Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
2023
2022
- Furla Series: Andrea Bowers: Moving in Space Without Asking Permission ,GAM Milano ,Milan, Italy
- Andrea Bowers ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Andrea Bowers: You must not turn your head away in grief ,Kaufmann Repetto, Milan ,Milano, Italy
- Andrea Bowers: Can The World Mend In This Body? ,Jessica Silverman Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2021
2020
2017
2016
- Andrea Bowers: Triumph of Labor ,Vielmetter Los Angeles, Culver City ,Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Andrea Bowers: The United State v. Tim DeChristopher ,Elizabeth Leach Gallery ,Portland, Oregon, USA
- Andrea Bowers: Whose Feminism is it Anyway? ,Andrew Kreps Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
2011
2009
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits ,North Dakota Museum of Art ,Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
- Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection ,Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum ,St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Women to the Front: Artworks from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection ,Lubeznik Center for the Arts ,Michigan City, Indiana, USA
- In anderen Händen ,Miettinen Collection ,Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
- New Collection Display ,Mudam Luxembourg ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Radio Luxembourg: Echoes across borders ,Mudam Luxembourg ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Body Freedom for Every(Body) 2024 Tour ,Project For Empty Space (Broad St) ,Newark, New Jersey, USA
2024
- Twenty: 20 Years Van Horn ,Van Horn ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection ,BAMPFA , Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive ,Berkeley, California, USA
- Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art ,Shirley Fiterman Art Center ,Tribeca, New York, USA
- Art for a Safe and Healthy California. In partnership with Jane Fonda ,Gagosian, Beverly Hills ,Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Survival in the 21st Century ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Rewilding ,Kunsthaus Baselland ,Munchenstein, Switzerland
- A Model: An exhibition in three parts ,Mudam Luxembourg ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2023
- Dawn of Humanity. Art in Periods of Upheavel ,Kunstmuseum Bonn ,Bonn, Germany
- How To Survive ,Anchorage Museum ,Anchorage, Alaska, USA
- The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity ,REDCAT Gallery ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- A Growing Season ,Jessica Silverman Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Family: Those We Are ,Galerie Dominique Fiat ,3e, Paris, France
- Perpetual Portrait ,Vielmetter Los Angeles ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Andrea Bowers & Mary Weatherford: Drink The Wild Air ,Capitain Petzel ,Berlin, Germany
- Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis ,Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery ,London, UK
- Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Come Together ,Van Horn ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Language in Times of Miscommunication ,SMoCA, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art ,Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Visual Language: The Art Of Protest ,Subliminal Projects Gallery ,Los Angeles, California, USA
2022
- Home/Work ,San Luis Obispo Museum of Art ,San Luis Obispo, California, USA
- Manifest Yourself!: (Queer) Feminist Manifestos Since The Suffragettes ,Künstlerhaus Bethanien ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
- Hommage a Museum Abteiberg ,Museum Abteiberg ,Mönchengladbach, Germany
- Paint the Protest ,Off Paradise ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- Wrongs & RIGHTS ,BAM Strong ,Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 51@51: Collected Works ,Rennie Collection ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Plants Now! ,Vielmetter Los Angeles ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Why Can鈥檛 We Live Together 鈥 Collection Peters-Messer in Marburg ,Marburger Kunstverein ,Marburg, Germany
- Working Thought ,Carnegie Museum of Art ,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Omelette Papier ,Capitain Petzel ,Berlin, Germany
2021
- Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum Denken ,LWL- Museum für Kunst und Kultur ,Munster, Germany
- Who Will Write the History of Tears.Artists on Women鈥檚 Rights ,Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw ,Warsaw, Poland
- Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft Ohne Wachstum Denken ,Westfälischer Kunstverein ,Munster, Germany
- A Landscape Longed For: The Garden As Disturbance ,Locust Projects ,Miami, Florida, USA
- Vogliamo Tutto. An Exhibition About Labor: Can We Still Want It All? ,OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni ,Turin, Italy
- New Time: Art And Feminisms In The 21st Century ,Catriona Jeffries ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Footnotes & Headlines ,Andrew Kreps Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- 20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2 ,Vielmetter Los Angeles ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation ,Manetti Shrem Museum ,Davis, California, USA
- Fight Like a Girl: Activism & Feminism In Art ,Van Horn ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Stories of Resistance ,CAM, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis ,St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2020
- ONLINE: Visualizing Humanity ,MOMus Modern ,Thessaloniki, Greece
- South East North West: New Works from the Collection ,San Jose Museum of Art ,San Jose, California, USA
- Time for Outrage! Art in times of social anger ,Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Drawing 2020 ,Gladstone Gallery, New York (21st Street) ,New York, USA
- ONLINE: Drawing 2020. Release 1/5 ,Gladstone 64 ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Art Encounters: Community Or Chaos ,Rollins Museum of Art ,Winter Park, Florida, USA
- 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition ,Vielmetter Los Angeles ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- ONLINE: Words ,Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Rhizome 7/7 IRL ,Capitain Petzel ,Berlin, Germany
- Ecofeminism(s) ,Thomas Erben Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- ONLINE: Rhizome 7/7: Moving Images ,Capitain Petzel ,Berlin, Germany
- ONLINE: Rhizome 2/7: CalArts ,Capitain Petzel ,Berlin, Germany
- ONLINE: Rhizome 1/7: Text ,Capitain Petzel ,Berlin, Germany
- Recent Acquisitions Of Contemporary Art ,Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
2019
- In Plain Sight ,Henry Art Gallery ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- How The Light Gets In: Migration In Contemporary Art ,Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University ,Ithaca, New York, USA
