar, Larsen Warner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2019). She is in the public collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, NY), Longlati Foundation (Shanghai, China), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, TX) and Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), among others. She is a 2016 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and received the 2018 Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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.