Andrea Zittel
Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies
Monday, November 8, 7:30 pm
800 Chestnut st, Lecture Hall
Andrea Zittel combines her work as an artist, designer, engineer, consultant, and advocate with the practices under her corporate identity, A-Z Administrative Services. The latter "encompasses all aspects of day to day living: home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs". Zittel has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada among others. She has been in group shows at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan; Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland. Zittel has received awards such as the AICA Award for Best Architecture or Design Show in 2007, the College Art Association Distinguished Body of Work Award in 2006, and the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2005.
www.zittel.org
Free and open to the public
www.sfai.edu/vas
800 Chestnut st, Lecture Hall
Andrea Zittel combines her work as an artist, designer, engineer, consultant, and advocate with the practices under her corporate identity, A-Z Administrative Services. The latter "encompasses all aspects of day to day living: home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs". Zittel has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada among others. She has been in group shows at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan; Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland. Zittel has received awards such as the AICA Award for Best Architecture or Design Show in 2007, the College Art Association Distinguished Body of Work Award in 2006, and the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2005.
www.zittel.org
Free and open to the public
www.sfai.edu/vas
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