FREDERIKA ADAM
(b. 1970) New York, New York lives and works in the Bay Area, Grenada & London.
Frederika Adam was born in New York City in 1970. She lives and works in the Bay Area, California, London, UK and Grenada, West Indies.
Her undergraduate studies were in Fine Art (Painting and Photography) and Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor followed by graduate studies in Art History in Italian Renaissance Art at the University of St Andrews and Post-War British Art at Linacre College, University of Oxford.
Adam’s photography captures light, form, color and texture abstracted to reveal something exceptional in the everyday environment. She does not use any manipulation of the image and produces rich, matte prints on a large scale (minimum 24x36”) to immerse the viewer in an experience that pushes and pulls between photographic realism and painterly abstraction.
Her botanical works bring together the artist’s visual pursuit with the scientific understanding of what we are seeing. These neurobotanical images demonstrate “that the creative and technical mind are far from mutually exclusive and capable of producing extraordinary results.”[1]
Her most recent exhibitions have been in the Venice Biennale Art 2024 and Venice Biennale Architecture 2025:
In 2024 she represented Grenada at the 60th Venice Biennale and this year her project “Natural Intelligence” on plant intelligence was selected for the 19th Venice Biennale Architecture “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective” main exhibition curated by Carlo Ratti.
[1] Professor Dennis Geronimus on Maria Sibylla Merian in “By Herself: Women Artists in Early Modern Europe”, Spring 2025, New York University, New York.
Her undergraduate studies were in Fine Art (Painting and Photography) and Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor followed by graduate studies in Art History in Italian Renaissance Art at the University of St Andrews and Post-War British Art at Linacre College, University of Oxford.
Adam’s photography captures light, form, color and texture abstracted to reveal something exceptional in the everyday environment. She does not use any manipulation of the image and produces rich, matte prints on a large scale (minimum 24x36”) to immerse the viewer in an experience that pushes and pulls between photographic realism and painterly abstraction.
Her botanical works bring together the artist’s visual pursuit with the scientific understanding of what we are seeing. These neurobotanical images demonstrate “that the creative and technical mind are far from mutually exclusive and capable of producing extraordinary results.”[1]
Her most recent exhibitions have been in the Venice Biennale Art 2024 and Venice Biennale Architecture 2025:
In 2024 she represented Grenada at the 60th Venice Biennale and this year her project “Natural Intelligence” on plant intelligence was selected for the 19th Venice Biennale Architecture “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective” main exhibition curated by Carlo Ratti.
[1] Professor Dennis Geronimus on Maria Sibylla Merian in “By Herself: Women Artists in Early Modern Europe”, Spring 2025, New York University, New York.