Adam Hunter Caldwell was born in Framingham Mass and lived in Boston, Paris, and Tennessee before moving to the bay area to pursue art and play music. He studied at Laney college and received a full scholarship to CCAC. His first interest was in producing graphic novels but once in art school he started studying fine art and then met the famous teacher and illustrator Barron Storey and became interested in illustration. After graduating with a combined honors degree in painting and illustration. Adam started doing storyboards and illustration for clients including Microsoft, Adobe, and Coors. In 2001 he became a full-time fine art instructor at the Academy of Art University.

Adam is now focusing strictly on fine art and has been developing his painting for the last few years. His work uses the interaction of the human figure with landscape, abstract form, graphic symbols, and architecture. Influenced by styles from classical, to comic books, to pure abstract expressionism, Adam brings these disparate elements together into a unified whole. Although classically figurative in style the narrative in these paintings is mostly an outcome of formal compositional concerns, such as texture, form, value, color, and shape. Adam sees these as the most important aspects of painting and was influenced strongly by abstract painters like Franz Kline, Wilhelm DeKooning, and Jackson Pollack. His figures form enigmatic relationships with their environments and with each other, allowing the viewer to insert her own ideas and stories onto the painting.

Adam teaches martial arts and has competed in kickboxing, and san shou.

He is also an accomplished guitarist.

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