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EXHIBITION: ANDREA FRASER: BOXED SET
February 11—April 4, 2010
Opening reception TBA
Andrea Fraser: Boxed Set will showcase five videos by the artist. Known for her acerbic wit and incisive critique, Fraser takes on the institution of the musuem as her central subject. Alternately funny, melancholic, and irritated, her videos take on the grand narratives promulgated by the museum, and concepts of art, masterpiece, genius, and truth wobble and fissure as a result. The works in the exhibition range in time from 1989 to 2001 in which one can trace an arc of Fraser's concern with other institutions of art, such as the gallery, as well as her own growing capacity as a performer.
This exhibiton was organized by guest curator Helen Molesworth, Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museum.
Andrea Fraser, Little Frank and His Carp, 2001. DVD NTSC. 6 min. Courtesy Friedrich Petzel Gallery, NY.
Fraser was born in 1965 in Billings, Montana. She attended New York University, the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, and the School of Visual Arts. Solo exhibitions, solo performances and projects include: Projection, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2009), Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne (2008); Franz Hals Museum, Haarlem The Netherlands (2007); What do I, as an artist, provide?, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; May I Help You?, in conjunction with “Louise Lawler: Twice Untitled and other Pictures”, Wexner Center for the Arts (2006); Official Welcome, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Dia:Chelsea, New York, and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2005); Galeria Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome and Florence; Official Welcome, BALTIC, Newcastle, in conjunction with “History of Disappearance: Live; Art from New York 1975-Present”; May I Help You, Orchard, New York, Untitled, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2004); Um Monumento às Fantasias Descartadas, American Fine Arts, Co., New York; Andrea Fraser, Works: 1984 to 2003, Dunkers Kunsthus, Helsingborg, Sweden (2003); and Official Welcome, Miami, sponsored by Creative Time in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach.
Selected group exhibitions include Gallery Zaki Rosenfeld, Tel Aviv; Video Association of Dallas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Hayward Southbank Centre, London; Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsuhe, Germany; Columbus College of Art & Design; the Tate Modern; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
Her work is in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou; Fogg Art Mueum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Tate Modern, London. She has received fellowships from Art Matters Inc., the National Endowment for the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at University of California, Los Angeles, the Maine College of Art, Vermont College, the Whitney Independent Study Program, Columbia University School of the Arts, and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.