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Adrian Piper, in full Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948, New York, New York, U.S.), American conceptual and performance artist known for her provocative works that treat race, gender, class, and identity.Piper studied art at the Art Students League of New York while she was in high school. She then studied sculpture and painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and graduated with an associate’s degree in 1969. She earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the City College of New York in 1974 and went on to get a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1981 from Harvard University. She spent 1977–78 studying philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. She simultaneously pursued her academic and artistic careers, teaching philosophy at a number of universities before she was appointed a tenured professor of philosophy at Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1990.
reference: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adrian-Piper