Alexander Adams is a British artist and writer. He studied fine art and history of art at Goldsmiths College, London. His art has been exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), National Museum (Cardiff), Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool) and other museums. His art criticism has been published in The Burlington Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Sculpture Journal, The Jackdaw, The British Art Journal, Apollo, Printmaking Today, Print Quarterly and other outlets. His poetry has been published in anthologies, broadsides and single-author volumes in the UK and USA. He was artist-in-residence at the Albers Foundation, Connecticut, in 2011. Alexander Adams is the recipient of the 2018 Artist Scholarship from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, Monaco. He lives in England.
Adams has risked his reputation, perhaps career, with this withering dissection of the art world's well-connected... Those who have a genuine interest in the future of fine arts should acquaint themselves with this passionate and powerful argument. -- Derek Turner * Bournbrook * Artivism... warns of a serious threat to our public museums from the creeping politicisation of their programmes... Adams has done his research, and he knows his stuff. -- Laura Gascoigne * The Jackdaw *