Adrian Piper

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Born September 20, 1948, New York City.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany


EDUCATION
1994
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA - D.A. (Honorary Degree)
1992
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA - D.L. (Honorary Degree)
1981
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - Ph.D. (Philosophy)
1978
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, West Germany -
translated portions of Kant’s Reflexionen zur Moralphilosophy
audited courses on Kant, Hegel, and Marx
1977
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - MA (Philosophy)
1974
City College of New York, New York, NY - B.A. summa cum laude (Philosophy)
1969
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY - A.A. (Fine Arts)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Everything #4, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
Everything #21, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland
Sol LeWitt & Adrian Piper, Bower Poetry Club, New York, NY
Past Time: Selected Works 1973-1995, Elizabeth Dee, New York

2008
Adrian Piper, Elizabeth Dee, New York

2006
Adrian Piper, CPH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
Adrian Piper: The Mythic Being, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago

2005
Adrian Piper, Index, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

2004
Adrian Piper Videos, ARTSADMIN, London, England

2003
Adrian Piper Over the Edge, Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan, Italy

2002
Adrian Piper: seit 1965: Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbane, France; Museu
d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain

2000/01
Adrian Piper: A Solo Exhibition, Gallerie Voges und Deisen, Frankfurt, Germany
The Color Wheel Series: First Adhyasa: Annomayakosha, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY, NY
Adrian Piper: Early Drawings and other works, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY, NY
MEDI(t)Ations: Adrian Piper’s Videos, Installations, Performances and Soundworks, 1968-1992, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA ; The New Museum, New York City, NY; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1999
Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland; Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; The New
Museum, New York City, NY ; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH;
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1998
Who Are You? Selected Works by Adrian Piper, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Adrian Piper: The Mythic Being, 1972-1975, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Food for the Spirit (1971), Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

1996
Ashes to Ashes John Weber Gallery, New York, NY; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy

1995
Cornered/Decide Who You Are, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Icons of One: Decide Who You Are, Savannah College of Art Gallery, Savannah, GA

1994
The Hypothesis Series 1968 70, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY


1993
Installations by Adrian Piper, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1992
What It’s Like, What It Is #2, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Ur-Madonna, Expo ‘92, Monasterio de Santa Clara, Moguer, Spain
Decide Who You Are Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; John Weber Gallery, New York, NY; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY; Myers Fine Art Gallery, SUNY Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY; Art Awareness, Lexington, NY; City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC

1991
What It’s Like, What It Is, #1, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
What It’s Like, What It Is, #2, Hirshhorn Museum, Directions Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Space, Time and Reference 1967 1970, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Adrian Piper: European Retrospective: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England; Kunstverein München, Germany
Political Drawings and Installations, 1975 1991 (retrospective): Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Carver Center, San Antonio, TX; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IL; Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

1990
Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
Why Guess, University of Rhode Island Art Gallery, Kingston, RI
Pretend, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Why Guess, Exit Art, New York, NY
Out of the Corner, Whitney Museum of American Art, Film and Video Gallery, New York, NY
Adrian Piper, University of Iowa Art Gallery, IA

1989
Cornered, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

1987
Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967 1987 (retrospective):
The Alternative Museum, New York, NY; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA ; Goldie Paley Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; University of Colorado Art Gallery, Boulder, CO; Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Santa Monica Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

1981
Adrian Piper, And/ Or, Seattle, WA

1980
Adrian Piper at Matrix 56, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Adrian Piper, Real Artways, Hartford, CT

1976
Adrian Piper, Gallery One, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ

1971
One Man (sic), One Work, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

1969
Three Untitled Projects (postal art exhibition), (New York: 0 to 9 Press, 1969)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
The Talent Show, PS1, Long Island City, NY
Proofs and Refutations, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Visions if Elastic. Thought is Elastic., Murray Guy, New York, NY

2010
The Talent Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,MN
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Klangi, Aboas Vetus & Ars Nova Museo, Turku, Finland
29th Beinal de Sao Paulo, Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York, NY
Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (and travelling to: Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany and K20, Dusseldorf, Germany)
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, Nasher Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, NY
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Cult of the Artist; "I Can't Just Slice Off an Ear Every Day," Hamburger Banhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

2008
Revolution: Forms that Turn, 16th Sidney Biennale, Sidney, Australia

2007
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
PlayBack, l'ARC/Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Cinema Reloaded and Remixed: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Gender Battle, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Live Art on Camera, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Highfield, England
Night School, Hart House University of Totonto, Toronto, Canada
WALK Spazierengehen als Kunstform. Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Gehen, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Multitasking, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildene Kunst, Berlin, Germany
60 to 7, Henie Onstad Art-Center, Hörikodden, Norway
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Start, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, COncordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time - Strategies for a Discontinous Future, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
I am Making Art – 4 Studies on the Artist’s Body: Chapter 3, Centre d’art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and P.S. 1/Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Seeing Dance: Dialogue between Dance and the Visual Arts, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany and CAAC, Seville Spain
For a Special Place, Documents and Works by the Generali Foundation Collection, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
Crossing the Line, African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr. Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Reviewing the 20th Century, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design's, Providence, RI

2006
War is Over, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy, Oct. 2005-Feb.
Das achte Feld. Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany, Aug.-Nov.
Concept has never meant Horse, Generali Foundation, Wien, Austria, Sept.-Dec.
Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden, Oct.– Jan. 2007
Academy: Learning from Art, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA), Antwerpen, Belgium, Fall
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 2005-Jan.
Stories, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Jul.-Aug.

2005
Dance Dance Revolution, Leroy Nieman Gallery, NY, NY Dec. 2004-Jan. 2005
What Business Are You In?, Atlanta Contemporary Art, Center Atlanta, GA , Jan.-March
International Exhibitionist, Curzon Cinemas, London, England, February
Between Pass and Fail, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, March
Faces in the Crowd/Volti nella Folla, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, April-July
The Politics of Care, The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, City, University of New York, NY, May-June
Open Systems, Tate Modern Museum, London, England, June-Sept.
Occupying Space
- Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, March-May
- Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July-Aug.
Museum for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, Oct.-Dec.
Summer of Love
- Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, May-Sept.
- Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 2005-Feb.
Wie Gesellschaft und Politik ins Bild Kommen, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, Sept.-Dec.

2004
Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, NY, NY, Dec. 2003-Feb. 2004
Tracing the Sublime, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, Dec. 2003-March 2004
Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art, William, Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, January-April
Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY, May-Oct.
Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity, PS1, Queens, NY, June-October
Communauté, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbane, France, July-Sept.
Some Things Happening: 25 Years of Herron Gallery., Exhibitions, Herron Gallery, Indiana State Museum, July-Sept.
Provocations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Bronx Museum, July-Dec.
Collected Views from East or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, Sept.-Dec.
Funky Lessons
-BüroFriedrich Berlin, Germany, Sept.-Nov.
-BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria, Dec. - Feb. 2005
Collected Views from East or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria , Sept.-Dec.
Minority Report, Aarhus and environs, Denmark, Sept.-Oct.
Performance Strategy and Process, ARTSADMIN, London, England, November

2003
Electric Body, Cité de la musique, Paris, France, Oct. 2002-April
Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture
-Arts Interculterels, Montreal, Quebec, March–April
- Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May-June
The Music in Me 2: Regarding Dance, Gesellschaft für, Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany, Sept.-November
Walking in the City
- Apex Art, NY, NY Jan.-February
- Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, March -May
Rhythm Is a Dancer, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden , April-Aug.
Imperfect Marriages, Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan, Italy, April-May
Sandwiched, Public Art Fund and Wrong Gallery, Brooklyn, NY , September

