A n d r e a   F r a s e r

geb. 1965 in Billings, Montana, USA
1982 - 84 School of Visual Arts, New York
1984-85 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program
1985-86 New York University, New York
lebt und arbeitet in New York und Europa

Projects, Solo Exhibitions and Solo Performances

1998 Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros.
24th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
Information Room, Kunsthalle Bern
An Introduction to the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
1997 White People in West Africa, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Inaugural Speech, inSITE97, San Diego/Tijuana
Student Show: Selections, Lists, Awards, Announcements,
The Galleries At Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
1995 A Project in Two Phases, EA-Generali Foundation, Vienna
1994 The Seventh Museum (an unrealized public project in collaboration with Clegg & Guttmann)
Stroom Foundation, The Hague Services (a 'working-group exhibition' organized in collaboration with Helmut Draxler), Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Kunstverein München; Sous-sol, Ecole supérieure d'art visuel, Geneva; Depot, Vienna
1993 Please ask for assistance, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
White People in West Africa, Galerie Metropol, Vienna
Stellvertreter Representatives Rappresentanti (with Christian Philipp Müller and Gerwald Rockenschaub), Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion, Venice
Eine Gesellschaft des Geschmacks (A Society of Taste), Kunstverein München, Munich
1992 Aren't they lovely, University Art Museum, Berkeley
1991 Welcome to the Wadsworth, MATRIX, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
May I Help You? (in cooperation with Allan McCollum), American Fine Arts, Co., New York
1990 Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
1989 Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
1986 The Fairy Tale: A Gallery Talk, for The Fairy Tale: Politics,
Desire and Everyday Life, Artists' Space, New York
1986 Damaged Goods Gallery Talk Starts Here, for Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

1999 Bibliomania, various locations, London
Museum as Muse, the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998 Genius Loci, Kunsthalle Bern
1997 postproduktion, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Collected, The Photographers' Gallery / The Wallace Collection, London
1995 White Cube/Black Box, EA-Generali Foundation, Vienna
Temporarily Posessed, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The End(s) of the Museum, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona
Make Believe, the Royal Collage of Art, London
1994 Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Don't Postpone Joy or Collecting Can be Fun, Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
1993 What Happened to the Institutional Critique?, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Kontext Kunst, Neue Galerie, Graz
On taking a normal situation..., Antwerp 93, Antwerp
Parallax View, P.S. 1, New York
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1992 Dirty Data: Sammlung Schürmann, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Blurred Logic, MA Galerie, Paris
Wohnzimmer/Büro, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Denkraum Museum, Architektur Forum, Zürich
1991 Die Botschaft als Medium: Medienfenster, a project for Museum in Progress, Vienna, published in Cash Flow (August 1991) and in Der Standard (July 5th, 1991)
1990 Art Supplies and Utopia, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart
The Köln Show, Cologne
Marginal Practices: A Framework in Focus, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
Video Works, Galleri Nordenstad-Skarstedt, Sweden
The Desire of the Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
1990 After the Gold Rush, Milford Gallery, New York
1988 Selling Us Ourselves, 10 on 8, New York
Re: Placement, LACE, Los Angeles
1987 303 Gallery, New York
1986 Picture This: Films Chosen by Artists, Hallwalls, Buffalo
1985 Transitional Objects, Philip Nelson Gallery, Lyon
1984 Fourwalls, Hoboken
Opposing Force, Hallwalls, Buffalo Performances with The V-Girls (Martha Baer, Jessica Chalmers, Erin Cramer, Andrea Fraser, Marianne Weems)
1993-96 Daughters of the ReVolution, performed at:
EA-Generali Foundation, Vienna
Yale University, New Haven
Duke University, Durham
Vanderbilt University, Nashville
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York
The Drawing Center, New York
Writers in Performance, Manhattan Theater Club, New York
1989-92 The Question of Manet's Olympia: Posed and Skirted, performed at:
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Brown University, Providence
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Collage Art Association Annual Meeting (conference), San Francisco
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art, Buffalo
Third Eye Center, Glasgow
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
University Art Museum, Berkeley
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1988-91 Academia in the Alps: In Search of the Swiss Mis(s), performed at:
Franklin Furnace in Judson Memorial Church, New York
University of Glasgow, Glasgow
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting (conference), Chicago
New York University, New York
Columbia University, New York
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1987 Sex and Your Holiday Season, performed at:
Fourwalls, Hoboken
Books and Pamphlets
1997 Student Show: Selections, Lists, Awards, Announcements. Philadelphia:
Moore College of Art and Design, 40p., black and white offset.
1995 Report.. Vienna: EA-Generali Foundation, 92 p., black and white offset.
1993 Preliminary Prospectus: For Individuals; For Corporations; For General Audience I nstitutions; For Cultural Constituency Organizations. New York: Andrea Fraser, 12 p., black and white photocopy.
Eine Gesellschaft des Geschmacks. Munich: Kunstverein München, 124 p., black and white offset.
1992 Aren't they lovely? Berkeley: University Art Museum, 32 p., black and white offset.
1984 Woman 1/Madonna and Child 1506-1967. New York: Andrea Fraser, 16 p., color offset.

