Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser (1965, Billings, Montana) is an artist and Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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).
Fraser’s work is exhibited in both the United States and internationally. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including a mid-career retrospective, Andrea Fraser, Works: 1984 to 2003, organized by the Kunstverein, Hamburg, in 2003, and a survey of her video work presented by the Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, in 2002. Fraser’s work is in public collections worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery, Berlin; and Tate Modern, London. She lives in Los Angeles.
- Films
- Writings, Catalogues
- "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.
- Writings on Aaaaarg
- Interviews
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