Lauren Frances Adams was born in Snow Hill, North Carolina in 1979.

She spent her younger years on a hog farm with her favorite pet, a Nubian goat, Nanette. She received her high school diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and a BFA in art history and studio art (painting/mixed media) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After college she worked as a mural painter and artist's assistant and had a residency in Raleigh, NC, and did some traveling in Mexico and Europe (where she studied fiesta rituals and contemporary art, of course). This is when she became interested in camera obscuras and the psychic space of domesticity.

She gained her Masters of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in May of 2007 and received the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, which allowed her to spend a summer traveling to Documenta XII and the Venice Biennale.

Adams has exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte; the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; an ex-Turkish bathhouse in Belgrade, Serbia; Fraction Workspace in Chicago, IL., Branch Gallery in Carrboro/Durham, N.C.; and the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. She has collaborated on a number of projects involving performance, video, sculpture and camera obscuras. She also initiated and fostered the TAI+LEE Gallery from 2005-2007, which you can view by clicking on the above link.

She is continually in search of the best pecan pie recipes.

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Lauren (at) lfadams (dot) com