- United by AIDS - An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS ,Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Political Affairs: Language Is Not Innocent ,Kunstverein in Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Capitain Petzel at Galerie Mezzanin ,Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva ,Geneva, Switzerland
- Drawn Together Again ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Selections from the Permanent Collection ,Montgomery Art Center, Pomona College Museum of Art ,Claremont, California, USA
- Damn! The Defiant ,Fredericks & Freiser ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2018
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2018 Benefit Exhibition ,Gladstone Gallery, New York (21st Street) ,New York, USA
- Parking on Pavement ,Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook ,Kinderhook, New York, USA
- After Posada: Revolution ,El Paso Museum of Art ,El Paso, Texas, USA
- The Un-heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women鈥檚 Art in the U.S. ,Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery ,New York, USA
- Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Mis (missing) Information ,Charlie James Gallery (969 Chung King) ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Agora ,Art in the Parks ,New York, USA
- Power to the People. Political Art Now ,SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt ,Frankfurt, Germany
- Nothing Stable under Heaven ,SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Welcome?! ,Manetti Shrem Museum ,Davis, California, USA
- Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal ,Lenzner Family Art Gallery at Pitzer College ,Claremont, California, USA
2017
- Hold These Truths ,No Longer Empty ,New York, USA
- Really? ,Wilding Cran Gallery ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance ,MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ,Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Marching to the Beat ,Jessica Silverman Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- I Plan to Stay a Believer ,Andrew Kreps Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- Go Tell It: Selections from MCASD's Collection ,MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown ,San Diego, California, USA
- Graphic Witness ,Drawing Room London ,London, UK
- The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin ,The Jewish Museum New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Intersectional Self ,The 8th Floor ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- Occupancies ,Boston University Art Gallery ,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- On the Edge: Art of California ,SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ,San Francisco, California, USA
- We need to talk... Artists and the public respond to present conditions in America ,Petzel Gallery, New York (520 W) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2016
- Let There Be More Light: An illumination by Jens Hoffmann ,Jessica Silverman Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- The Neighbors, part two, in two parts: Sanctuary: Andrea Bowers and Home: Andrea Aragón ,Bronx Museum of the Arts ,Bronx, New York, USA
- Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger ,Kadist, San Francisco ,Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA
- Take Me (I鈥檓 Yours) ,The Jewish Museum New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Gildless Age ,Torrance Art Museum ,Torrance, California, USA
- Brain Multiples at 25 ,1301PE ,West Beverly, Los Angeles, California, USA
- The Revolution Will Not Be Gray ,Aspen Art Museum ,Aspen, Colorado, USA
- (En)Gendered (In)Equity ,LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions ,Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- House of Cardboards ,Van Horn ,Düsseldorf, Germany
2015
- Drawing: The Bottom Line ,S.M.A.K. Ghent ,Gent, Belgium
- Acting on Dreams: The state of immigrant rights, conditions, and advocacy in the U.S. ,Franklin Street Works ,Stamford, Connecticut, USA
- Drawing Now ,Albertina Museum ,Vienna, Austria
- A Voice Remains ,Pippy Houldsworth Gallery ,Mayfair, London, UK
- The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America ,Asia Society and Museum, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2014
- La Biennale de Montréal ,MAC, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Take Liberty! ,The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo ,Oslo, Norway
- After Life ,Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles ,Monterey Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sunken Living Room ,Franklin Street Works ,Stamford, Connecticut, USA
- Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy: Drawing Lessons ,The Drawing Center ,Soho, New York, USA
- The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America ,Pacific Asia Museum ,Pasadena, California, USA
2013
- Jonathan Chauveau / Florian Viel: Eight Days in L.A. ,Galerie Patricia Dorfmann ,4e, Paris, France
- The Past is Present ,MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ,Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Labour and Wait ,Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Approximately Infinite Universe ,MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla ,La Jolla, California, USA
- So Much I Want to Say: From Annemiek to Mother Courage ,Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection) ,Munich, Germany
- So Much I Want to Say: From Annemiek to Mother Courage 鈥 Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst ,Haus der Kunst ,Munich, Germany
- Drawing Biennial 2013 ,Drawing Room London ,London, UK
2012
- The Unexpected Guest ,The Bluecoat ,Liverpool, UK
- No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar ,BLUM, Los Angeles ,Palms, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Zone of Contention: The U.S./Mexico Border ,Weatherspoon Art Museum ,Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- The Residue of Memory ,Aspen Art Museum ,Aspen, Colorado, USA
- Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large ,Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Go Tell It On The Mountain ,Charlie James Gallery (969 Chung King) ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent ,Marginal Utility ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2011
2010
- Art Public ,Proyectos Monclova ,Miami Beach, Florida, USA
- 39NOW ,d.e.n. contemporary art ,West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- The Last Newspaper ,New Museum, New York ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
- In the Balance: Art for a Changing World ,Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) ,Sydney, Australia
- Supernatural ,Jancar Gallery ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Passwords 8: Stowaways ,Centro Cultural Montehermoso ,Vitoria, Spain