Andrea Bowers
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Andrea Bowers, Chandeliers of Interconnectedness (Our Bodies Float Among Stars, Quote by Susan Griffin), 2023 (detail)
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Andrea Bowers
'Andrea Bowers. La Ragnatela', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
October 29, 2026 – March 28, 2027 29 October 2026Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents a solo exhibition by Andrea Bowers, an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and whose practice has...Read more -
Andrea Bowers
'In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA' (Group Show), Museum of Contemporary Art LA | MOCA Los Angeles
September 20, 2026 – January 3, 2027 20 September 2026In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA surveys artworks added to the museum’s collection over the past five years, highlighting major purchases and gifts within...Read more -
Andrea Bowers
'Celebrating the Icons of Art' (Group Show), Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
September 12, 2026 – February 28, 2027 12 September 2026To mark its 10th anniversary this September, Voorlinden is presenting an exceptional and celebratory exhibition: Celebrating the Icons of Art. Contemporary icons from the museum’s...Read more -
Andrea Bowers
'From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard' (Group Show), MCA Chicago
August 1, 2026 – July 11, 2027 1 August 2026Spanning three floors, From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard explores the far-reaching impact of art historian, critic, and curator Lucy Lippard’s (b. 1937, New...Read more -
Andrea Bowers
'Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance' (Group Show), Henry Art Gallery Seattle
July 5, 2026 – January 3, 2027 5 July 2026This exhibition brings together contemporary artworks across media that explore the poetics and politics of everyday life. Using the day-to-day as both material and subject,...Read more -
Andrea Bowers
'Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change' (Group Show), Vancouver Art Gallery
May 14, 2026 – January 10, 2027 14 May 2026As the environmental crisis accelerates, artists around the world are responding with urgency, insight and vision. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change...Read more -
Andrea Bowers
'Diseuses de silence' (Group Show), Espace Monte-Cristo - Fondation Villa Datris Paris
April 18 – December 13, 2026 18 April 2026From April 18 to December 13, 2026, Espace Monte-Cristo presents Diseuses de silence, an exhibition offering a contemporary perspective on our collective history. Through the...Read more -
Andrea Bowers
'30% Dandelion' (Group Show), Kunsthaus Graz
March 21 – November 8, 2026 21 March 2026The dandelion – as a flower, botanical plant, cultural symbol and aesthetic phenomenon – possesses strength and quiet courage. Unobtrusive yet persistent, it adapts radically,...Read more -
Andrea Bowers, Rodney McMillian
'Into the Time Horizon' (Group Show), Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
November 15, 2025 – January 3, 2027 15 November 2025This exhibition, which occupies every gallery of the Museum, invites visitors to consider how to move forward on our planet—ethically, responsibly, and with care for...Read more
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Works
Andrea Bowers
Trust Women #2, 2021Cardboard and color changing LED lights, acrylic gel medium214.6 x 113 x 15.2 cm
84.5 x 44.5 x 6 inchesB-ABOWERS-.21-0005Andrea Bowers‘ work adresses many pressing socio-political issues, eco-feminism and climate justice being especially central themes in her practice. With her light objects, Bowers make use of the aesthetics of...Andrea Bowers‘ work adresses many pressing socio-political issues, eco-feminism and climate justice being especially central themes in her practice. With her light objects, Bowers make use of the aesthetics of American neon advertising signage to convey her strongly political messages. Bowers had preoccupied herself with the social movement against sexual abuse and harassment coined #metoo since its beginnings in 2017. Trust Women is a direct reference to the efforts of this movement to legitimise allegations of abuse made by victims instead of undermining women’s intentions and motives. The neon work is constructed largely from found, recycled materials, itself an act of environmental activism and a comment on consumerism and climate change.Exhibitions-
Andrea Bowers and Mary Weatherford
Drink the Wild Air 23 June — 19 August 2023Mary Weatherford and Andrea Bowers have often talked about making a show together. Bowers suggested that she would make neons while Weatherford would make paintings, a serious joke that neither...Explore -
