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Lisa Adams is a painter and public artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Adams graduated with a B.A. in Painting from Scripps College in Claremont, California and received her M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University.

She is the recipient of a Fulbright Professional Scholar Award, a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship and a Durfee ARC Grant. Her work is in the collections of Eli Broad, The Frederick Weisman Museum, The Laguna Museum of Art and many other public and private collections.

She has taught in established art departments throughout the Los Angeles area and abroad, including the University of Southern California, the Claremont Graduate University, Otis College of Art & Design and the University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Slovenia.

In addition to her practice as an artist, Ms. Adams works as an independent curator, who in 2000, co-founded Crazy Space, an alternative exhibition space, in Santa Monica. She is also the author of “FM*,” (Peeps Island Press, 1999) a How To book about painting, based on her teachings at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture between 1997-1999.

Ms. Adams has been an artist-in-residence in Slovenia, Finland, Japan, Holland and Costa Rica and has exhibited nationally and internationally. In the 1990’s BMW of North America commissioned the artist to paint an ArtCar. She has also been included in “A Day in the Life of the American Woman, “ Bullfinch Press, 2005, and has recently completed a public art commission for the new Fire Station No. 64 in Watts.

Her work is represented in Los Angeles by Lawrence Asher Gallery and in San Francisco by Michael Rosenthal Gallery.