Emily Davis Adams

Biography: Emily Davis Adams is a visual artist dedicated to representational painting, its various technical histories, and its continued relevance as a vehicle for meaning and critical thought. Her practice often weaves together investigations of cutting edge technologies such as generative artificial intelligence with references to art history. Adams attended UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and UC Berkeley, where she studied in both the Department of Art Practice and the College of Natural Resources and was awarded a Townsend Center for the Humanities mentorship grant for a research project exploring the early depiction of science and scientists in European drawings and paintings. Her studies have included technical training in traditional academic figurative painting as well as in the practice of the Byzantine iconographic tradition through an apprenticeship with a monk. She holds a BS from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in New York City, where she was also awarded the 2011 Postgraduate Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed in several publications including the Los Angeles Times and Artillery Magazine. She has taught at Queens College in New York City, Sonoma State University and Stanford University, among others. Adams is currently based in the Bay Area.