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 the recipient of a William J. Fulbright fellowship to Macau, SAR, China, and a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant. His 2024 photographic monograph, Nothing Serious Can Happen Here, was a finalist for the Lucie First Book Prize. He is Professor of Studio Arts at Stonehill College in Easton, MA.

studio@adamlampton.com

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Photography, Massachusetts College of Art

BA, English, Colorado College

 

AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS

11/7/24 “Nothing Serious Can Happen Here” named among the finalist for the Lucie Book Prize

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

Visiting Fellow of Sociology and Humanities, University of Macao 2006-07

 

TEACHING

2007-PRESENT

Professor of Studio Arts, Stonehill College, Easton,MA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

The Print Center, 92nd Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA

Materiality: The Matter of the Matter, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME

Selected Video Pieces, ongoing artist video feature, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME

MASS MoCA, Assets for Artists, Juried Artist Residency

Field Study, Filter Photo at David Weinberg Photography, Chicago, IL

Photography Now, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

DIY: 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, Beverly, MA

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, Toledo, OH

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

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

“They Created a Vegas in 10 Years, “Macao work featured in the Guardian, October, 2025

9/15/24 Macau work featured in the South China Morning Post

10/7/24 Interview and profile in the Macao News

Hack and Handsaw, Unity College, online journal and exhibit, 2018.

Art in America, review, September 2010.

Camera Austria, feature in Forum, Issue 112, December 2010.

The Boston Globe, “Stop Motion Discourse,” exhibition review, Section G, March 10, 2010.

The Boston Globe, editor’s pick, calendar, March 16, 2010.

Boston Magazine, “Threshold: Editor’s Pick,” Spring 2010.

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,” featured exhibition, May 2006.

Photographs, featured artist, Fall 2006.

Maisonneuve, “Cities Issue,” photo essay, December 2005.

 

Photographs accompanied…

Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries, Timothy Simpson (ed.), Amsterdam Press, 2020. Cover and interior photographs.

Fast Capitalism, “Macau Noir: Criminal Brotherhoods, Casino Capitalism, and the Case of the Post-Socialist Chinese Consumer,” Issue 8.1, November 2011.

Space and Culture, “Macao Monuments: In Art, in Poetry, and in Your Face,” January 2011.

Tourist Studies, “Materialist Pedagogy: The Function of Themed Environments in Post-Socialist Consumption in Macao,” 2010.

World Architecture, “Macao’s Mediterranean Motifs,” Issue 234, December 2009.

Environment and Planning, “Macao, Capital of the 21st Century?,” December 2008.

 

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