2002
One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Oct. 2001-March 2002
Family, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, May-September
Documenta X1, Kassel, Germany, June-August
Personal and Political: The Women’s Art Movement 1969-1975, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY Aug-Oct.
Pushing Aesthetic Boundaries, Collecting Prints and Multiples, Gallery M, NY, NY, Sept.-October
Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, Oct.-November
Gloria, White Columns, NY, NY, Oct.-November
Time-Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY, NY, June-August 2002
Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture, Gallerie 101, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August-October

2001
Blondies and Brownies, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, March-April
Conception: Conceptual Documents 1968-1972, City Arts Gallery, Leeds, UK, March-April
Double Life: Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Arts, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, May-August

2000
The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY , Sept. 1999-Feb 2000
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the 80s, P.S. 1, New York, NY , July-September

1999
Re-Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African/American Artists,Katonah Museum of Art,Katonah,NY
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY ; Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN; List Visual Arts Center of MIT, Cambridge, MA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Persuasion: Tales of Commerce and the Avant-Garde, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Sept.-November
TRACE: The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, The View, Liverpool, England, Sept.-November
Get the Picture: Recent Photography Acquisitions, Addison Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC, Fall

1998
Desde el cuerpo: alegorias de lo femenino (From the Body: Allegories of the Feminine), Fundacion Museo de Bellas
Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
If I Ruled the World, kunstraum münchen, Munich, Germany
5729-5756: Contemporary Artists Welcome the New Year–The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commision, The Jewish Museum, NY, NY
Travel & Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
More Pieces for the Puzzle: Recent Additions to the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1997
Icon to Narrative, The City College of New York, New York, N.Y.
Between Two Worlds, Strong Museum, Rochester, N.Y.
Vraiment: Féminisme et Art, Centre National D’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Galeries du Magasin, Grenoble, France
Perish, Duende, Rotterdam, Holland
Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill.
If I Ruled the World, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
The View from Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Asahi Shimbun: Cultural Projects Division, Japan (travelling)
Minimal Politics, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland,Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (travelling)
Memorable Histories and Historic Memories, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

1996
Now Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Hidden in Plain Sight: Illusion in Art from Jasper Johns to Virtual Reality, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Ca.
A/Drift, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Face à l’Histoire 1933-1996, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

1995
Civils Rights Now, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
The Message is the Medium: Issues of Representation in Modern Technologies, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Public/Private: ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Africus: South African Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Altered States: American Art in the 90s, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MI
Civil Rights Now, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
It’s Not a Picture, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
Options 2: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Permanent Collection, Stanton Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Cornered, The Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA withdrew due to Philip Morris Sponsorship)
Art with Conscience, Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ Nov.

1994
L’Hiver de l’Amour, Musee d’Art Moderne de Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Can You Always Believe Your Eyes? Museum of Contemporary Art,De Beyerd, Breda, Holland
Dignity for All: Reflections on Humanity, Artimo, Zeist, Holland
Thirty Years, Larry Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Mappings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Winter of Love, Institute of Contemporary Art (P.S. 1),Long Island City, NY
Articulate, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY
Gewalt/Geschäfte, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin, Germany
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, curated by Thelma Golden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1993
Here’s Looking at Me: Contemporary Self Portraits, Espace Lyonnais D’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
The Theater of Black Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, University of California, Irvine, Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
25 Years, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland,OH
Kontext Kunst, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Ciphers of Identity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (traveling)

1992
Dispossessed Installations, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Will/Power: New Works by Papo Colo, Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrian Piper, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African American Presence:. Fukyui Fine Arts Museum, Fukyui ken, Japan ; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J.
Then & Now: A Selection of Artists Who Early in Their Museum Careers Exhibited at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, N.Y. Curated by Buzz McCall
Book Works: A Women’s Perspective, New Loom House, London, England
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany (withdrew)
Adrian Piper/Carl Pope, Herron Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Artist as Catalyst, The Alternative Museum, New York. NY
Will/Power, Wexner Center For The Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Mistaken Identities, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
44th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
The Boundary Rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

