Vee Adams

New Orleans, Louisiana

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Vee Adams

Vee Adams sits in a wooden chair with their hands resting in their lap, and smiles warmly towards us. Vee is white with short black hair dyed yellow at the top and front, and wears a black short-sleeved button up over a fishnet material, with green and white checkered paints. Behind are tiled prints showing magnified fungus structures in green.

Vee Adams is an artist from New Orleans working at the intersection of print, zine, and installation to envision queer/trans futures. They are currently a co-curator of the Queer Ecology Hanky Project, an ongoing traveling print exhibition with interdisciplinary programming, featuring over 120 artists. Adams has shown their work at galleries across the US, including the Carrack Modern Art Gallery (NC), the Brewhouse Gallery (PA), and the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans (LA). They have attended residencies at institutions such as Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), Penland School of Crafts (NC), and La Ceiba Gráfica (Veracruz, MX). They received their Masters in Fine Arts at the University of New Orleans (UNO).

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2026

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In my practice, I explore the eccentric livelihoods of the more-than-human world—the everyday alchemy of the life cycles of fungi, the radical transformations of microorganisms, and the resilience of lichens. As a trans and queer person, I’ve been thinking about what happens when the body is reframed as a landscape—a site of inevitable growth and change—and communities are re-envisioned as ecosystems—vital and multi-species networks.”