Adam Holzrichter is a narrative representational painter who primarily works in a Post Impressionist style, with major influences from Degas, Cassatt, Morrisot, Courbet, Bonnard, Munch and many others. He earned a B.F.A. from the American Academy of Art, and spent a 6 month term with Odd Nerdrum at The Nerdrum School in Stavern, Norway.

A Chicago area native, Holzrichter spent most of the last decade surveying American culture by traveling and living across both coasts. Largely this began as an effort to subvert a suburban-midwest-Jehovah's Witness upbringing's influence over his ideas of morality, love, and human behavior. Today he lives and works in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.

Adam paints primarily from life to wind up somewhere between direct representation and fantasy. Often themes aim to elicit a sympathetic response, in order to encourage sincere private moments between the works and their viewers. Subjects commonly include scenes of enigmatic tension or discovery.

He has exhibited in Chicago's Flat Iron Arts Building, the Zhou B Arts Center with Poets and Artists Magazine, as well Pan Gallery in Los Angeles.