Born in Longview Texas, Lives and works in Brooklyn

Education
2000 Master in Fine Arts Washington University in St. Louis
1996 BFA Calvin College

Solo Exhibitions
2013
Signals & Reflectors Sojourn Gallery, Louisville, KY
2012
The (Sacred) Void, First Things, New York, NY
2011
Wayne Adams: New Works, Union University, Jackson, TN


Exhibitions – Group

2015
The Flat Files Year Three TSA, Brooklyn, NY
Dangling Carrots Sojourn Gallery, Louisville, KY
50/50 Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Sixty Minutes Vanity Projects, Miami, FL

2014
An Aberrant View Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Wayne Adams is Speaking in Tongues: a show of objects and images organized by the unrelenting voice of interpretation Barrington Center for the Arts, Wenham, MA
15 Artists in Black and White Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Come To the Table CIVA traveling exhibition

2013
Works Off Canvas Denny Gallery, New York, NY
Emerging Collectors The Montauk Beach House, Montauk, NY
These Guys: A Tribute to Guy Chase Greenville College, Greenville, OH
Revelations: Interrogating the Sacred Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL

2012
Art From the Boros Denise Bibro, Brooklyn, NY
The Ballot Show Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Yudh Abyhas A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY
The Big Show 7 Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Dead in August Present Company, Brooklyn, NY

2011
Dead in August The Pentagon, Brooklyn, NY
Control Alt Delete HKJB, Brooklyn, NY
Obstacle The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY

2010
Configuration Calvin College 106 Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Art/Value/Currency The Pigeon Wing Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, London, UK
Adams | Miracle STOREFRONT Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Born to Die Secondhome Projects / Temp IX, Berlin, Germany
International Arts Movement commissioned installation for Encounter 10, New York, NY
Portable Caves HKJB, Long Island City, NY
Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS, Zeiher Smith Gallery, NY

2009
Quality ServiceThe Cooper Union, New York, NY

2008
I AM NOT A MACHINE: This life is not the last painting New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY
The Strange Place” Alogon Gallery, Chicago
Art and Text: Images, Concepts, And Insights CIVA traveling exhibition
Alumni Photography Exhibition Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 

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