Lauren Frances Adams, chair of the Painting Department at Maryland Institute College of Art, studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received her BFA from UNC-Chapel Hill and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.  Her awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, the Trawick Prize, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. 

Her work has been exhibited across the United States at museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces, with a recent 2021 project at the Baltimore Museum of Art.  Her work has been reviewed in Frieze Magazine, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Artslant, and Hyperallergic. Lauren is a founding member of Ortega y Gasset Projects, a project space in New York. Her work explores political and social histories through iconic images and domestic ornament, rooted in her experiences growing up on a farm in the American South and inspired by her belief in the need for reckoning with the past in order to understand the present.  www.lfadams.com