www.andreagarciavasquez.com | andreagarciavasquez.studio@gmail.com
b.1992, New Jersey USA
Education
2024-2027
MFA Sculpture & Post-Studio, University of Colorado Boulder
2021
Course Certificate, Mountains 101, Geology, University of Alberta from Coursera
2016-2020
Diplom Studium: Installation and Space with Joachim Blank - Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig [honorable distinction]
2010- 2014
BFA Visual and Critical Studies - School of Visual Arts, New York, NY [GPA 3.7]
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“c o o p e r a r i”, WHA Gallery Art University, Linz
2020
"Bitte gibt den Zimmerpflanzen nicht zu viel Wasser!", Gallery KUB, Leipzig
"Palms And Our Hands", Westside Gallery, Leipzig
2018
"Tredan", Retramp Gallery, Berlin
2017
"TOPOPHILIA", 392rmeil393, Beirut, Lebanon
Duo Artist Exhibitions
2021
"Contaminated Current" with Fabian Lehmann, Helmut Gallery, Leipzig
2018
"Where Winds Meet", with Dani Minuskin, GapGap, Leipzig
"Fiber Fiction", with Dance Doyle, Compound Gallery, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024
Kuenstlerische Tatsachen, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm
“Things that were are things again”, GfZK, Leipzig
“AGV, Valentina Plank and Franziska Reinbothe”, sheBAM! Galerie Laetitia Gorsy, Leipzig
“Reimagining Future through Art”, Trenton City Museum, NJ
2023
“Künstlerische Tatsachen: art & science exchange residency”, Trafo, Jena
“Human Nature”, Porte Gallery, Leipzig
“Things that were are things again”, GfZK, Leipzig
2022
Art & Design Fair, MK&G Museum, Hamburg
“NEW”, Westside Gallery from Kleindienst, Leipzig
C.A.R. Photo & Media Art Fair, Essen
Re:publica 2022, Arena & Hoppetosse, Berlin
“Silky Lights”, Zentrale für Kunst e.V., Leipzig
Nacht der Museen Halle-Leipzig, Institute for Minerology University Leipzig
2021
“Genesis of an Artistic Fact”, Trafo, Jena
“Appointment_X”, GfZK, Leipzig
“Neverending Stories”, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig
2020
"cor_tex", Kunstraum53, Hildesheim
"UNENDLICH" Dorfplatz, Thallwitz
"Auftakt Festival für Szenische Texte", Köln & Digital Realm
2019
"VAR 13", Westpol Airspace, Leipzig
"But These Sunsets Are Better", Ars Aventi, Leipzig
2018
"Facing Repetition", AO Kunsthalle curated by Yara Saleh & Manuel Schneidewind, Leipzig
"Text/Strukt/Uren", Literaturhause curated by Lisa Palm, Halle
"It's Just A Matter of Utility", Lindenau Harbor curated by Klara Meinhardt, Leipzig
"Sedimente", Werkschau Spinnerei, Leipzig
2017
“Perfiction”, 301 Gallery, Seoul
Art Olympia 2017, Tokyo
2016
“Ich dachte, Sie wären nur ein armer Schlucker!”, KommunalkaGallery, Leipzig
“Layers Of Skin, Of Rock: Tagesausstellung”,Westwerk Lichthof, Leipzig
“TROJA II”, Bipolar Gallery, Leipzig
“3DRITTEL”, Krudebude Gallery, Leipzig
2015
“MOLTING”, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
“In Residence” Isabel Hurley Galeria, Malaga
Rundgang Spinnerei, LIA, Leipzig
Winterrundgang Spinnerei, LIA, Leipzig
2014
Destination Moon, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY
Ghetto Music Films- Art Congress 2014, STREB, Brooklyn, NY
Art All Night Festival, Trenton, NJ
June Bug Art and Music Festival, Metuchen, NJ
Destination Moon, Hostelling International, New York, NY
Destination Moon, Light Space Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2013
“Buy What You Love” Art Auction, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY
“Handy Minds”, Michael Mut Gallery, New York, NY
Teaching & Interning
2024-2027
Lecturer at University of Colorado Boulder, Art & Art History Department
2022-2024
Artistic Employee at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Media Art with Professor Eli Cortiñas
2022
Textiles After School Course, Leipzig International School
2021
Zeichen Zirkel, Halle 14, Spinnerei Leipzig
East ist East, Art Exhibition and Workshop Leader for Kulturbahnhof e.V., Borsdorf
Textile Art After School Course, Leipzig International High School
Online Workshop: Body Drawings Back In Touch supported by SUPERSONIC Projects, Lisbon
2020
Textile Art After School Course, Leipzig International School
Photography Workshop LKJ Sachsen e.V.
2019
Photography Workshop with LKJ Sachsen e.V.
Private Art Instruction in English, Leipzig International School, Germany
2018
Weaving Workshop at Buntega Intercultural Festival, Leipzig, Germany
2017
Artist Coordinator at Can Serrat Artist Residency, El Bruc, Spain
2014
Weaving Instructor Healing Arts Program, Weaving Hand, Brooklyn, NY
Weaving Instructor, Trilok Preschool, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies
2023
Künstlerische Tatsachen, Art & Science Residency, Jena, DE
2021
Entstehung eine Künstlerische Tatsachen, Art & Science Residency, Jena, DE
2020
Virtual Lab Digital Residency Pilot, MODS
2017
Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain
2016
Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain [awarded 30 % scholarship]
2015
Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany [awarded full scholarship]
PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, DE
Awards & Grants
2022
Neustart Kultur, Kunstfonds Stiftung
Project Stipend from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (KdfS)
2021
Project Stipend from the Culture Offices of the City of Leipzig
2020
Short Listed for Project Stipend Museum of Natural History Leipzig with D21 Art Gallery
DENKZEIT from KdFS (cultural foundation of the free state of Saxony)
Gallery KUB CO2020 Series
2019
Long Listed BEERS LONDON Competition
2018
Long Listed BEERS LONDON Competition
2017
Finalist and 5th place for Art Olympia International Artist Competition, Tokyo
Artist Talks
2023
Moderation for Open Discussion “Change is coming either way” with TJ Demos, GfZK, Leipzig
2022
Interview with Carla Cerda moderation by Mathias Müller, MAERZ Gallery, Linz
Re:publica Festival, “From satellite imagery to counter aesthetics – an open conversation” with Till Rückwart, Berlin
Third Room Leipzig, Artist Talk
Contemporary Art Ruhr, Media and Photography, Essen, Online
2021
Moderation for Artist talk with Amel Alzakout at Paradoks Film Festival, Leipzig
Artist Talk Online with Students from Bauhaus University, Weimar
Entstehung eine Künstlerische Tatsachen, Trafo, Jena
2020
UNENDLICH exhibition Thallwitz
2019
AO Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany
2018
Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017
Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea
Press
2024
Kuba Paris
2023
MDR Kultur
“Neue Werte” Article, Schöner Wohnen Magazine, Feb. 2023 issue
2022
Deeds News, Article “MK&G Messe Contemporary Craft & Young Talents”
Borsdorf Sachsen “Kunst im Park”
Heimat Verein, “Unsere Apfel” Tree-Planting Happening, Borsdorf
2021
Luhze Zeitung, article by Leoni Habedank Leipzig
Pilotenkueche Magazine article by Andrii Myroshnychenko
2020
Zaftyb Web Magazine article by Raquel Figueiredo
Leipziger Volkszeitung
2019
Leipzig Glocal Web Magazine October Art Picks
Interview with KUB Show #43 Radio Blau
2018
Kunst und Technick Magazine für Industrie
2015
Malaga Hoy Newspaper, Malaga Spain
Publications
2022
»Krisenkunst – Kunstkrise?«,discussion and visual essay, Fantome Verlag, Germany
Still Point Magazine, Issue 10: JUDGE
2021
Entstehung Eine Künstlerische Tatsachen Publication of Exhibition and Residency
Installation and Site-Sepcific project featured in FAIL Institute Publication
2020
Textur Magazine
2018
Graphite Journal, 9th Edition
"Mobile Birds or Weird Thing(s) Of Being Here" an interview by Joachim Blank // HGB MAGAZINE #1
2017
PERFICTION a publication between South Korea and Leipzig Art Academies