Andrea Zittel was born on 1965 and is an American artist based in Joshua Tree, CA.
16 Facts About Andrea Zittel
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Andrea Zittel graduated from San Pasqual High School in 1983.
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Andrea Zittel received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University in 1988, and an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990.
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Andrea Zittel's works encourage a greater personal and social responsibility in prompting an active re-examination of needs and routines.
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In 1998 Andrea Zittel developed her "Rules of Raugh" along with a new series of living environments and furniture.
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In 2000, Andrea Zittel relocated her home and studio from Brooklyn, NY to a parcel of land in the California desert near to Joshua Tree National Park.
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The original structure of Andrea Zittel's home in the Mojave Desert was a homestead cabin, built during the period of the Homestead Act.
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Andrea Zittel has referenced the "earthworks" of land artists such as Walter de Maria as inspiration.
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In 1999, the Public Art Fund commissioned Andrea Zittel to create a site-specific project for New York's Central Park.
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That same year, Andrea Zittel created "A-Z Pocket Property," a 44-ton floating concrete island anchored off the coast of Denmark, which was commissioned by the Danish government.
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Andrea Zittel is a co-organizer of High Desert Test Sites, a non-profit organization founded by Andrea Zittel, Shaun Caley Regen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andy Stillpass, and John Conelly.
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Andrea Zittel is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Regen Projects in Los Angeles, Sadie Coles HQ in London, Massimo de Carlo in Milan, and Spruth-Magers in Munich.
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Andrea Zittel was featured in the Venice Biennale in 1993, Documenta X in Kassel and Skulptur Projekte Munster in 1997, and was included in the 1995 and 2004 Whitney Biennial.
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Andrea Zittel has had solo exhibitions at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark ; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel ; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg ; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, NY ; Schaulager, Basel ; Magasin 3, Stockholm ; and Middleheim Museum, Antwerp.
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In 1995, Andrea Zittel received a DAAD fellowship; in 2005, she received the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucelia Artist Award; in 2006 she was awarded the Distinguished Body of Work Award from the College Art Association; in 2007 she received the AICA Award for Best Architecture or Design Show, and 2012 she was awarded the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.
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In 2015, Andrea Zittel was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts.