Adam Rolston (b. 1962, Los Angeles) lives and works in New York. His work emerged in the early 1990s within the cultural discourse surrounding the AIDS crisis. Solo exhibitions include Wessel + O’Connor, New York (1990, 1991, 1997); Fawbush Gallery, New York (1992, 1994); Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica (1992); New Era Space, New York (1991); Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver (1995); and Steven Friedman Gallery, London (1996). Early works including I Am Out Therefore I Am, Trojans, and I Love Jodie Foster were exhibited internationally and written about extensively within AIDS-era art discourse.

His work has been included in exhibitions at the The Jewish Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; White Columns, New York; Kunstverein Hamburg; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Tramway, Glasgow; the Grey Art Museum, New York; and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver. I Am Out Therefore I Am was included in Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989 at the Grey Art Museum (2019).

Rolston’s work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (I Love Jodie Foster); the The Jewish Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (Trojans); the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.

Rolston is co-author, with Douglas Crimp, of AIDS DemoGraphics (Bay Press, 1990) and author of Joyspace. His recent work includes the woven image series Model Collapse.