Abraham Adams (b. 1985, Virginia, US) is an American artist working in conceptual photography and sculpture. Drawing on marginal imagery and display infrastructure, his series address the conceptual and physical frames that prepare the scene of looking.
His artwork has been exhibited at the Royal College of Art in London, Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin, and Knockdown Center in New York. He is the author of several artist’s books, including Ambulance Chasers (MIT Press, 2022, with a text by David Joselit) and Nothing in MoMA (Punctum Books, 2018). A graduate of Hampshire College (BA, Poetics and Rhetoric, 2009), Brown University (MFA, Literary Arts, 2020), and the Royal College of Art (MA, Photography, 2023), he has taught at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Time Farm is a studio advancing projects that investigate conditions of belief about selfhood, personhood, and the structure of experience as manifest in vernacular modes of reading and creating images.
How to cultivate time rather than merely bank or speculate on it? What would the temporal equivalent of animal husbandry be; a kind of ecology of time appropriate for an era in which attention functions as a kind of currency? —David Joselit on Time Farm