Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel was born in 1965 in Escondido, California; she lives and works in Joshua Tree, California.


Over the last 25 years, Andrea Zittel has developed an unparalleled practice that encompasses spaces, objects and modes of living in an ongoing investigation into what it means to exist and participate in our culture today. While nurturing a symbiosis of formal abstraction and function, Zittel explores core questions of “How to live?” and “What gives life meaning?” through an examination of social norms, values, hierarchies, as well as the creation of new systems and structures for living. Bodies of work, such as Wagon Stations, Living Units, Planar Pavilions, and Uniforms, suggest systems that can allow for liberation and creativity through prescribed sets of limitations rather than total freedom, and reshape how we think about our needs and articulated human constructs. Since 2000, Zittel continues to develop her life project A-Z West in the Southern Mojave Desert––an evolution from A-Z East––as well as High Desert Test Sites, as testing grounds for her work and investigations of day-to-day living. The over 50-acre grounds, as well as numerous satellite properties, are sites for experimentation, where environment, structure, and elements shape an intentional context for experience.


Andrea Zittel's work was also exhibited in important and renewed venues such as the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (2004, 1995), Aperto ‘93: Emergency/Emergenza, 45. Biennale di Venezia, Venice, I (1993), 16th Istanbul Biennial, İstanbul (2019) and Documenta X, Kassel D (1997).

Zittel

Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2020
USA, A-Z West, Frieze, Los Angeles
2019
UK, Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, De La Warr Pavilion, Marina
2018
UK, Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
2017
USA, Tom Burr Andrea Zittel concrete realities, Bortolami Gallery, New York
USA, Andrea Zittel, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
UK, Andrea Zittel: The Flat Field Works, New Art Centre, Wiltshire
USA, On the Grid: a look at settlement patterns in the high desert, Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs
2016
USA, Andrea Zittel, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2015
USA, Wallsprawl, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
USA, SHORT: Andrea Zittel: Art & Design, Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs
B, Andrea Zittel. The Flat Field Works, Middelheim Museum , Antwerpen
D, PARALLEL PLANAR PANELS, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
2013
I, How To Live?, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2012
UK, Lay of My Land, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2011
D, Andrea Zittel - Pattern of Habit, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
USA, Andrea Zittel, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
S, Lay of my Land, Magasin III, Stockholm
2010
I, Between Art and Life, La Galleria del Costume, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
UK, Andrea Zittel: Clasp, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2009
USA, Andrea Zittel - single strand, forward motion, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2008
CH, Andrea Zittel - Monica Sosnowska Curated by Thodora Vischer, Museen Basel - Schaulager, Schaulager
USA, Andrea Zittel - Energetic Accumulators and Token Exchanges, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles
2007
USA, Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
I, A-Z Advanced Technologies, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2006
USA, Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
USA, Critical Space, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
USA, Andrea Zittel: Small Liberties, Whitney Museum at American Art at Altria, New York
UK, Andrea Zittel, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2005
USA, Critical Space Curated by Sissy and Denny Kempner, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
USA, Rules of Raugh, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque
USA, A-Z Advanced Technologies, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2004
USA, Andrea Zittel, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
CH, Open House, Genthod, Genève
2020
D, Modernism In Dialogue With Contemporary Art From The Sammlung Goetz, Pinakothek Der Moderne, München
2019
D, Alternatives for living. Blueprints for Haus Lange Haus Ester Krefeld, Act 2: Mobility, Kunstmuseen Krefeld , Krefeld
IRL, Palimpsest, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore
TR, 16th Istanbul Biennial, İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2018
USA, Baggage Claims, Robert E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle
UK, HOME FUTURES, Design Museum, London
2017
I, Home. An Homage to Colin de Land, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
USA, The Everywhere Studio, ICA, Miami
USA, Future Shock, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
I, Atlas, Fondazione Prada, Milano
MEX, The Natural Order of Things Curated by Julieta González, José Esparza, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
UK, Room, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2016
F, L'Esprit du Bauhaus, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
I, La finestra sul cortile. Scorci di collezioni private Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, GAM, Milano
I, Tra Arte e Moda, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Firenze
USA, I.C. Editions 25th Anniversary, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
USA, Jack Pierson: Tomorrow’s Man Curated by Jack Pierson, University Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno
D, Informative Rooms. The Interior as Portrait, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2015
I, Fashion as Social Energy, Palazzo Morando, Milano
2013
D, When Now is Minimal. Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, D; Museion, Bolzano, I; Sammlung Goetz, München
I, Soft Pictures, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
2011
PL, Laboratorium Przyszlosci Regress/Progress, Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
LT, In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, I; KHOJ International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, IND; Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, IND; Nero HQ, Rome, I; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, TR; The Drawing Center, New York, USA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, USA; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2010
USA, Ethics and Aesthetics, Pratt Institute, New York
USA, Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
USA, 100 Acres, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
2009
D, Walking Patterns, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
USA, Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2007
J, Living in the Material World, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2006
CH, Emmanuel Hoffman-Stiftung: Werkgruppen und Installationen, Museem fur Gegenwartskunst, Basilea
CDN, Fantastic Frameworks: Architectural Utopias and Designs for Life, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2020
Goldstein, Caroline, Artnet News, February 6
2019
Chu, Mimi, Frieze, June/July
Visser, Forde, Openhouse
2017
Preston Zappas, Lindsay, Art Review, September
Bolick, Kate, The New York Times, 30 October
Horst, Aaron, ArtReview
Godino, Federico, Artribune, November
2016
Garutti, Francesco, Icon Design, September
2015
Borcherdt, Gesine, ArtReview, May
Mousse, Dec/Jan
2011
Jones, Ronald, ARTFORUM, December
Balestrero, Andrea, San Rocco - Islands, Winter
Steffen, Patrick, Flash Art, November
Steffen, Patrick, Flash Art, November - December
Andrea Zittel - Lay of My Land, Exhibition Catalogue. Stoccolma, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
2010
Herbert, Martin, Art Review, October
Salvadori, Alberto, Andrea Zittel - Between Art and Life, Exhibition Catalogue.
Amadasi, Giovanna, D La Repubblica delle Donne, June 19
2008
Celant, Germano, L’Espresso
Andrea Zittel- Gouaches and Illustrations, Exhibition Catalogue. Basel, Schaulager
Modern Painters
Schambelan, Elizabeth, Arforum
Griffin, Tim, Amanda Sharp e Matthew Slotover, Artforum
Vettese, Angela, Ventiquattro magazine - Il Sole 24 Ore
Domus
Contemporanea, Arte dal 1950 a oggi
Stations, 100 Meisterwerke Zeitgenossicher Kunst, Exhibition Catalogue.
2007
Lotta, Daniela, Flash Art
Travaglini, Cristina, Mousse Magazine
Fabiani, Cecilia, Elle Decor
2006
Romeo, Filippo, Abitare, Abitare, 'p' pp. 194-200
Lo, Melissa, Contemporary 21

Public collections

Country
Location
Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Parkes
Austria
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
France
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain Nord, Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
LUMA Foundation, Arles
Germany
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Italy
Fondazione Prada, Milano
Mexico
Fundación Jumex Collection, Ciudad de Mexico
Sweden
Magasin 3, Museum and Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Switzerland
Schaulager, Münchenstein
United Kingdom
Tate Modern, London
United States of America
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Kemper Museum, Kansas City
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, the Geffen, Los Angeles
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
RISD - Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island
SFMoMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

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