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Amy Adler
Doug Aitken
Nobuyoshi Araki
Thomas Demand
Jason Dodge
Elmgreen & Dragset
Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoto Kawahara
Yuki Kimura
Sean Landers
Daido Moriyama
Kyoko Murase
Jorge Pardo
Erik Parker
Jack Pierson
Dean Sameshima
Kara Walker
Amy ADLER

Title Why Would I Lie? (Installation View, Detail)
Artist Amy Adler
Work Date 1999
Edition/Set Set of 6 images, Unique
Materials Cibachrome print mounted on sintra
Size h: 72 x w: 40 in / h: 183 x w: 102 cm

Title Why Would I Lie? (Installation View, Detail)
Artist Amy Adler
Work Date 1999
Edition/Set Set of 6 images, Unique
Materials Cibachrome print mounted on sintra
Size h: 72 x w: 40 in / h: 183 x w: 102 cm

Title Surfing Girl
Artist Amy Adler
Work Date 2002
Edition/Set Unique
Materials Cibachrome print mounted on aluminum
Size h: 40 x w: 28.5 in / h: 102 x w: 72 cm

Title Different Girls #12
Artist Amy Adler
Work Date 2002
Edition/Set Unique
Materials Cibachrome print mounted on aluminum
Size h: 60 x w: 43 in / h: 152 x w: 109 cm

Title Different Girls #8
Artist Amy Adler
Work Date 2002
Edition/Set Unique
Materials Cibachrome print mounted on aluminum
Size h: 43 x w: 60 in / h: 109 x w: 152 cm

Born: 1966 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
1989 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York
1987 Die Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 "unknown" Casey Kaplan, New York
"Different Girls" Part 2, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
UNLV, 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
"Different Girls" Part 1, No Limits Gallery, Milan, Italy
2000 "Chapter & Verse" Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York
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
"The Problem Child" Entwistle Gallery, London, England
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

2002
-03

"LEIBE MALER, male mir / DEAR PAINTER, paint me... / CHER PEINTRE, peins moi..." Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Allemagne
2002 "LA on My Mind" Pacific Design Center gallery, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection" Deste Foundation,
Athens, Greece
"The Americans-New Art" Barbican Gallery, London
"Form Follows Fiction" Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
"Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca Woodman"
Perspectives Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
"1998-2001" Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2000 "Urs Fischer with Amy Adler", Delfina Project Space, London, England
"Garden Party" No Limits Events, Milan, Italy
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
Casey Kaplan 10- 6, New York
"Made in LA" 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
Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1997 "Spheres of Influence: Selections from the Permanent Collection"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Name of the Place" Casey Kaplan, New York
1996 "Stream of Consciousness: 8 Los Angeles Artists" University Art Museum,
Santa Barbara, CA
"Be Specific" Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA,
"Gender, Fucked" Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA,
"Skin Deep" Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1995 "A Glimpse of the Norton Collection" 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,
1993 "Loose Slots," Temporary Contemporary, curated by Richard Kuhlenscmidt,
Las Vegas, NV
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1999 Delfina Studio Trust Artist In residence 1999-2000, London, England
1994 American Photography Institute, Fellowship, National Graduate Seminar
Levinson Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Olsons Materials Grant
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
PUBLICATIONS
different girls, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, 2002.
Morsiani, Paola, Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca Woodman,
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2001.
The Americans. New Art., Booth-Clibborn Editions/Barbican Art, London, England, 2001.
Form Follows Fiction, Charta, Milan/Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, 2001.
I Am A Camera, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England, 2001. P 83-88.
Butler, Connie, Amy Adler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1998.
Brown, Elizabeth A., Stream of Consciousness - 8 Los Angeles Artists,
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1996.
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