Collection: Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper (b. 1948) is an American conceptual artist and philosopher whose practice has addressed race, gender, identity, and the ethics of encounter since the late 1960s. Working across performance, video, installation, drawing, and text, Piper developed a body of work that directly implicates the viewer in questions of perception, prejudice, and social categorisation.

Her early Catalysis performances (1970–71) and the ongoing My Calling (Card) series (1986–) use the body and the document as instruments of confrontation. Her philosophical writing, including the two-volume Out of Order, Out of Sight (1996), runs parallel to her artistic practice. Piper has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018), and is represented in major international collections.

Publications gathered here include exhibition catalogues and printed matter relating to Adrian Piper's practice. Original and period items.