BIOGRAPHY

b. 1965, Wilmington, Ohio; Lives and works in Los Angeles

1992 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1987 BFA, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

An Eloquent Woman, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris

Your Donations Do Our Work: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA

2008

Sanctuary, Van Horn, Düsseldorf

2007

The Weight of Relevance, Secession, Vienna: traveled ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; Power Plant, Toronto; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles

2006

Vows, Halle für Kunst e. V., Lüneburg, Germany

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

Andrea Bowers: All the World is Waiting for You, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY

2005

Mehdi Chouakri, Riverside Wall, Berlin

Culture of Choice, Van Horn, Düsseldorf

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, 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, Berlin

2001

Democracy's Body-Dance Dance Revolution, Art Statements, Art 32 Basel, Switzerland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2009

Die Sammlung Schürmann Zu Besuch Im Museum Abteiberg, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

Suddenly This Summer, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York

2008

2008 California Biennial, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Proyecto Civico/ Civic Project, Curated by Lucia Sanromán and Ruth Estévez, The Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico

Progress, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Amateurs, Curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco  

The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

La Mirada Iracunda/ The Furious Gaze, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2007

space.gaze.desire, Curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen

Resistance is..., Curated by Tina Kukielski, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Encore, Curated by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman, Gallery 40000, Chicago

Tanzen, Sehen. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; traveling to Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla.

The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory, Curated by Ariane Beyn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco

Tanzen, Sehen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; traveling to Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla.

The Evil, Curated by Raimar Stange, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden

Read me! Text in Art, The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles

Classe de Danse, Curated by Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi, Madonna Fust Galerie, Bern, Germany

The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory, Curated by Ariane Beyn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco

2006

Personal Affairs, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

Human Game: Winners and Losers, Curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi, Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence

Anticipation, Curated by Karen Irvine, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Jump Cut -Nights - A symposium on choreographic structures in moving images, Video performance - 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

Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training (screening), Kunsthalle Basel, Art/Film, Art/ 36/Basel

Fast Forward, Media Art From the Goetz Collection, ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; traveled to Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid

2004

Whitney Biennial, Curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2003

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

Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Curated by Simon Wallis, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

2001

Casino 2001, Curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent

Hot Coffee, Curated by Thomas Lawson, Artists Space, New York

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009

Buckley, Annie. "Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy." Artforum.com March 6, 2009.

2008

Bowers, Andrea. "Artist's Project/." SWITCH The Power Plant, 1.1 Winter 2008-09: 15-19.

Bowers, Andrea and Catherine Opie. Between Artists. Art Resources Transfer. Canada: Westcan, 2008

2007

Mizota, Sharon. "Politics sewn to art, panel by quilt-like panel." Los Angeles Times June 9, 2007.

Pagel, David. "Honoring a quilt and its powerful message." Los Angeles Times May 18, 2007.

2006

Butler, Connie, Mary Leclère and Eungie Joo. "Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers." Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: California Institute of the Arts and REDCAT, 2006.

Dawsey, Jill. "Andrea Bowers' History Lessons." Afterall Autumn/Winter 2006: 18-26.

Kort, Michelle. "Letters to an Army of 3." Ms. Magazine  Fall 2006: 43-45.

2005  

Leclère, Mary. Andrea Bowers: Letters to the Army of Three. Exhibition catalogue. Houston: Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, 2005.

Lorch, Catrin. "Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany." Frieze No. 94 October 2005: 228.

2004 

Knight, Christopher. "Politics and Art? Of Course, She Says." Los Angeles Times June 11, 2004.

Sholis, Brian. "Creative Resistance: Carol Bove and Andrea Bowers." Flash Art October 2004: 102. 

2003

Durant, Sam, and Monica Bonvicini. "Andrea Bowers." Neue Review, Art in Berlin  December 2003: 4-5.

Kantor, Jordan. "Andrea Bowers." Artforum January 2003: 140.