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, 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
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

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
Only One, 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

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, 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
Paper, Patricia Faure gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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, curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio, galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome, Italy
Summer Cinema, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
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, curated by Mark Sladen, Barbican Gallery, London, England
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca Woodman, curated by Paola Morsiani, Perspectives Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1998-2001, 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
Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY
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

1995
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, Jan 2002, p112-113.

1998
Amy Adler Curates Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA


Awards and fellowships

1999
Delfina Studio Trust, Artist In residence, London, England

1994
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