Adam Chamy

Expressionist artist and writer Adam Chamy explores sleep, wonder, and the otherworldly by rigorously reworking found materials, mundane visual references, and observations of time into unique mixed media works. He draws inspiration from his own intersectional identities as queer and Palestinian and deep fascination with wonder including its’ relationship with the mythic and the otherworldly. The resulting works range from minimal watercolor explorations of identity or place to highly layered collages of human and landscapes studying time or memory. All typically incorporating written narrative or short flash fictions. As an artist focused on feeling, the wide breadth of style and form - visual art, architecture or writing- is employed in service of the emotional language or subject matter behind the paintings rather than to one style and convention.

M.S. Architecture / Urban Planning

2024 Exhibitor, From the Earth to the Sky, Gallery Y, Washington, DC
2024 Exhibitor, Queer Art Showcase, Playhaus, Washington, DC
2024 Exhibitor, Artomatic, Washington, DC
2024 Exhibitor, Watermelon Seeds: Palestinian and Arab-AMerican Art, The Den at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC
2024,Illustrator, “DC State of Mind” The Critical Planning Journal, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Illustrator,Sentience Literary Journal, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Exhibitor, Waves of Joy, Gallery Y, Washington, DC
2022 Exhibitor, Juried Show, Hill Center Regional Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC
2022 Author and Illustrator, “The Cactus House”, Sentience Literary Journal, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Exhibitor, Pride, Portico Gallery, Brentwood, MD
2020 Exhibitor, Art is not Optional, al-Quds Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 Illustrator & Author, TinyQueerZine
2018 Exhibitor, SuperFine! Art Fair, Washington, DC
2018 Illustrator, Two Hawks Quarterly, Antioch University, Culver City, California
2017 Exhibitor, ThinkSmall, Art Space, Richmond, Virginia
2017 Finalist ArtBank, Juried Contest for Public Art with the District of Columbia , Washington, DC.
2017 Exhibitor, Hill Center Regional Juried Exhibition Washington, DC
2017 Exhibitor, “Look Closer” Georgetown Vis...