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Amy Adler was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from Cooper Union in 1989 and received her MFA from UCLA in 1995. She has had one person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and The Aspen Art Museum as well as galleries worldwide. Her project, Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo DiCaprio, was shown at the Photographers Gallery in London in 2001 and then at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2002. In the spring of 2005 Twin Palms Press released a monograph of her work entitled, Amy Adler Young Photographer. Her work is included in several permanent collections including the Deste Foundation, Athens, The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Amy Adler currently lives in Los Angeles and is Associate Professor of Visual Art at the University of California San Diego.
AMY ADLER
Born in New York, NY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1995 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1989 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1987 Die Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Phantom Instrument, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
The Lesson, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
The Sky Observer’s Guide (with Amy Cook), ACME. at Domestic, Los Angeles, CA
Player’s History, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Make-Believe, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2005 The Rainbow Hour, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2004 Virgin Sacrifice, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Unsolved Problems of Gravity, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
2002 Unknown, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Young Photographer, c/o-Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
different girls, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo Di Caprio, UCLA Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, CA
Amy Adler: Centerfold, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
2001 Amy Adler photographs Leonardo diCaprio, The Photographers’ Gallery,
London, England
Record of the Year, Art Statements, Art/32/Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2000 Chapter & Verse, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY
different girls, No Limits Gallery, Milan, Italy
1999 c/o-Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
Why Would I Lie? Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nervous Character, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Focus Series: Amy Adler, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
1997 Once in Love With Amy, Casey Kaplan, New York
1996 What Happened to Amy? Casey Kaplan, New York
1994 Amy Adler Photographs, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Nord Nord West, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
2007 Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Vantage Points, Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006, Los
Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
2005 High Drama: Eugene Berman and The Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime,
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
2004 Perspectives at 25, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Monument To Now, Desde Foundation, Athens, Greece
Subway Series, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
2003 Something More Than Five Revolutionary Seconds, Fodazione Davide Halevim,
Milan, Italy
160 Meisterzeichnungen, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Imperfect Innocence, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
2002 The Image Regained: Painting and Photography in the Eighties and
Nineties, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
LA on My Mind, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
supersonic & alien, galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome, Italy
Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography, Pasadena Museum
of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2001 New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation,
Athens, Greece
The Americans-New Art, Barbican Gallery, London, England
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca Woodman,
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2000 Urs Fischer with Amy Adler, Delfina Project Space, London, England
Garden Party, curated by Laurie Simmons, No Limits Events, Milan, Italy
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 I’m not here: Constructing Identity at the turn of the Century,
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
The Perfect Life: Artifice in L.A., 1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1998 Still and Otherwise, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Where is your rupture? The Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1997 Spheres of Influence: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MOCA,
Los Angeles, CA
The Name of the Place, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
1996 Stream of Consciousness: 8 Los Angeles Artists, University Art Museum,
Santa Barbara, CA
Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gender, Fucked, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Skin Deep, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection, as seen by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum
of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Self-portrayal, Post, Los Angeles, CA
Greatest Hits, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1994 Summer 1994, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SuperWoman, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary,Las Vegas, NV
PROJECTS:
2006 Amy Cook. The Sky Observer’s Guide. CD. Root House Records, drawings by
Amy Adler, Austin, TX.
2002 Centerfold, Artforum: Contributor, January 2002, p112-113.
Amy Adler Curates Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Delfina Studio Trust, Artist In residence, London, England
American Photography Institute Fellowship, New York University, New York, NY
Levinson Scholarship, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2007 Artworks, The Progressive Collection, Distributed Art Publishers, Inc
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California n Women Artists, 1980 - 2006,
L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park p. 14, 15.
2006 Richer, Francesca and Rosenzweig, Matthew. No. 1: First Works of 362 Artists,
Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. Amy Adler: The Rainbow Hour. Aspen Art Museum,
Aspen, CO.
2005 Rabinowitz, Sophie Cay. Amy Adler Young Photographer. Twin Palms Publishers.
Duncan, Michael. High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the
Melancholic Sublime. Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.
2004 Kraus, Chris, et al. LA Artland, Black Dog Publishing, London, England, p. 114-115.
2003 Fogle, Douglas, ed. The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography,1960-1982,”
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Gnemmi, Edoardo. Something More Than Five Revolutionary Seconds,
Fodazione Davide Halevim, Milan, Italy.
Murphy, Diana, ed. Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL.
2002 The Image Regained: Painting and Photography in the Eighties and Nineties,
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Hatje Cantz Publishers, Lugano, Switzerland.
Amy Adler: different girls, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Adler, Amy. "Centerfold," Artforum: Contributor, January, p112-113.
2001 Morsiani, Paola. Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca
Woodman, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
The Americans. New Art., Booth-Clibborn Editions/Barbican Art, London, England.
Form Follows Fiction, Charta, Milan/Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
I Am A Camera, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England, p 83-88.
1998 Butler, Connie. Amy Adler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1996 Brown, Elizabeth A. Stream of Consciousness - 8 Los Angeles Artists,
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles , CA