1991
Gender and Representation, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA
The Political Arm, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Show of Strength, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, NY
The Art of Advocacy, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
The Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, NM
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Visions/Revisions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
What It’s Like, What It Is, #3, Dislocations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Salvage Utopia, AC Project Room, New York, NY
Affirmative Re Actions, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester, MA
Artists of Conscience: 16 Years of Social and Political Commentary, New York, NY

1990
Life is Wonderful, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
Exotism, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Insect Politics, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts, Buffalo, NY
Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY
Words and Images - With a Message, Women’s Studio Workshop, Oneonta, NY
Sarah Charlesworth, Jeanne Dunning, Annette Messager, Adrian Piper, Laurie Simmons, Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Constructive Anger, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Word as Image: American Art 1960 1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Contemporary Houston, TX
The Power of Words: An Aspect of Recent Documentary Photography,P.P.O.W., New York, NY
The Thing Itself, Feature Gallery, New York, NY
Presumed Identities, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The Art of Drawing, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY

1989
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 1970 85, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
(traveling)
Collecting, Organizing, Transposing, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Art as a Verb, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Head, OneTwentyEight, New York, NY
American Resources, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY (traveling)
Some Choices, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Double Take: A Second Look at Advertising, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Buttinsky, Feature, New York, NY
I Only Want You to Love Me, Feature, New York, NY
L’Art Conceptuel: Une Perspective, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (traveling)1969
Number Seven, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Language III, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
557,087, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (traveling)
Concept Art, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany

1988
Commitment to Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (traveling)
Coast to Coast: A Women of Color National Artists’ Book Project, WCA, Houston, TX (traveling)
Autobiography: In Her Own Image, Intar Gallery, New York, NY (traveling)
Modes of Address, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, NY
Unknown Secrets: Art of the Rosenberg Era (traveling), curated by Nina Felshin
Signs, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (traveling)
The Turning Point: Art and Politics in 1968, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH(traveling)
Works on Paper, OneTwentyEight, New York, NY
Art as a Verb, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
Identity, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, NY

1987
Floating Values, HallWalls, Buffalo, NY
Black Video: Performance/Document/Narrative, Gorman Museum, Davis, CA
Past Time, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

1985
Tradition and Conflict, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Kunst mit Eigen Sinn, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum, New York, NY

1984
Disarming Images: Artists’ Statements Against Nuclear War, Newburger Museum, Purchase, NY(traveling)
A Decade of New Art, Artists’ Space, New York, NY

1983
Art at Ground Zero: Artists’ Statements on Nuclear War, University of Michigan Residential College, Ann Arbor, MI
The Black and White Show, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Language, Drama, Source, and Vision, The New Museum, New York, NY

1981
Events: Artists Invite Artists, The New Museum, New York, NY
The Gender Show, Group Material, New York, NY
The Page as Alternative Space, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
Oppositions, And/Or, Seattle, WA

1980
A Decade of Women’s Performance Art, National Women’s Caucus for Art Conference, New Orleans
Speaking Volumes: Women’s Artist Books, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Art of Conscience, Wright Gallery, Dayton, Ohio (traveling)
Issue: Twenty Social Strategies by Women Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1979
Eventworks, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Both Sides Now, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1978
The Sense of the Self: From Self Portrait to Autobiography, Newberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Untitled Exhibition, Artists’ Space, New York, NY

1977
Paris Biennale, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

1975
Bodyworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Word Works II, San Jose State University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA
Eleven in New York, Women’s Interart Center, New York, NY
Lives, The Fine Arts Building, New York, NY

1974
Persona, Artists’ Space, New York, NY
Word Works, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
Woman’s Work: American Art 1974, Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA (traveling)
In Her Own Image, Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

1973
Thought: Structures, Pace College Gallery, New York, NY
Nine New York Artists, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Artforms, Abstract Activities, Ideas, Pomona College,Claremont, CA
c. 7,500, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

