Adrian Piper
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| Adrian Margaret Smith Piper | |
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| Born | September 20, 1948 New York, New York, USA |
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (September 20, 1948) is a first-generation conceptual artist who started exhibiting her work internationally at the age of twenty. While continuing to produce and exhibit her artwork nationally and internationally, she undertook the study of philosophy and received a Ph.D. in the subject from Harvard in 1981. She taught metaethics and Kant at Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, and UCSD. Piper introduced issues of race and gender into the vocabulary of Conceptual art and explicit political content into Minimalism. In 2000 she further expanded the vocabulary of Conceptual art to encompass Hindu philosophical imagery and concepts. She is the recipient of many fellowships in art and philosophy, and her art work is in many important collections. Her sixth traveling retrospective, Adrian Piper since 1965, closed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona in 2004. She has studied and practiced yoga since 1965, and lives and works in Berlin.
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[edit] Education
Piper received an A.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1969, and her B.A. in Philosophy from the City College of New York in 1974. She did her M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University with John Rawls. She spent a year at the University of Heidelberg studying Kant and Hegel with Dieter Henrich. She has taught at Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, and the University of California at San Diego, and is currently Visiting Guest Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art.
[edit] Awards
She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew Mellon, and Woodrow Wilson Research Fellowships. She has also received awards from the Guggenheim, Awards in the Visual Arts, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculptural Installation, and the Bessie Award for New Genres in Dance and Performance. She was a Distinguished Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for Art History and the Humanities, and was awarded an Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) Fellowship in 2003 and a Fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2004.
[edit] Publications
Her principal publications are in metaethics, Kant, and the history of ethics. Her two-volume work, Out of Order, Out of Sight, was published by MIT Press in 1996.
[edit] Exhibitions
Piper has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, the Musee d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris, the Fukyui Fine Arts Museum in Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland, the John Weber Gallery, the Paula Cooper Gallery and the Thomas Erben Gallery in New York, Galleria Emi Fontana in Milan, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, and the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, among other venues.
