My work is fueled by a love for the shared human experience. I'm a painter, an illustrator, and a teacher.
Thousands of years ago our ancestors emotionally processed their lives and their world through the forms of figures, wildlife, and symbols smeared in pigment on cave walls. Art translates reality into a form that is shared and internalized. Art’s true power comes from its relevance, intention, and authenticity. Art is the heartbeat of the human experience.
For all appearances, our world today feels utterly chaotic. Our screens bombard us with war, infuriating political decisions, and a constant countdown of climate concerns. Divisions cut through races, religions, politics, wealth gaps, and on and on. The attention economy has conditioned us to crave feeds of distractions for fleeting moments of comfort. Recently AI dropped onto the scene with no assurance of whether it’s here to save us or replace us. In a very real sense, we’re facing an existential quandary over how we’re going to make it.
I believe that art can do what it’s always done; provide emotional support and guidance to society moving forward. Artists are living through it like everybody else and are expressing what the collective is feeling. Art can bypass all of the internal barricades we’ve built up to protect ourselves by accessing our hearts directly. I believe in the wisdom of nature. Left alone, wild nature orchestrates in perfect balance and harmony. We can learn a lot from it to navigate our own coexistence.
Educated at two of the nation’s best art schools and working independently for twenty five years, I’ve developed a considerable level of resourcefulness, adaptability, and commitment. As an adult I’ve lived in other states and in other countries. I chose to return to Boston because it’s a special place that matters to me. My father was a physician and a pioneer of Chinese medicine in New England. He specialized in acupuncture and homeopathy, caring attentively for his patients over the span of fifty years. Because of him the idea of energy flowing through our bodies has been in my consciousness since childhood. My personal mission as an artist is to nourish people’s spirit. My art lives to inspire, from being rooted in the present moment, to flying upwards and imagining our future together. I currently reside in the town of Medford.
Boston∙Providence∙Rome∙Los Angeles∙New York City∙Auckland∙Hong Kong∙Boston

Exhibitions
Allentown, PA:  IX
Boston, MA: Gallery 263, Stove Factory Gallery
Cologne, Germany: Karlshof
Denver, CO: Helikon Gallery
Hong Kong: RE Gallery, Novalis Gallery
Kittery, ME: Drift Gallery
London, England: The Little Picture Company
Los Angeles, CA: Society of Illustrators, Gallery 1988, The Hive Gallery, Temple of Visions Gallery
Missoula, MT: The Brink Gallery
New York City: The Society of Illustrators, Skylight Gallery, Bottleneck Gallery, The Waterfront Museum, Hive 55, MDH Fine Arts, White Rabbit, West Side Gallery, Haven Gallery (upstate)
Park City, Utah: J Go Gallery
Providence, RI: RISD Woods-Gerry, RISD Illustration Build., Art Prov Gallery 
Rome, Italy: Piazza Cenci
San Francisco, CA: Intersection For the Arts
Seattle, WA: Roq La Rue Gallery

Online: Colossal, Saatchi, Every Day Original, WowxWow Gallery, Artist a Day, The Boston Globe, Hi-Fructose Magazine, Illustration Age, The Untapped Source, Behance Network
Clients
Tor Books∙Scholastic Books∙Simon & Schuster Publishing∙Lerner Books∙Solaris Books∙ Fantasy Flight Games∙Saga Press∙Penguin Random House (Spain)∙The Atlantic Magazine∙Charlesbridge Publishing∙Cricket Magazine∙iHeart Radio∙Grim & Mild∙Sintiyapera Publishing∙Boxaroo Escape Rooms∙Biles Hendry Inc.∙Jones Knowles & Ritchie∙Square Enix Games∙Creative Action Network∙Atheneum Books for Young Readers∙The Legal Artist∙The Thrilling Adventure Hour∙MoveOn.org∙Small Beer Press∙Mexi Kai Foods∙F(r)iction Magazine∙Intuary∙The Morning News∙Binary Acoustics∙The March of Dimes∙Virtual Theatre Project∙ The Weekly Dig∙The Stranger Newspaper∙Top Brass Distilleries∙Brookline Booksmith∙The Colony Theatre∙Firefly Theater & Films∙Indika Entertainment Advertising∙Nature & Health Magazine∙The Boston Phoenix∙Fearless Media∙Company One Theatre∙Canteen Magazine∙Compaq Computers∙Reader's Digest∙Nebo Booklab Publishing∙Null Signal Games
Education
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence & European Honors Program, Rome
MFA School of Visual Arts, NYC
Teacher
RISD Continuing Education (current)
RISD Pre-College 
The New York Art Studio
Noteworthy & Awards
The Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition (NYC), Infected By Art Annual, Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual, Board Member of The Rhode Island School of Design's New York City Alumni Society, Society of Illustrators (West), LMCC Summer Arts Intensive 2010, Creative Quarterly, RSVP, School of Visual Arts, 3x3 Illustration Magazine, Adobe Design Achievement

"The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth."
-Joseph Campbell
"Artist Adam S Doyle creates beautiful gestural paintings of birds seemingly incomplete brushstrokes form the feathers and other details of the animal. In some strange way it reminds me of the story of the Renaissance painter Giotto who is rumored to have been able to draw a perfect circle without the aid of a compass, as if Doyle just picks up a dripping paint brush and in a few seconds paints a perfect bird. In reality his work demonstrates a profound control of the paintbrush and careful understanding of the mediums he works with."

-Christopher Jobson, editor of Colossal
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