Born in Baltimore, MD in 1970, Derrick Adams lives and works in New York. Select exhibitions include: The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2021); SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Savannah, GA (2020–2021); Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (2020); Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia (2020); The Gallery in Baltimore City Hall, MD (2019); the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018). Textures: Kent State University Museum, NY (2021–2022); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (2020), Seattle Art Museum, WA (2021); National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH (2019), traveled to Washington State History Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Tacoma, WA (2019–2020); and Performa, New York (2015, 2013, 2005). Public collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Birmingham Museum of Art, among many others.