Videotapes

1998 Reporting from São Paulo, I'm From the United States, 29 minutes, color. Written and performed by Andrea Fraser. Produced by Andrea Fraser, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, and TV Cultura Brazil.
Eine Einführung in das Sprengel Museum Hannover, (An Introduction to the Sprengel Museum, Hannover ),
20 minutes, color. Produced by Andrea Fraser and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.
1997 Inaugural Speech, 25 minutes, color. Written and performed by Andrea Fraser. Produced by Andrea Fraser and inSITE97.
1995 Temporarily Possessed...deaccessioned from the Semi-Perminant Collection of the
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 28 minutes, color. Produced by Andrea Fraser and
The New Museum of Contemporary Art.
An Introduction to the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, 25 minutes, color.
Edited by Andrea Fraser. Produced by Andrea Fraser and the Antoni Tàpies Foundation.
1993 Das Ästhetische Feld. 60 minutes, color. Edited by Andrea Fraser.
Produced by Andrea Fraser and Galerie Metropol.
1992 Welcome to the Wadsworth. 20 minutes, color. Written, performed and produced by Andrea Fraser.
1991 May I Help You? 25 minutes, color. Written, directed and produced by Andrea Fraser. Performed by Ledlie Borgerhoff.
1989 Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk. 29 minutes, color.
Written, performed and produced by Andrea Fraser.
1988 The Public Life of Art: The Museum. 15 minutes, color. Written and performed by Andrea Fraser. Production design by Louise Lawler.

Institutional collections

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
EA-Generali Foundation, Vienna
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris,
Emory University, Atlanta
Neue Galerie, Graz
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Royal Collage of Art, London
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
University Art Museum, Berkeley
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Fellowships and Awards

1996-1997 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
1991-1992 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
1991-1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowship
1990-1991 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
1990-1991 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Award
1987-1988 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
 
Teaching Positions

1999 Part-time Faculty, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
1999 Visiting Professor, Department of Art, UCLA
1996 Part-time Faculty, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
1996 Guest Artist in Sculpture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art, New York
1994 Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt
1992 Part-time Faculty, Department of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture,
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1990 Guest Artist in Sculpture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art, New York

Presentations

2000 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
1999 'Conversations: Conversation, Fourwalls at the Swiss Institute, New York
A 'Sensation' Chronicle, Seminar in the Privitization of Culture, The New School, New York
Starting Where She is Standing (but the Subject has No Feet!), Feminist
Cultural Production (conference), Kunstverein Hamburg
Where Have We Gotten With Institutional Critique (Again), Critical
Conjunctions (conference) Emory University, Atlanta
1998 Slashing the American Canvas or, Why I Would Rather Have a Day Job, at New Trends in Cultural Policy for the 21st Century, The New School, New York
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
Sou-Sol, Geneva
1997 Parasite at the Clocktower, New York
University of California, Irvine, (lecture and meetings with students)
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (lecture and meetings with students)
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (lecture and meetings with students) Art Center, Passadena (lecture and meetings with students) Atheneum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla
Funding and Content, Basilico Gallery, New York
Goldsmiths College, London
Royal Collage of Art, London
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1996 The Baby and / or the Bath Water, La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
Hochshule der Künste, Berlin (lecture and meetings with students)
1995 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Vienna
Royal Collage of Art, London
1994 How to Provide an Artistic Service, Depot, Vienna
Staatliche Akademie der Bildende Künste, Stuttgart (lecture and meetings with students)
Ecole supérieure d'art visuel, Geneva (lecture and work with students)
Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Vienna
1993 New York University, New York
1992 Bourgeois Dreams, Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg
Reden U.A. auf der Documenta IX, Kassel
An Artist's Statment, for the lecture series Das Ästhetishe Feld,
Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
An Artist's Statement, for the symposium Place Position Presentation
Public, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
Sculpture Department Visiting Artist/Lecture Series, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence (lecture and meetings with students)
1991 Visiting Artist Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (lecture and meetings with students)
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (lecture and meetings with students)
New York University, New York
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (lecture and meetings with
students) University of California Los Angeles Art Lecture Series, Los Angeles
Ottis/Parsons, Los Angeles
1989 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
The Museum's Ethics: Notes for a Gallery Talk, Foundation for Art
Resources, Los Angeles
Exhibition as Artist's Installation, Artists Talk on Art, New York
1988 The Public Doesn't Get It and Related Issues, 5th National Association
of Artists' Organizations Conference, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
1987 Feminist Art and Post-Modernism, Women's Caucus for Art, New York
Changing Representations of Women: Three Artists' Critical Views, The
Scholar and the Feminist Conference, Barnard College, New York

Selected Publications

Various excerpted material. In Kynaston McShine, ed. Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1999, pp. 162-165; 238-9.
Inaugural Speech. In Sally Yard, ed., inSITE97: Private Time in Public Space. San Diego/Tijuana:
inSITE97, 1998, pp. 68-71.
The writing of... Texte zur Kunst, No. 30, June 1998, pp. 179-182.
What's Intangible, Transitory, Mediating, Participatory and Rendered in the Public Sphere?.
October 80 , Spring 1997.
Services: A Working Group Exhibition. In Beatrice von Bismarck, Diethelm Stoller and Ulf Wuggenig,
ed., Games, Fights, Collaborations, Lüneburg: Kunstraum der Üniversität Lüneburg, 1996.
It's art when I say it's art, or... . Texte zur Kunst, No. 20, November 1995, pp. 35-40.
Frankfurt, December 30, 1994. In Stephan Dillemuth ed., Akademie. Munich:
Kunstverein München, 1995, p. 62-63.
Daughters of the ReVolution (by The V-Girls). October , Winter 1994/5.
Two Audio Installations: Garden Program, Pavilion Program. Stellvertreter
Representatives Rappresentanti, Vienna: Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst, 1993, pp. 176-222.
An Artist's Statement. Place Position Presentation Public, Maastricht: Jan van Eyck, 1993, pp. 60-70.
A Speech on Documenta. Reden U.A. auf der Documenta IX, Cologne: Texte zur Kunst, 1992, pp.62-64.
Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk. In Moritz Kung, ed., Denkraum Museum: Uber die Rezeption von Architektur und Kunst, Zurich: Architektur Forum, 1992, pp. 8-27.
Another Kind of Pragmatism. Forum International, Jan/Feb. 1992, pp. 65-67.
Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk. October 57, Summer 1991, pp. 103-123.
Notes on the Museum's Publicity. Lucitania, number 1, Fall 1990.
Museum Highlights: Eine Führung. Durch 6/7, 1990.
A Conversation with the V-Girls. October 51, Winter 1989.
Individual Works. Faces: Journal d'architecture, number 9, 1988, pp.26-29.
Damaged Goods Gallery Talk Starts Here. Art paper, March 1988, pp.12-15.
Individual Works. Individual Works, New York: John Weber Gallery, 1988.
Allan McCollum. Investigations 18, Philadelphia: The Institute of Contemporary Art, 1986.
On The Post-Partum Document: A Review. Afterimage, volume 13, number 6, March 1986, pp. 6-8.
In and Out of Place. Art in America, June 1985, pp. 122-129.

