2018
Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper: Self-Portrait in the Manner of Käthe Kollwitz, 1966, Carbon drawing on newsprint, cut out 8.75" x 6.25". Photo: Timo Ohler. Collection Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin © APRA Foundation Berlin.
The American artist and analytical philosopher Adrian Piper continues to have a significant influence on conceptual art in the USA to this day, through her works on paper, her videos, multimedia installations, paintings, sound works, and her graphics based on text and photography. With themes that include gender and race, Piper expands the spectrum of first-generation concept art and minimalism. Since the late 1960s, she has consistently scrutinised the political conditions of art's production processes as well as its reception and meaning. Piper finds a minimalist and at the same time poetic formal language in her artistic approach that appeals to a broad public.