Adler Guerrier

Adler Guerrier (born 1975, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a visual artist working in photography, drawing, collage, and printmaking to comment on issues of place and identity. Guerrier lives and works in Miami, United States.

Education and Career Adler Guerrier holds a Bachelor of Arts from New World School of the Arts, Miami. He was an Artist in Residence at Oolite Arts, Miami, in 2018 and 2021, and currently has a studio at Bakehouse Art Complex, in the Wynwood neighborhood. In 2021, Guerrier was commissioned by For Freedoms to produce a billboard for the Miami Design District.

Guerrier's artistic practice combines walks and archival practice to expand on ideas of place and belonging. Publications about his work include Adler Guerrier: Scenes from a Verdant Place (2014), published by Name Publications; and Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot (2014), published by Pérez Art Museum Miami.

In 2014, Adler Guerrier presented his first mid-career survey at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The exhibition Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot, showcased a large number of photographs, sculptures, drawings, prints, and collage work to contextualize Miami not only as a geographical site but also as a nuanced sociocultural territory through its arts production, politics, urban and natural landscapes.

Exhibitions (selection) Adler Guerrier have had the following solo exhibitions Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity (2018) at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot (2014) at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.

International group presentations include the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York; and the XXIII Bienal Arte Paiz, in Guatemala, in 2023.

Collections (selection)

Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis