”Through performance, video installation, photography, drawing, and text, Adrian Piper provocatively analyzes cultural biases and their impact on the individual. While studying art at the School of Visual Arts in New York and philosophy at City College of New York in the late 1960s, Piper became an important early practitioner of conceptual art and, later, an analytic philosopher, receiving her PhD from Harvard University in 1981. Using idea-based artworks to critically enact race, gender, and class identities, Piper challenges the universal and neutral subject positions so often assumed in art, philosophy, and mass media.” —Ruth Erickson