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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Works
Andrea Bowers
Disrupting and Resisting, J20 & J21, 2017, 2018Single channel HD video with color and sound89:23 minEdition of 5 + 2 APB-ABOWERS-.18-0010Further images
'Disrupting and Resisting, J20 & J21, 2017' records the protests and marches on the first two days of the Trump presidency in Washington D.C. The video focuses on two different..."Disrupting and Resisting, J20 & J21, 2017" records the protests and marches on the first two days of the Trump presidency in Washington D.C. The video focuses on two different activist groups, #DisruptJ20 and the Women’s March. It is the artist’s goal to memorialize these activist groups and their actions around the Trump inauguration as important moments of descent in support of democracy, freedom of speech, social justice and the right of the people to peaceably assemble. As the activist named Future of Black Lives Matter is recorded proclaiming in the video, “Coalitions aren’t meant to be permanent. Sometimes they are fragile and they are temporary but we have got to build them. This, these next four years, we have got to find each other in this movement...
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