Amy Adler

Amy Adler (born 1966) is an American visual artist. She is currently a professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

She has had one-person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Aspen Art Museum as well as galleries worldwide.

Early life Adler was born in 1966 and raised in New York City.

Career Adler's photographs are shot from her own drawings. In the 1990s, she developed a translation process, from photography to drawing back to photography. The final product, a unique photographic print of the drawing, became the original. The original drawings for the photographs, were destroyed. This is to be understood as a production process that puts the notions of authenticity and original in question and expanded.

In 2006, Adler inverted this process and now displays the original drawings, from 2014, she uses location shots as source material for her drawings. In her drawings and photographs, Adler has always worked intensively with the medium of film. During her study of Cinematic Arts at USC from 2009 to 2012 she began making her own films. In 2012 she directed the 26-minute documentary Mein Schloss, and in 2016 she directed the 15 minute fiction film, Tear Jerker.

Exhibitions Adler's first one-person museum show was at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 1998 as part of their "Focus Series." solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Aspen Art Museum in 2006, and a solo project at the Drammens Art Museum in Norway in 2012.

In the spring of 2005 Twin Palms Press released a monograph of her work entitled, "Amy Adler Young Photographer."

Public collections Adler's work is in the permanent collections of The Broad, The UCLA Hammer Museum, the Deste Foundation, LA County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Pérez Art Museum, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.