Yura Adams is a painter and installation artist who imagines a world drawn from the poetry of nature. She paints in an industrial building on a farm in Western Massachusetts.

Solo exhibitions include: Olympia (New York, NY, 2022); NADA New York (2022); LABspace (Hillsdale, NY, 2022); John Davis Gallery (Hudson, NY, 2019). Recent group shows include: Turley Gallery (Hudson, NY, 2023); Woodstock Art Museum (Woodstock, NY, 2021); Albany Airport (Albany, NY, 2021).

Adams has been awarded the Peter S. Reed Foundation (2022); Drawing Center Viewing Program (2021); Pollock-Krasner Grant (2019); Berkshire Taconic Foundation (2017), New York State Council on the Arts (2010), New York Foundation of the Arts Mark Program (2009); National Endowment for the Arts (1985).

In the early part of her career in New York City, Adams presented her work in locations such as Just Above Midtown, City Gallery, The New Museum, Experimental Intermedia, Franklin Furnace, and FOTO Gallery. Her degrees were both earned at the San Francisco Art Institute: BFA (1975) and MFA (1980).

Yura Adams, Warm, Dark and Roaring, Olympia, 2022.