Adam de Boer (b. Riverside, California 1984) graduated with a BA in Painting (2006) from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MA in Fine Art (2012) from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Selected solo exhibitions include Finca (2010) at Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC, Jalan (2013) at Riflemaker, London, UK, Distinto Niveles de Bienestar (2013) at Escuela Taller, Bogotá, Colombia, Moving Monuments (2014) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Bend Sinister (2014) at the Indonesian Contemporary Art Network, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. De Boer has received various awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Cultural Development Corporation, the Santa Barbara Arts Fund, and in 2011 won the Arts for India Scholarship to support his post-graduate studies. Over the past three years he has participated in studio and teaching residencies in Spain, India, Colombia, Indonesia and the United States.

In 2011 deBoer travelled to his father’s birthplace in Purwokerto, Central Java to begin investigating his Eurasian heritage. His recent work employs imagery and traditional crafts from the region as a way to connect his artistic practice with those of his distant cultural forebears.