Valerio Adami (born March 17, 1935 in Bologna) is an Italian painter who lives and works in Paris, Monaco and Meina on Lake Maggiore. His paintings show influences from Pop Art, of which he is considered the most internationally famous Italian representative. In his adopted home of France, he is considered to be a Narrative Figuration artist.

Adami began studying the paintings of Felice Carena in 1945. On the recommendation of Oskar Kokoschka, he began studying at the Accademia di Brera in Milan in 1951. In the class of the neo-classicist Achille Funi, he mainly studied classical drawing until 1954. In 1955 he moved to Paris, where he was artistically influenced by Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam. Adami had his first solo exhibition in Milan in 1959.

Adami's artistic development began with expressive works in the style of comic strips. Around the time of his participation in documenta III in Kassel in 1964, he developed his own style of painting, which was reminiscent of French cloisonism. On the basis of a precisely transferred preparatory drawing, Adami designed each painting as a system of closed black outlines, each of which delimits single-coloured areas (aplats). In 1965 he took part in the exhibition La Figuration Narrative in Paris, which established this French response to Anglo-Saxon Pop Art. In the late 1960s, he created a large series of pictures with socially critical urban motifs in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, with which he represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 1968.

After many years of collaboration with the Galerie Maeght, later Maeght-Lelong, and several years at the Galerie Marlborough, Adami has been represented by the Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris, Galerie Haas in Zurich and Galerie Michael Haas in Berlin since 2004.