Overview

Dan Adler is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts & Art History at York University in Toronto and is the IMMA/(ACW)NCAD fellow for 2019. Adler’s areas of research incorporate the history of art writing, modern and contemporary sculpture, German modernism, and the development and reception of the conceptual art movement.

Books by Adler include: Tainted Goods: Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures (Routledge, 2018) and the monograph Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983 (Afterall Books/MIT Press, 2009). He co-edited (with Mitchell Frank) German Art History and Scientific Thought: Beyond Formalism (Ashgate Press, 2012) and co-edited (with Janine Marchessault and Sanja Obradovic) Parallax: Stereoscopic 3D in Moving Images and Visual Art (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2013).

A former senior editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Adler regularly contributes reviews to Artforum. An alumnus of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, he co-curated (with Lesley Johnstone) a Liz Magor retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, which traveled in 2017 to the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; the Kunstverein in Hamburg; and the Musée d’Art Moderne et contemporain in Nice, France.

Adler’s other curatorial credits include the exhibitions Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty (2014) held at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2014) and When Hangover Becomes Form: Rachel Harrison and Scott Lyall Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2016).