J. Adam Bee (b. 1999) grew up in the New York Metropolitan Area. They studied art history and psychoanalysis at Hampshire College. In 2024, they received a BFA in Studio Art with a Concentration in Painting & Minor in Curatorial Studies from Montserrat College of Art. They have experience working in museums and archives.

Their work has been shown at the Massachusetts State House and Indiana State University Kokomo. In 2025, they were awarded an Emerging Artist Award by the Cambridge Art Association. They are based in Boston.

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My work places emphasis on the solubility of memory, the vulnerability of the body, disgust, otherhood, and the cyclical nature of systems of power.

Within my practice, the act of painting is both a recognition and a distortion of identity, acknowledging individuals while stripping them of agency. As my work is displayed and sold, the audience and collector become complicit in the act of exploitation and profit.

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