Adrian Piper
Visual Artist
1948 –
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Who is Adrian Piper?
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is an American conceptual artist and philosophy professor. Her work addresses ostracism, otherness, and racist thought. She attended the School of Visual Arts, City College of New York, and Harvard University, where she earned her doctorate. Piper received visual arts fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979 and 1982, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989. In 1991, she became the first female African American philosophy professor to receive academic tenure in the United States.
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- Born
- Sep 20, 1948
New York City - Also known as
- Adrian Margaret Smith Piper
- Adrian Margaret S Piper
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Associate of Arts, School of Visual Arts
Fine art
(Specialized in Painting)
(1966 - 1969) - (Specialized in Sculpture)
- PhD, Harvard University
Philosophy
( - 1981) - Bachelor of Arts, City College of New York
Philosophy
(1970 - 1974) - Musicology
- Associate of Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Lived in
- New York
- New York City
- Cape Cod
- Berlin
(2005 - )
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on July 23, 2013
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