Andrea Bowers
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Biography
Born 1965 in Wilmington, OH
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CAOver more than three decades, Andrea Bowers has established a significant international reputation as an artist and social activist. The New York Times has described her as “America’s foremost political artist,” reflecting the central role of social and political engagement within her practice.
The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, is dedicating a solo exhibition to the artist, opening on 29 October 2026. Recent institutional presentations include Glenstone, Potomac; Kunsthaus Graz; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Hayward Gallery, London; GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano in collaboration with Fondazione Furla; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; and Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, among others. In France, Bowers is currently included in Diseuses de silence at Espace Monte-Cristo – Fondation Villa Datris, Paris. In 2024, she was selected for Maison Ruinart’s Carte Blanche program, with her work presented at Maison Ruinart in Reims. She was previously the subject of a solo exhibition at Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris.
Bowers’ work is held in prominent international collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland, among others.
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Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2021
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Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2021
Andrea Bowers
I Am Nature: Champion International Clearcut; West Flank of the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness, 2013Archival marker on found cardboard300 x 400 x 3 cm
118.1 x 157.5 x 1.2 inchesB-ABOWERS-.13-0005Further images
Provenance
Capitain Petzel, Berlin, GermanyExhibitions
La Ragnatela, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2026Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2022
Andrea Bowers, MCA Chicago, 2021
Grief and Hope, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 2020
Light and Gravity, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany, 2019
Capitain Petzel, FIAC - Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain 2015, Paris, France, October 22 – 25, 2015
House of Cardboards (group), Van Horn, Dusseldorf, January 16 – March 4, 2016
Capitain Petzel, Art Cologne 2014, Cologne, Germany, April 9 – 13, 2014
Cultivating the Courage to Sin, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, September 20 – November 9, 2013Literature
Knowles, Patrick, "Structures of Control", Soma Magazine, August 2009, pp. 3, 106-112
Geiser, Kirsa, "Andrea Bowers - Cultivating the Courage to Sin", Spike Magazine, Winter 2013,
pp. 127 - 128Publications
Andrea Bowers, edited by Connie Butler and Michael Darling. Exhibition catalogue of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Hammer Museum Los Angeles, 2021, p. 44.NewsExhibitionsExternal ExhibitionsPressPublicationsVideoRequest more information



