Adrienne Outlaw is a socially engaged, multidisciplinary artist utilizing post-consumer plastic waste as source material to address issues of environmental responsibility. Her often interactive work addresses the global culture's need for individual and collective responsibility.

Outlaw holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. She has exhibited her artwork in galleries, museums, and public spaces across the United States and abroad in Europe, Asia, and Africa. More than a dozen exhibition catalogs and books feature her work, which has been positively reviewed in such publications as Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, World Sculpture News, and Art Papers.

Outlaw’s work has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement as well as fellowships, residencies, and several regional awards.

In addition to her studio work, Outlaw founded and for five years directed the artlab Seed Space in Nashville. In 2023, she opened The Red Gate in St. Louis, where she now lives. She has organized traveling and city-wide projects including PRESENT, FLEX IT!, ART MAKES PLACE, and TAKE CARE!