Lisa Adams is a Los Angeles artist, working in painting, installation, video and public art. Ms. Adams graduated in Painting from Scripps College in Claremont, California and received her M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University in 1980. She has taught at many reputed art departments throughout the Los Angeles area and abroad, such as USC, Otis College of Art and Design, Claremont Graduate University, UC Riverside, UCLA Extension and the University of Ljubljana. She currently conducts workshops and teaches privately.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. 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 R. Weisman Museum and the Laguna Museum of Art.

Ms. Adams has been an artist-in-residence in Slovenia, Finland, Japan, Holland and Costa Rica. In 1993 She was commissioned by BMW of North America to paint an Art Car. She also works as part of a collaborative art team, "the apocalypse twins" (www.apoctwins.org), with artist Jill Giegerich. She is currently working on a public art commission for the new Fire Station No. 64 in Watts.

In addition to her practice as an artist, Ms. Adams works as an independent curator, who in 2000, co-founded and co-directed 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, which includes her teaching assignments given at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture during the years 1997-1999.