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Previous shows:
Amy Adler – Phantom Instrument (2007)
Amy Adler – Young Photographer (2002)

 

Biography

Born in New York, NY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA


Education

1995 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1994 American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar New York University, New York, NY
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
The Lesson, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
Player’s History, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Sky Observer’s Guide (with Amy Cook), ACME. at Domestic, Los Angeles

2006
Make-Believe, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

2005
The Rainbow Hour, ACME, Los Angeles

2004
Virgin Sacrifice, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Unsolved Problems of Gravity, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2002
Unknown, Casey Kaplan, New York
Young Photographer, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
different girls, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo Di Caprio, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Amy Adler: Centerfold, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2001
Amy Adler photographs Leonardo diCaprio, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Record of the Year, Art Statements, Art/32/Basel, Basel

2000
Chapter & Verse, Casey Kaplan 10–6, New York
different girls, No Limits Gallery, Milan

1999
Only One, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
Why Would I Lie? Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Nervous Character, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1998
Focus Series: Amy Adler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Problem Child, Entwistle Gallery, London

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


Group exhibitions

2008
Nord Nord West – Vibeke Tandberg, Annika Ström, Vanessa Baird, Amy Adler, 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

2006
HOLLYWOOD IS A VERB, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

2005
High Drama: Eugene Berman and The Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens

2004
Perspectives at 25, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Monument To Now, Desde Foundation, Athens
Subway Series, The Bronx Museum, New York
Paper, Patricia Faure gallery, Los Angeles

2003
Something More Than Five Revolutionary Seconds, Fodazione Davide Halevim, Milan
160 Meisterzeichnungen, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Imperfect Innocence, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth

2002
The Image Regained: Painting and Photography in the Eighties and
Nineties, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
LA on My Mind, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles
supersonic & alien, curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio, galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome
Summer Cinema, Casey Kaplan, New York
Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena

2001
New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens
The Americans-New Art, curated by Mark Sladen, Barbican Gallery, London
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca Woodman, curated by Paola Morsiani, Perspectives Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1998–2001, Deste Foundation, Athens

2000
Urs Fischer with Amy Adler, Delfina Project Space, London
Garden Party, curated by Laurie Simmons, No Limits Events, Milan
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju
Casey Kaplan 10–6, New York
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, Museum of Contemporary Art Los
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The Name of the Place, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

1996
Stream of Consciousness: 8 Los Angeles Artists, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Be Specific, curated by Michael Duncan, 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, curated 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, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

1994
Summer 1994, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SuperWoman, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
Loose Slots, curated by Richard Kuhlenscmidt, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV


Projects

2002
Centerfold, Artforum: Contributor, January 2002, p112–113.
Amy Adler Curates Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA


Awards and fellowships

1994 Delfina Studio Trust, Artist In residence, London, England
American Photography Institute Fellowship, National Graduate Seminar, New York University, New York, NY
Levinson Scholarship, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Olsons Materials Grant


Public collections

Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles , CA