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1965 Born
Wilmington, Ohio. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
EDUCATION
1992 M.F.A.,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
1987 B.F.A.,
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green,
OH.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
“The Weight of
Relevance”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
“The Weight of
Relevance”, Secession, Vienna, Austria
2006
“Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers”, REDCAT, Los Angeles,
CA, curated by
Eungie Joo, traveling to: ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; St. Louis Museum,
St. Louis, MO
“Vows”,
Halle fuer Kunst, eV, Lüneburg,
Germany
“Eulogies
to One and Another”, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Mehdi
Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
“Letters
to an Army of Three”, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of
Fine Arts,
Houston, Texas, curated by Mary Leclère
2005
“Culture of Choice”, Van Horn,
Düsseldorf,
Germany
2004 “Soft
Blockades Part 2”, Magazin 4, Voralberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
“Soft Blockades”, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York,
NY
2003
“Magical Politics”, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2002
“Virtual Arena” (catalogue), Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
“From Mouth to Ear”, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
“Box
with Dance of Its Own Making”, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin,
Germany
2001
“Democracy’s Body – Dance Dance Revolution”, Art 32 Basel, Art
Statements,
Basel,
Switzerland, presented by Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2000
“Intimate Strangers”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
“I
Need a Hero”, Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA), University of
Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, WI
“One
and the Same Body”, ARCO Project Room, Madrid, Spain,
presented by Sara
Meltzer’s
on view, New York, NY
1301
PE, Los Angeles, CA
1999 “Moving
Equilibrium”, Sara Meltzer’s on view, New York, NY
1998 “Ohio”
(two-person show with Sam Durant), Dogenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
“Spectacular Appearances”, Santa Monica Museum of
Art, Santa
Monica, CA
1997
“Spectacular Appearances in the
Food Court”, A project with the Santa Monica
Museum of Art
Video Installation, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA
Spanish Box, Santa Monica, CA
1994 “Damaged Goods”, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
1993 FOOD
HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
“Human Game”, Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy (curated by
Francesco
Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, and Stefano Tonchi)
“Anticipation”, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (curated
by
Karen Irvine)
“Art for our sake!”, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“Welcome Home”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
“Jump Cut—Nights” (a symposium on choreographic structures in moving
images)
and “Videoperformance—stories told through movement”, Cinema of Museum
Ludwig, Cologne (curated by Georg Elben)
“particulate
matter”, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
(curated
by Glen Helfand)
“This is not a Love Song”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,
Culver City,
2005/06 “Monuments for the USA”, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA
Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, traveling to White Columns,
New York
2005 “REALIT;-)T”,
curated by Andreas Meier with Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Sammlung
Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum,
Switzerland
Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana,
Mexico
Mary
Goldman, Los Angeles, CA
“Old
News”, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions,
Los Angeles, CA
“New
Tapestries”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York,
NY
“Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training”, (screening), Kunsthalle Basel,
Art/Film,
Art/
36/Basel, Switzerland
“Fast Forward”, Media Art From the Goetz Collection, Conde Duque Centro
Cultural,
Madrid, Spain
2004/06 “100
Artists See God”, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston,
The
Jewish Museum San Francisco,CA;
Laguna Art Museum,
Laguna Beach,
CA;
Institute of
Contemporary Arts, London,
England;
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,
Virginia Beach,
VA;
Albright College Freedman Art Gallery,
Reading,
PA;
Cheekwood Museum of
Art, Nashville, TN
2004/05 “Dance
Dance Revolution”, curated by Matthew Lyons & Lanka Tattersall,
