BIO
Adam Lofbomm is a visual artist who works primarily in photographic-based mixed media. A Nashville, Tennessee native, Adam grew up with two artist/artisans for parents, but is otherwise self-taught. After heading out into the wider world, he spent his next two decades in Annapolis, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seoul.
During the decade he was living and working in Korea, he founded and directed Laughing Tree Gallery and Laughing Tree LAB, two alternative art/performance spaces.
Seeking a faster path to realizing the images in his mind, Adam shifted from painting to photographic-based work around 2005 and almost immediately gravitated toward a process of capturing and juxtaposing abstracted details from the urban environment.
During a Seoul Museum of Art residency in 2010, he began incorporating video projections of street art onto human bodies into his work and focused on this approach for the next seven years.
In recent years, he’s been crafting work akin to visual hip-hop: Adam samples and remixes structures and textures he collects from his environment— old is blended with new, sacred with profane, high culture with low.
Adam now lives and works with his wife, Ashlinn, and cat, Ziggy Stardust, in Turin, Italy. Adam is forever wandering and shooting around his new favorite city.
Artist Statements
CV/Resume
EDUCATION/RESIDENCY
1997-2000 - St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD - Philosophy, Classics
2006-2017 - DePaul University, Chicago, IL - Creative Arts Business
2011 - Seoul Museum of Arts Nanji Studio Residency (February-March)
CREATIVE DIRECTION
2010 - Owner and Curator of six exhibitions at Laughing Tree Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 - Co-organizer of DRIPAN Art Walk & Psnap Snaps art events
2011-2012 - Owner and Curator of seven exhibitions at Laughing Tree LAB, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 - UNIQUE - Two-man show with J. Tetrick at Owl Bus, Seoul, Korea
2009 - UNTITLED - Group show at Hair of the Dog, Nashville, USA
2010 - URBAN EXCERPTS - Solo show at Laughing Tree Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 - Nudes Renaissance - Group show at Myeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 - Yongsan International Art Exhibition at Yongsan Culture Hall, Seoul, Korea
2010 - DRIPAN Art Walk - Group show at Noksapyeong District, Seoul, Korea
2011 - Where are All the Heroes? - Group show at Gallery DOT, Ulsan, Korea
2011 - Psnap Snaps - Group show at Stereo Hongdae, Seoul, Korea
2011 - IN VITRO - Group show at Laughing Tree LAB, Seoul, Korea
2011- Korea International Arts Festival - Solo show at Gallery Ohoo, Seoul, Korea
2011 - Seoulmundae - Group show at Laughing Tree LAB, Seoul, Korea
2011 - Erotic Fantasies - IAC Group show at Blind Spot, Seoul, Korea
2015 - Mirror, Mirror - Artist Network Korea show at Gallery M, Seoul, Korea
2016 - A Thin Line - Group show at Studio Oh!, Chicago, USA
2017 - Aspects of the Whole - 4-person show at Studio Oh!, Chicago, USA
During the last five years, I experienced a lot of upheaval and change in my life, including moving from one side of the globe to the other, three times. I was often without a steady studio space and Instagram became my art refuge.