He was born in 1961 in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and children. He attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for his understudies, where he obtained a BFA with honors in 1983. In 2000 he earned an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Adams’ work is represented in the permanent public collections of Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo, Brazil), Museum of Modern Art Library (New York), MOMA (Wales) and in Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, among others. He is currently working with several galleries: Jonathan LeVine Projects (Jersey City, NJ) David Klein Gallery (Birmingham, MI), Zolla Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), Philip Slein Gallery (St. Louis) Sirona Fine Art (Miami FL) and Lamensch-Douglas Fine Art (Lyon, France).