Selected Bibliography

Beatrice von Bismarck. Auf dem Komposthaufen des verbalen Mülls,
Texte zur Kunst, No. 30, June 1998, pp. 164-168.
Holland Cotter. Andrea Fraser, 'White People In West Africa,'
The New York Times, November 14, 1997, p. E45.
Edward J. Sozanski. Celebrating 150 Years of Moore College of Art, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
September 21, 1997.
Monica Mayer. El reporte de Andrea Fraser, El Universal, January 10, 1997, p. 2.
Kravagna, Christian. Andrea Fraser: EA-Generali Foundation, Artforum, Oct. 1995, p. 110.
Kravagna, Christian. Von der Institutionellen Kritik zur Ästhetik der Verwaltung,
Text zur Kunst, August 1995, No. 19, pp. 139-142.
Champey, Ines. Andrea Fraser, Blocknotes, No. 9, Summer 1995, p. 74.
Wailand, Markus. Kommunikationsprobleme, Falter, No. 21/1995, p. 22.
Hofleitner, Johanna. Feldforschung in der Direktion: Andrea Fraser in der Wiener EA-Generali Foundation, Neie Züricher Zeitung, May 30 1995, p. 35.
Schöllhammer, Georg. Andrea Fraser: EA-Generali Foundation, Springer, No. 2-3, June 1995, p. 159-60.
Metzger, Rainer. Die Kunst als Geheimnis—des Geheimnis der Kunst, Der Standard, May 16, 1995, p. 23.
Perrin, Frank. New Deals, Flash Art, March/April 1994, pp. 45-47.
Dienstleistung: Helmut Draxler/Andrea Fraser, 'Eine Gesellschaft des Geschmacks', Kunstverein München, Kunstforum, January/February 1994, pp. 225-6.
Hofleitner, Johanna. Andrea Fraser: Metropol, Flash Art, Nov./Dec. 1993, p.121.
Meyer, James. What Happened to the Institutional Critique?, New York: American Fine Arts, Co., 1993.
Zinggl, Wolfgang. Die richtigen Schuhe. Falter, August 1993. p.54.
Königer, Maribel. Allemagne. art press, July/August 1993. pp.90-91.
Christoph, Horst. Stellvertreter machen Kunst. Profil, June7, 1993, pp.80-82.
Rollig, Stella. Rollenspiele im Kunstkontext. Der Standard, June 11, 1993,pp. A4, A6.
Schünemann, Ingrid. Zwischen Prestige-Kampf und Geldmangel. Männer Vogue, June 1993, pp. 72-78.
Draxler, Helmut. I Too Have Been To Australia, Stellvertreter
Representatives Rappresentanti, Vienna: Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst, 1993.
Kravagna, Christian. Andrea Fraser: Eine Gesellschaft des Geschmacks, Forum International, No. 18, May-August 1991, p. 137.
Weskott, Hanne. 'I Provide Services': Ein Gespräch mit Andrea Fraser..., Artis, May 1993, pp.16-21.
Sussman, Elisabeth. Coming Together in Parts: Positive Power in the Art of the Nineties,
The 1993 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993, pp. 12-25.
Becker, Jochen. Vorstädter Raus,die tageszeitung, March 3, 1993.
Karcher, Eva. Die Gesellschaft des guten Geschmacks,Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feb. 10, 1993.
Rollmann, Barbara. Eine Institution fragt sich selbst, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Feb. 1, 1993.
Steinlechner, Carin. Spiel vom Fragen: Andrea Fraser im Münchner Kunstverein,
Münchner Merkur, January 20, 1993.
Bode, Peter M.. Selbst-Bespiegelung: Die Schau, Der Kunstverein'im Kunstverein,
Abendzeitung (Munich), January 20, 1993.
Krzyzanowski, Anahita. Wer macht die Kunst?, Lüneburger Landeszeitung, Nov. 23, 1992.
Littlejohn, David. Making Fun of Museums; Enjoying Old Masters, The Wall Street Journal,
November 10, 1992.
Coelewij, Leontine. Live! Metropolis M, October 1992, pp. 37-43.
Tanner, Marcia. Inside Information: Aren't they lovely? in UAM, Berkeley, Artweek, August 20, 1992, pp.14-15.
Bonetti, David. Aren't they lovely? is a decision only you can make, San Francisco Examiner, July 9, 1992.
Kaye, Michael. The Art of Chocolate Boxes, The Daily Californian, July 3, 1992.
Santiago, Chiori. A peek at secrets an integral part of University Museum show,
Oakland Tribune, June 26, 1992, p. E6.
Rimanelli, David. Andrea Fraser, Artforum, Summer 1991, p.106.
Graw, Isabelle. Review, Artscribe, Summer 1991, p. 73.
Reynolds, Janet. Welcome to the Wadsworth, The Hartford Advocate, April 11, 1991.
Miller-Keller, Andrea. Andrea Fraser: Welcome to the Wadsworth, MATRIX,
Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum,1991.
Cameron, Dan. The Immaterialists. Art & Auction, March 1991, pp.82-86.
Schneider, M. Christiane. Art in America, Prinz, December 1990.
Lemke, Inga. Kritik am wachsenden Geschäft, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Nov. 17-18, 1990.
Decter, Joshua. Interview with Andrea Fraser, Flash Art, Nov./Dec. 1990, pp.138.
Decter, Joshua. De-Coding the Museum, Flash Art, Nov./Dec. 1990, pp.140-142.
Graw, Isabelle. Field Work, Flash Art, Nov./Dec. 1990, pp. 136-137.
Graw, Isabelle. Jugend forscht: Armaly, Dion, Fraser, Müller, Texte zur
Kunst, November 1990, Number 1, pp. 163-175.
Levin, Kim. Bad Timing. The Village Voice. March 9, 1990.
Grover, Jan Zita. The Misrepresentation of Misrepresentation, The Women's Review of Books, July 1989.
Rinder, Lawrence. The V-Girls Present..., MATRIX 123, Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1989.
Heller, Karen. An indecent docent lectures for laughs, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 25, 1989.
Owens, Craig. The Yen for Art, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Seattle: Bay Press, 1987, pp. 16-23.
Indiana, Gary. Agitations, The Village Voice. July 28, 1987.
Bordowitz, Gregg. Geography Notes: A Survey, Reallife Magazine, Fall 1986, pp. 12-17.
Jones, Ronald. Damaged Goods. Flash Art, October/November 1986, pp.73-74.
Linker, Kate. Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object'. Artforum,
November 1986, pp.133-134.
Levin, Kim. Shop Art. The Village Voice, July 22, 1986.
Wallis, Brian. A Product You Could Kill For, Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object, New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986, pp. 24-34.
Lichtenstein, Therese. Review, Arts Magazine, September 1984, p. 44.