The
Leroy Neiman
Gallery
Columbia University, New York, NY
“Victory 2004”, Ronald Felman,
New York,
NY
“kurzdavordanach”,
curated by von Wilhelm Schürmann, Die Photographische
Sammlung/
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne,
Germany
“Videodrome II”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara,
CA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
Greenborough,
NC
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
University of Illinois ("Vieja Gloria" film screening), Chicago, IL
“The
Freedom Salon”, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
“Drawings”, Galerie Praz-Delavallade,
Paris,
France
Whitney Biennial, curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra
Singer
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003-04 “Fast
Forward”, Media Works from the Goetz Collection between Ethno-Narration
and Formal
Innovation, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003
“Rendered”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
“Yard: An
exhibition about the private landscape that surrounds suburban domestic
architect”, curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker, Socrates
Sculpture
Park, Long Island City, NY
“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,
CA
“Conversations”, curated by Connie Butler, Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Los
Angeles,
CA
2002
“Videodrome II”, curated by Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow, Johanna Burton and
Anne
Ellegood
New
Museum of
Contemporary
Art, New York, NY
“Time-Share”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
“Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop” (catalogue), curated by
Simon Wallis, Tate
Liverpool, England
“DV
Noir: Video Art from Under the Shadow of Hollywood”, curated by
Rodolfo
Sanchez, Museum at
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
“LA
On My Mind: Recent Acquisitions from MOCA’s Collection”, curated
by Michael
Darling, MOCA at The Pacific Design Center,
Los Angeles,
CA
“Gallery Group Show”, Goldman Tevis,
Los Angeles,
CA
“New
Heimat”, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt,
Germany
“Retake” (catalogue), curated by Susanne Titz and Ulrike Groos, Neuer
Aachener
Kunstverein, Aachen,
Germany
“Untitled (Bowers, Hamilton, Schwarz, Steinfeld)”, curated by Christine
Bisetto and
Steffen Boddeker, Haggerty Gallery, University of
Dallas, Irving, TX
“Casino 2001” (catalogue), curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn,
Stedelijk
Museum for Actual Kunst,
Ghent, Belgium
2001
“Everybody Now”, curated by Katy Siegel, The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Gallery,
Hunter College, New
York
“Subject Plural” (catalogue), curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary
Arts
Museum,
Houston,
TX
“False Start”, curated by Cecilia Brunson, Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard
College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film &
Video”
(catalogue), curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Armand Hammer Museum,
Los
Angeles, CA; PBICA, Palm Beach, FL
2000 “Video
Take”, Stuc en Hedendaagse Kunsten, De Openabare Bibliotheek,
Leuven, Belgium
“Radar Love”, curated by David Pagel, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
“Game On”, curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Jenelle Porter and Conny
Purtill,
Sara Meltzer
Gallery, New York, NY
“Moving Pictures”, Galerie Tommy Lund,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
1999
“Painting: Fore and Aft”, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
“Drawing the Line’, curated by Kirk Delman, Ruth Chandler Williamson
Gallery,
Scripps College,
Claremont,
“Venus”, curated by Habib Kheradyar, Arc, Vienna, Austria
“Motion Studies”, curated by Michael Darling, Kunsthallen Brandts
Klaedefabrik,
Odense, Denmark
“Transfer”, curated by Rosanne Alstatt Videonale-Intermezzo, Kunstmuseum
Bonn,
Bonn, Germany
“Living Theatre” (catalogue), curated by Diana Thater and Hildegund
Amanshauser,
Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg,
Austria
“I’m
the Boss of Myself” (catalogue), curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Amy
Cappellazzo, Sara Meltzer, New York, NY
“Me
Mine”, curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts
Gallery,
California State
University, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition, curated by Susie Allen for Virgin Atlantic Airways,
Virgin Atlantic
VIP Lounge, Newark Airport, Newark, NJ
“Video Cult/tures” (catalogue), ZKM,
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Karlsruhe,
Germany
“More Than Meets the Eye” (catalogue), curated by Wilhelm Schuermann,
Deichtorhallen,
Hamburg, Germany
1998-99 “Unfinished
History” (catalogue), curated by Francesco Bonami,
Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis,
MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1998
“Guarene
Arte 98:”, (catalogue), Selected by Douglas Fogle, Fondazione Sandretto
Re Rebaudengo per l’arte, Torino,
Italy
“In
the Polka Dot Kitchen” (catalogue), curated by Sally Elesby and Anne
Ayres,
Otis Gallery
and Armory Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Time Dilates”, Three Day Weekend, New York, NY
“Kamikaze”, curated by Monica Bonvicini, Marstall, Berlin,
Germany
“Phoenix Triennial” (catalogue), curated by David Rubin, Phoenix Art
Museum,
Phoenix, AZ
“Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day”, curated by
Marilu Knode,
Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
(catalogue)
“Wings of Desire”, curated by Michelle Guy, Walter McBean
Gallery, San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“Three Day Weekend”, curated by Dave Muller, Los Angeles, CA
“Youth Studies”, curated by Brad Spence, POSTdowntown, Los Angeles, CA
1997-98 “Places
That Are Elsewhere”, curated by Diana Thater, David Zwirner
Gallery, New
York, NY
1997 “Quartzose”,
curated by Michael Darling, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen,
Denmark
“The
Summer of Love”, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
“Hot
Coffee”, curated by Thomas Lawson, Artists Space, New York, NY
1996-97
“True.BLISS” (catalogue), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los
Angeles, CA
1996
“Trying/Pattern”, Chance, a project by
Art Center
College, Whisky Pete’s, NV
“:Open House” (catalogue), curated by John O’Brien, Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
“Space Space”, curated by Stephen Hartzog, POST, Los Angeles, CA
“Ether”, curated by Michelle Guy, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Report from Spring Training”, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA
1995 “Neotoma”,
Otis Gallery, Otis
College of Art and Design,
Los Angeles, CA
“Redevelopment”, curated by Stephen Hartzog & Rick Pirro
“Couldn’t Get Ahead” (catalogue & CD), curated by Adam McEwen,
Independent
Artists Space, London,
England
“Three Day Weekend Takes an Extended Working Vacation”, In Rezone at
Diverse
Works, Houston, TX
“People-Going Places-Doing Things”, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Pretty”, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1994
“Thanks-The Works Is Not For Sale But Up For Barter”, Three Day Weekend,
Los Angeles, CA
“Dave’s Not Here”, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
“Thanks Again”, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
“Second Skin”, curated by Charles LaBelle, Espace, San Francisco, CA
“Bad
Girls” (catalogue), curated by Marcia Tucker, New Museum, New York,
NY
“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, CA
“The
Power of Positive Thinking”, curated by Sam Durant, FOOD HOUSE,
Santa
Monica, CA
1993 “Loose
Slots”, curated by Richard Kuhlenshmidt, Temporary Contemporary,
Las
Vegas, NV
“Heaven Missing”, Jose Freire Gallery, New York, NY
“Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism”,
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,
Germany
Ruth
Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Thank You”, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
FOOD
HOUSE Visits the Art Store Gallery, curated by FOOD HOUSE
The Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
“Public & Private Pleasure”, curated by Lauren Lesko,
Nomadic Sites, Los Angeles
“Cherry Bomb”, Southern Exposure,
San Francisco,
CA
1993 “Imp of
the Perverse”, curated by Alisa Tager, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York,
NY
1992-93 “Skinned
Eyes/Skin Dye, curated by Tyler Stallings, The Bridge Gallery,
Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
1992 The FAR
Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources Inc., Federal Reserve Building,
Los
Angeles,
CA
“Good Design”, organized by Jorge Pardo & Pae White,Nomadic Sites,
Pasadena, CA
“Afterthought”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991 “Window
on L.A.”, curated by David Pagel, L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
“Tales From The Creeps”, Marc Richards Gallery,
Santa Monica,
CA
PERFORMANCES
1993
“Indignant Fairy”, Beyond Baroque,
Venice, CA
1991
“Cafeteria”, The Other 45 Minutes,
Los Angeles,
CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2003 City of
Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowship Recipient for Visual Arts
1998
Nominee, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’arte Prize
WESTAF/NEA, Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Sculpture
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