Draft:Kathryn Andrews (Artist)

Kathryn Andrews (born 1973, Mobile, Alabama) is an American interdisciplinary conceptual artist who works with sculpture, large-scale printmaking, performance, and sound. Andrews’ work explores how seeing and sensemaking are political acts shaped by the seer’s position within economic, sociocultural, and linguistic systems, often unbeknownst to them.

Biography

Andrews was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1973 and lived throughout the state until the age of 18. She graduated with a BA from Duke University in 1995 and received her MFA from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, in 2003.

Exhibitions

Andrews has shown her work internationally in major museums and galleries including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Renaissance Society, and the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago; the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; the Hammer Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, LAXART, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; The Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco.

Collections

Andrews’ work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art and DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham; Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; de la Cruz Collection and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, among others.