Born in Bologna, March 17th, 1935, Adami's paintings show a determination to illustrate an image of contemporary man. His paintings recounted a metropolitan panorama of character, using a free association of images of a subtle surrealist and psychological kind. These images appear in a stylistic form, with strong, linear accents.

In 1950's he studied in Milan at the Accademia di Belle Arti. He made use of comic-strip images, but in the second half of the 1960's, he focused on a specific, personal representation, originally close to the field of Pop. From 1957, he established his residence between Paris and the Lake Maggiore. He worked with oil paint or acrylic on canvas and with tempera and charcoal on paper.

Between 1969 and 1970 he had a large solo exhibition at the Musee d'Art Moderne de La Ville in Paris. In 1986, Electa in Milan published, a second and bigger treatise of the artist. In 1989, he created a large fresco (30m x 9 m) on the façade of the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, dedicated to the music of Debussy and Messian. In 1990 he had a huge retrospective of 56 paintings of large format and 50 drawings, in Valencia. In the summer of 1994, the city of Sienna presented a retrospective of his work and in the summer of 1997 he had another exhibition called The Adami of the Adami and in the same year, the Retrospective exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

He lives and works mainly in Paris and Montecarlo.