omelette papier
15 January — 5 March 2022Karla Black, Andrea Bowers, Joe Bradley, Isabella Ducrot, Jadé Fadojutimi, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Anna Gaskell, Georgia Gardner Gray, Stefanie Heinze, Charline von Heyl, Sanya Kantarovsky, Maria Lassnig, Marcel Odenbach, Pieter Schoolwerth,...Explore -
RHIZOME 7/7 IRL
21 June — 1 August 2020'A rhizome is characterized by ceaselessly established connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles.' -Excerpt from A Thousand Plateaus by...Explore -
Andrea Bowers
Open Secret 22 June — 11 August 2018When comedian/actor Aziz Ansari was accused of sexual harassment on January 14, 2018 by an anonymous 23-year-old woman, the story was met with a mixed response from the media and...Explore -
Andrea Bowers
Cultivating the Courage to Sin 20 September — 9 November 2013Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Andrea Bowers entitled „Cultivating the Courage to Sin“ and that Andrea Bowers is now represented...Explore
External ExhibitionsAndrea Bowers, 2026
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD
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The Brooklyn Rail: "ANDREA BOWERS with Andrew Paul Woolbright"
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Pasadena weekly: "Aid is Coming: Grief and Hope campaign will help artists impacted by wildfires" (Andrea Bowers)
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Ocula: "Six Standout Works by Women at Art Basel Paris 2024" (Andrea Bowers)
Simon Fisher, Eva Fuchs, and Rory Mitchell, 16 October 2024 -
The Art Newspaper: "Art is on the curriculum at The Campus, a former school in upstate New York transformed by six galleries" (Andrea Bowers)
Benjamin Sutton, 3 July 2024 -
Artnet: "Artist-Activist Andrea Bowers on Her Unlikely New Collaborator"
Eileen Kinsella, 3 May 2024 -
Whitewall: "Andrea Bowers and Ruinart Debut Conversations with Nature for Frieze LA"
Erica Silverman, 27 February 2024 -
Wallpaper: 'Andrea Bowers’ sculptural chandelier for Ruinart reflects a shared commitment to environmental conservation'
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Spike: "Terrible Stories, Beautifully Written" (Andrea Bowers, Mary Weatherford)
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Zeit: "Der Wunsch nach Frieden, Kunstschau in Altdöbern" (Andrea Bowers)
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Art in America: "One Work: Andrea Bowers's 'Letter to an Army of Three'"
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Los Angeles Times: "Andrea Bowers' activist art has long been a conduit for hope — and still is today"
Catherine Womack, 8 July 2022 -
Los Angeles Times: "At the Hammer Museum, Andrea Bowers’ art becomes an act of nonviolent civil disobedience"
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Los Angeles Times: "‘The time is now’" (Andrea Bowers)
Deborah Vankin, 3 June 2022 -
Art Agenda: "Andrea Bowers’s “Can the world mend in this body?”"
Brian Karl, 8 April 2022 -
Kunstforum International: "Andrea Bowers: grief and hope"
Renate Puvogel, 1 March 2020 -
ARTnews: "Andrea Bowers Portrays the Future of Activism"
David Everitt Howe, 1 March 2020
Publications-
Andrea Bowers, Mary Weatherford
Drink the Wild Air, Capitain Petzel, 2023 2023SoftcoverRead more -
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Andrea Bowers, 2021 2021Hardcover, 208 pagesRead more
Publisher: DelMonico Books/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago/Hammer Museum
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#sweetjane, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, 2014 2014Softcover, 184 pagesRead more
ISBN: 9780985625139
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Between Artists: Andrea Bowers & Catherine Opie, 2008 2008Paperback, 72 pagesRead more
Publisher: A.R.T PRESS
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Secession, Vienna, 2008 2008Softcover, 64 pagesRead more
Publisher: Secession
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Andrea Bowers
Nothing is Neutral, REDCAT, Los Angeles, 2006 2006Softcover, 160 pagesRead more
Publisher: California Institute of the Arts/REDCAT
ISBN: 0974983144
VideoBiography
Photo: Anais-DaxBorn 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; 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 Collection, Paris. In 2024, she was selected for Maison Ruinart’s Carte Blanche program, with her work presented at Maison Ruinart in Reims. Previously, her work was 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; Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland; Mudam, Luxembourg; and Goetz Collection, Munich, among others.
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