Adam Frank is a public artist, technologist and lighting designer and based in Brooklyn, New York. His body of work is an ongoing investigation of light, interactivity, and our perception of nature.
Adam began his career at GCPW, a high-technology theater company in San Francisco. There he created and performed groundbreaking 3D projected environments and effects which interact with live actors on stage. He then co-created the world's first virtual pets. These interactive, autonomous virtual characters allow their users the unprecedented experience of actually touching an on-screen illusion of life.
Adam uses new techniques to add natural lighting phenomena into the modern, built environment. He has created three art products that use light in new ways. LUMEN, a shadow casting oil lamp, is currently sold at MoMA Store. REVEAL is a small projector that implies the presence of a real window by simulating sunlight entering through an imaginary window. LUCID is a new type of mirror that places a luminous 3D image inside the perceived space of a reflected image. MoMA Store has named LUCID as one of the top selling items of 2016. All of Adam's products are made in the USA.
The public art installations are both deeply site-specific and truly innovative. They create new types of meaningful public engagement through unique and inventive use of a broad array of technologies. Adam uses light to create spaces of restoration, hope, and community. He uses interactivity as a means to celebrate and elevate each and every viewer.
Adam has recently completed public artworks for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's new Vision and Rehabilitation Institute, a monumental LUCID installation for the Glass City Convention Center in Toledo, Ohio, and a large-scale interactive waterfall for the San Antonio River Authority's San Pedro Creek Culture Park. Adam's current projects include a permanent, interactive artwork on the facade of the Ottawa Art Gallery for the City of Ottawa and a commission for a permanent, large scale, new media installation for the City of San Diego.
In 2023 he was awarded a commission from the City of Boston to create a permanent light installation in Copley Square and a commission from the City of Sacramento for the new Del Rio Trail, a former railway corridor turned public park.