Abraham Adams (b. 1985, US) is an artist working at the intersection of literary and visual art, through artist’s books and projects structured by writing, across print, painting, and lens-based media.
He is the author of the artist’s books Ambulance Chasers (MIT Press, 2022, with a text by David Joselit), Nothing in MoMA (Punctum Books, 2018), and Before (Inpatient Press, 2016). His work has been exhibited at ASC Gallery (London), Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin), Knockdown Center (New York), and elsewhere. He holds a BA in Poetics and Rhetoric from Hampshire College, an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art.
Adams has taught at Brown, RISD, and the University of Florida, where his courses have addressed publishing practice for artists and the relationship between text and image. Writing on his work has appeared in Bomb, PIN-UP, and the Anthropology of Work Review.
A recent finalist for the Oxford Poetry Prize and a regular resident at the T. S. Eliot House, he has contributed poems and art criticism to The Baffler, Harper’s, Triple Canopy, Artforum, and Der Greif. Earlier in his career, he held editorial roles at Zone Books and Ugly Duckling Presse. With his wife, the historian Meg Weeks, he edits Time Farm Books, a press focused on new writing and artists’ books, launching in April 2026.