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Abraham Adams (b. 1985, US) is an artist and writer working at the intersection of literary and visual art, through artist’s books, text as visual material, and projects structured through writing. He is the author of the artist’s books Ambulance Chasers (MIT Press, 2022, with a text by David Joselit), Nothing in MoMA (Punctum Books, 2018), and Before (Inpatient Press, 2016). His work has been exhibited at ASC Gallery (London), Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin), Knockdown Center (New York), and elsewhere.
He holds a BA from Hampshire College, an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, and has taught at Brown, RISD, and the University of Florida. In 2026–27 he is a Visitor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Writing on his work has appeared in Bomb, PIN-UP, and the Anthropology of Work Review. A returning resident at the T. S. Eliot House, he is a regular contributor to Artforum, and his writing has also appeared in The Baffler, Harper’s, Triple Canopy, McSweeney’s, and Der Greif. With his wife, the historian Meg Weeks, he edits Time Farm Books, a press focused on new writing and artist’s books.