Lu Adami (b. 1997, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Rhode Island. They are an culturally responsive artist and educator whose work contemplates godhood in a world that remembers.
EDUCATION
May 2025 Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
May 2021 Master of Science in Education, Boarding School Teaching Residency University of Pennsylvania
May 2019 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts with Honors Brown University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND RESIDENCIES
DEEPDARK, sidebitch project space, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
Threadlines, Swana Rose Culture & Community Center, Portland, OR, 2025
Other Horizons, juried group show, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada, 2025
My god, how happy I am that you never worshipped me, duo show, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA, 2024
Hands, Nails, Seeds, curatorial project, SMFA Atrium, Boston, MA, 2024
Queertopia, juried group show, Pianocraft Gallery, Boston, MA, 2024
Entwined: Visual and Textual Narratives, juried group show, Mosesian Art Center, Watertown, MA, 2024
Seeding the Future, Artist-in-Residence, Boston, MA, 2023-2024
Where Do We Come From and Where Do We Go?, juried group show, Boston University and Goethe Institute, Boston, MA, 2024
Fresh Faces, juried group show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA, 2024
Party of One, group show, Anderson Auditorium, Boston, MA, 2023
First Rodeo, invited group show, Office Space Gallery, Ferndale, MI, 2022
Exhibition of Armenian Artists, invited group show, St. Gregory Armenian Church, Chicago, IL, 2021
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND TRAINING
“Reweaving Craft Traditions To Center TGNC Identities” Main Presenter, Tufts University, LGBT Center, 2024
Graduate Research Excellence At Tufts Participant, Tufts University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2024
"Global Perspectives towards Individual Representations” Workshop Facilitator, Tufts University, Fletcher School CGIA, 2023
Action Research Cohort, Tang Institute, 2022
“Another Kind of Transition: Centering Trans and Nonbinary Students as 9th and 12th Graders” Session Presenter, Tang Institute Conference, 2022
“Best Practices for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Genderqueer Employees and Students” Session Presenter, AISNE DEIJ Conference, 2021
Racial Equity Facilitator Training, Equity Literacy Institute, 2020
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025 - current The Gordon School, After School Program & Middle School
2025 - 2026 Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2021 - 2023 Milton Academy, Upper and Middle School Faculty Member