ANDREA BOWERS
Born
1965
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
1992 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1987 B.F.A., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Andrea Bowers has had screenings and exhibited extensively nationally and internationally since 1991. Andrea has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions in the US and abroad. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Berlin, Germany; Basel, Switzerland; Madrid, Spain; Santa Monica, CA; Odense, Denmark; Bonn, Germany; and Pasadena, CA.
Selected group exhibitions include: EXTENDED PLAY: art remixing music, Brewster Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2003); Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2002); L.A. On My Mind, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (2002); Casino 2001, Stedjlich Museum of Actual Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (2001); Game On!, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2000); Video Cult/ures, Museum of Contemporary Art in the ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (1999); In the Polka Dot Kitchen, Otis Gallery and Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA (1998); Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York, NY (1997); Space Space, POST, Los Angeles, CA (1996); Couldn't Get Ahead, Independent Artists Space, London, UK (1995); Bad Girls, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (1994); Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV (1993); Afterthought, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (1992); and Tales From The Creeps, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (1992). Andrea's performances include Indignant Fairy at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA (1993), and Cafeteria at The Other 45 Minutes, Los Angeles, CA (1991).Andrea has been the recipient of several awards and grants including: City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship Recipient for Visual Art (2003) and WESTA/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Sculpture (1995 - 1996).