1972
Art Without Limits, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Communications, Inhibodress Gallery, NSW, Australia

1971
26 Contemporary Women Artists, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Paris Biennale, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

1970
Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
Art in the Mind, Allen Museum, Oberlin, OH
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Language IV, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY

1969
Groups, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Plans and Projects as Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland


ART PERFORMANCES
1988
My Calling (Card) #1 and #2: A Meta-Performance IL, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY. May

1987
My Calling (Cards)#1 and #2: A Meta-Performance I, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL February

1986
My Calling (Card) #1, Dinner/Cocktail Party Reactive Guerrilla Performance April 1986-90
My Calling (Card) #2, Disco/Bar Reactive Guerrilla Performance May 1986-90

1985
Funk Lessons (videotape), What’s Cooking VI, Center for Music Experiment, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA February

1983-84
Funk Lessons
- Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia March
- Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN October
- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA November 1983
- San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA February 1984
- The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA March 1984
- California Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA March 1984
- New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA March 1984

1982
Wide Receiver, Streets of Menlo Park, CA October 1982
Invasion, Streets of Palo Alto, CA December 1982

1980-81
It’s Just Art :
- Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, OH April 1980
- Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI July 1980
- Wright Gallery, Dayton, OH October 1980
- The Western Front, Vancouver, B.C. February 1981
- And/Or, Seattle, WA February 1981
- Artists’ Space, New York, NY April 1981
- Penn State University, University Park, PA May 1981

1978
Collegium Academicum Freischrei, Hauptstrasse, Heidelberg, W. Germany February

1977
Danke(sehr)schon, Kurfurstendamm, West Berlin, West Germany September

1976
The Mythic Being, Streets of Cambridge, Mass. 1975-76
Some Reflective Surfaces, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY February

1975
Some Reflective Surfaces, The Fine Arts Building, New York, NY December

1973
Untitled Streetwork, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI October
Being Mythic on the Street, for “Adrian Piper: The Mythic Being,” in Other Than Art’s Sake, a film by Peter Kennedy October

1972
Two Untitled Streetworks, Rochester, NY April

1971
Catalysis Series, Streets of New York, NY 1970-71
Streetworks II, New York, NY April
Food for the Spirit, Private Loft Performance, New York, NY June-July
Untitled Streetworks, Streets of New York, NY 1971-73

1970
Untitled Catalysis, Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY April
Streetworks, New York, N.Y May

1968
Meat Into Meat, Loft Performance, New York, NY October

 

 

 

 

 

  • Elizabeth Dee at The Armory Show and LISTE 08 10 Mar 2008
    From March 27 − 30, 2008, Elizabeth Dee will be participating in The Armory Show at Pier 94 (12th Avenue at 55th Street) in New York. Located in Booth 1107, the gallery will be presenting a solo exhibition of works from the 1970s, 80s and 90s by Adrian Piper.

    Elizabeth Dee will also be participating in LISTE 08 in Basel, Switzerland between June 3 - 8, 2008. At LISTE, the Elizabeth Dee booth will feature works by both Meredyth Sparks and Mika Tajima.

  • Out of Order, Out of Sight: 2-volume set

    by Adrian Piper

    Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer-artists who have provided much of the basic and most reliable literature on modern and contemporary art. Out of Order, Out of Sight is an artistic and intellectual autobiography and an (occasionally scathing) commentary on mainstream art, art criticism, and American culture of the last twenty-five years.

    Piper is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and the only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s. The writings in Out of Order, Out of Sight trace the development of her thinking about her artwork and the art world, and her evolving awareness of herself as a creative, racial, and gendered subject situated in an often limiting and always absurd cultural and social context.
    Paperback: 776 pages
    Publisher: The MIT Press; New Ed edition (February 12, 1999)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0262661543
    ISBN-13: 978-0262661546

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