Andrea Crespo (artist) explained

Andrea Crespo
Nationality:American

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]

Career

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.[4]

Crespo self-identifies as a dicephalophilic (an affinity for) transgender person with Aspergers.[5]

Their work is included in the Rubell Family Collection,[6] the Fondation Louis-Vuitton[7] and in the Zabludowicz Collection.[8]

Solo exhibitions

2019 Step Right Up, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin[9]

2017 [intensifies], Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin[10]

2017 Joined for Life, Downs & Ross, New York[11]

2017 List Projects: Andrea Crespo, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA[12]

2016 A day in the lives of, New Museum/Rhizome (online), New York[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ONE FOR ALL | ANDREA CRESPO: VIROCRYPSIS. Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art. 4 March 2016.
  2. Web site: Black. Hannah. Artist Profile: Andrea Crespo. Rhizome. 5 March 2016.
  3. Web site: Fateman. Johanna. Andrea Crespo. Artforum. 5 March 2016.
  4. Web site: Andrea Crespo. 2020-07-13. LVL3. en-US.
  5. Web site: "I Am Stuck This Way, Likely for Life": Andrea Crespo on Conjoined Twins, Christianity, Transformation, and Their Solo Show at Downs & Ross . 2024-05-04 . Artspace . english.
  6. Web site: Andrea Crespo . rfc.museum.
  7. Web site: Andrea Crespo . Fondation Louis Vuitton.
  8. Web site: Collection . Zabludowicz . Andrea Crespo - Artists - Collection . Zabludowicz Collection.
  9. Web site: Step Right Up. Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. en-US. 2019-03-01.
  10. Web site: [intensifies]]. Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. en-US. 2019-03-01.
  11. Web site: Downs & Ross. www.downsross.com. 2019-03-01.
  12. Web site: List Projects: Andrea Crespo. 2016-06-07. MIT List Visual Arts Center. en. 2019-03-01.
  13. Web site: Andrea Crespo: A day in the lives of. archive.rhizome.org. en. 2019-03-01.