Adam Thorman

Photographer

Adam Thorman (b. 1981, Berkeley, CA) is an artist, photographer and educator based in Oakland, CA who makes photographs, books, and installations. He is interested in the scale and wildness of the landscape abstracted and how considering that landscape puts our own lives in perspective. He received his BFA in Photography from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2003 and his MFA from Arizona State University in 2009. His work has been exhibited locally, including at Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Martina}{Johnston Gallery, and Root Division, and nationally, including at the Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, Pictura Gallery in Bloomington, IN and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. His work is in the permanent collection of SFMOMA. He has taught at Prescott College in Arizona, Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division, Continuing Education department at City College of San Francisco, workshops at Kala Art Institute and he is currently teaching photography and is the Art Department Chair at The Athenian School in Danville, CA.