Adler Guerrier
Haitian American visual artist
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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.[1][2]
Adler Guerrier | |
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| Born | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Education | New World School of the Arts |
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,[3] 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.[4]
Guerrier's artistic practice combines walks and archival practice to expand on ideas of place and belonging.[5][6] Publications about his work include Adler Guerrier: Scenes from a Verdant Place (2014),[7] published by Name Publications; and Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot (2014), published by Pérez Art Museum Miami.[8]
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.[9][10][11][12]
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;[13] and Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot (2014) at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.[9]
International group presentations include the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York;[14][15] and the XXIII Bienal Arte Paiz, in Guatemala, in 2023.[16][17]
Collections (selection)
- Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida[9]
- Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida[18]
- Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
- Studio Museum in Harlem, New York[19]
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis