Andrea Crespo (artist)

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Andrea Crespo
Born1993 (age 2829)
NationalityAmerican

Andrea Crespo (born 1993, Miami) is an American artist based in New York city. [1] They earned their BFA from Pratt Institute in 2015. [2] Their solo exhibition, Andrea Crespo: virocrypsis, at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art was featured in the February 2016 issue of Artforum. [3]

Their work is included in the Rubell Family Collection, [4] the Fondation Louis-Vuitton [5] and in the Zabludowicz Collection. [6]

Crespo explores the complex cultural and historical narratives that surround the wrong forms of the psychological and bodily being. Identity or identity errors encompassed his practice, although they have also focused on the interconnectedness of psychopathological realities, cultural formations, and the digital communities associated with them. [7]

Solo exhibitions

2019 Step Right Up, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin [8]

2017 [intensifies], Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin [9]

2017 Joined for Life, Downs & Ross, New York [10]

2017 List Projects: Andrea Crespo, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA [11]

2016 A day in the lives of, New Museum/Rhizome (online), New York [12]

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References

  1. "ONE FOR ALL | ANDREA CRESPO: VIROCRYPSIS". Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  2. Black, Hannah. "Artist Profile: Andrea Crespo". Rhizome. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. Fateman, Johanna. "Andrea Crespo". Artforum. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
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  6. Collection, Zabludowicz. "Andrea Crespo - Artists - Collection". Zabludowicz Collection.
  7. "Andrea Crespo". LVL3. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  8. "Step Right Up". Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  9. "[intensifies]". Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  10. "Downs & Ross". www.downsross.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  11. "List Projects: Andrea Crespo". MIT List Visual Arts Center. 2016-06-07. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  12. "Andrea Crespo: A day in the lives of". archive.rhizome.org. Retrieved 2019-03-01.