NAME: Robert Adams
BIRTH PLACE: Maryland
BIOGRAPHY
Robert D. Adams is originally from Maryland. He recently earned his MFA at the University of Oregon with a Phillip Halley Johnson Scholarship and Ralph Baker Painting Award. Robert’s work has been included in over thirty exhibitions in the northwest and around the U.S., including shows at the Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery; the Viridian Artists Gallery in Manhattan; the Saville Gallery in Cumberland, Maryland; and the Roseville Arts Center in Roseville, CA. Jurors selecting his work have come from institutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, as well as from galleries including Elizabeth Leach in Portland, Howard House in Seattle, and Charles Cowles in New York. Images of Robert’s work have appeared in the Eugene Weekly, Seattle Weekly, Art Access, and Artweek magazine. His cartoons and illustrations have won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, and Student Affairs.com. They have been featured in the Oregon Daily Emerald in Eugene, the Cass Lake Times and Northern Herald in Minnesota, and in King Features Syndicate’s “New Breed” feature.
