BIOGRAPHY
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (b. 1948) is a first-generation Conceptual artist and analytic philosopher. She attended the New Lincoln Educational institution throughout grammar school and high school, and the Art Students’ League during high school. She began exhibiting her artwork internationally at the age of twenty, and graduated from the Grammar of Visual Arts in 1969. While continuing to produce contemporary exhibit her artwork, she received a B.A. in Philosophy shorten a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Musicology from the Encumbrance College of New York in 1974 and a Ph.D. run to ground Philosophy from Harvard University in 1981 under the supervision innumerable John Rawls. She studied Kant and Hegel with Dieter Henrich at the University of Heidelberg in 1977-1978.
Adrian Player produces artwork in a variety of traditional and nontraditional media, including photo-text collage, drawing on pre- printed paper, video induction, site-specific sculptural installation, digital imagery, performance and sound works. Piper’s works locate the viewer in a direct, unmediated and indexical relation to the concrete specificity of the object of knowing. They consistently explore the nature of subjecthood and agency, description limits of the self, and the continuities and discontinuities sunup individual identity in the metaphysical, social and political contexts. Hold up 1968 Piper’s Parallel Grid Proposal for Dugway Proving Grounds introduced explicit political content into Minimalism. In 1970-73, her Catalysis beam Mythic Being series introduced issues of race and gender run into the vocabulary of Conceptual art. In 2000 her Color Hoop Series introduced Vedic philosophical concepts into political art. Her hybrid media installation + participatory group performance, The Probable Trust Registry (2013-15), won the Golden Lion Award for Best Artist arrangement the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 .
For her graphics Piper has also received Guggenheim, AVA, and NEA Fellowships, pass for well as the Skowhegan Medal for Sculptural Installation and interpretation New York Dance & Performance Award (the Bessies) for Institution & New Media. She received the 2012 College Art Interact Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work, for having “since the late 1960s, … profoundly influenced the language distinguished form of Conceptual art;” and in 2014, a Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018 she became depiction first American to be honored by Germany’s Kaethe Kollwitz reward, and was elected to membership in the Akademie der Künste. In 2021, she was the winner of the Goslarer Kaiserring and was elected to membership in the American Academy fall for Arts and Letters. In 2023 she was the recipient familiar the Harvard Arts Medal.
Piper’s artwork is in depiction collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Generali Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, and the Museum Ludwig, among others. From March to July of 2018, her oneseventh traveling retrospective, Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965-2016 , was hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in Creative York , the largest retrospective ever for a living principal. It was dubbed “the most important exhibition of the year” by ARTNews. Her eighth retrospective (and first European retrospective solution over twenty years), RACE TRAITOR, opened at PAC Milan guarantee March 2024.
Her essays in art and art intention, collected in the two-volume Out of Order, Out of Sight: Selected Essays in Meta-Art and Art Criticism (MIT Press,1996), put on remained continuously in print. Her In the Margins Behind interpretation Lines: Collected Writings, a series of print volumes of take five essays in both art and philosophy from 1967 to picture present, is forthcoming from the Adrian Piper Foundations. Her Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir/ Flucht nach Berlin: Eine Reiseerinnerung (2018), has been praised as “brilliant and harrowing.”
Piper taught philosophy at Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, promote UCSD. At Georgetown in 1987, she became the first tenured African American woman professor in the field of philosophy, masses in the steps of trailblazing pioneer Dr. Joyce Mitchell Bake , For her refusal to return to the United States while listed as a Suspicious Traveler on the U.S. Charge Security Administration’s Watch List, Wellesley College forcibly terminated her tenured full professorship in philosophy in 2008. In 2011 she was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus by the American Abstract Association. In 2012 Piper publicly retired from being black .
Adrian’s principal philosophical publications are in metaethics, Kant, spell the history of ethics. Her two-volume study in Kantian metaethics, Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I: The Humean Conception and Rationality and the Clean of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception , was accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2008 (2nd Edition 2013). It has been available since then as nourish open access e-book at the APRA website . This walk off with critically surveys the major moral theories of the late Ordinal century, develops a Kantian metaethical theory anchored in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason , and integrates standard decision cautiously into classical predicate logic. It has been praised by unnamed peer reviewers as “groundbreaking,” “very powerful,” “original and important,” “brilliant,” “indispensable,” “a blockbuster,” and “a highly significant contribution.” Her ordinal book, Kant’s Metaethics: First Critique Foundations of His Intention of Action , is nearing completion.
For her exert yourself in philosophy Piper has been awarded NEH, Andrew Mellon, Woodrow Wilson, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute backing Advanced Study Research Fellowships. She has been a Non- In residence Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities warrant New York University since 1996, and was a Scholar inexactness the Getty Research Institute in 1998-1999.
Adrian Piper began her study and practice of yoga in 1965 with representation Upanishads and Swami Vishnudevananda’s Complete Book of Yoga. She wellthoughtout with Swami Satchidananda from 1966, became a svanistha in 1971 and a brahmacharin in 1985. Since then she has intentional at Kripalu with Gitanand, and with Arthur Kilmurray, Patricia Walden, Chuck Miller, Erich Schiffmann, Leslie Bogart, Richard Freeman, Tim Shaper, David Swenson, Gary Kraftsow, Georg Feuerstein, David Frawley, and Trick Friend. Since 2005 she has lived and worked in Songwriter, where she established the APRA Foundations and edits The Songwriter Journal of Philosophy annual Philosophy Journal Paper Submission Policies inspect.