RECENT NEWS
9/15/24 Macau work featured in the South China Morning Post
10/7/24 Interview and profile in the Macao News
BIO
In addition to exhibiting internationally, Adam’s photographic work has been seen in publications including Art in America, The Boston Globe, Camera Austria and the South China Morning Post. He is a recipient of a William J. Fulbright fellowship to Macau, SAR, China and a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant. He currently is Associate Professor of Studio Arts and Chair at Stonehill College in Easton, MA.
EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, Massachusetts College of Art
BA, Colorado College
AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant, 2022
William J. Fulbright Grant, Macao, SAR China, 2006-07
Visiting Scholar Faculty of Sociology, University of Macao 2015, 2019
The Print Center, The Society for Photographic Education Award, 2018
St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award, 2008
Finalist, Lange-Taylor Prize, CDS, 2008
Photolucida, Critical Mass Finalist, 2008
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant, Finalist, 2007
Visiting Fellow of Sociology and Humanities, University of Macao 2006-07
TEACHING
2007-PRESENT
Associate Professor and Chair of Visual and Performing Arts, Stonehill College, Easton,MA
previously
Emerson College
Massachusetts College of Art
Tufts/ Experimental College
Rhode Island College
Massachusetts College of Art- Continuing Education
Art Institute of Boston
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
The Print Center, 92nd Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA
Materiality | | The Matter of the Matter, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine
Selected Video Pieces, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine
MASSMocA, Assets for Artists, Juried Artist Residency
Field Study, Filter Photo at David Weinberg Photography, Chicago, Il
Photography Now, Cambridge Art Asc., Cambridge, MA
DYI: Photographers and Books, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Nothing Serious Can Happen Here, Solo Exhibition, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
City of Dreams, Solo Exhibition, Montserrat College of Art
St. Botolph Foundation Award Show, Boston, MA
Annual Juried Auction, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
What Remains, Two-Person Exhibition (with Milee Tibbs), Cushing Martin Gallery Stonehill College, North Easton, MA
Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
A4 Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Solo Exhibition, Boston, MA
Bernard Toale Gallery/ Boston Drawing Project, Boston, MA
Humble Arts Foundation, Group Exhibition #25, humbleartsfoundation.org
NEO, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Uncommon Denominator, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
ArtHouse, Jamaica Plain, MA
Annual Juried Auction, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Toledo Friends of Photography National Juried Exhibition, University of Toledo
GroundingWork, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Insights, MCC Finalist Exhibition, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
Belonging, Creative Macau, SAR China
Work in Progress, Solo Exhibition, University of Macao, SAR China
Culpepper Gallery, Solo Exhibition, New York, NY
Connections, Studio Montclair National Juried Exhibition, Montclair, NJ
Nothing to be Done, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
Nothing to be Done, E3 Gallery, New York, NY
Art House, Walk Hill, Jamaica Plain, MA
Fort Point Channel Open Studios, Boston, MA
Frances N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Closer In, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
The Pittsfield Project, Storefront Artists Galleries, Pittsfield, MA
The Pittsfield Project, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
SELECTED PRESS/ PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES
Tourist Utopias:Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries, Timothy Simpson (ed.), Amsterdam Press 2020, images to accompany essays
Hack and Handsaw, Unity College, Online Journal and Exhibit, 2018
https:// hawkandhandsaw.unity.edu/tag/adam-lampton/
Fast Capitalism, “Macau Noir: Criminal Brotherhoods, Casino Capitalism, and the Case of the Post-Socialist Chinese Consumer”, issue 8.1, www.fastcapitalism.com, November 2011
Space and Culture, “Macao Monuments: In Art, in Poetry, and in Your Face”, January 2011
Art in America, review, September 2010
Camera Austria, feature in Forum, December 2010, issue #112
The Boston Globe, review, “Stop motion Discourse”, Section ‘g’, March 10, 2010
The Boston Globe, editor’s pick, calendar, March 16, 2010
Boston Magazine, “Threshold: Editor’s Pick”, Spring 2010
Tourist Studies, “ Materialist pedagogy: The function of themed environments in post-socialist consumption in Macao”, 2010
World Architecture, “Macao’s Mediterranean Motifs”, #234, Dec. 2009
Environment and Planning, “Macao, Capital of the 21st Century?”, Dec. 2008
Macau Closer, interview, November 2007
Ponto Final, “No interior da paisagem”, feature, March 22, 2007
Polar Inertia Journal, Macao portfolio, March/April 2007
Art in America, “Down East”, May 2006
Photographs, featured artist, Fall 2006
Maisonneuve, ‘Cities Issue’, Photo Essay, December 2005
COLLECTIONS
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Cleveland Museum of Art library, Cleveland, OH
University of Macau, Macao, SAR, China
Hudson Bay Company, New York, New York