12 Facts About Andrea Fraser

Andrea Rose Fraser was born on 1965 and is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique.

Andrea Fraser was born in Billings, Montana and grew up in Berkeley, California.

Andrea Fraser attended New York University, the Whitney Museum's independent study program, and the School of Visual Arts.

Andrea Fraser began writing art criticism before incorporating a similar analysis into her artistic practice.

Andrea Fraser was co-organizer, with Helmut Draxler, of Services, a "working-group exhibition" that was conceived at Kunstraum of Luneburg University and toured eight venues in Europe and the United States between 1994 and 2001.

Museum Highlights involved Andrea Fraser posing as a museum tour guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art under the pseudonym of Jane Castleton.

In Kunst muss hangen, Andrea Fraser reenacted an impromptu 1995 speech by a drunk Martin Kippenberger, word-by-word and gesture-for-gesture.

The work is based on the transcripts of real psychoanalytic consultations, adapted into twelve monologues and alternated so that Andrea Fraser plays the roles of both analyst and patient.

Andrea Fraser's work has been shown in public galleries including the Philadelphia Museum of Art ; the Kunstverein Munchen, ; the Venice Biennale ; the Sprengel Museum ; the Kunstverein Hamburg ; the Whitechapel Gallery ; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art ; the Frans Hals Museum ; and the Centre Pompidou.

Andrea Fraser's work is held in major public collections including at the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Pompidou; Fogg Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig; Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Tate Modern.

Andrea Fraser presented a lecture as part of the "Art and the Right to Believe" lecture series through the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in February 2009.

Andrea Fraser received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artist.