Andrea Fraser

Andrea Fraser (1965, Billings, Montana) is an artist and Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has been identified with performance, video, project-based art, context art, and institutional critique.

She studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York (1982–84), Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York (1984–85), and New York University, New York (1985–86).

Fraser was a founding member of the feminist performance group, The V-Girls (1986–96); the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997–98); and the cooperative art gallery Orchard (2005–present).

Surveys of her work have been presented by the Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia; the Kunstverein Hamburg; the Kemper Art Museum, Washington University; the Franz Hals Museum in Haarlem; and the Carpenter Center, Harvard University. Major retrospectives of her work have been organized by the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2013); the Museum der Moderne Kunst Salzburg (2015); the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona and the MUAC UNAM Mexico City (both 2016).

She lives in Los Angeles.

Films

• Films on Ubuweb

Writings, Catalogues

• Andrea Fraser: Works 1984-2003, Dumont, 2003.
• "From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique", Artforum 44:1, New York, Sep 2005, pp 278-285.
• Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, MIT Press, 2005, 332 pp. [1]
• What Do I as an Artist, Provide?, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2007, 23 pp.
• "Speaking of the Social World...", Texte zur Kunst 81, Berlin, Mar 2011, pp 153-158.
• "‘I am going to tell you what I am not; pay attention, this is exactly what I am,’", in Museum 21: Institution, Idea, Practice, ed. Sophie Byrne, Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp 82-103.
• "L’1% C’est Moi", Texte zur Kunst 83, Berlin, Sep 2011, pp 114-127.
  • "L’1% C’est Moi", c2016. (Spanish)
• "There's No Place Like Home", 2012.
  • "Como en casa en ninguna parte", 2016. (Spanish)
• Texts, Scripts, Transcripts, Museum Ludwig, 2013.
• Andrea Fraser. L’1%, c’est moi, ed. Ekaterina Álvarez Romero, Ciudad de México: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), and Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 2016, 119 pp. (Spanish)/(English)
• Writings on Aaaaarg

Interviews

• "Andrea Fraser in Conversation with Sabine Breitwieser", 2015.
• Artforum video interview, 2016.

Links

• Profile at UCLA
• Fraser on Wikipedia