Adrian Coleman (b. 1984) is a British-born American painter. Raised in New Jersey, he is a graduate of Highland Park High School and the Middlesex County Arts High School Program. Coleman studied painted and architecture at Yale University (BA, 2006) and received his masters degree from Columbia University (M.Arch., 2012). Coleman is a winner of the 2012 Brooklyn Museum GO Open Studio Competition. He appeared in the Bronx Museum’s 2015 Biennial and BRIC’s 2016 Brooklyn Biennial. In 2017, Steven Amedee Gallery in Manhattan mounted his solo exhibition Stratigraphies.
Later that year, Coleman relocated to the U.K., where he participated in group exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, Peckham Levels, and the Willis Museum. In 2020, Coleman was awarded the Hopper Prize. In 2021, his show Citizens of Nowhere appeared at Taymour Grahne Projects in London.
Back stateside, Coleman has featured in various small group exhibitions while preparing for his second presentation at Steven Amedee Gallery, Terra Incognita. His paintings are in the private collections of, among others, Beth Rudin Du Woody and Soho House. By day, Coleman works as an architect for Shapeless Studio in Brooklyn.