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ANDREA BOWERS
*1965, Wilmington, Ohio, lives and works in Los AngelesEDUCATION 1992 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia 1987 BFA, Bowling Green State University, Ohio SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, US An Eloquent Woman, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR Your Donations Do Our Work: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, Los Angeles, CA, US (two-person) 2008 The Weight of Relevance, ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Sanctuary, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, DE 2007 The Weight of Relevance, Power Plant, Toronto, CAN The Weight of Relevance, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, US The Weight of Relevance, Secession, Vienna, A (Cat.) 2006 Vows, Halle für Kunst e. V., Luneburg, Germany, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge Nothing Is Neutral, Artpace, San Antonio Nothing Is Neutral, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Eungie Joo; traveled to Artpace, San Antonio Eulogies to One and Another, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris Your Whole Fucking Culture Alienates Me, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin Letters to an Army of Three, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2005 Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Riverside Wall, Berlin Culture of Choice, Van Horn, Dusseldorf 2004 Soft Blockades Part 2, Magazin 4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz Soft Blockades, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York 2003 Magical Politics, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin 2002 Virtual Arena, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York From Mouth to Ear, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles Box with Dance of Its Own Making, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin 2001 Democracy’s Body—Dance Dance Revolution, Art Statements, Art 32 Basel, Switzerland 2000 Intimate Strangers, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York I Need a Hero, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee One and the Same Body, ARCO Project Room, Madrid 1301 PE, Los Angeles 1999 Moving Equilibrium, Sara Meltzer’s on view, New York 1998 Spectacular Appearances, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica 1997 Spectacular Appearances in the Food Court, a project with the Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Santa Monica Place Mall 1996 Spanish Box, Santa Monica, Santa Monica 1994 Damaged Goods, Bliss, Pasadena 1993 FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 Das Gespinst, Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Besuch im Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE (group) Bitch is The New Black, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, US, curated by Emma Gray Fight the Power, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES 2008 Wunderkammer Lüneburg, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE California Biennial 2008, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Proyecto civico, Curated by Lucia Sanromán and Ruth Estévez, The Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico Progress, Whitney Museum of Art, New York Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles nach/sichten, Video works from the Collection Goetz, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Stephan Urbaschek Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Ralph Rugoff Memory Is Your Image Of Perfection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego We Remember The Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the MCA San Diego, Curated by Rachel Kent, Dr. Stephanie Hanor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Syndey, Australia The Way That We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Southern Exposure; Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Diamonds and Bars. Die Kunst der Amischen. Quilts aus der Sammlung Schlumberger, ZKM/ Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Paperweight, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin Small Things End, Great Things Endure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco La Mirada Iracunda / The Furious Gaze, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2007 Radical Hospitality, The Suburban, Chicago Nothing Moments Projects, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, curated by Stven Hull and Tami Demaree Resistance is..., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Tina Kukielski and Hannah Feldman Encore, Gallery 4000, Chicago, curated by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman Tanzen, Sehen., Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; traveling to Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo Sevilla, Spain The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory, Curated by Ariane Beyn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco The Evil, Teil 1: Presse & Politik, Curated by Raimar Stange, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden Classe de Danse, Curated by Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi, Madonna #fust Galerie, Bern 2006 Personal Affairs, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (Cat.) Particulate Matter, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland Prevailing Climate, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York First Artist Defines Meaning, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz Human Game: Winners and Losers, Curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi, Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence This is Not a Love Song, Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles Anticipation, Curated by Karen Irvine, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Art for Our Sake!, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Welcome Home, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Jump Cut -Nights - A symposium on choreographic structures in moving images, Videoperformance - stories told through movement, Curated by Georg Elben, Cinema of Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2005 Monuments for the USA, Curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; traveled to White Columns, New York REALIT;-)T, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland Touch of Evil, Gallery Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico The Last Christmas, Mehdi Chouakri, Riverside Wall, Berlin REALIT;-)T, Curated by Andreas Meier with Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana Mary Goldman, Los Angeles Old News, Curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles New Tapestries, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training (screening), Kunsthalle Basel, Art/Film, Art/ 36/Basel Fast Forward, Media Art From the Goetz Collection, Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid 2004 100 Artists See God, Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston , organized and circulated by Independent Curators International, New York; traveled to the Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville Dance Dance Revolution, Curated by Matthew Lyons & Lanka Tattersall, The Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York Victory 2004, Ronald Felman, New York Kurzdavordanach, Curated by von Wilhelm Schürmann, Die Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Cologne Vieja Gloria (screening), University of Illinois, Chicago The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York Drawings, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris Whitney Biennial, Curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2003 Fast Forward- Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; traveled to Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Yard: An Exhibition about the Private Landscape That Surrounds Suburban Domestic Architecture, Curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York Extended Play: Art Remixing Music, Curated by Simon Rees, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand C.O.L.A. 2003, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles Conversations, Curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2002 Videodrome II, Curated by Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow, Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Traveled to; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston Time-Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Curated by Simon Wallis, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool DV Noir: Video Art from Under the Shadow of Hollywood, Curated by Rodolfo Sanchez, Museum at California Center for the Arts, Escondido LA On My Mind: Recent Acquisitions from MOCA’s Collection, Curated by Michael Darling, MOCA @ The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles New Heimat, Curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main Retake, Curated by Susanne Titz and Ulrike Groos, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen Untlilted (Bowers, Hamilton, Schwarz, Steinfeld), Curated by Christine Bisetto and Steffen Boddeker, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving 2001 Casino 2001, Curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent Everybody Now, Curated by Katy Siegel, The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York Subject Plural, Curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston False Start, Curated by Cecilia Brunson, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson 2000 Video Take, Stuc en Hedendaagse Kunsten, De Openbare Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film & Video, Curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Radar Love, Curated by David Pagel, Galleria Marabini, Bologna Game On!, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Moving Pictures, Galerie Tommy Lund, Copenhagen 1999 Painting: Fore and Aft, ACME, Los Angeles Drawing the Line, Curated by Kirk Delman, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont Venus, Curated by Habib Kheradyar, Arc, Vienna Motion Studies, Curated by Michael Darling , Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark A Living Theatre, Curated by Diana Thater and Hildegund Amanshauser, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg Video Cult/tures, ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe More Than Meets the Eye, Curated by Wilhelm Schürmann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg Transfer, Curated by Rosanne Alstatt, Videonale-Intermezzo, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn I’m the Boss of Myself, Sara Meltzer's on view, New York Me Mine, Curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles Group Exhibition, Curated by Susie Allen for Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Atlantic VIP Lounge, Newark Airport, Newark 1998 Unfinished History, Curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Guarene Arte 98, Selected by Douglas Fogle, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turino Ohio (two-person show with Sam Durant), Dogenhaus, Berlin Time Dilates, Three Day Weekend, New York Kamikaze, Curated by Monica Bonvicini, Marstall, Berlin Phoenix Triennial, Curated by David Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix In the Polka Dot Kitchen, Curated by Sally Elesby and Anne Ayres, Otis Gallery and Armory Center, Los Angeles Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day, Curated by Marilu Knode, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle Wings of Desire, Curated by Michelle Guy, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Three Day Weekend, Curated by Dave Muller, Los Angeles Youth Studies, Curated by Brad Spence, POSTdowntown, Los Angeles 1997 Places That Are Elsewhere, Curated by Diana Thater, David Zwirner Gallery, New York Quartzose, Curated by Michael Darling, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen Hot Coffee, Curated by Thomas Lawson, Artists Space, New York The Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York 1996 Space Space, Curated by Stephen Hartzog, POST, Los Angeles True.BLISS, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Trying/Pattern, Art Center College, Pasadena Open House. Curated by John O’Brien, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena Ether, Curated by Michelle Guy, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica Report from Spring Training, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara 1995 Neotoma, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles Redevelopment, Curated by Stephen Hartzog & Rick Pirro Couldn’t Get Ahead, Curated by Adam McEwen, Independent Artists Space, London Three Day Weekend Takes an Extended Working Vacation, Diverseworks, Houston People–Going Places–Doing Things, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago Pretty, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica 1994 Thanks—The Works Is Not for Sale But Up for Barter, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles Dave’s Not Here, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles Thanks Again, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica Bad Girls, Curated by Marcia Tucker, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York The Power of Positive Thinking, Curated by Sam Durant, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica Second Skin, Curated by Charles LaBelle, Espace, San Francisco Utter Realities, Curated by Randy Sommer, Cerritos College Fine Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk PARANOID, Co-organized by Sam Durant, M*Y*T*H* Series at the Brewery, Los Angeles 1993 Loose Slots, Curated by Richard Kuhlenshmidt, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Thank You, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica Public and Private Pleasure, Curated by Lauren Lesko, Nomadic Sites, Los Angeles Cherry Bomb, Southern Exposure, San Francisco Heaven Missing, Jose Freire Gallery, New York FOOD HOUSE Visits the Art Store Gallery, Curated by FOOD HOUSE, The Art Store, Los Angeles Imp of the Perverse. Curated by Alisa Tager, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York 1992 Skinned Eyes/Skin Dyes, Curated by Tyler Stallings, The Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles The FAR Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources Inc., Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles Good Design, Organized by Jorge Pardo & Pae White, Nomadic Sites, Pasadena Afterthought, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco 1991 Window on L.A., Curated by David Pagel, L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles Tales From The Creeps, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica Bonvicini GRANTS AND AWARDS 2008 Contemporary Collectors: Orange County, Fellowship The Durfee Foundation, Grant Recipient United States Artists Broad Fellow 2003 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.), Fellowship Recipient for Visual Arts 1998 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’arte Prize, Nominee WESTAF/NEA, Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Sculpture SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Armand Hammer Museum of ARt and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA Artpace, San Antonio, TX The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC The Ingvild Goetz Collection, Munich Germany The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany Collection of Gaby & Wilhelm Schürmann, Herzogenrath, Germany The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |