Irina Adam
PHOTOGRAPHY
2026:
May 16-17 Upstate Art Weekend
March 8-April 11, 2026: Every Woman Biennial, Pen and Brush Gallery, 29 E 22nd St, NYC
March 13-May 3: Tonic: A Medicinal Flora and Fungi Exhibit, Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
March 7 – April 5, 2026: Happy Trails: Photos of the Ashokan Rail Trail, at Center of Photography Woodstock in Kingston
May 6–10, 2026: Scent + Art Festival at Creative Factory Veldze (Riga, Latvia)
2026 Land Art Makers at Land Art Collective
Recent exhibits:
May 9-25 2024: 'Pitch Pine Pollen: A Transforming Forest' Photography & Scent Art exhibit at Olfactory Art Keller
Aug 8- Sept 14, 2024 - Scent as a Creative Medium at Olfactory Art Keller
Nov 5- Dec 7, 'Matriarch' group show, Maspeth, curated by Erin Perrazzelli
2025 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Show, April 19-May 15, 2025
My photography explores threads of dialogue with nature, in immersive and reciprocal ways. Landscape is subject not background, inviting interaction. Recent projects include series of local wild places wandered and closely observed over years and seasons, transformed by climate change and human activity. Themes include environmental language and abstraction, deep ecology, belonging and witnessing, the human form in nature.
Olfactory art pieces and natural perfumes are inspired by landscape stories and connection with flora and fauna felt thru the senses and transforming cinematically over time. Link to olfactory art & perfume site.
My work has been exhibited at Olfactory Art Keller NY, Hammer Museum LA, Institute of Art and Olfaction LA, New York Open Center, Romanian Cultural Institute. With a BFA in Photography from Indiana University, minoring in art history and botany, I worked in ethnobotany research, as well as a natural perfumer, forager, darkroom assistant and educator.
CONTACT: irinaaa@gmail.com
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Link to scent art + natural perfume site, Phoenix Botanicals.