Artist
Adrian Piper is a first-generation Conceptual artist and a philosopher. Her artistic work has focused on racism, racial stereotyping and xenophobia for over three decades. After studying painting and sculpture at the School of Visual Arts in New York, she studied philosophy at the City College of New York and the University of Heidelberg, focusing on Kant. In 1981 she completed her Ph.D. from Harvard University with John Rawls. Since then she has taught as a philosophy professor at Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, Michigan and University of California/San Diego. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally since 1967. In 2002 the Generali Foundation curated her sixth traveling retrospective exhibition, ‘Adrian Piper since 1965’ which closed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona in 2004.
