Adrienne Roma Sacks was born in 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a multidisciplinary visual artist with a Bachelor of Arts in Clinical Psychology and Studio Art from Tufts University and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where she was the recipient of a Juror’s Choice Award and a first place award in graduate research across the university for her thesis project concerning anthropomorphism, aesthetic categories, and capitalism. She was the 2019 recipient of the National Annual Award from Collage Artists of America for her work in assemblage sculpture. She has exhibited her work at museums including Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Torrance Art Museum, and Millard Sheets Art Center as well as in galleries and artist-run spaces nationally. She has taught at CSUN, CSSSA at CalArts, and Pratt Munson in two-dimensional design, painting, exhibition design, and aesthetics. Her work has been published in Forever Magazine. She was an artist-in-residence at Dorland Mountain Arts in Temecula, California, El Sur in CDMX, Mexico, and Fish Factory in Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. She is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work from Simmons University, where she was awarded a McGrath Global & Intercultural Research Grant, and is participating in an upcoming psychoanalysis fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and internship in adult outpatient psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Her multidisciplinary practice relies upon psychoanalytic inquiry, mining the personal visual motifs of her childhood. Rainbows, fairytales, and Y2K aesthetics create a space where the magical and the commercial coexist, evoking simultaneous sentimentality and critical reflection. Rooted in both natural and man-made landscapes, her visual research extends from skies and mountains to theme parks and malls. The math between the organic and the synthetic often yields abstract solutions that reflect both reality and fantasy.

At aqb, she is researching the archives at the Sándor Ferenczi house and Art Nouveau architecture and interiors, and distilling these elements and her usual varied visual references into a 1 of 1 hand-drawn book.